I'd like to thank you so much for producing Journey's LIVE IN HOUSTON 1981 ESCAPE TOUR DVD! 
Great sound and awesome performance from the band!
Anything else  planned for Journey and/or Steve Perry? Once again thanks and wish you a great 2006!

I'm glad you enjoy the Houston DVD. 
Right now Steve Perry and I are repackaging (with original packaging and artwork) and bringing up the masters to the state of the art CD standards for the entire Journey catalog and Steve's solo records. 
They should be released in the Summer and Fall of 2006.

Hi John, is there any of Journey's captured tours on any film?
Any chance that some of it will come out on DVD?
I think "do you recall” is classic Steve Perry vocals and Neil Schon lead break.

I'm not aware of any Captured footage.

Hi John!  Keep up the great work you're doing for classic rock music! 
I wonder if you will work on a Journey Raised On Radio tour DVD with Steve Perry?
I know for sure that lots of Journey fans (including myself) would love to see a complete Raised On Radio show on DVD!!!  Thanks a lot in advance, Greetings from Sweden.

There is a Raised on Radio show that was recorded and shot on video or film so eventually I would like to work on a DVD.

You recently said that you are going to work with Steve Perry on the Houston DVD.
Is it going to be the full 90 min concert, or the MTV version, which is 70 min long?

Good question, but I don't know, because when we start working on it I will have to see how much audio and video material there is and what condition it is in. 
I would obviously like a 90 minute version because that was the true length of the Journey show, but we'll have to see what is usable

I noticed that on the DVD of Journey's Greatest Hits DVD that there is a one (1) on the front.  Does this mean that there is  another greatest hits DVD in the works or is this part of a series?

It's part of a series of something, but I honestly don't know what of.

Steve Perry has asked me to work on the concert with him this Summer, for release at Christmas. 
The concert audio will be mixed in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound. 
We will look for additional footage to add to the original concert video edit.

I'm sorry I can't send a letter myself because I am a voting member, but I will post this on my website to maybe get the word out even further. 
Journey should definitely be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Is there any way to get Journey's music without the vocals? 
I love the driving beat and of course the vocals, but I have a figure skater and they cannot have vocals on their music. 
The midi files just don't have the same drive and intensity to them that the original music does. 
I have looked over all of the Journey sites and cannot find an answer to my question. 
You are my last hope!

I know of some bands that remixed their music without vocals for karaoke purposes. 
The only suggestion I might have would be to contact a local karaoke bar and see if you can make some kind of deal, if they had Journey songs

Hello JDK.. 
Thanks for your work on keeping Classic Rock alive.. 
My questions this morning are----Any release date yet on the Journey DVD Houston concert? 
And Thank you for the one responsible for the release of Jack Blades CD here in the states for April 6!

There isn't a release date yet for the Houston DVD. 
I will let the fans know as soon as I know one. 
Glad you're looking forward to hearing the new Jack Blades album - it's great.

I thought I would help you with a clarification someone asked.
The song on the discography of Journey of "Trial by Fire" that's listed after Baby, I'm leaving you is that says bonus track after it is actually a bonus track on the Japanese version of "Trial BY Fire" that's not on the American one and that's where that song comes from called I can see it in your eyes and actually its on the Japanese cd as the 10th or 11 song.
One question I do have is are you going to do the entire Raised on Radio concert on DVD after the Houston one and is going to be the Mountain View or the Georgia show?

I don't know the answer to this,
but the show I've seen is the Mountain View show and hopefully it will be after the Houston DVD. There may be a Georgia concert, but I'm not aware of it. 

First of all, thank you for allowing rock and roll fans a place to have questions answered.
I sent a letter a while back and received a very nice response from Miss Storm.
I thought I’d send some questions, because I’d really like to hear your comments on them.
I respect your contributions to rock and roll and your recent comments about the rock and roll press and the rock and roll “hall of fame”.
There are many artists who are overlooked, many of whom you mentioned in a response to a fan’s letter.I just have a few questions: (Thanks in advance for the chance to ask them of you.)

1.  New Journey and new Styx | (Not a Steve Perry question.)|
I love Steve Perry’s voice and his presence in Journey, but I also like the Journey live DVD with Steve Augeri.
He is a really good singer and can do the classic stuff.
(Even though I would love to see Steve Perry back, I can accept Journey with Augeri | at least based on what I’ve heard so far. Although Perry is, again, a voice too great not to be heard.)
I picked up the Journey Greatest Hits DVD and love it.
Thanks for letting us hear the classic Journey lineup again.
What a voice! (Plus his songwriting with J. Cain is wonderful.)

2.  However, from what I’ve heard so far, Styx without Dennis Deyoung is not Styx. It seems like the Tommy Shaw Band doing covers of Styx hits. (and not the biggest hits. They seem to be just doing Tommy Shaw and JY songs with one or two DeYoung songs thrown in to try to throw a bone to Styx fans, even though those songs are nowhere near capturing the Styx sound.) Styx without DeYoung just doesn’t seem to work for me. Any chance of getting DDY back to return to the Styx we know and love?

1.  Thanks for your comments - all true.
2.  I don't know.

John, thank you for your work on the Journey DVD -- a very generous helping of some wonderful music and images. 
I'm curious whether the audio from the Houston performances is different from video to video. 
For example, "Don't Stop Believin'" has no audible crowd noise or cheering in it that I can hear, but you do hear the crowd in the "Open Arms" video.
Were these always like that, even when the videos were originally shown in the 80s, or is this something you did specially for the DVD?

The audio from the Houston performance is different from video to video. 
This is a great question and a very complex question.
A few of the live clips are not from the Houston show and therefore have different live and/or studio audio in them.
I'm working without seeing the DVD in front of me, so forgive me if I'm a little fuzzy about the exact songs, but the Houston shows clips feature the audio from Journey's Greatest Hits Live, mixed by Kevin Shirley as an audio CD and not as a DVD-video mix. 
The future release of the Houston shows will be remixed in 5.1 audio by Steve Perry, me and a yet-to-be-determined expert 5.1 mixer. 
The whole Journey show will be mixed as an entire live concert, matched to the edited film.
By the way, there are no audio repairs in the audio track of the DVD out now, which is a testament to how great Steve Perry sings and how great Journey played when these recordings were made.

Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions.
And thank you for the Greatest Hits DVD! 
I have been watching it as much as I can. Will there be any possibility of a DVD with Steve Perry's videos? 
I just think that would be awesome!

I don't think there's enough material for a solo Steve Perry DVD, but I will ask him if there's any additional footage or material that he would consider releasing in a DVD.

John, as an avid Journey fan, of course I bought the new DVD last Tuesday and was simply blown away.
I love the sound on surround.
The question I have is on the discography.
On the Trial by Fire there is an extra track after the bonus track "Baby I'm Leaving You". 
Is this just a misprint or am I missing something?
Thanks again for the "new" Journey stuff!!!

Thanks for the kind words on the DVD.
I'm not really sure what you're asking, but I can tell you to the best of my knowledge, there is not extra track after the bonus track on Trial By Fire. 
Please feel free to send clarification if this doesn't answer your question.

I wanted to share my thoughts with you on Journeys Greatest Hits DVD.
The picture and sound are fantastic.
For many Journey fans its been a long time coming and well worth the wait.
Thank you and Steve Perry for taking the time to put this DVD together.
The legacy of Journey and what they brought to their fans will never fade away.
I hope the sales of this DVD prove to be profitable so more DVD's will be released.

Thank you very much for sharin
This is why I do what I do and it makes it all worth it to hear how much you enjoy it.

First and foremost, I would like to congratulate you and the Webmistress for taking the time to manage and allow us to interact with you on this very entertaining site.
Making me feel like a kid again... Congrats again.
My thoughts are on the new position you recently acquired with Sanctuary Records and the possibility of you signing up my forever favorite band Journey (fan for the past 24 years), that are out of a record label presently.
It is no secret that there is a lot of respect between you and the band members as well as ex-member Steve Perry.
Am I wrong to grin at the idea that this could be one of the main success story of year 2004 that you are looking into?
And if so, would you push your powers to the extent of trying to re-include Mr. Perry in the equation?
(Based on an article that quoted Neal Schon saying that if John Kalodner had his way during the Trial by Fire era, Steve Perry would have probably still been in the line-up today).
Don't get me wrong, I love the Journey line-up as is and think the Arrival album was amazing and am one of the few, from what I can read, that see the opportunity to have two great sources of
Journey and Steve Perry solo even though my favorite musicians in Journey were the two Steves and Neal.

I would be the happiest person in the world if I could sign Journey with Steve Perry. 
But it's up to Steve Perry. 
As for signing Journey with Steve Augeri singing in 2004, even though Mr. Augeri is maybe one of the loveliest guys I know, and is certainly an adequate singer to represent Journey in a concert setting, I don't think I would sign that line-up to make new recordings with the information that I have.

After the mention of the much anticipated DVD that is to be released in November, I read that it may not be the only one (in the future) that you & Sony will have to offer. 
I have seen the listing of the footage that will be on the DVD to be released in November - I have my pre-order in! 
My question is this.....Is there any plan or possibility of additional live concert footage to be available from the Infinity-Evolution-Departure era? 
Thanks again!

I'm about to work with Steve Perry on a concert DVD with footage from the early 80's shot in Houston, Texas. 
It will be a full concert of the superstar Journey line-up, newly mixed in 5.1 for DVD. 
It will be released sometime in 2004. 
You heard it here first!

You get so many questions re: why doesn't Steve do this or why doesn't he do that.
I (like most people) hope he decides (when the time is right for him) to perform and/or write again, but I don't think I'm alone in thinking that he has given us so much already, that he deserves a life of his choosing.
After all, none of us have been put through the kind of meat grinder that he has been through and none of us can imagine what it must be like to have absolutely no privacy
My first question is a simple one (since you talk to him daily):
How is Steve doing?
We ordinary fans don't get to hear much about his everyday life (and rightfully so) but many of us just care about the guy and hope things are going well for him.
Please don't think I am asking you to discuss any details of his private life.
I'm just asking if he's healthy, happy and doing what he wants to do?
My second question is pertaining to the DVD project:
Is Steve planning on including any new interviews or better yet, any voice commentary on the new DVDs?

Steve Perry is happy and healthy and he looks great. 
Although we are working on new DVD projects, I don't know if he is planning on having any new interviews or creating voice commentaries.
I think he likes to leave the past work in its proper historical context - I don't think he feels the need or desire to add new things to it.