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Steve Perry: The AOR Blueprint [Highlight From Episode 364] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Check out this clip from a recent episode of book
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  Speaker 1: Don Rock Paul Reese. He's the author of Raised on Radio,
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  Speaker 1: Power Ballance, Cocaine, and Paola. The AOAR Glory Years nineteen
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  Speaker 1: seventy six to nineteen eighty six. Journey became almost a
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  Speaker 1: template for AOAR, but before Steve Perry arrived, Journey was
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  Speaker 1: more of a musician's band. Steve is quoting the book
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  Speaker 1: about how his voice in Neil Sean's guitar were like
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  Speaker 1: Salton Pepper. Did Steve Perry essentially create the model for
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  Speaker 1: the AAR frontman. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Of all the people in the book, I mean there's
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of pivotal characters. Tom Schultz is obviously
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  Speaker 2: one of the pivotal characters. I think Mick Jones is
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  Speaker 2: another in Lou Graham, But I think for me, Steve
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  Speaker 2: Perry is the guy who teos over the whole era
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  Speaker 2: in terms of impact and the talent as well. I
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  Speaker 2: think Steve Perry would have been a great singer in
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  Speaker 2: any era and in any style of music he chose
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  Speaker 2: to apply himself to. But yeah, that high ten of oil,
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  Speaker 2: that the maute of people that took that on, or
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  Speaker 2: that that that looked to Perry as an influence. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's that much of a mystery. We don't
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  Speaker 2: stop believing why that song's endured one It's a great song,
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  Speaker 2: but I think arguably it's the most perfectly sung song.
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  Speaker 2: His vocal on that song is incredible.
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