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From The Editor's Desk:

 

Cheap Trick, Heart and Journey performed at Blossom Saturday, September 6th and having witnessed the live performances of all three bands, I can personally say, WOW, what a show!

 

It's been a long, long time since I attended a "rock" concert at Blossom. If my memory serves me correctly I think the last time I was there was probably the early 90s when I saw Aerosmith not once, but two nights in a row! That was a great concert, too with Steven Tyler (in his 40s no less) and the rest of the band who sounded exactly the same as they did the first time I saw them in the early 70s!

 

Cheap Trick was outstanding. The quality of Robin Zander’s voice (lead singer) at age 55 was incredible. The energy of the band was reminiscent of 1979, the first and last time I saw them perform after they released their studio album, “Dream Police.”

 

Then there’s “Heart.” WOW, again! What a show from two sisters, Ann and Nancy Wilson who define the phrase, “you’re as young as you feel.” Heart, a hard-rock group who initially found success in the mid-'70s, reached greater heights of success after engineering a major comeback a decade later and still going strong today. The daughters of a Marine Corps captain, Ann (born June 19th, 1950) and Nancy (born March 16th, 1954) grew up in both Southern California and Taiwan before the Wilson family settled in Seattle, Washington. Throughout their formative years, both were interested in folk and pop music; while Ann never took any formal music lessons as a child (she later learned to play several instruments), Nancy took up guitar and flute. After both sisters spent some time at college, they decided to try their hand as professional musicians.

 

The star attraction of the evening of course was Journey. Resurrected by the astonishing discovery of a new lead singer, Arnel Pineda, on “YouTube” - Journey is poised to make a come back that may go down as the greatest ever in rock history. Here’s the inspiring background story: Arnel Pineda, a Filipino, was the lead singer of a band called “THE ZOO.” They did Journey cover songs then, posted their videos on YouTube. One day Journey’s guitarist, Neal Schon, was on the look out for a new lead singer. In an article on “Blabbermouth” here's what he had to say:

 

“I was frustrated about not having a singer, so I went on YouTube for a couple of days and just sat on it for hours. I was starting to think I was never going to find anybody. But then I found THE ZOO and I watched a bunch of different video clips that they had posted. After watching the videos over and over again, I had to walk away from the computer and let what I heard sink in because it sounded too good to be true. I thought, ‘he can’t be that good.’ But he is that good, he’s the real deal and so tremendously talented. Arnel doesn’t sound synthetic and he’s not emulating anyone. I tried to get a hold of him through YouTube and I finally heard from him that night, but it took some convincing to get him to believe that it really was me and not an imposter.”

 

Of course, if the band is going to really thrive in its new incarnation, Pineda needs to be able to help write great new music, as well. Can he? For now, the Journey faithful has more than enough reason to rejoice in the band’s rebirth as they rocked the house down at Blossom with Journey classics sung by a once unknown Filipino singer who, like Steve Perry, (Journey’s infamous first lead singer) can be classified vocally as a "Countertenor," or a man who sings in the highest possible vocal register, including what is considered mezzo soprano to soprano when sung by women. Pineda was flawless.

 
Mark Capuano
TheCantonian.com
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