F.O.R.D,

I hope you are saying that Journey without Steve Perry is a joke, ONLY if you saw them in concert with Augeri. Perhaps you should also wait to make that ultra-negative comment until after you have heard the new CD a few times. Opinions are fine, especially since yours are usually very insightful, however in this case it comes across more as ignorant bashing.

And easy on Augeri. He was great with Tall Stories - 90's crap just happened to be ruling the airwaves when that was released. He also happened to work very hard to do a decent job with Journey material live - AND he makes a genuine effort to answer fan's questions on the message board on Journey's official site.

Finally, the reason they didn't call Bad English Journey in 1988, was because in case you haven't noticed, John Waite doesn't have the type of voice to do Journey related material - and Cain/Schon/Castronovo weren't attempting to do Journey type of music then.