Dear Eric, yes, I admit it I am a total and completely mad on him Steve Perry fan. I'm not into musicianship for its own sake and therefore find your comments about the first few Journey albums interesting but kind of missing the point.
Yes I have heard the Babys (heavily over-rated except for a select few) but before you disagree I have to say that John Waite is probably the best AOR singer not in Journey or Two Fires or Strangeways and his solo albums and Bad English are quite superb.
AOr is the blending of voice with power and melody so instrumental AOR to me gets a little too close to MOR.
Anyway we'll see when it finally arrives (sorry awful pun) what Augeri is really made of.
All the best