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The telephone book would sound great with Perry singing it. That said, the best singer (currently) in Journey is Deen. I'd love nothing more than for Cain and Schon to write an 80's album with Castronovo on lead vocals (all tracks). Unfortunately, that, much like Perry's return, just isn't happening.

I hope the title doesn't hold any real meaning.

Really looking forward to this one. I ordered the (2) CD set. I already have the original TFAWIUTB.

Easily one of my favorite bands of all-time.

That's not enough! Please use all of your outside contacts to find the schools where their children (grandchildren) attend so we can shame them there as well.

I tell just about everyone I know that Steve Lukather is easily one of the greatest guitar players walking the earth and has been dating all the way back to the late 1970's. Had he been in Van Halen rather than Toto, he would be immortalized the like of Eddie.

Kind of a DaVinci / Bad Habit 80's vibe.

RECLAIM YOUR LIFE sounds awesome... right up and until the vocals kick in. Father time is undefeated and it seems he's won again here. This track would have been AWESOME in 1988.

They've pretty gone on tour annually for the past 16 years now. This carnation of Foreigner is AWESOME live... I mean as good as it gets. I suppose you could call them a cover band at this point... but if so, they're the best cover band in the history of rock. If you haven't seen Foreigner with Hansen on vocals, you've missed out. I bet I've seen them at least a dozen times the past 16 years. I'll certainly see them again.

Has anyone received a hard-copy of this yet?

Oh man, this one really tugs at the heartstrings and makes me feel my age. I remember Night Songs dropping the day I graduated from high school in June 1986. It was a mainstay in my car's cassette deck all that summer and through 1987. I saw them open for Bon Jovi in 1987 and I was a huge fan. LaBar and Brittingham had such swag, and made the "guitar-flip" something all of us wanted to learn to do. I dropped my Ibanez Roadstar on the sidewalk trying (unsuccessfully) to replicate their trick. Gosh... this news ruined my day.

I actually like this one quite a bit. I will be purchasing this CD!

LOVE IT! One of my favorite bands of all-time, and easily my favorite live band of the past decade.

Looks like Mt. Hood just an hour outside of Portland, Oregon.

What a run Dave had from late 1983 through mid 1988 (VH and solo).

Sounds like something from a Creed or Thee Doors Down album to me. I don't like the music one bit, but I give Wolfie all the credit for re-assembling VH with Dave. Something I NEVER thought would happen. Had Eddie been healthy, I think a reunion with Sammy and Mike could have happened as well. I'd have paid nearly any amount to see that lineup do a 5150 reunion tour. That album front-to-back and then the standard Greatest Hits would have been awesome.

You got that right! I remember seeing WARRANT, TRIXTER and FIREHOUSE in the fall of 1991, and the music of the 80's was still standing tall at that point. Just a few short months later and it all came crashing down.

Any new information on this one? Sound samples anywhere?

I've been a regular customer of NEH Records dating back to the very beginning (like 1999 or 2000). Mike is a great guy and he and NEH will be missed. Best wishes my old friend.

Oddly enough, for at least 20 years after Slippery was released I'd use the term "Nothing A Shot Can't Cure" several times per week.

Anyone know why JSS seems to have no love for EYES?

For me, it's akin to "Sugar" from Leppard. Meaning quite possibly considered the band's magnum opus... when neither Wanted nor Sugar should be considered as such in my opinion. I loved Sugar when first released... then after hearing it for the 10,479th during the summer of 1987 alone, it started grinding on me a bit. I could actually go without ever hearing Wanted again and not lose any sleep... but 35 years later and I still never turn the dial should Bad Name come on.

The first time I've defended BON JOVI in years (maybe decades). Two MONSTERS of the genre. SLIPPERY and NEW JERSEY are both so damn good, and were released at the PERFECT times. Late 1986 for Slippery, that extended into the summer of 1987 for the massive tour, and fall of 1988 for the release of NJ and a spring / summer tour in 1989 that included Skid Row on the ticket (at least here in Portland, Oregon). Maybe it was just the "perfect time" in my life... at least for Slippery... that added to the "ambiance" of the whole thing? I don't know, but I look back with such adoration of those two that I'm willing to forgive what a shitty band Bongiovi has become. Near perfection for those two. My only question is why they nixed "Edge Of A Broken Heart." I'd have preferred they'd left-off "Wanted."

Electric Boys were also there... can't remember who went on first.

I saw them open for MR. BIG in Salem, Oregon September 1992.