Journey’s Steve Perry Makes Rare Live Performance

[benld74]

http://www.boston.com/entertainment/music/2014/05/27/journey-steve-perry-makes-rare-live-performance/FrEI4ItEg18c5idh9W3HGJ/story.html



Steve Perry, the elusive former Journey frontman, made a rare appearance over the weekend, taking the stage for the first time in almost 19 years.

The 65-year-old vocalist joined indie-rock band the Eels during the group’s concert at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul, Minn. on Sunday, May 25.

[Enthusiast]

1. I didn't realize he was quite that old. Steve Perry developed a

medical condition that I share. It is osteonecrosis or "dead bone". This is essentially when the femoral heads die from a lack of blood flow. He appears to be moving pretty well. I imagine his hips have been replaced.

[geardaddy]

2. I had something similar

due to me taking high doses of prednisone post renal transplant. Avascular necrosis. Had my hips replaced when I was 30.

[Enthusiast]

4. I took high doses of prednisone also, mostly for back problems.

I believe avascular necrosis is the same as osteo necrosis.

[Le Taz Hot]

3. I know when he left Journey

he also had developed vocal nodes which any vocalist can hear. It was from having to do too much solo vocal work on Journey songs and lack of proper singing techniques. Basically, you're beating the shit out of your vocal chords and develop, basically, callouses on your larynx. Sometimes they can be dissolved with medication but, more often than not, they have to be surgically removed and that's a very tricky operation often resulting in the loss of your singing voice. Joplin had to have it done as did Frank Sinatra and many others.

Steve Perry is from the San Joaquin Valley, Hanford to be specific.

[shenmue]

5. :)