Will never live down that concert - my first "live" experience - with my sister and her friends. Fortunately, would only be a few short years before I upgraded to seeing Butt Trumpet at CBGB's ...

Oh, Sherrie, our love, holds on, holds on ...

Bonus: play them both at once with a ten second delay between them and hear what Steve Reich would have sounded like as an '80s cheezball with a bitchin' lead guitarist.

What I've never understood about the original "Separate Ways" video is, by 1983, big-budget videos were starting to appear (cf. Duran Duran's on-location widescreen epics), and Journey should've had a positively massive budget for this one. And instead CBS Records totally cheaped out. I mean...imaginary instruments?!

Here they are, at the absolute peak of their popularity, coming off their biggest album (Escape, No. 1, 1981, featuring "Open Arms"/"Who's Crying Now"/"Don't Stop Believin'") and totally minting money for the label. And again, it's 1983, and MTV is already deeply entrenched by this point; so if you're in rock promotions, you know one of your signature acts has to come back with a big-budget, eye-popping video. And this – this is what's churned out?

I'm just saying: not only do we snicker at this clip 25 years later for its cheapness and tackiness; back then Journey were making themselves a laughingstock with this thing.

Maybe Steve Perry just *likes* lo-fi videos. I mean, remember the Oh Sherrie video?

Strangely enough, today happens to be Mr. Perry's birthday. I was tipped off by the comments on that YouTube video...

Postscript: I haven't been able to get this song out of my head for the last 24 hours. I hate you.

Every time i see a video now (which is rare, I randomly hit them when I am channeling surfing looking for some kind of Law and Order) they all look very similar. It is always people in a wind tunnel walking, running or dancing into the camera, obviously on a treadmill. A neat effect the first dozen times I saw it.

I feel you @CMOM, and what about Start Me Up
http://youtube.com/watch?v=cOYOExbzv-8 (yes, I know, 1981)
and Jump
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8e-vgQSqNtA?

No air guitar (and thank you lord, no air keyboards), but oy gevalt! What are the other Cheapest A-Lister Videos Ever?

Come on, Mike, cop to it! You know it's "Mr. Perry"s birthday because you're a member of his fanclub!

http://steveperryonline.net/

The really silly thing is that, after all of these "reality" shows helping old bands to replace lead singers and such, Journey just filled the Steve Perry chair with some Filipino singer who they discovered on YouTube sounding incredibly like Steve Perry in a Journey cover band!

http://www.journeymusic.com/index2.html

the press release:

JOURNEY WELCOMES ARNEL PINEDA
WITH “OPEN ARMS” TO THEIR FAMILY
AS THE BAND’S NEW LEAD SINGER

it doesn't get any better, does it?

Has Journey just become a tribute band ...to itself? Look out state fairs everywhere, here comes Journey, and REO Speedwagon!

By the way, didn't Mark Wahlberg make a movie with Jennifer Aniston about the tribute band singer that got "discovered" and became the lead singer of the band he was paying tribute to? Based (I think) loosely on Judas Priest's mid-90s attempted comeback, before the real lead singer finally rejoined.

Why do I know so much about this? Ah, back to my cubicule, to rot away thinking about when MTV played music videos (and many of them sucked) ...