I've always loved Gregg! When he was with Journey and Santana! He has a great voice, beautiful eyes and he's really smart! A rare combination in today's music!
Love to hear Gregg sing with Steve Perry but Santana not so much. This guy pretend he left Journey because he was tired touring but seems he never stopped. This proves to me that he just didn't want to work with Steve Perry anymore because he was jealous of Steve taking the limelight from him.
Regarding music in general, this is probably the most powerful 2 minutes you will ever hear from any musician. The message is universal and should reach everyone in the world because it affects everyone in the world and Gregg conveys this perfectly. Now it is time for all of us to heed his message and do something about it!
Gregg Rollie Will always be one of the best musicians EVER I fell in love with his 1986 solo album Gringo I know every song on it 1-10 by heart he is indeed inspiring.
Sure a true heartfelt statement. We didn't and still don't have much money but our 2 boys wanted to learn to play the drums and guitar so we went out and bought them drums and a guitar on my husbands salary alone. We ate soup for a month but it was well worth it. They both taught themselves how to play both drums and the guitar, there are really good. They only play for enjoyment now but I still encourage them to keep playing. Slowly but surly we are losing our future kids to not feeling anything at all in this digital age. We need to get instruments back in the schools and in the hands of kids again. I can't hold a note or sing at all but I still do because its the most unbelievable thing in the world when a song can move you to tears or make you laugh or says a strong political statement or just takes you away from everyday life. Thank you to Greg Rolie and Journey they made some really wonderful songs.
Gregg, you're the Bomb ! Forget caffeine, whenever I need a pickup I listen to your soloing on Soul Sacrifice and that gets me going. Wish I could develop some musical talent to play half as good as you.
He's great Gregg Rolie I spoke to him years ago about how much I loved early Santana in particular his Hammond playing and he seemed quite surprised by that!
As a guitar teacher in London I agree 100% with Gregg's comments. As far as the UK is concerned, Margaret Thatcher destroyed music education in schools. Her rat race mentality which bred the 'he who dies with the most toys wins' approach to life has had catastrophic repercussions. Kids have the strongest thumb muscles of any generation ever, because of their unhealthy preoccupation with phones / ipads etc. Thank you for posting this vid (as it happens, on my birthday last year which makes me smile). Musicians everywhere have a duty to continue to encourage kids to play music. Real music! No more hip hop / trance / bubblegum shite.
I saw what happened in 1980, all of our bands, Queen, the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Rush, every band just could not make a great album. What happened? I don't know, but it was the same time of Reagan and Thatcher.
@@calamagrostis88 It had nothing to do with Reagan or Thatcher. SMH! It's been because of the constant "dumbing down" of music! The Idea that "anyone" can and should be "famous"! Since 1985 when Rap/Hip Hop and watered down R&B became more popular, then later "remixing" and "sound bites" took hold it's become a massive cesspool!! Sad that the top 3 "mainstream" genres of music being played today by 20 somethings are Rap/ Techno, watered down R&B, and Rage Metal which I call "Vomit Metal"! But, there is hope! I'm starting to see a surge of younger people (20 somethings) reject their generation of garbage of so called "music" and embracing music with real structure, real vocals and using real instruments!
Agreed , Greg. Music is healing, boosts mathematical skills & is food for the Soul. It’s crazy that music is bring taken out of schools. We will fight to keep it! Thank you for your wonderful music, you Black Magic Man🎶💕
He's so right ....wow I haven't seen his face since I was a kid in the early 70's when I watched The Woodstock Documentary.......great stuff....singer, keyboard player....you name it...
I am a teacher of IT. I totally agree with you about Music and learning of an instrument. If people want children to learn maths then learning music is a great way to see patterns. Thank you for 'soul sacrifice'!
Mr Greg Rolie you are completely correct. To take music classes out of the education system would be criminal. It would destroy future creations. I love to listen to your singing and piano , I know this may sound silly, But I hope you understand, You gave Journey a unique flavour / sound . Thank you.
Gregg Rolie, HELLO!!! I LOVED YOU IN SANTANA & then in JOURNEY!! WTF!! Happened to you that made you quit the band at the highlight of your CAREER with JOURNEY. You have an amzing voice, you make that piano talk and play soulful music. But, all of that aside, I have missed your music, and it help's that your still so very beautiful & you've aged like a fine wine baby. I honestly think you look better now than you did back then. I hope that you did after you left Journey, was worthwhile and that, after y'all were inducted into tha TV rheyñ ggll
Gregg , you should go talk to the schools directly to the kids, teachers and administrators, and Parents too. Music should not be taken out of school s even.We all need music!!
I totally agree Greg. I was always in an art class in school, my favorite class. When I retired recently I took up guitar again and it helped me with depression. Thanks Greg for being in the forefront of this. Peace.
Greg is one of the biggest unsung heroes Ever . But I'm blessed to know of him and his body of work . When he was with journey and they added steve perry , the world got to experience a new level of rock greatness. For whatever the reasoning was That level of greatness was gone forever. I'll say it again " without greg Journey was a great band , with greg , they Were a super group " .thank you very much!
There's still loads of great music and musicians out there now, but I agree that we're definitely past the days when we had TRUE legends. I agree with everything Gregg says here, but it comes with the territory.
Gregg your playing in Journey and Santana inspired me to try different things at an important time in my life - and yes what has been done to music education is a sad commentary on our society. I started in with piano lessons over 50 years ago and I'm still playing. I substitute on pipe organ at my church more often than I play anywhere else nowadays... but every time I fire up my rig and light into my Rhodes, or slide behind the B-3 for a jam session with friends, I think about seeing you perform with Journey in 1980. Thanks man
I agree with you Greg 100% plus music is energy, food for the soul for the heart Without music in life, life would be very boring… I don’t understand why they’re taking music out of school when I went to school there was always music always Instrumental/chorus Well whomever is behind taking music out of school they need to leave it be It’s very important for children for the future Thank you for sharing Gregg Rolie 💯🎶🎤🎸🎹🎸🥁🎶💪💯✌️❤️
Intoxicating on Incidentn t...your. parents are heroes fo paying for lessons and noble support>>>Major props to them.. your are intoxicating on Incident....and the organ and piano simultaneously !!!!!!!!!!!!gifted.......thoughtful....eloquent....deep....intellectal....profound....sublime.....
Absolutely right! Music is food to your soul, to your brain, it uses parts of your brain that otherwise would remain dormant. Recently, after about 1.5 years (due to the pandemic) I went back to see a friend in his mid 70's that in the past would hired me once a week to run his home studio. He's had some health problems and hasn't had much access to his studio; after helping him put it back together and doing a few sessions, I can really tell the difference in his attitude and attention span; he's definitely more alert and looks forward to our sessions - I'm realizing the value of Music as at therapy tool - remarkable.
Thanks for sharing. Yes, I’m learning drums as an adult. Our music class was singing a few songs and that was it. I realize now I should have been playing forever
I sit here taking a break from trying to learn Gregg rollies oye como va solo and wow, I must say, Gregg seems like a cool guy. watching this video gives me inspiration (I'm 18). I too agree that (real) music is slowly fading away from younger generations and being replaced with this stupid dubstep stuff, I hate it. anyway I love this video, great stuff!
@@SkagitAdventures & Bailey Scheidel I'm seeing a surge of younger people (20's) that are rejecting their generation of CRAP! Real music isn't dead yet!! There's hope still!
🎶 music is a ( journey ) of so many HUMAN emotions. We take away the human part of that then we die a little more each day. OH !!!!! and let's not forget how many lives that have been saved by 🎶 MUSIC. !!!!!!
Agree with Gregg (my ex- neighbor from Novato, CA ) so maybe all the celebrities can begin to push back against the people doing all this stuff in the Nation
Hi greig,to me your the biggest underrated musician. I'd love too see you and Steve start your own thing. I mean what the heck greig? I'd love to see you mop the floor with Cane and the rest! You FN rock man. Your not some rock has been! We love you ! Us true fans are aware who the real deal is! Not some fake replacement clone. Thanks Ross! Jimmy K. LV nev
It's not society's job to teach arts, it is the parents' job. If the home is failing, deal with that because once that fails there will be no schooling other than the failure we see now.
Its society's job to place a VALUE on the arts so that people will understand its importance, because it leads to deeper thought, learning how to work with other people. The society's that changed the world, through out history, all embraced art and learning. Our society once embraced art and learning, we too changed the world. We hear endless about how our society is in the trouble it is in because "God" was taken out of the schools, but god was NEVER in our schools. It most certainly its society's job to teach god, not insinuating you believe it is. MUSIC and ART WERE!! We have slowly lost music and art education... look at the horrible state our nation and society is in. Look at some of the other society's that reject art, what they are about, The Taliban, ISIS, AQ, etc. Its pretty clear why our society needs to place a big value on music and art, as well as teach it. Considering music is the only language understood everywhere, in all society's, by animals and even plants... it can be argued it is the universal language that makes us whole!
Wild speculation as to whether God was in the schools or not is certainly fun to toss about, but baseless in this discussion. As well, correlations do not show causation....I can imagine correlations all day and draw conclusions but likely none will be of any real use. However, what is known is the affect of a mother's singing to her infant, or a child growing up and being exposed to music at the earliest of ages, and these affects are quite astounding on the child. Talent is an individual gift and nurtured from infancy has shown very positive results. As you might guess, I do not believe "it takes a village", or "a school" to get the best of self expression in art or music from a child....it takes a nurturing parent. Don't get me wrong though, teaching music in school is not a bad thing, just not as primal and influential in realizing the best of inspiration and expression as the parent and family would be.....ttfn.
Do you feel it is society's job to teach children at all? If so, why would music not be part of a liberal arts education? After all, music and poetry are two studies that teach a human being what it means to be human. Science and Math can't do that. If we remove art from our children's education, we will only be training one half of their brains. That represents a total lack of balance. Many parents are not any more equipped to teach their children art than they are able to teach them science or math. Many can't afford to offer their children lessons in art or music outside of school. This means that an essential part of learning to be a complete human being is being left out of our schools. Is it any wonder that so many young kids seem soulless and perpetually lost. They can't feel any meaning in life from mere numbers and scientific facts and formulas.
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