OMG I get goosebumps every time I hear this man’s voice I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I was just listening to him this morning, but this one’s a great tune, one of my faves.
How can you not get chills? Its the voice of an angel! Effortlessly, flawless and full of such passion and emotion! Sorry, people who say Freddie is the best are smoking something! Steve is effortless. Freddie is great but you can hear it’s forced.
Your reaction is the same we all have now. Pure enjoyment. But I have to admit that growing up in the 70's and 80's we had the luxury of taking Journey for granted. There were so many good groups and such diversity. And nothing beats the live performances because these groups earned their way performing in little clubs and bars. They relied on word of mouth and they had to deliver every performance. No group now can duplicate that.
Concerts back then were affordable for all! Festival seating was cheap and fun!! Miss those days so much! We were truly blessed with all the AMAZING music from our time!!! 💜🥰💜🥰💜
This probably happened to many other Californians, but I remember the time I was crossing the Golden Gate Bridge driving into San Francisco when this song came on the car radio. Every time I hear "Lights," I remember how great it felt to be 18 and driving around with my girlfriends. The sun wasn't shining on the bay, though. It was really foggy.
Steve Perry and Journey are one of my all-time favorite band. Steve's voice is undisputedly one of the best angelic vocals in music history. I really Love this Band. Great reactions!!!
Yeah, that little man can SING. Baroque opera lost an incredible Giulio Cesare when he went into rock. Journey is basically Enrico Caruso singing Billie Holiday covers while the Rolling Stones play Brahms. Critics had no idea what to do with them.
One of the greatest voices ever. When I was in 6th grade, a classmate used to get permission to bring his boom box during recess. We used to listen to Journey while playing kickball. I love them to this day (and, after writing this, I feel SUPER old) 😂
Steve Perry's voice is so distinctive and it's so easy to get lost in their songs. Captivating 🎉 he went solo mid 80's and you need to listen to one of those.
Fun fact: "Lights" has been used as a lighting cue for Oakland A's fireworks events for decades: they kill the stadium lights and set off the first firework on the repeat of "when the lights go down...."
I was just thinking how great it would have been if Steve could have sung with the "Three Tenors" back in the day! Then someone commented that opera lost a" Curuso" when Steve went into rock music! So glad the younger generations are discovering real music from the 60's ,70's and the 80's👏
Growing up in the 70's and 80's was THE BEST! As an older woman that was there, all I can say is that I wish today's generation could really appreciate our music like you do. I taught my babies to love this music. Journey, Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles were totally my youth!!!
You need to watch again and let it bridge into Stay Awhile. Phenomenal. I'm always shocked that people watch this video from this particular concert and cut it off without watching as it blends into Stay Awhile, which is an incredible vocal performance!
I Love to see the younger generation appreciating these classic rock groups. Fabulous! The Best ! And Journey, Steve Perry particularly, is the Best of the Best. My kids were raised on it and now my grandkids. Awesome and never gets old !
Fell in love with Journey in high school back in the 70's. Especially the Steve Perry vocals and Neal Schon guitar. Every song...every album. Just gotta sing along! Hadn't heard anything like them before or since. Great reaction! Keep 'em coming!
You didn't want to read any more and just read enough to hear it was *intended* to be about LA, but it was changed to be about San Francisco. SF is known as 'The City'. It is part of the huge area in NorCal called the 'Bay Area'. Lyrics say '...city by the Bay' instead of 'LA'. Steve didn't like it, so decided to make it about SF instead. Like you, Lights is one of my favorite Journey songs. I'm from the Bay Area and when I was living far from home this song made me so homesick.
My favorite from Infinity is Winds of March. I LOVE that song. There is a video from Soundstage in 1978 that is a live performance of Winds of March that you should check out. The whole Infinity album is great.
"Infinity" was one of those "no skip" albums. For most it was the first time they'd heard of Journey. Though Top 40 radio was slow to embrace them Journey was an instant smash on FM album rock stations. Since you said you haven't done it you really should check out ""Feeling That Way/Anytime" (both songs together) from the same LP.
The live, in Osaka, performance of Lights/Stay Awhile is one of my faves. Would enjoy watching your reaction, but just hope you check it out...even just for yourself.
Yep! This song, Hell, almost all of Journey's considerable catalog of music is "pull-the-car-over-to-the-side-of-the-road" epic, and always worth as many replays as possible.
@stevenrayperrymusic I should be thanking YOU! I'm streaming from a small town in Northern Virginia, and I grew up listening to a lot of incredible music, from Big Bands with my parents, Classic Rock with my siblings, and everything in between.
You should have let the tape run into Stay Awhile, which is usually played back-to-back with Lights. As far as rock singers go, Steve Perry is the GOAT. One critic described him as a counter tenor with the warmth of a baritone. He makes it sound so easy, but what he's doing vocally is really difficult to achieve and technically flawless.
Great point Marshal, those 2 songs have always intertwine, if you never been to a concert or never saw Houston, Frontiers (DVD), it’s such a great duo. Like Feeling that way & Anytime!!!!! One just goes hand and hand with the other☺️
He has one of the rarest voices, a counter tenor. He always sounded even better live especially at this 1981 Escape tour. Try reacting to Still they ride, When you love a woman, Faithfully and open arms. Best male rock voice ever!
@@lauraallen55I'm no expert .Where would you put Mitch Grassi Josh Kiscka(of Greta Van Fleet)and Geddy Lee?Three of my favorite singers, as well as Steve Perry
If the WIKI says it's about LA it is wrong. Saw them on there first tour with Steve Perry singing and he told the story that it was about San Francisco and the lights over the San Francisco Bay. Like many others, heard it driving across the Golden Gate Bridge, very cool timing!
Sal, isn’t it so amazingly cool when Steve has his mouth in vibrato!!! His mouth is moving and the sound stays steady, strong, and true!!! NO ONE will ever sing like him. He is truly 1 in zillion. Truly truly beautiful!!!!!
In your pre-read of the song he originally wrote it about LA but didn’t like how it sounded. Then awhile later when he joined Journey and moved to San Francisco where they were based changing the line to “and the sun shines on the bay” made more sense and sounded better so that became the song
Ah ha! When Salvo read that the song was about LA, I was like no way. I'm from LA and I had always assumed Perry was singing about San Francisco cuz that's the city "by the bay" and the lights never go down in the city of Angels.
Live in Osaka (1980) is a really great concert to react to. Any Song will do, but Walks Like a Lady, Wheel in the Sky, Im Crying, are some outstandingly ones.😮🔥🔥🔥❤️
@donnamoskowitz4978 Watch the whole Osaka concert, it's great!! Lights merges into Stay Awhile and is really good, probably even better than the Houston 81 concert.🔥🔥🔥
I ran the dances in high school. Every year we'd do a boat dance cruising on the San Francisco Bay. I'd play Lights as the last song as we were heading toward the dock. It was perfect to play a song about San Francisco by an SF band.
Hard to believe Journey and Creedence Clearwater Revival came from the same city! One of my younger brothers was a drummer, and toured with Looking Glass (Brandy) for a year or so, and went with the singer, Elliot Lurie, to a party and met Steve. Some girls brought a Journey album, and Steve sang harmony with himself on a couple of songs. Man, I would'a loved to have been there!
Neil & Steve used to practice together. OH & BTW It was Steve Perry who made all the late 70's all the 80's & first part of the bands most famous. Steve Has some new ones out on his own. Couple of albums.
This is from the concert that was actually shown on MTV!! Yeah they played music a long time ago…I actually got to see them on this tour. Fun fact, they play this at SF baseball games.. there is clips of Steve at the game & leading the crowd!!
There is not, nor will there ever be again, something as wonderful as Steve Perry’s voice live in the 80’s. I saw them on this tour in Los Angeles and I still get goosebumps when I hear this concert. It was the best of the best. Steve will always be the GOAT. ❤❤. Journey died when Steve Perry left the group. There is no point in seeing them without him.
One thing that all great singers have in common: they know the notes they have to hit *before* they hit them. Always thinking about where the next note is.
Awwww........ Wished they played the rest of the song, the next song was 'Stay Awhile'. These are songs that are on 2 completely different albums!! 'Lights' is on the Infinity album (1978) and 'Stay Awhile' is on the 'Departure' album (1980). And both songs just fit together, as if it were just one song! 'Lights' was my very first Journey song, I when I was 9 years old!! It was his voice that caught my attention! Perry is and will always be my all time favorite singer!! He's my guy, I just love him!
Btw, the guitarist, Neal Scion, was formerly with Carlos Santana. He’s awesome! I’m a MAJOR Steve Perry fan but you have to appreciate the remaining artists.
I saw this concert in Columbus, Ohio at the old Vets Memorial Auditorium in 1978. It wasn’t a huge place, but that made it all the better. We were in the fifth or sixth row and to see this incredible band perform from that close of a distance was just unbelievable. Steve and all of the members gave it everything they had. To this day, it was the best concert I ever saw, and I don’t think anything could ever beat it.
Good to watch you react to live version. ALWAYS better than the studio cut. We considered the studio cut just a "sampling" of what was to come. We flocked to the live versions to jear the real deal with depth and passion.
this was my first concert in high school. It was a few days in front or back of that show. On the floor with a girl on my shoulders for a while. Welcome to REAL music. REAL musicians with NO AUTOTUNE computer crap. MOTHER FATHER shows Steve's HIGH range at the end. Any Way You Want It. The guitarist played with Santana when he was 15-16.
