No: "In 1991, Steve Perry was introduced to Phil Brown, who is also a musician, by Perry’s manager Bob Cavallo, who encouraged him to work with Brown to write songs that would meet Perry’s standards. Perry met Brown at Brown’s home in Sylmar, California and they wrote two songs together, Somebody Somewhere and Don’t Push the River, and Brown showed Perry two other songs that Brown had previously written. To evaluate these four songs, Perry recorded a vocal performance of each song on an eight track tape recorder Brown kept in his garage. Perry loaned Brown $1,500 for the use of his garage and eight track tape recorder used to record his performances, as described in the administration agreement they signed in August 1991. Perry's recordings were made exclusively for “demo” purposes, so that he could determine if the songs were creatively acceptable to him. Perry never intended or expected to publically release these recordings and certainly never authorized their public release. He also never intended those vocal performances to form a part of a larger sound recording in which anyone else would have a copyright interest, and he at all times intended to have sole copyright ownership of the vocal performances he recorded at Brown’s home. Perry’s homerecordings did not have the same quality as a studio recording, and although his vocal performances allowed him to evaluate whether he wanted to pursue development of the songs, his performances lacked the studio quality necessary for any type of public release. As a result, neither those recordings nor those vocal performances met or meet Perry’s standards for public release. Perry ultimately decided that the vocal performances were not appropriate for public release and none of the songs created in 1991 appeared on his 1994 For the Love of Strange Medicine album. Perry left the tapes of his four recorded songs in the possession of Brown. Perry never worked with Brown after 1991 and he never asked him to return the tapes of his four recorded songs." _(Stephen Perry vs Phil Brown case)_
Some infos here: www.discogs.com/Steve-Perry-Demos/release/14487388 Concerning this song in particular, it was composed in 1991 by Phil Brown and Steve Perry, but not having been chosen for the 1994 _For the Love of Strange Medicine_ album, it remained as a demo.
While the story above regarding when it was written and what album it was intended for is likely true... FWIW, I am the source of its release to the public. I was given a cassette from a close friend from High School. She knew how much of a Journey fanatic I was. Her boyfriend at the time who was a guitar player himself had received the recording from a band member who played on this recording. I was told it was done at a home studio in the San Fernando Valley. You're thinking "So how does this demonstrate that this came from me?". Here's how I know. A few years after I got the tape, I gave it to a close friend (though I was asked not to - I did trust this person implicitly though). She was making herself a copy in one of those dual deck cassette players. She put the original tape in the wrong deck and by the time she realized what had happened the intro and most of the first verse were lost forever. I was upset but also blame myself for not removing the recording protection tab that could have prevented this in the first place. We are still friends to this day. A few years later and the internet becomes a thing. Journey fan sites and trading communities pop up and I joined. I didn't have a lot of video or bootleg Journey so I offered up what I had. This 3/4 of a song. Everybody freaked out because it had never been heard. Someone added up notifying Laura Beard (Head of the Steve Perry Fan Club at the time.) She contacted me to get all the info she could. I told her everything I knew. It's been 30+ years and to this day I have never heard another version or complete version of this song. Now that I think about it I and only a few other people have heard the song in its entirety. Which is actually kind of sad. Maybe someday it will be released in all its glory. I think it is a fantastic song. It is very Journey-esque, sounds like it was very personal to him too. The lyrics are very much pointing to a triumphant return that was never fully realized.
@@patriciabloomer2777Huh, I don't t get the Phil Brown remark. I've been out of the loop for awhile. Who is, and what's up with, Phil Brown? Or what did you mean when you mentioned him? Thank you in advance for clarifying.
@@joeyschwartz5150 Steve was suing Phil Brown for releasing music without his permission. Phil got around it by having the music posted under another name.
