Steve Perry ~ Street Talk (1984) CD 2006 Columbia / Legacy Records •• NEW ••

Description: Steve Perry Street Talk AUDIO CD BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Columbia / Legacy Records 82876 86364 2 UPC | 886978780126 1984, 2006 TRACK LISTING 01. Oh Sherrie 02. I Believe 03. Go Away 04. Foolish Heart 05. It's Only Love 06. She's Mine 07. You Should Be Happy 08. Running Alone 09. Captured By the Moment 10. Strung Out BONUS TRACKS 11. My My My* 12. Harmony* 13. Makes No Difference* 14. Don't Tell Me Why You're Leavin' 15. If Only for the Moment, Girl *Previously Unreleased After the back-to-back-to-back Top 10 triumphs of 1980's Departure, 1981's Escape, and 1983's Frontiers, the members of Journey were on top of the world – and ready to experiment with solo projects. The most high-profile hit of the bunch was Street Talk, released by singer Steve Perry in April 1984. That made perfect sense, given that Perry was the voice of the group's biggest hits, but it didn't mean executives at Journey's label, Columbia Records, were eager to see him step out on his own. "They were scared to death," Perry recalled during an interview with Melodic Rock in 2011. "They thought that I was going to spend a lot of money and they weren't sure what I was going to do. But you know, I ended up doing it relatively inexpensively and quickly because I had great musicians. There were no computers back then. Everything you're hearing on the Street Talk record is absolutely performed in the studio and captured on a piece of tape. ... It was a special time in my life, I think." To casual fans, the sound of Steve Perry solo may not have seemed appreciably different from his work with Journey, but behind the scenes, the music came from a much more casual place. "The kind of neuroses than you feel in Journey because of the pressure can tend to sterilize your work," Perry admitted during an August 1984 interview with Kerrang. With this album I just said 'Fuck it, I got into this business to hear my own songs as they should be heard, to see the ideas take form, to build a track – that's all. That's what I'm gonna do with this record." Appearing on Good Morning America, Perry added: "It was a no-pressure situation. I just said 'I'm gonna have some fun in the studio, more fun than I've ever had so far.' ... It's like my first album to me." Street Talk ended up being like his first album in more ways than one: It also found Perry reuniting with a member of Alien Project, his pre-Journey group in the '70s. "I was in a band with Craig Krampf years ago, and Street Talk was gonna be the name of our band," Perry recalled. "Unfortunately, a situation happened where one of our members got killed in a car accident, so after that happened, we disbanded, of course. The name Street Talk has still been floating around. You know, it was appropriate since I got back together with Craig one more time that we'd call it 'Street Talk.'" With different personnel, naturally, came a different sound – and with Krampf on board, Perry returned organically to his musical roots. "I went for a whole different thing entirely. I went for a different production sound, I went for a different band sound. Different vocal register. Things that I used to do an awful lot before I joined Journey," Perry mused. "I came from R&B. All of my friends that used to be in bands with me years ago have called me and said, 'This album sounds more like the Steve Perry I used to work with than anything I've ever heard you do.' It does have a little bit of that old flavor that I used to work with." Happy as the vibes surrounding the Street Talk sessions might have been, the album didn't spring from an entirely cheerful place. As Perry later recalled, he only decided to cut a solo album at all because guitarist Neal Schon had already started a side project of his own with keyboardist Jan Hammer. "Neal did a solo album first," Perry pointed out during a 2006 appearance on Off the Record. "I said, 'You shouldn’t do this.' I told the manager, I said, 'Herbie [Herbert], you know, don’t do this. You know, it’ll mess with the group.' I said that to the manager, and the manager told Neal, and Neal wanted to do it. He’d worked with Jan Hammer once. So then, he did that, and we did another record, and he did another one. And I said, 'Okay now, you’re poking the bear here. I’m gonna do one.' And that’s when I did Street Talk." SHIPPING TO USA ONLY Buyer Pays Shipping 1st CD $3.99... each additional $1.50 CDs will only be combined with other CDs or DVDs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.

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