Видео

Presumably, yes (during these same studio sessions around 1994, they had at least also recorded _I Am_ and _Listen to Your Heart_ from the same album, but unfortunately I've never found the full music videos on RUclips). That same year, Lincoln and his wife Laura got married, before he embarked on a North American tour to support this "For the Love of Strange Medicine" album. In the Journey Force's last newsletter (1993), Steve Perry tells his friends Lora Beard and Cyndy Poon about their meeting: Lora: _How about introducing the guys who played on your record?_ Steve: [...] _I found Lincoln Brewster, the guitar player, through Randy Jackson_ [Steve's friend, whom he recruited as bassist on Journey's latest album at the time, "Raised on Radio"]. _Randy is now the main West Coast cheese for Sony Music. He knew I had been looking for a guitar player for a long time. There were so many people in this town that could play a lot of chops but they really had no feel. The more I looked, the more disappointing it felt. There wasn't a whole lot of heart in their playing. Randy called and said he was given this tape a kid had made in his home studio. The songs were unfinished, but they stood on their own; they were so pretty. I was standing here in this room listening to the tape and I could feel that there was something behind his playing. There was soul there. I called him and we talked for a long time. He was living at home with his mom at the time._ Lora: _He must have had a major freak out when you called him out of the blue._ Steve: (laughs) _Yeah, I guess. I don't think about things like that sometimes. Anyway, he came to Los Angeles and that was the beginning of me, Paul_ [Taylor, Winger's keyboardist/guitarist] _and Lincoln hanging out and jamming._ [...] _Paul, Linc and I were at a rehearsal place here in Los Angeles and we were just jamming and having a lot of fun. We were thinking we might put something together, but nothing was for sure..._

Lincoln is a great guitarist ♥️

Steve, what can you say? The best of the best…….,,,,,,,,,,,..🌹

Sencillamente espectacular!!!

Thanks to Velizar (Vel_0000) who merged the full video for us! And here's an extract from an interview published in 1993 in the final Journey Force (official Journey fan club) newsletter, in which Steve Perry relates his encounter with Lincoln: "Lora Beard: _How about introducing the guys who played on your record?_ Steve: [...] _I found Lincoln Brewster, the guitar player, through Randy Jackson_ [Steve's friend, whom he recruited as bassist on Journey's latest album at the time, "Raised on Radio"]. _Randy is now the main West Coast cheese for Sony Music. He knew I had been looking for a guitar player for a long time. There were so many people in this town that could play a lot of chops but they really had no feel. The more I looked, the more disappointing it felt. There wasn't a whole lot of heart in their playing. Randy called and said he was given this tape a kid had made in his home studio. The songs were unfinished, but they stood on their own; they were so pretty. I was standing here in this room listening to the tape and I could feel that there was something behind his playing. There was soul there. I called him and we talked for a long time. He was living at home with his mom at the time._ Lora: _He must have had a major freak out when you called him out of the blue._ Steve: * laughs * _Yeah, I guess. I don't think about things like that sometimes. Anyway, he came to Los Angeles and that was the beginning of me, Paul_ [Taylor, Winger's keyboardist/guitarist] _and Lincoln hanging out and jamming._ [...] _Paul, Linc and I were at a rehearsal place here in Los Angeles and we were just jamming and having a lot of fun. We were thinking we might put something together, but nothing was for sure..."_ Note that Lincoln and his (still) wife Laura got married in 1994, some months after the recording of this "For the Love of Strange Medicine" album and just before Lincoln embarked on a 6-month North American tour to support it.

That's so cool GBUSA

The “Strange Medicine band”, as Steve liked to call them, only existed for one album, unfortunately: _For the Love of Strange Medicine_ was recorded in 1993, released in 1994, and toured until 1995, when Steve briefly returned with Journey for _Trial by Fire,_ their last album with the historic line-up.

Thanks for stopping by to comment. However, I think we have to bear in mind that 30 years have passed between this song and those being released this year-end, for example: the vocal abilities of a 45-year-old are not the same as those of a 75-year-old, nor are the artistic aspirations and feelings you want to share with the world, and for Steve Perry in particular, it seems to me we have to take into account a fourth factor that almost alienated him from music and his audience forever, I'm talking about his conflicted departure from Journey in the late 90s. In the end, we're lucky to be able to enjoy his voice again today, even if it's "going for a softer" sound...

@@CyregO I didn't mean today, meant raised on radio/trial by fire. Those albums were too soft. It was more Steve Perry solo than Journey. I'm glad Journey got their edge back in Arrival, one of my favorite albums.

@@failingup4907 Oh right, I understand your point better. As much as I find the comparison between Steve's solo albums and _Raised on Radio_ (album released a decade or so before this music video, and produced by Steve with the assistance of Randy Goodrum, his coauthor on _Street Talk_ and later _Against the Wall)_ legitimate; _Trial by Fire,_ although adapting to the studio "technological" evolutions of its time, is for me in the tradition of the _Escape/Frontiers_ diptych, with the return of the Smith/Valory rhythm section. From memory, there are also quite a few tracks rocking hard on it, aren't there? _(after a quick review: Message of Love, One More, Can't Tame the Lion, but above all Castle Burning and I Can See It in Your Eyes, the bonus track on the Japanese version of the album)_ Speaking of the latter song, if you're not already familiar with it, I'd recommend Steve's 2007 solo cover with the punk rock band Guff for their _Symphony of Voices_ album. As for _Arrival,_ this album clearly didn't enjoy the success it would have deserved in its day, but due to Perry's absence, it at least had the merit of proving that Journey's style and sound in the '80s owed as much to Cain and Schon as it did to the former. And I'd even add that the vocal duets of the two newcomers Castronovo and Augeri were on a par with those of Perry and Rolie in the late '70s!

To get your answer, watch the video again imagining the black tailcoat, but without Steve in it. 😜

Any connection with Lamont Dozier (H.D.H.), with whom Steve had written _Forever Right or Wrong?_

@@CyregO I went to high school with a Lamont dozier but it was here in Texas in 1980

@@caroldozier1956 A namesake, then: the lyricist/producer Steve admired was born in 1941.

Is it the presence of Joshua trees that makes you say that? Personally, I think so too, even though Wikipedia states (without source) that it was filmed “in the Grand Canyon area” with a link pointing to the main one by that name, in Arizona. Yet the Mojave Desert is closer to L.A., where Steve recorded this _For the Love of Strange Medicine_ album. By the way, I assume by its interior structure that the ruined shack shown in this music video is an old movie set, and given its dilapidated state at the time of the music video, there might be nothing left of it today, 30 years later? On a personal note, this cabin in the desert reminds me of the end of _Ask the Dust,_ John Fante's 1939 bestseller: at the end of the novel, the narrator's girlfriend, seriously ill and consumed by addictions, gives up on the happiness he can finally offer her and disappears *into the Mojave Desert* (😉) after a last stop in the scruffy wooden shack of the narrator's love rival...

@@CyregO You're right, Joshua Trees grow in Arizona too. I do know they only tend to grow in a narrow range of elevation, but, I'm sure there are many exceptions to that. As for the location with Steve, who can say? Could be anywhere. Looks legit. A guy found the actual Joshua Tree pictured on the U2 album Joshua Tree, outside the Park, but close enough to the Park. When I was there, it had fallen over (Pushed over?) and was dead, and not much let of anything, including all the tokens it's been photographed with.

@@hushingsilence Sad if this tree was intentionally damaged... Some information about it from the Wikipedia page for U2's eponymous album: _The tree photographed for the sleeve fell around 2000, yet the site remains a popular tourist attraction for U2 fans. One person inserted a plaque into the ground reading, “Have you found what you're looking for?”, in reference to the album's track “I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For”. It is a common misconception that the site is within Joshua Tree National Park, when in fact it is over 200 miles away from the park._

@@CyregO Yep, that's it. The plaque is really cool. I would think that occasionally people might pour some water at it's base, since it was so popular. I find it curious why it fell over/died. Perhaps that's another mystery to solve. But... I digress. 😄

I respect your opinion, but why all caps?

Please remove your rude comment.. if the song doesn't touch you, no comment needed, keep it to yourself !

@@karenmchenry770 It's okay; a little strange, but okay. I'm more adamant about censoring insulting comments (towards Arnel, for example: yes, it happens even here), or those expressing their dreams and fantasies about Steve, his hair, etc., which I don't think are really worth sharing in public. 😉

Having been in the same situation, I understand that (and my reply to the pinned comment might fulfill your wish... 😉)

I usually do 😊😅😂

Part of the original video is on Steve's official channel, but the whole introduction and ending were missing. Thanks to Vel_000 who fixed that for us fans.

Thanks, but who's Gabriel?

Nice comment Miste, which I also relate to, but unfortunately it's extremely unlikely that Steve himself will read it. Even on his official channel _(steveperrymusic),_ the only time he responded to comments was during the livestream of his new albums, and sadly, the only “Steve Perry” accounts responding under his videos are usually frauds/scammers...

@CyregO yes I know. I been through this the past year. And I left the message to let him know if he ever did read it. But I tried anyway.

@@MisteHartley I'd love it too if he'd pop under this video, though! 🤩 But the only Steve Perry who ever commented here was a fake account that I had RUclips delete promptly...

@CyregO i know I had one last year come here and pretend it was him. And wanted lots of money to charities and investment. When I am struggling and not even living paycheck to paycheck. Thank you for you comments. And sharing the video.

Sim, espero que, se ele estava a pensar numa jovem em particular, ela tenha conseguido sair dessa... (já agora, este mês acrescentei legendas em português, por isso, se encontrarem algum erro ou tiverem alguma sugestão para melhorar a tradução, não hesitem! 🙏)

His songs are on your mind too, despite wheels going 'round and 'round? 😉

Note that here this is a Steve Perry's solo project, _For the Love of Strange Medicine,_ recorded during Journey's 10-year hiatus between _Raised on Radio_ and _Trial by Fire._

I couldn't agree more. By the way, I assume the ruined shack shown in this music video is an old movie set? Personally, this cabin in the desert reminds me of the end of _Ask the Dust,_ John Fante's 1939 bestseller, in the Mojave Desert (Mojave Desert, which I suspect to be the filming location for this music video, near Los Angeles where Steve recorded his album, although Wikipedia refers to the “Grand Canyon area”)...

@@CyregO epic vid.. Steve against that back drop was awesome 😎

Oh, interesting fact Kevin, thanks to you (and thanks to Vel_0000 who shared the full music video with me). That might explain the few comments in French under this video: not necessarily from French/Europeans like me, but rather from Quebecers?

You mean he looks like a black cat with phosphorescent green eyes? 😜

@@CyregO exactly. 🤪

Okay, but why all caps?