Soprano's and Journey

[icubud]

Read the story for yourself if you do not already know:
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,280232,00.html
just copy and paste into browser
for some reason I can not get hyperlink maker to get past the comma so it will not work

[properry]

Hey Icubud, how are you? It's been awhile, since I've seen you here. I hope your having a great summer!

Oh yes, I saw that last night, it sure was great that they played Journey's DSB on the Soprano's final show...... that song was perfect for way they ended the show.

[arden]

Here's Perry's word on it. Thanks, Lori.

Journey Singer Insisted On Knowing 'Sopranos' Finale Before Allowing Song Use
Steve Perry didn't want to see 'the Soprano family being whacked to 'Don't Stop Believin'.'
By Gil Kaufman

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If you were surprised by the "Sopranos" series-ending cliffhanger, just imagine how show creator David Chase was feeling just days before the finale aired: He still had not received permission to use Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " in the show's controversial final scene.

"The request came in a few weeks ago and it wasn't until Thursday that it got approval because I was concerned," revealed former Journey singer Steve Perry on Tuesday (June 12). Perry and former bandmates guitarist Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain had to agree on the use of the song in the show, and though Perry said the trio don't agree on much, the "Sopranos" denouement was one of the few times since Perry left the band in 1998 that the guys have shaken hands on something unanimously.

But first, Perry made Chase an offer he couldn't refuse: He insisted on knowing what happens to the Soprano clan before signing off (see " 'Sopranos' Creator David Chase Talks About Finale, Denies 'Trying To Blow People's Minds' " and "How Will 'Sopranos' Meet Its End? Silvio And Bobby Aren't Talkin' ").

"I was not excited about the Soprano family being whacked to 'Don't Stop Believin'," said Perry, who watched the show with glee Sunday night and again on Monday. "I told them, 'Unless I know what happens — and I will swear to secrecy — I can't in good conscience feel good about its use.'" The show's producers made Perry promise to keep it under his lid, which he did, and then they spilled the beans on how the song was used and how the show ends, after which Perry signed off.

Interestingly, Cain — who wrote the song with Perry and Schon — told The Associated Press that he didn't know how it would be used when they agreed to the licensing. He kept the fact that the song would be used in the show a secret even from his family.

"I didn't want to blow it," he told AP. "Even my wife didn't know. She looked at me and said, 'You knew that and you didn't tell me?' "

"I can hardly put in words how good it makes me feel, to be honest with you," said Perry about the pivotal role the song played, jokingly adding that he's not nearly as "reclusive" as MTV News made him sound in a story that ran on Monday (see " 'Sopranos' Is Latest To Keep The Faith In Journey's 'Don't Stop Believin' ' ").

"There's nothing more in my lifetime that I wanted than to be part of a band that wrote the kind of music we did when we were together. ... When I saw ['The Sopranos'] last night, what I saw was the director pull back into the foundation that was there all along during the most important moment when all this chaos [is going on]. The song was, literally, cutting from lyric to lyric, from mother to son to James [Gandolfini] at the key moment and on [the lyric] 'streetlight people,' it pulls back with the cameras to reveal a streetlight and I said, 'My God, this director [Chase] got it. He got the song!' "

When told that Chase revealed to the New Jersey Star-Ledger that "Don't Stop" was the only song he wanted all along for the show capper, Perry said he wasn't surprised. "I felt he must have heard the song enough that he wrote something that fit the lyrics," Perry said. "The whole thing blew my mind."

[properry]

It's good to hear from Perry again, we hadn't heard from him in a long while, so this was a real nice read!

[flossy]

funny how Perry and Cain have given interviews this week about it but no mention of one another? they really don't talk I guess.

[happycamper]

OMG! I just watched it for the first time. Talk about the cameo of all cameo's.

dncott (6 hours ago) Marked as spam
As per Fox News this morning ... "That was Journey lead singer Steve Perry who played the ostensible hitman in the last scene of "The Sopranos." While his record, "Don't Stop Believing" was playing, it was Perry who entered the diner, sat at the counter, and then visited the men's room. A nice touch." ...

[arden]

I'm not sure I believe this report. Do you have a link to any footage? Youtube or something?

Steve just gave an interview with entertainment weekly where he spoke about the song and the Sopranos at length and never mentioned a cameo appearance. He also said that he has never met David Chase.

happycamper said:

OMG! I just watched it for the first time. Talk about the cameo of all cameo's.

dncott (6 hours ago) Marked as spam
As per Fox News this morning ... "That was Journey lead singer Steve Perry who played the ostensible hitman in the last scene of "The Sopranos." While his record, "Don't Stop Believing" was playing, it was Perry who entered the diner, sat at the counter, and then visited the men's room. A nice touch." ...

[sexxymofo]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN1-3rX9XKk

[happycamper]

Everyone is saying that it isn't so but It was a great feeling for awhile. I could see him doing it.

I'm calmed down Sexy, lol.

[arden]

That guy sitting at the counter who gets up to go to the bathroom is NOT Perry.

sexxymofo said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN1-3rX9XKk

[arden]

www.centredaily.com/entertainment/television/story/122587.html

In the already infamous conclusion of "The Sopranos," the camera ominously panned to a number of background actors populating the diner where the family sat down for its last televised meal.

Seldom have nameless extras been so integral to such a historic moment in television. Depending on your perspective, they could be viewed as either red herrings meant to distract bloodthirsty fans waiting for an explosive finale - or as Tony's potential killers who struck at the instant the screen abruptly went black.

Paolo Colandrea, a 47-year-old owner of a pizza joint in Penndel, Pa., played the mysterious man wearing a Member's Only jacket sitting at the bar. He was shown going to the bathroom - a way station of assassination to fans of "The Godfather."
When a relative of Colandrea's picked up the phone at his pizza shop, he exclaimed: "You're trying to get in touch with him? Everyone's trying to get in touch with him!"

But if Colandrea's character was there to kill Tony Soprano, the actor who played him isn't saying.

"I do have an idea, but I cannot really talk," Colandrea said Monday. "I have papers signed that I can't make any comments on that."

Colandrea, who was born in Naples, auditioned for the role after a casting agent stopped for a bite at his shop. He claims to know definitely his character's intent and what happens following the episode's conclusion, but won't divulge it. (A bit of trivia: Colandrea's character wears a Member's Only jacket; the first episode of the final season was titled "Member's Only.")

Most have read the ending as deliberately ambiguous, leaving myriad reasonable conclusions for the audience to decipher. Colandrea's perspective, though, would have it that there's an answer to the puzzle worth hiding.

Colandrea mentions the possibility of a "Sopranos" movie, which was discussed and eventually dismissed by Chase and the show's producers years ago. Chase has said he's almost certainly not going to make a "Sopranos" film. (Chase is currently in France and unavailable for comment.)

Others imagine the blackout signifies Tony's death, coming in a flash. As Tony told Bobby Bacala while fishing earlier in the season: "You never see it coming." In this scenario, Tony perishes having seemingly reached a level of peace; he chooses Journey's optimistic "Don't Stop Believin'" on the juke box, not Frank Sinatra's backward-looking "My Way."

The final scene was shot at Holsten's Old-Fashion Ice Cream Parlour in Bloomfield, N.J. Jimmy Spadola, a local of Bloomfield, also played an extra in the final scene.

He watched the episode with friends and family on a newly installed flat screen TV, which threw doubt into the abrupt black screen that finished the finale.

"Everybody screamed: 'Jimmy, your cable! What did you do? What did you do?'" Spadola said. "You know something? I think that's exactly what David Chase wanted."

[sexxymofo]

Was fun to think it! He could be padded full of make up who knows Ok, ok Arden I get it

[arden]

;D Did they put him on stilts, too?? ;D Perry's a liittle guy.

sexxymofo said:

Was fun to think it! He could be padded full of make up who knows Ok, ok Arden I get it

[properry]

Hey, I like that idea of Perry being on the show! They could have shown him sitting at the bar humming his song!

[sexxymofo]

He could be wearing high heeled boots Don't the Italians like to wear those to make them appear tall This was an Italian show... ;D j/k

[properry]

sexxymofo said:

He could be wearing high heeled boots Don't the Italians like to wear those to make them appear tall This was an Italian show... ;D j/k

He could of wore anything Sexxymofo ;D

[arden]

;D LOL!!! Italian boots and a Members Only jacket?? The costume designer would be shot!!

sexxymofo said:

He could be wearing high heeled boots Don't the Italians like to wear those to make them appear tall This was an Italian show... ;D j/k