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Post by properry on Sept 15, 2009 14:49:34 GMT -5
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Post by arden on Sept 15, 2009 23:21:20 GMT -5
Thanks, PP, try this link. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/15/SPU219M4EO.DTLPerry's 8th-inning Journey Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, September 15, 2009 (09-14) 20:20 PDT -- Steve Perry, the former lead singer for Journey, will be at Dodger Stadium wearing his Giants cap as usual when the team plays there this weekend and he will leave before the eighth inning, as usual, but not to beat the traffic. Late last season, the Dodgers started playing Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " before the bottom of the eighth inning every night as a rally song, and Perry leaves before they do. "I have to," he said. "I don't want to hear it." Why? Because Perry is a diehard Giants fan who cannot stand the fact that the Dodgers "hijacked it first" and use it to win games. Perry has friends on the Dodgers. He admitted it was "amazing" the first time he heard the entire stadium singing along with his voice and finds it appropriate the song is used by sports teams. Still, he said, "It tweaks me to know they're using the song as a rally song. I really wish we'd have hijacked it first. I think the song is about hope and power, and it's working for them, d**n it." Perry became a Giants fan in 2002 and became friends with many Chicago White Sox players, including Aaron Rowand, when they played "Don't Stop Believin' " in their clubhouse every night on the way to winning a World Series. As a co-writer of the song, Perry gets a royalty every time the Dodgers play it, but said, "It's not enough to get me a latte at Starbucks." |
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Post by properry on Sept 16, 2009 9:24:28 GMT -5
Thanks for fixing the link Arden.  And hey , I think the Dodgers should buy Perry some coffee from Starbucks seeing how they hijacked his song to use it to win the game,that is the least they could do for him, Right?! ;D  |
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