This week I'm taking the lad backpacking in the snowy wilderness of the Rockies, so I won't have as much time to dive in. So I'm starting a day early and with a "longshot" band.
Now...Steve Perry is an ultra-elite vocalist. And Steve Smith is a drummer's drummer. Among all of these bands we are looking at, there's a possibility that he's the actual best drummer of them all.
They have all-time songs. Seriously overplayed...but...there's a reason they are seriously overplayed. Seriously overplayed might be a synonym for greatest.
Suspend any ideas going into this, and judge them with fresh eyes.
In many ways, this is as good as rock and roll *ever* got.
I have to confess that I am more of a greatest hits guy than a deep-catalog guy. So this could get interesting.