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So I just have incredible respect for him now. And the other thing about Steve is that he’s the real deal as an artist. And now when I hear Journey on the radio, I turn it up. And it sent shivers down my spine, and I instantly gained an appreciation for his voice and Journey, something that I never got before.
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And for the first time in 18 years or something, he started singing a Journey song. And then one tour rehearsal probably three or four years ago, it happened, where he surprised us all and grabbed the microphone. And then slowly over the years, guys in the band would try to bait him by playing a Journey song hoping he would grab the microphone and start singing, but he never would. Then he started showing up unannounced to our tour rehearsals every year. There’s no one in our circle that doesn’t just love the shit out of Steve. He became a regular for years, and he just became one of our good friends. So then I invited him to one of our weekly Sunday croquet matches, which is another part of our secret inner life that I guess is no longer a secret, and he came one Sunday and never left. He’s the greatest guy.” So I did, based on that recommendation, and found that she was absolutely right.
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And occasionally he would send word backstage that he wanted to meet me, but I always felt awkward about it because when I grew up I didn’t have an appreciation for Journey, and I felt like, “Well, I don’t know what I’ll say to him.” So I avoided him for years, and then one day I had lunch with the film director Patti Jenkins, who made the Charlize Theron movie Monster, and she happened to be good friends with Steve, and she said, “You should really meet Steve. It started because he’s been coming to our shows for a long time - like 10 years. STEREOGUM: How long have you known Steve?Į: There’s this kind of whole secret inner life to the Eels, and one of the weirder parts of it is that we’ve been friends with Steve Perry for years.