Hot chicks in bikinis certainly make up for Steve Perry's sappy crooning . As you know, I love the old Steve Perry/Gregg Rolie Journey stuff, though -- as painful as it is to watch Perry live.
Journey, was a great group, in damned near any of it's iterations. I cannot remember ever thinking of them as "gay", but you are correct, looking at their videos now.......
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Weak Journey.....the "Raised on the Radio" stuff. Recognize the guy on the bass? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9TgWj2Kln4