The Best of Journey | Do Your Worst

My husband always said I was more like a guy because I like to spend Sunday afternoons watching Bob Dylan documentaries and tour footage and I can get really into who was in the band at such and such a time and what this footage is from and which concert this is exactly and while I don’t think that other women are immune to this, I would say, in fact, quite the opposite – there are women who are, if you get down to it, far more “guy like” than I am – super into football etc., but I suppose what my husband means is that I am into certain guy things. All said, there are plenty of women who likewise are into such things, i'm sure ~ so read that as my disclaimer all. That was not my view, but another's and i do know of many women who are just the same as i am in this regard...

But let me continue, I love to watch obscure or camp band footage, and on this particular day it happens to be Journey (oh, go ahead and laugh, and say this is chick music anyway, but I love it and I love the heavy rock n roll ballads). It’s the stuff of my early youth – of late nights on the boardwalks. Of Ocean City, Maryland and rides that go fast and high roller-coasters that I whiz down with my brother, Richard, and a voice over guy in the booth who keeps asking us “Do you wanna go faaaaassttteerrr” with that slightly southern-accented Maryland voice that seems to me to be unique to Ocean City though, caveat, I’m British so what would I know, only that I love that accent and that when I listen to Journey all these memories come flooding back and so this is why today, in the midst of a minor funk, I decide to pull out my “Journey Greatest Hits DVD – 1978-1997” (bought by my husband as a gift) and decide to watch in the background as I work on my latest book, which obviously I’m not doing because I’m writing this to you now. A time honored tradition of author procrastination, isn’t that what they call this? And since that appears to be the case, I may as well tell you a little something about the DVD – so let’s review it, shall we?

Article Author: Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti

Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti is a published writer in both the United States and Europe. She is widely known for her music commentary, particularly her writings about Bob Dylan about whom she runs a highly-trafficked site. …

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