Arnel Pineda, the new frontman of the band Journey!!

[etneroll]

Hey guys! I got curious when I saw from the web telling this guy is the new lead singer of Journey and I google and watched the video clips from you tube. I listened and I must say that I am really impressed with this guy. Meron pala tayong mga singer na talagang pang world class ha? And to think na Journey the legendary band of the 80's is still up and looking for a new frontman...The new album they are going to record hopefully will come out next year with Arnel in the limelight...What can you say guys?

[moe]

there's already a similar thread about this. please search before creating a new thread

[etneroll]

[QUOTE=moe;975164]there's already a similar thread about this. please search before creating a new thread[/QUOTE

Yup, just saw it...thanks for the info....mod please delete.

[gearhead]

got this email about how he supposedly got his visa to the U.S. I wonder if it is true

This is the story of how Arnel Pineda' got his visa as told by the actual
immigration officer who issued the visa:




Subject: Funny story.....


¡K.and apparently true¡K.


From an A-100 colleague¡K.


I have a nice holiday story to share: (Apologies to Snider who's now heard this 14
times, but hey, your stories aren't getting any newer.)


Months ago a band shows up at my window. It was Lemons and Oranges, or something
fruity. Asked why they would play a concert in Seattle. They claimed some following
there. I asked about their music; looked at their posters, CDs, etc. At the end of
the interview, they were saying, "come out and see our show tonight." This invite
was probably due to my withering questioning, and since they thought they were hot
stuff, pride was wounded, etc. etc. It turned out that the venue is actually on the
way home from the Embassy, only ten minutes away. So I says, "I can't take any free
tickets yada yada yada but maybe I'll pop in."


It was a Friday. I went with two LES. We got a table, ordered some beer, fried
chicken and so on. The opening band comes on. They were called "Zoo"--this I'm sure
of, since I'm from Kalamazoo, the name stuck. The Zoo starts rocking out to 70/80s
tunes, like Foreigner, Night Ranger, etc. But the coup de grace was indisputably
when they busted out Journey. I mean, the singer was not just good--95% of all
Filipinos are good singers--he was really dern good. I couldn't shut up about it. I
was telling anyone who would listen, "Dude, not only does this guy have pipes, and
range, he's got perfect pitch. He has only missed a few notes on some of the hardest
power ballads in schlock n roll history." The LES grudgingly agreed, but they've
been desensitized to the regular displays of amazing karaoke you get in Manila, so
maybe they were just humoring me.


Since I'm from Michigan, I had an older brother who sported a mullet and wore
softball t-shirts. His first 8-track was Styx. Ted Nugent is referred to simply as
the Nuge, or Uncle Ted. The Silver Bullet invokes Bob Seger not Coors. In short, I'm
qualified to judge this kind of thing. The performance was poignant for me... Images
of Camaros and pegged jeans danced in my head... definitely surreal. Then.. then!...
Lemons and Oranges comes on and, frankly, they were a bit of a let down. I mean,
their music was Edie Brickel / Natalie Merchantesque. And that's fine --it has its
place-- but let's be clear: it is a metaphysical transgression to go from Journey's
"Separate Ways" into Lisa Loeb's "Stay..."


The next week I'm sitting at an NIV window next to a soon-to-be legend of an officer
name Singer. Singer and I were doing FMJs and so we would trade off regular NIV
applicants occassionally so that we got fair share of student visas. Singer loves
the three things: the FAM, movie quotes that might cost him an EEO violation
someday, and cases that make sense. Things that don't make sense, make Singer an
unhappy man.


I hear Singer say, "Journey? The band Journey?" He flips through papers. He sounds
unhappy.


I butt in: "What's that all about?"


He turns off his mic and looks over at me. "I don't know. This guys says he's going
to try out for Journey."


I'm puzzled. "Journey? The band Journey?"


Singer goes, "That's what I just said, [EXPLETIVE]! "


"Great, another nutjob. I'll take it." Singer takes my student, I take the nutjob.


I look over his stuff and say "purpose of travel?" and all that. I start to
scrutinize more carefully and realize its the guy I saw from the night before.


"Hey, does your band at Bagaberde?.. ."


He confirms and he goes on to tell me the story of how he uploaded some clips of his
band that he recorded to YouTube and contacted Journey's manager, having heard they
were looking for a new singer. He says they called him up and invited him to the
U.S. to try out. Given the malarkey you get at a Manila NIV window, this story only
got points for being original. He produced some flimsy emails and letters, etc.


So I go, in my best dubious voice, "Yeah? let's hear Wheels in the Sky!"


He belts it out for the whole waiting room and for the staff to hear (I made sure to
take off my headset and let the speaker play it because what I was really doing was
covering my butt).


I said, "Look sir, there isn't a person in this Embassy who would believe that
story-- going to try out for Journey!-- not a soul would believe that. Except for
me. I saw you sing last Friday and I couldn't shut up about how your vocals were
perfect Steve Perry.


So I tell you what. I'm giving you that visa. You're going to try out. And you're
going to make it...."

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HjcCzgCCX0"]YouTube - Journey - Faithfully (Cover by The Zoo)[/ame]


And the rest is rock n roll history, my friends:

[n2knee]

creative ang pinoy na writer na gumawa ng urband legend na iyan. :lol: at nagmura pa si Arnel Pineda sa harap ng taong magdedesisyon kung mabibigyan sya ng visa? (doon sa parte na pinalitan ng [EXPLETIVE])

[shadow]

creative ang pinoy na writer na gumawa ng urband legend na iyan. :lol: at nagmura pa si Arnel Pineda sa harap ng taong magdedesisyon kung mabibigyan sya ng visa? (doon sa parte na pinalitan ng [EXPLETIVE])

dude, yun singer yata is the last name of one of the consul.... he's not talking about pineda....