Even though it's been over three decades since he's toured, Steve Perry still hopes to hit the road again someday.
The 75-year-old ex-Journey frontman tells Rolling Stone, "It's something that I'm absolutely missing terribly. I can't even tell you how much, but there's been a big soulful reclaiming of this original feeling that I had about singing that I needed to get back to. I didn't want to go out and just turn the wheel or turn the crank."
Fans hoped Perry would go out after releasing his 2018 solo comeback Traces, but he never followed up that release or his 2021 Christmas album The Season with dates. When asked why, Perry said, "It's a long story. Uncle Steve is up in age, and everybody at this age has some aches and pains and things like that. But it's a really good question that I've been asking myself too."
Perry, who's signed a deal for a new solo album, says he's gotten some encouragement to play live from Trev Lukather, the son of Toto's Steve Lukather who Perry worked with on The Effect's recent remake of Journey's "It Could Have Been You." He says, "Trev's been busting my [gut] about it for a long time, to be honest with you."