After growing weary of story after story of girl fights, sexual deviants, and copyright infringement on YouTube; it was nice to read a positive story covering a true Internet fairytale.

A few years ago, Arnel Pineda was just a singer in a cover band in the Philippines. Now, he is the new lead singer of Journey (yes, that Journey). Pineda was discovered on YouTube by the band’s guitarist Neal Schon. After seeing the video of Pineda, Schon picked up the phone, invited Pineda to audition, and the rest is history. The story reminded me of one of my favorite movies – Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston.

Take a listen for yourself. I’m not sure I could discern Pineda’s Separate Ways from Steve Perry’s original. Journey fans rejoice.

Filed under: Off Topic on Friday, June 20th, 2008 by Koren Henderson |
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