How Eels Got Steve Perry to Sing Live Again: 'It Was Such a Beautiful Moment' — billboard.com

Eels leader Mark Oliver "E" Everett says he's "trying to get used to my new role as Neal Schon" after former Journey frontman Steve Perry's surprise performance with the group over Memorial Day Weekend. Perry sang a pair of Journey hits -- "Open Arms" and "Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' " -- for the first time publicly in two decades along with Eels' own "It's a Motherfucker" on Sunday (May 25) during the group's show at the Fitzgerald Theater in Minneapolis. According to Everett it was the culmination of a long friendship that's part of "the secret inner life of the Eels" and dates back nearly a decade.

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