Chuck Eddy gives Journey remasters 3 stars (4 stars for the Greatest Hits) in the recent Rolling Stone

Steven: Even today, at an advanced age, does the tag bother you?

Chuck: It doesn't affect me that much anymore. Toward the end of my--why do I say "toward the end" of my freelance career? I could freelance again--it would bother me whenever a Scorpions album came out, or a Judas Priest album came out, and I would get calls from Rolling Stone or Entertainment Weekly, asking me to write about it, as if I was some kind of expert on the Scorpions! And I remember I actually reviewed a Scorpions album, for Entertainment Weekly, and I probably gave it a C+ or B-, and I thought it had one really good song on it. That bothered me. But probably what bothered me more is what they wouldn't ask me to write about, that the people weren't asking me to write about Liz Phair records or Hole records or Beck records, you know? Which I never really understood--it just seemed really kind of simplistic, the way editors made assignments. On the other hand, maybe I filled a hole, maybe it's just that they thought other people couldn't write about this stuff. For all I know, I was perceived as a mediocre writer, but at least someone who can write about this stuff. I don't know! ******Once in a while I'll get a call from some upstart magazine saying, you know, we've decided we should have a review of the new Journey album--you're the person who should write about it! And a couple times I've gotten pissed off. I'm like, why the fuck are you calling me about new Journey album?! Because I liked "Don't Stop Believing" once? It's really idiotic that after 18 years people still perceive my writing that way. I attribute that to the laziness of editors.*******