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    JOURNEY'S ARNEL PINEDA
I don't know if you call this the 'American Dream' or the new dream that Youtube has created. Arnel Pineda, once the lead singer for The Zoo (primarly a cover band in Manila) has hit the jackpot. In February of 2007, a friend of his started posting performances of his on You Tube singing a variety of 70's and 80's rock songs to apparently empty bar rooms. By June the videos had attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers, including one very important viewer: Neal Schon, the lead guitarist of Journey. Long story short, Schon found Pineda, Pineda auditioned and became the next lead singer of Journey, and the next show he played was a Brazillian simulcast to 25 million people. The collaboration has since recorded a platinum album and their tour was the eighth grossing concert in 2008. Pineda not only sounds like the original Journey frontman, Steve Perry, he might even be a better singer. He has gone from completely obscurity to worldwide fame in 2 years, and has resurrected one of the best acts the 70s ever produced.
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Journey's Arnel Pineda was voted MORE AWESOME than:
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       BADASS MOUNTAIN MEN
5th Place February 09 It is hard to believe beaver hunting in the back woods could earn glory. But, in the first half of the ninteenth century the Rocky Mountains remained an uncharted land where the elements were harsh and the grizzly bears and indians prevelent. These scruffy and gruff frontiers men lived on tobacco, coffee, and pemmican. They ran through the woods with moccasins, hawken rifles and bowie knifes risking their lives for the beaver hat. Life wasn't all bad, they always traded for the hottest squas, did whatever they wanted, and ate 100% organic, nonGMO food. The stories are thick and deep, from the legend of "Liver Eating" Johnson to the balad of Grizzley Adams. One of my favorite highlights is the tale of Boone Helm, who, in the middle of a five hundred mile trip accross dead-of-winter Montana, was captured by Blackfoot indians, stripped to the waist and bound with leather straps in a teepee. He managed to chew through his bindings, knocked out the guard with a two finger jab, took the guard's knife, scalped him, cut off his leg, and disappeared into the woods still half naked. Weeks later he arrived at the cabin of Del Gue, 200 miles away, having survived on only the leg of his former captor. That's about as bad-assed as any story I've ever heard.
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TOUGH MATCHUP
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don't forget about killing your captor, escaping naked into the Montana Winter and living of the meat of your captors leg which your had previously sawn off, in a bear cave. Now that is awesome.
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I concur. Canoes and beaver pelts are way more awesome than over-hyped Star Craft tournaments. These guys caught salmon with their bare hands and spat the lead out of the venison they killed. Awesome!
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