Journey, the Journey tribute band that shares a name and several members with the 20th century pop powerhouse, experienced a setback in their summer tour this week when Steve Augeri, eerie doppelgänger for original singer Steve Perry, came down with a throat infection and had to step away from the mic.

His temporary replacement is Jeff Scott Soto. Heard of him? Oh.

The lead item on his resume is that he sang on Yngwie Malmsteen’s first two albums. But what’s weird, creepy and recursive about this is that he was also the ghost-singer for Steel Dragon, the fictional band in the movie “Rock Star,” which is about a singer in a tribute band who gets drafted to sing for the band he idolizes. (The movie is itself based on the story of Tim “Ripper” Owens, who got promoted from being in a Judas Priest tribute band to actually being in Judas Priest.)

This whole tail-chasing life-imitates-art-imitates-life freak show rolls into the White River Ampitheatre on August 31.