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CHECK IT OUT: Journey on November 6th, 1981 performing “Stone In Love” live in Houston
FYI: JOURNEY’S NEAL SCHON SAYS DOOR IS OPEN TO STEVE PERRY
Although Journey still continues to do outstanding business on the road, guitarist/leader Neal Schon remains open for legendary Steve Perry to reconnect with him and the group once again. Schon, who’s currently out on the road with the band, which features the group’s latest Perry sound-alike, Arnel Pineda fronting the band, told ABC News, “The door has always been open, like I’ve said a zillion times. People ask me every day, ‘Are you reuniting?’ Steve says, ‘No,’ and I say, ‘You never know.'”
Schon says that the band has always kept a running invite for Perry to contribute to Journey ever since the singer begged off live performances with the band back in 1998: “(We) are always like, ‘You ever want to come on and just sing a portion of one song, sing a part of a song with Arnel or sing the whole set, you’re welcome anytime you want to come. (Arnel is) not threatened. Nobody’s on any ego trip. We don’t have any bad feelings.”
•Despite their shared history, Schon revealed that he and Perry have little to do with each other these days: “(Steve) says that we love each other but we don’t like each other. I don’t know him well enough anymore to know if I like him. I know that I love him, but. . . I mean, he won’t allow me to speak to him directly on the phone, and I write to him all the time and just say, ‘Hey, what’s up? I hope you’re doing well,’ and that’s it, you know? And sometimes he writes back and sometimes he doesn’t.”
•He said he’s ready to let whatever issues happened in the past remain there: “All’s we did was create timeless music. And so for that I’m very grateful. And I’m sure he is too. He said that he is. But, you know, we’re grown men and so it’s time to take the chips off the shoulder and to grow up and let the kids be kids.”
•Schon, who called Perry “truly one of the greatest (vocalists) of all time,” spoke about Perry’s series of 2014 cameos with indie-rockers Eels, marking a bizarre and brief return to the concert stage: “I was just happy to see him get out there. I thought it was quite ironic the places that he chose to do it. But, you know, I was glad to see him sing and hope that he would do more, actually.”
