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‘We’re moving forward into the future’: Journey’s Neal Schon brushes aside talk of Steve Perry reunion

May 30, 2014
by Something Else!

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Discussion of a Steve Perry reunion with Journey has been all the rage again, what with Perry making a long-awaited concert appearance and the band’s current frontman seemingly offering to step aside.

Neal Schon, Journey’s stalwart leader, is batting such talk aside: “People who are in past will forever stay in the past,” the guitarist says, firmly. “We’re moving forward into the future.”

Perry, a member of the group from 1978-98, helped Journey to its 1980s-era commercial peak. But he’s been largely out of the limelight since suddenly retiring just after a long-awaited return in the late 1990s.

More recently, he signed a new music publishing deal, starting talking about songwriting and even joined the Eels on stage to sing old Journey favorites like “Open Arms.” Meanwhile, Arnel Pineda — with the band since 2007 — offered a stunning tweet this week saying that Perry should “take over his righteous place” as Journey’s lead vocalist.

His boss, however, is holding steady. Schon’s new comments echo something he told the Metro West Daily News earlier this month: “People that are into the past, will forever stay in the past. It’s not a healthy thing for me or for anyone else that is here right now. I mean, if you don’t like us for whom we are right now then just don’t bother, you know? Go and find your new love.”

tater1977 wrote:Neal Schon, Journey’s stalwart leader, is batting such talk aside: “People who are in past will forever stay in the past,” the guitarist says, firmly. “We’re moving forward into the future.”


“People that are into the past, will forever stay in the past. It’s not a healthy thing for me or for anyone else that is here right now. I mean, if you don’t like us for whom we are right now then just don’t bother, you know? Go and find your new love.”

Does anyone else find this odd and not just a little bit hypocritical? I mean, these statements from the leader of a band that unceremoniously canned the opportunity to actually move into a different direction because they felt it was more important to have a vocal clone in order to honor "the legacy"? A band that only plays the music of the 70's and 80's despite having made how many albums since then???

Neal is an idiot.

donnaplease wrote:

tater1977 wrote:Neal Schon, Journey’s stalwart leader, is batting such talk aside: “People who are in past will forever stay in the past,” the guitarist says, firmly. “We’re moving forward into the future.”


“People that are into the past, will forever stay in the past. It’s not a healthy thing for me or for anyone else that is here right now. I mean, if you don’t like us for whom we are right now then just don’t bother, you know? Go and find your new love.”

Does anyone else find this odd and not just a little bit hypocritical? I mean, these statements from the leader of a band that unceremoniously canned the opportunity to actually move into a different direction because they felt it was more important to have a vocal clone in order to honor "the legacy"? A band that only plays the music of the 70's and 80's despite having made how many albums since then???

Neal is an idiot.

+1 but I have said that already.

I don't job how playing the DD nightly is heading into the future but what do I know?

Misleading article. Neal wasn't interviewed. They took a comment from his FB page and wrote an article around it. What joke.

Perry is moving forward too

Yes he is!!!

jrny84 wrote:Perry is moving forward too

The_Noble_Cause wrote:Misleading article. Neal wasn't interviewed. They took a comment from his FB page and wrote an article around it. What joke.

This article was never presented as an interview. It was a PR piece based on a social media quote...and an interview.

Schon’s new comments echo something he told the Metro West Daily News earlier this month: “People that are into the past, will forever stay in the past. It’s not a healthy thing for me or for anyone else that is here right now. I mean, if you don’t like us for whom we are right now then just don’t bother, you know? Go and find your new love.”

donnaplease wrote:

tater1977 wrote:Neal Schon, Journey’s stalwart leader, is batting such talk aside: “People who are in past will forever stay in the past,” the guitarist says, firmly. “We’re moving forward into the future.”


“People that are into the past, will forever stay in the past. It’s not a healthy thing for me or for anyone else that is here right now. I mean, if you don’t like us for whom we are right now then just don’t bother, you know? Go and find your new love.”

Does anyone else find this odd and not just a little bit hypocritical? I mean, these statements from the leader of a band that unceremoniously canned the opportunity to actually move into a different direction because they felt it was more important to have a vocal clone in order to honor "the legacy"? A band that only plays the music of the 70's and 80's despite having made how many albums since then???

Neal is an idiot.

Yep!

Basically, he told all of those Perry fans who bought Revelation because it was the "legacy sound" that they should go fuck themselves.

Too funny!

Art Vandelay wrote:This article was never presented as an interview. It was a PR piece based on a social media quote...and an interview.

Oh, and I'm sure all the people who clicked on the article did so because they wanted to read a "PR piece" right? What is the headline of the article? "We’re moving forward into the future’: Journey’s Neal Schon brushes aside talk of Steve Perry reunion." Sounds very much like an interview to me. Ever hear of click bait? There's no THERE there. Bogus article.

The_Noble_Cause wrote:

Art Vandelay wrote:This article was never presented as an interview. It was a PR piece based on a social media quote...and an interview.

Oh, and I'm sure all the people who clicked on the article did so because they wanted to read a "PR piece" right? What is the headline of the article? "We’re moving forward into the future’: Journey’s Neal Schon brushes aside talk of Steve Perry reunion." Sounds very much like an interview to me. Ever hear of click bait? There's no THERE there. Bogus article.

So you're bitter because the headline on a website article was misleading, or that you fell for the click bait?

Art Vandelay wrote:So you're bitter because the headline on a website article was misleading, or that you fell for the click bait?

The article is typical of internet "journalism" at its worst. If you want to spend your time defending it, as well as Nigerian chain emails, be my guest.