fanofjourney1 wrote: What I heard was that he was the #1 pick, then Jeremey, but they wanted to see Jeremey live, Journey new all about Hugo from his Valentine and Open Skyz days, but they were still hung up on the "Perry Look". Even after Jeremey auditioned, Hugo was the guy untill JC came across Arnel on Youtube, brought Arnel in and decided to give him a shot. Journey management was very high on Hugo and wanted to go that way, knowing that having him as a frontman would sell tickets for there next tour, but JC and NS will always do what they think is right even if it is flat wrong, Hugo would sell out venues, hell he sell's out every place he plays now!
There's a couple of flaws in this. They were seriously looking at Kevin Chalfant before they saw Jeremey. & it was Neal that came across Arnel. Perhaps they considered Hugo in the middle of all this drama tho.