Earlier this year, the band parted ways with drummer Steve Smith and bassist Ross Valory after a business dispute over the band’s copyright. But it’s been a contentious journey marked by persistent band infighting. It’s a young man’s game, but I do miss it.”ĭuring Perry’s long absence from the road, Journey reinvented themselves as a touring powerhouse, especially after Arnel Pineda took over on vocals in 2008. People’s backs and necks start to go out. I’m watching baseball these days and there’s injuries.
“I’ve got some physical injuries from touring,” he says. One thing holding him back is the physical toll any tour would take on his body. “My heart bleeds daily to be in front of people and to sing for them.” It hasn’t happened so far, but the singer says that a tour remains a real possibility. The three Eels appearances raised fan expectations that Perry might finally return to the road. But that extra 10 or 20 percent only happens in front of a crowd.” In a studio, I can probably get 80 or 90 percent of it. I had forgotten that this voice doesn’t belong to me. “I forgot what it was like to be in front of people. “Oh, my God,” Perry says as he thinks back to that night. “I had my time,” he says, “and I was very pleased with all the history I was fortunate to be around and I was proud of my musical contributions to any of it.”
Perry dropped out of the public eye in 1998 when he was sidelined by a hip injury and Journey opted to hire a new vocalist to take his place. I’m really pleased with the sonics and I’m really pleased with the simplicity of the song and the lyric and the chords, which is basically what it’s stripped down to.” “It’s called Traces Alternate Versions and Sketches. “It’s eight songs from the Traces record done acoustically and I’m really proud of it,” he says. “I have lots of music, so much stuff.”įirst up is an acoustic version of his 2018 comeback LP Traces that he plans to release on December 4th. “I have a studio and I’m always writing and always recording stuff,” he says. All rights reserved.Steve Perry has kept a low public profile ever since he shared a lockdown rendition of the 1963 Beach Boys classic “In My Room” in April, but he tells Rolling Stone that since that time, he’s been busy creating new music. Schon also mentions how well he got along with Perry during the 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, adding, “I hope that we can become even better friends in the future.”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. Drinking and whatnot … But bottom line, we had a really good time for many, many years … He was a really funny guy.” We spent a lot of nights out way too late doing things we shouldn’t be doing. “I have great memories of when Steve and I first met,” he notes. Schon says that he and Perry were “very, very tight” during Perry’s early years with the band. So we’re talking about that and figuring out the future of that, but we’re talking.” We were fought hard by everybody, but we managed to obtain the trademark. My wife and I finally got to the bottom of it after investigating for years. Schon continues, “All these years, many people lied to us. I’m talking about a Journey trademark that I’ve obtained, as we’ve never owned our own trademark.” “But he’s learning who I am now, through a portion of our business that I’m kind of controlling now. “We’re talking and getting to know each other again - though not trying to get together musically again,” Schon says. In a new interview, Schon tells Vulture that he and Perry have had the chance to connect more since he recently took a more active role in Journey’s business dealings. Steve Perry and Neal Schon in 2017 Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Rock and Roll Hall of FameĪs Journey prepares to release its latest studio album, Freedom, this Friday, founding guitarist Neal Schon reveals he’s working on becoming friends again with the group’s famous former lead singer, Steve Perry, who parted ways with Journey in 1998.
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