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Neal Schon says that fans can expect to see JOURNEY co-founder Gregg Rolie on the band’s 50th-anniversary tour.
The JOURNEY guitarist addressed Rolie‘s participation in the upcoming run of dates in a social media post earlier today. After Schon shared a graphic for JOURNEY‘s 50th anniversary on his Facebook page, a fan commented: “I am SO looking forward to this. Please tell me Gregg Rollie is coming along for the ride! He’s the better keyboard player and a co-founder it only seems right. Timing couldn’t be better either!!!!” In response, Neal wrote: “you’ll be seeing him”.
“Neal Schon should look in the mirror when he accuses me of causing harm to the JOURNEY brand,” Cain said in a statement. “I have watched him damage our brand for years and am a victim of both his — and his wife’s — bizarre behavior.”
A month earlier, former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry took legal action against both Schon and Cain, asking them to stop registering federal trademarks on the names of many of the band’s hits.
Rolie was JOURNEY‘s first singer, though his role quickly diminished when Perry arrived in 1977. Gregg left JOURNEY in 1980, just before the band achieved its commercial heights.
He continued: “Everyone thinks it was because Perry came in and started singing all the leads. My God! Again, I was spread so thin with all these keyboards parts and singing leads, he was a welcome sight to me. And he could sing like a bird! It wasn’t too hard to figure out. I was never against it.”
Rolie went on to say that he was drinking too much and that he wanted to start a family. He also said that he was happy about the fact that JOURNEY became a household name after he moved on. “I felt very proud that I helped to build something that went to that extreme,” he said. “I’ve always felt that way. Yeah, without me doing this, that might never have happened. But it’s not about me. It’s about all of it. It’s a misconception in this business of, ‘Who does what?’ We all did something.”
The 2023 run includes rescheduled dates in Washington, D.C., plus Hartford, Toronto and Quebec, which were postponed last year due to the coronavirus.
Source: www.blabbermouth.net
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