Journey Band Changes

This seems ignorant, but whatever. There are some changes to Journey today. Steve Smith and Ross Valory were just fired. Make of that what you will.

Comments

[BRIAN SAMPSON]

Looks like those members were being a bit "shady", not cool. Big business and you have to protect your brand. Greed is a MUTHA FUQ'R

[steverox]

Another band down to just a couple of original members ... it's the way it is unfortunately. Business over friendship.

Go see "Departure" instead if you're in the Southeast ... best Journey tribute band there is, and frankly they sound and look a lot better than the real thing.

[Him]

Brian is right . . . if what the two principals are saying is true, Smith and Valory deserve to be fired, and sued, and forced to start their own group (how about "Mr. Smith's Stolen Valor"?!?!).

Don't have much love for Cain or Schon, and will gladly sit in the parking lot during a Journey set these days. That said, Journey Through Time, with Rollie and Castronovo (drumming and singing his arse off) was a surprise. I can also take-it-or-leave-it when it comes to Perry's newer stuff (though it is great to have his voice back out there, in whatever form). Nothing against Pineda either. Guy is living his dream and seems gracious and humble and all the rest.

I bet working for Schon and Cain is a really hoot. But still . . . that ain't the way to go about it. What was their end game? Seriously.

[Bkallday]

Sorry but im taking the side of Smith & Valory. There are two sides to every story and i can see right through this "reason" that was released. Bottom line is this, as time goes on, less and less ppl care about this band. Therefore they hafta do something to make up for the lost money. So Smith & Valory get let go, and replaced by some dunces that get paid a substantially less rate. Rob Zombie, Tom Keifer, and many others know this game well too.

[Mike]

Jonathan Cain is a total douchebag. That is all.

[Gary]

If Cain and Schon had a no DQ, no time limit, foreign objects allowed, hell in a cell "douche off", it'd last until there were only cockroaches,Betty White, and Keith Richards left on the entire planet. (And there still wouldn't be a winner, so they'd call it a draw)
Then Neil would immediately proceed to manage to fit 473 notes into a 5 second solo during one of Cain's sappy ballads that women love. (As Keith , while chewing on the last remaining coca leaf on the planet, nails 192 year old Betty White cause he likes " the younger stuff")

[Him]

Gary, that was a fever dream of lucid hilarity. Serve me up some more of that stuff!!!

But you did forget Schon's "O" face . . . when he looks at his guitar, when he plugs it in, when he plays (oh hell, yessss, when he plays it), when he kisses it goodnight. Cain, in contrast, looks slightly confused and a touch constipated while he tickles the keys for the guy up North.

Bkallday, I need to correct you. Extreme were very, very clear about his fact. There are three sides to every story. Don't mess with Cherone's math!!! I kid.

[Him]

I will also add, because I am a stickler for making myself eat some pie (humble or not), that the situation is far from clear:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/steve-perry-journey-dispute/

Then again, I never expected Journey to be a pleasing garden of sprites and fairies, wandering about in search of new inspiration.

[Jammie]

I really miss 70s-80s rock music. Thank you for reminding the vibe.