Steve Perry Responds to Journey Reunion Rumors

Steve Perry has made it clear that he is not going to be sharing the stage with Journey on their upcoming Last Frontier tour.

In an interview printed by Final Basic Rock earlier as we speak, keyboardist Jonathan Cain reported that Journey guitarist Neal Schon had been in contact with Perry about the potential for making a visitor look on the band’s upcoming tour.

“Neal already requested,” Cain defined, “and he says (Perry’s) desirous about it. I hope he comes out. It is by no means too late. We have 100 exhibits, so he is welcome at any one in all them. …He did not say no — go away it at that.”

Effectively, he has now.

In a message on his Fb web page, Perry expresses gratitude for his time in Journey, and for the continued help of the followers. However he additionally makes it fairly clear that he has moved on:

I’ve been listening to these current rumors, and I wished to talk to you all straight. Whereas I’m at all times grateful for the love individuals nonetheless have for Journey, the rumors about me rejoining the band are merely not true, and I need to gently put them to relaxation.

I fully perceive why individuals would hope for that. The music we created collectively means an ideal deal to me too. However I’m persevering with to discover new inventive work and actually take pleasure in engaged on new music that displays the place I’m as we speak.

Thanks on your continued help all through the years. Your loyalty has by no means gone unnoticed, and I’m endlessly humbly grateful.

Perry first left the group in 1987, then returned in 1995 for a reunion that concluded after only one album and with no tour.

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Journey will kick off their Last Frontier tour Feb. 28 in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Cain – whose songwriting on early ’80s albums reminiscent of Escape and Frontiers helped launch Journey into the stratosphere commercially, has introduced that he’ll go away the band on the conclusion of this tour.