NEAL SCHON WEIGHS IN ON JOURNEY'S RECORDING FUTURE:
Some waves were created last week with Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain suggested the band might be done with recording new music - at least in the full length album format. He stated to The Pulse Of Radio: "We're
not convinced the market will bear another CD from us. And it's so much
work to make one. Maybe we get a soundtrack shot with a movie. And the
last album we made was a departure. It was Neal [Schon's] 'I wanna do
one this way once' — and so we did. Y'know, we did a heavy, rock n' roll
record. And it kinda wasn't received very well here in the States and
they kinda liked it in Europe and that's kinda what I thought was gonna
happen and it barely sold 100,000 [copies]."
I had a short conversation with guitarist Neal Schon earlier today when I asked him about his opinion on this. Neal stated for the record "I think recording in the future looks bright to me for the band..."
I suggested to Neal that the band could have recorded Escape 2
and it still would not have made any difference in sales, being that
the wave of interest and publicity the band was riding prior to the
release of Revelations was all but
impossible to replicate - not to mention the exclusive 2CD/1DVD value
pack that album was sold as in WalMart stores for just $12. Neal's
thoughts: "We were the only band in their store besides the Eagles and by the time Eclipse came out it was a library of music..."
I stated that I still think Eclipse is
magnificent (although many disagree), Neal says he still loves the
record and delivered a little more good news - the band's new film Don't Stop Believin' - Everyman's Journey is #3 at iTunes and Neal's solo single Primal Surge (from The Calling album) is #3 at classic rock radio.
In closing, Neal gave away another exclusive: "We played Budokan last
night here in Tokyo filmed it and recorded it and heard it...sounds
amazing...great great crowd...was really great to be back in Japan and
[we are] coming back this way!
Jeu 14 Mar - 17:59