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Talk Is Jericho

Neal Schon's Journey

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Journey founder and guitarist Neal Schon played in Carlos Santana’s band when he was still in highschool and solo’ed on the band’s first number one hit. He talks about meeting Carlos, leaving that band to start his own, his first introduction to Steve Perry (and how he feels about Steve’s recent return to music), developing his guitar sound, and Journey’s songwriting process in the early days vs now. Neal also reveals what happened behind-the-scenes at Journey’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, how the internet led him to current Journey singer, Arnel Pineda, and why he prefers to play before Def Leppard on this current tour.

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0:00.0

TALK IS CHERIC WHO BEAMING TALK IS CHERIC WHO

0:06.8

TALK IS CHERIC WHO MAMA TALK IS BAY

0:13.2

Welcome to TALK IS CHERIC WHO It's the pod of Thunder and Rock and Roll and we've got

0:17.3

another Rock and Roll Hall of Famer on D.I.J. today. I'm Tom O'Jernigas Tarrist and

0:22.5

founding member Neil Sean. Yeah boy and he has stories, upon stories. He's talking about

0:27.8

playing guitar and Carla Santana's band was still in high school. How he met

0:31.6

Herbie Herbert, the manager of help, Neil to start journey. His first introduction to

0:35.6

Steve Perry and how the two of them used to write songs back in the day, which was a

0:39.4

Wednesday. I'll quote Jack Slade on that one. And if you didn't know Journey were the first

0:43.0

big rock band to use giant screens and concert so that people way in the back or

0:47.2

up high in stadiums can see them. Neil explains would inspire that idea and how it

0:51.2

turned into a second business for Journey. He's also sitting there

0:54.2

record straight on tour sponsorships because Journey were the first band to have corporate

0:59.0

sponsors as well. And Neil says they got a lot of heat for it back in the 80s even though

1:02.8

it's a commonplace thing in 2018. Journey was the pioneer of that. Journey also pioneered

1:08.0

the Rock and Roll video game. He's going to talk about that R.K.E.K. graphics on that

1:13.3

one. Neil's also talking with Steve Perry's new solo record and how he feels about potentially

1:17.8

playing and recording with Steve in the future. A great conversation with a true legend

1:22.6

of rock and roll hall of favor coming up in just a second. Speaking of which also coming

1:26.7

up thanks to everyone has been rocking with all the gigs on the Judas Rising tour with

1:31.2

Fuzzy. We got some good ones coming up. That was the segue. We're in St. Louis, Missouri

1:35.4

tonight at Delmar Hall or Indianapolis on the 13th, which is tomorrow at the Vogue Fort

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