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🗓️ 27 July 2021
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Journey guitarist Neal Schon on the genesis of “Don’t Stop Believin.’”
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:14.6 | Welcome to The Treatment, the Home Edition. |
0:16.7 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
0:17.6 | My guest today played on some of the most epical and transcending albums of the 70s. I think of Caravansari or Azteca or |
0:28.3 | one of my favorites of all time, the first Betty Davis album, the real Betty Davis. |
0:33.1 | I would do more stuff to introduce you, but we're out of time. Sorry, I'm kidding. |
0:36.6 | My guest today is, of course, the guy who went on to find a little group after all these |
0:40.9 | achievements called Journey. |
0:42.5 | His name is Neil Sean, and he's auctioning off a few of his prize guitars on July 31st at Heritage Auctions. |
0:50.8 | So, Neil Sean, I can't thank you enough for being here, man. |
0:53.4 | This is really thrilling to |
0:54.4 | me. Thank you. It's nice to be here. It's nice to be getting ready to play back in the world, |
0:59.7 | and we're here in Chicago rehearsing. Everything's sounding really good, and we're having a blast. |
1:05.4 | You're rehearsing. Are you about to go back out on the road again soon? |
1:08.2 | We are, but right now, we're, you know, we're playing a lot of Paloosa on the road again soon? We are, but right now we're, you know, we're playing a lot of |
1:12.6 | Paloosa on the 31st here. We're co-headlining with Post Malone. And we are also playing on the 29th |
1:24.1 | at the Aragon Ballroom, which is like original stomping grounds for Journey |
1:28.4 | here in Chicago, and we're going to play a nice extended set, probably close to it. |
1:33.5 | I bet you by the time we actually get on stage, it'll probably end up being about three hours. |
1:38.2 | I think of you in two ways as being a guy who was a part of that big jam band movement |
1:43.5 | out of the Bay Area and in the |
1:45.0 | 70s and also somebody who found himself in these situations where you always got the right |
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