With Steve Perry + Neal Schon
With Steve Perry at Journey’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
I even had to tell Perry, “We’re moving on be part of the vision… that’s what we say at friends, but you know we went through a bad
without you.” I was the one that called him, church, if you don’t like what we’re preaching patch and he was bitter. But at the Rock And
Neal didn’t want to do it, he said I had to tell here you can go, there’s the door. There has Roll Hall of Fame, we stood in New York City at
Perry we’re moving on. I said I’m not sneaking to be a corporate vision that’s shared, and that some restaurant in the doorway talking about
around looking for a lead singer without him people are passionate about and committed to. the stories, you know, so we shared something
knowing about it. So I called him and told him Herbie didn’t want to necessarily do what Neal great together. It was just time for him to move
that if he’s not coming back we’re moving and I wanted to do with Perry, and Perry didn’t on. Irving Azoff has done an amazing job with
on, and that’s it. Because our vision was that want to work with him. So what were we to this band, really great, so I can’t say enough
Journey was going to be back, Neal wanted do, say no to Perry and not make Trial By Fire? about having Irving as our manager now. But
his band back and I was going to help him do No, we had to tell Herbie he had to go because it was just prophetically necessary. Sometimes
it. So that was the vision, and if there is a vision Perry didn’t want to work with him, it was just it’s not easy to do that but if you’re committed
shared and you are not part of the vision then plain and simple. That was hard for me because to a vision then stay with it.
you need to go. You either get on the boat to it felt like I owed a lot to him, I still do. We’re still
June 2019
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