A Personal Message from Neal Schon to All Journey Fans – March 24, 2009

Having an AMAZING time out here. Wow! We have really been moving fast. All our Asian dates went very well and as you know we filmed and recorded Manila for Arnel’s home coming. I think we captured some cool moments as we played a lot of Revelation and other beefed up GH.

Just played Maui last night and always love playing here in the islands. Goes back to Santana and then Journey, doing the Diamond Head Crater shows here starting back in 1970.

Thanks to Tom Moffat our promoter for believing!!! Its great to be back!

Want to thank all our fans for there overwhelming support and all the Sold Out Shows!!!!! Thank you. We love you.

More later,

Neal

P.S. Will also get to doing some live cam up dates very soon … Later

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Deen Castronovo – Tons of Photos

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Neal Schon, The Man with The Wiggly Head – (Jan 2006)

At press time, Journey’s Greatest Hits collection was the tenth best selling catelog album of all time according to Billboard.com, the online edition of the music-industry bible. For a group that hasn’t had a significant impact on radio or MTV in nearly two decades, that’s not simply impressive, it’s phenomenal.

How is it that Journey has endured a continual pop-music onslaught by the likes of Mariah Carey, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, yet still dwarfs most comers in terms of long-term fan adoration? According to group founder and guitarist Neal Schon, “It is as simple as having made ‘good songs that rock’ and not trying to make ‘good rock songs.’”

Perhaps, but there has to be something more to the house that Schon built than simply good construction.

“When he gets what I call ‘Wiggly Head,’ he starts moving his head and tearing it up, I just lose it too and we tear it up together! It is very cool. I have played with so many guitarists and no one compares to him. That guy is a monster and he is playing better than he ever has before which is saying something and he never stops!” enthuses a blissful, if often famished, Castronovo.

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