NEED TO KNOW
- On Oct. 9, Journey’s Neil Schon claimed in a social media submit that his bandmate Jonathan Cain “introduced his farewell”
- Shortly after, a spokesperson for Cain advised ipromiseyoumedia that he “stays an lively member”
- “He’s totally devoted to touring with the band over the subsequent couple of years,” the rep added
Journey’s Jonathan Cain is not going anyplace.
Shortly after bandmate Neil Schon, 71, claimed that Cain, 75, “introduced his farewell” in a social media submit, a spokesperson advised ipromiseyoumedia that Cain will stay within the band for the foreseeable future.
“Jonathan Cain stays an lively member of Journey, and any stories suggesting in any other case are inaccurate,” the spokesperson stated in an announcement on Friday, Oct. 10. “He’s totally devoted to touring with the band over the subsequent couple of years and has solely expressed plans to retire at a later time.”
Within the early morning hours, Schon — who’s the only remaining co-founding member of the band — had shared a submit on X that started “Jonathan Cain introduced his farewell to Journey tonight.”
Schon continued, “I’m nowhere close to accomplished ! Journey has a lot extra life forward ! I’m positive we can have a fantastic tour !” He added that Cain, the band’s keyboardist, wished to focus “on his ministry.” (Cain has additionally pursued religion and worship music initiatives for the final 9 years.)
Schon later responded to the submit and clarified that “Jon is taking part in. He’s saying on the finish of 26-27 he’ll transfer on. We can have a fantastic couple of years.”
Earlier this month, Schon confirmed that Journey was planning a large tour for 2026.
“[There’s] tons of stuff coming. We now have about 120 exhibits [booked] and we’ll in all probability add to them,” Schon shared throughout an interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. ” Half of [them will be] in ’26 and the opposite half in ’27.”
He continued, “It may be a really totally different present, and it’ll entail lots of our albums,” he continued. “I will not go the entire method again to the very, very starting. However I might say from ’78 on, we’ll dig deep — and the units are going to be for much longer.”
In 2024, Journey launched into a co-headlining stadium tour with Def Leppard. Earlier than that, they performed their Freedom Tour, which celebrated their fiftieth anniversary as a band and the discharge of 2022’s Freedom.
This time round, the band needs to go in a distinct course.
“I feel that our followers are actually going to dig what we’re placing collectively for them in ’26 and, you recognize, issues change,” Schon advised Trunk.
“You realize, Bryan Adams is somebody I have been speaking to for fairly a while. We go method again into the ’80s, when his first album got here out and we toured with him. I feel he’d be super for us to do a stadium [tour] with. Whether or not or not we get there in ’27 it will occur ultimately. It is sort of inevitable. I feel that each of us, along with possibly another act, can be [really great].”
As of now, the band is scheduled to play Stagecoach Music Pageant subsequent April.
