‘You should be on a stage where you belong’: Journey’s Jonathan Cain has a message for Steve Perry
Cain boasts a huge appreciation for Perry, despite their lengthy time apart.

Cain boasts a huge appreciation for Perry, despite their lengthy time apart.

For Journey, the absence of its lead singer from the road — no matter the radio magic that had come before — was setting the band up for certain disaster. You May Also Like: No related posts.
The Babys are continuing without former breakout stars John Waite and Jonathan Cain, both later members of Bad English. But they’ve received an unfettered endorsement from Waite, and Cain has been active behind the scenes. You May Also Like: Wertico Cain and Gray – ‘Windows of Time’ (2021)
Fans of Journey’s best-known lineups — Gregg Rolie’s free-form 1970s version, and Steve Perry’s arena-ballad 1980s edition — have little hope of seeing any meaningful reunion of these wildly divergent camps. After all, Rolie split back in 1980, and the similarly departed Perry hasn’t even put out a solo albumRead More

Members of Journey gave the song, inside a Walkman, to Kenny Sykaluk during a hospital visit set up through the Make a Wish Foundation.

Journey’s most recent release, 2011’s heavy-rocking Eclipse, debuted at No. 13 in the U.S. — but keyboardist Jonathan Cain says sales quickly fell off afterward. You May Also Like: No related posts.

The Jonathan Cain-penned track, which rose to No. 12 on the Billboard charts, was originally included on Journey’s 1983 effort ‘Frontiers.’
Backed by pounds of promotion, the Babys were primed for world domination. But for some reason, it didn’t happen.

On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews’ One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to Steve Smith, who’s had memorable tenures with Journey and Jean-Luc Ponty and now leads the fusion jazz group Vital Information. You May Also Like: When Jean Luc Ponty Made a Triumphant Return WithRead More

In many ways, the initial cuts on Journey’s Eclipse recall the wide-open heavy fusion of the the band’s original Gregg Rolie-era records, a period when guitarist Neal Schon pulled and stretched his muse. At the same time, singer Arnel Pineda possesses a second-act Steve Perry-sounding penchant for soaring expectancy. YouRead More