Earlier this month, Neal Schon was seemingly much more certain about Journey co-founder Gregg Rolie’s participation in Journey’s upcoming run of dates. However, that has changed.
Neal Schon reveals Gregg Rolie will not be involved in Journey tour
Neal Schon revealed that Journey co-founder Gregg Rolie won’t take part in the band’s 50th-anniversary tour, which kicks off next month.
A couple of weeks ago, the band’s co-founding guitarist hinted that Rolie would make an appearance on the band’s upcoming trek, presumably in the place of longtime keyboardist Jonathan Cain, with whom Neal has been publicly feuding. But Cain later said that he would be hitting the road with Journey despite Schon’s suggestions to the contrary.
Neal set the record straight on Rolie’s possible participation in the tour in a tweet over the weekend. After New York radio station Q104.3 said that it removed a Journey article from its web site that erroneously suggested Cain welcomed Rolie’s return to Journey, a fan asked Neal if that means that Rolie won’t be on the tour now. Schon responded: “Not at this moment. Both Gregg and I intend to shed some real light on the subject matter very soon.”
Rolie was the band’s first singer, though his role quickly diminished when Perry arrived in 1977. Gregg left the band in 1980, just before the band achieved its commercial heights.