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Eugene

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Thu Dec 22, 2022, 07:23 AM Dec 2022

Journey star Neal Schon tells his bandmate to stop performing for Donald Trump

Source: BBC

Journey star tells his bandmate to stop performing for Donald Trump

22 December 2022

By Ian Youngs
Entertainment & arts reporter

A member of the band Journey has served a bandmate with a cease and desist order after he performed their hit Don't Stop Believin' for Donald Trump.

Guitarist Neal Schon said keyboardist Jonathan Cain "has no right to use Journey for politics".

Cain, whose wife Paula White is an advisor to the former president, played the group's anthem at an event at Mr Trump's estate in Florida last month.

The pair are already in a legal battle over spending on the band credit card.

They are the only two founding members left in Journey, and the current acrimony may make for frosty relations when they go back on tour in January.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64063660


Journey's Neal Schon (left) and Jonathan Cain, pictured in 2006, are due to go back on tour in January (Getty Images)

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Journey star Neal Schon tells his bandmate to stop performing for Donald Trump (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2022 OP
Just a note. Jonathan Cain was not a "founding member" of Journey as the article states. Midnight Writer Dec 2022 #1
Was just going to say that. They went downhill when he joined IMHO. we can do it Dec 2022 #3
Gregg Rollie was the better keyboardist. Crowman2009 Dec 2022 #4
He Had To Be ProfessorGAC Dec 2022 #5
Plus Cain wasn't in Santana. Crowman2009 Dec 2022 #6
Yikes. 2naSalit Dec 2022 #2
I do have to give him credit for ending up with such Abolishinist Dec 2022 #7

ProfessorGAC

(71,164 posts)
5. He Had To Be
Fri Dec 23, 2022, 10:32 PM
Dec 2022

Cain is a hack.
His next original idea will be his first. He claims to be classically trained, but he just did the Schirmer books like a half-million of us did.
I'd have been happy to play as well as Cain: when I was 9.
Greg wasn't a very skilled piano player but was fantastic on the Hammond. Did some decent synth work on "Look Into The Future".
Cain did nothing of note at any time. He was no more than a hired hand.

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