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The long wait is over for Journey fans with the release today (July 8th) of Freedom. The new album marks the band’s first new studio set since Eclipse was released in May 2011. The Walmart exclusive debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart at Number 13 and was the band’s second to feature current frontman Arnel Pineda.
While promoting the new set, leader Neal Schon revealed that he and former-frontman, the iconic Steve Perry, have reconnected as friends, with Schon telling Vulture, “We were very, very tight. We’re talking and getting to know each other again — though not trying to get together musically again, but he’s learning who I am now, through a portion of our business that I’m kind of controlling now. I’m talking about a Journey trademark that I’ve obtained, as we’ve never owned our own trademark. All these years, many people lied to us. My wife and I finally got to the bottom of it after investigating for years. We were fought hard by everybody, but we managed to obtain the trademark. So we’re talking about that and figuring out the future of that, but we’re talking.”
Schon went on to say, “He was a really funny guy. I saw a fraction of a moment of it when we got together before the Rock Hall of Fame induction (in 2017). I managed to get into his room, which was locked down like Fort Knox. We had a good hang in there. I felt like I still knew this guy and we were still really great friends.”
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