Feuding members of Journey have reportedly employed off-duty cops to protect their dressing rooms on tour.
Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain have been on unhealthy phrases since suing their former bandmates Ross Valory and Steve Smith, who have been nonetheless Journey members on the time. After the pair left the group, Schon and Cain turned on one another.
The musicians have been combating over quite a few issues, together with Cain’s choice to carry out at Mar-a-Lago and Schon having his entry to the band’s company American Categorical account barred.
Now, a brand new report from Billboard claims that the pair went so far as hiring off-duty cops to protect their dressing rooms whereas on tour final yr. Sources informed the publication that Schon employed the authorities first as a result of he was satisfied “individuals have been out to get him”.
When Journey have been performing in Florida, the sources declare Schon and his spouse despatched an assistant into Cain’s dressing room, who was then caught by Cain. The keyboardist then employed his personal off-duty police to protect his dressing room. It was additionally claimed that the bandmates spent the tour arguing about whose guard would outrank the opposite’s if there was a dispute.
“That’s simply the extent of pettiness and management and conspiracy they got here to imagine in,” a supply is quoted as saying.
In much less fractious Journey information, in January, former band member Steve Perry dropped his lawsuit towards his previous bandmates over the logos to twenty of the group’s greatest songs.
He had filed a lawsuit in September 2022 requesting that Freedom JN LLC, the corporate that holds the band’s logos and is headed up by Cain and Schon, be prevented from utilizing the logos on any official attire or merchandise.
