JOURNEY Guitarist NEAL SCHON Talks About Possibility Of New Music

In a conference call promoting JOURNEY's upcoming tour with the STEVE MILLER BAND, guitarist Neal Schon was asked if JOURNEY fans can look forward to any new material from the band. "I don't know exactly what it will be at this time," Schon replied. "I know we've been talking of re-doing some songs, not stuff we did with [former JOURNEY singer] Steve Perry, but other stuff we've done before in the past that just never saw the light. Re-doing it, rearranging it, maybe adding some new sections to it and writing some new stuff too. We've got a lot of stuff sitting there."

He continued: "We started playing some stuff in rehearsal that really sounded great and we're like, 'That's a really great song, we should just re-do that.' And when you start doing that, and you get the juices flowing, there's always gonna be new songs that come out of nowhere. Usually those are the best ones, the ones where you don't try to sit down and go, 'I'm gonna write a really great song.' That usually never happens. It just kind of falls out of the sky when it's supposed to happen."

JOURNEY keyboardist Jonathan Cain told The Pulse Of Radio last year that that the band may be done done releasing new music. JOURNEY's most recent studio album, "Eclipse", was released in May 2011. The Walmart exclusive debuted on The Billboard 200 album chart at No. 13 — eight spots lower than the band's previous album, 2008's "Revelation" — which also went on to hit No. 1 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart.

Cain told The Pulse Of Radio that the pressing need for new JOURNEY music has seemed to fade. "Y'know, we're not convinced the market will bear another CD from us, y'know?" he said. "And it's so much work to make one. Y'know, maybe we get a soundtrack shot with a movie. And the last album we made was a departure. It was Neil [Schon's] 'I wanna do one this way once' — and so we did. Y'know, we did a heavy, rock n' roll record. And it kinda wasn't received very well here in the States and they kinda liked it in Europe and that's kinda what I thought was gonna happen and it barely sold 100,000 [copies]."

Cain went on to explain that after "Eclipse" failed to score with both old fans and new converts, the entire band has had to pause and take stock of where they're at creatively.

"After all that time and money, y'know, what are we doing here, y'know?" he said. "So, we have a great catalogue here, right now to play. We got a lot of songs that we're not even playing. So, we're like, 'What's the point of makin' a new CD right now?' Y'know, if anything, we'll make an EP."