Journey Bandmates Are Also Arguing Over the Drummer
Journey’s ongoing inner points aren’t restricted to American Express playing cards. Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon are even arguing over who ought to play drums.
Deen Castronovo missed Journey’s Aug. 2 live performance in Toronto for unexplained causes. (According to setlist.fm, “Journey’s drum tech Steve Toomey filled in due to a family incident.”) He returned a number of days later when the group’s ongoing tour with Def Leppard reached Fenway Park in Boston; Castronovo was at the drums once more on Aug. 7 at Citi Field in New York for Journey’s most up-to-date present.
Lawyers talked about the substitution whereas laying out a variety of disagreements throughout an preliminary listening to in a Delaware courtroom after Cain’s most up-to-date lawsuit. He desires to restructure Journey’s tour administration firm to assist resolve their monetary points. Schon has known as the allegations “BS.”
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Chancery courtroom decide J. Travis Laster wasn’t prepared to wade into personnel points. “I’m not qualified to decide who the drummer ought to be,” he mentioned throughout the listening to.
It’s unclear why anybody would object to Toomey as a substitute since he is beforehand sat in for Castronovo, most just lately throughout Journey’s look on the 2022 broadcast of ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest, after Castronovo examined optimistic for COVID. Toomey can also be the son of longtime former Journey tour supervisor John “JT” Toomey.
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Toomey clearly has Castronovo’s implicit belief: He additionally serves as a touring drummer with Revolution Saints, the facet mission that showcases Castronovo as a singer.
“That guy knows my playing inside out – all of my chops and all of my modules,” Castronovo memorably enthused as Revolution Saints geared as much as launch 2017’s Light in the Dark. “It’s like watching a little mini Deen. … He’s a beast! He’s a better drummer than he is drum tech.”
Meanwhile, the Delaware decide mentioned he goals to resolve Journey’s administration impasse earlier than the subsequent leg of their tour. They’re set to play 4 October exhibits in Japan; subsequent concert events in the U.Ok. and Ireland had been abruptly canceled this week. Laster has named a discovery appointment to type by means of submissions from the opposing authorized groups forward of Journey’s subsequent listening to, scheduled for the first week of September.
Nick DeRiso is creator of the Amazon best-selling rock band bio ‘Journey: Worlds Apart,’ out there now in any respect main bookseller web sites.
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