Year in Music: 2013

Journey in 2013


Journey guitarist Neal Schon posted an olive branch to long-estranged former frontman Steve Perry on his Facebook page. Schon, who along with keyboardist Jonathan Cain and co-founding bassist Ross Valory, parted ways with Perry in 1998, posted a YouTube link to a Perry radio interview along with a warm open message to his former collaborator, stating: "Great Steve Perry interview. I hope we can reach out to each other and connect once again. We had amazing chemistry together. I love him With all the love and admiration You could even have. Steve lets talk soon Neal."

When we last caught up with Steve Perry, he had nothing but accolades to throw Neal Schon's way. We asked him to recall the first time he saw Journey perform live prior to joining them: "Neal Schon. I saw Neal Schon play in a nightclub in L.A. back in the day called Starwood. And they were with Gregg Rolie at the time and Aynsley Dunbar, they were a fusion rock band at the time. And Neal would stand onstage with a white Stratocaster, with a (Fender) Twin Reverb (amp) kicked back and a wah-wah pedal set somewhere in the middle -- and not touch it. And he would scream the most unbelievable, soaring, majestic guitar, I had ever heard in my life."

In June, Steve Perry revealed that he's successfully had surgery for skin cancer. Perry posted to fans on his official blog http://www.fanasylum.com/steveperry/ that it seems as though he's luckily out of the woods: "Three weeks ago a routine mole was taken off my face and the lab report came back Melanoma skin cancer. I've had two surgeries in two weeks to remove all the cancer cells and I've been told they think they got it all and no other treatments are required."

In the blog, Perry goes into detail about his year-and-a-half whirlwind romance with late psychologist Kellie Nash as she was battling stage four breast cancer.

Journey's co-founding guitarist Neal Schon is set to marry his fiancee, former Real Housewife Of D.C. star Michaele Salahi, on December 15th on Pay-Per-View. The wedding - TV special, dubbed the Winter Wonderland Wedding And Music Event, will be held at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts. Schon explained how they came to pick the venue for the nuptials: "We searched the world for the perfect location, and finally I said to Michaele, 'San Francisco is my home. Now it is our home. I want to be married there, in the most beautiful city in the world, to the woman of my dreams.' Everyone said they wouldn't let us have the wedding there, but when our wedding planner took my passionate plea to the management, they said yes. We couldn't be more happy!"

According to the event's press release, "wedding planner to the stars, Sharon Sacks heads up this amazing 'dream team' and is no stranger to high profile celebrity weddings. Some of her past clients include: Madonna, Michael Jordan, Jennifer Lopez, Denzel Washington, President Clinton, and Kim Kardashian.”


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