The band has big ideas for the next two years
Founding Journey guitarist Neal Schon says the band has big plans for 2026-2027. In a new interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Faction Talk 103, Schon says the band is going to mix things up for the new run.
“We have about 120 shows and we’ll probably add to them — half of it in ‘26 and the other half in ‘27,” he says. “And I can’t really tell you exactly what it’s about until AEG and us put together our press release. But I can tell you it’s gonna be a very different show, and it’s going to entail many of our albums. I won’t go all the way back to the very, very beginning, but I’d say from, you know, 78 on, we’re going to dig deep and the sets are gonna be much longer.”
He confirms the tour will likely be a stadium headlining run.
“Who knows what will happen,” he adds. “I think that our fans are really gonna dig what we’re putting together for them in ‘26. And, things change. Bryan Adams is someone I’ve been talking to for quite some time. We go way back into the 80s when his first album came out, and we toured with him. I think he’d be tremendous for us to do a stadium with. Whether or not we get there in ‘27, it’ll happen eventually. I think it’s kind of inevitable. I think that both of us together with maybe one more act would be like really happening.”
Schon also says there’s been no dialogue between him and former frontman Steve Perry, who has been more active in the past decade.
“There has been like zip, no zero dialogue. And it’s not because I’m not willing to. I reached out, wrote him an email, and I’m sure it’s probably still his email because he reach back to me about a year ago through the email and invited him to the Giants game because I knew that he was a fan as well. And I was gonna be there, and it’d be cool just to catch up and hang out and watch a ball game. I never heard anything back, so I mean, you can’t keep chasing something that’s just not interested in correlating with you,” Schon states.
The band last co-headlined The Stadium Tour with Def Leppard and Steve Miller Band, a continuation of Def Leppard and Motley Crue’s joint tour. They also headlined their own 50th Anniversary Tour, which saw Schon and Jonathan Cain embroiled in a suit over an American Express credit card for over a year. Following the run, frontman Arnel Pineda said he’d leave the band if enough fans requested it following negative performance videos that circulated online.
