Neal Schon Pushing To Shake Up Journey Set Lists

Journey guitarist Neal Schon has revealed that he plans to shake up the band’s set list in the near future. Speaking with the Arizona Republic, Schon said that he reached out to his bandmates and urged them to “open their minds and bring it” in terms of their set choices for upcoming tours.More »

By on May 12, 2016

Journey guitarist Neal Schon has revealed that he plans to shake up the band’s set list in the near future. Speaking with the Arizona Republic, Schon said that he reached out to his bandmates and urged them to “open their minds and bring it” in terms of their set choices for upcoming tours. He said there are “five or six” classic hits they have to play, but he says they hope to dig deeper into the catalog for future tours. “You don’t have to keep playing songs just because they’re commercial,” noted Schon. “Times are changing. People want to see the jams. And we know how to jam very well.” He also credits drummer Steven Smith with the push. “He did Evolution, Departure, Escape. But it’ll be fun to go back to some of that material. I’d like to play some of that stuff that’s on our Captured record,” said Schon. “There’s a lot of uptempo songs on that record, not only because we played everything too fast. There was a bluesier side like ‘Walks Like a Lady’ that goes into a hardcore slamming blues-shuffle jam at the end. We could definitely do something with that. There’s ‘Line of Fire,’ ‘Dixie Highway,’ other songs that were obscure songs.” Copyright(c) 2016 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «