April 16, 2014 | Steve Perry News
Carlos Santana weighed in with the majority of Journey fans everywhere yesterday when he spoke with Jim Kerr of New York’s classic rock station Q104.3.
“I dream of Neal and I going to Fresno and talking to Steve Perry,” Santana said.
“If Santana can do Santana IV… there’s a chemistry between Neal and Steve Perry,” he says.
Steve joined Journey in 1977, four years after Neal and fellow Santana bandmate Gregg Rolie formed the group. Journey released three mediocre (IMHO)-selling albums before Perry joined as singer on 1978’s Infinity album. Within three years, they had a No. 1 LP with Escape.
For the next half decade, Journey were among music’s most popular bands. They released five consecutive Top 10 albums, including 1996’s Trial by Fire, Journey’s first album after a decade-long break. Perry left the group the following year due to health issues, and the band replaced him with another singer in 1998.
Since then, fans have been clamoring for a reunion between Neal, the group’s leader, and Steve. Last summer, Schon addressed the subject in an interview. “The door has always been open, like I’ve said a zillion times,” he said. “People ask me every day, ‘Are you reuniting?’ Steve says, ‘No,’ and I say, ‘You never know.’”
But now that Santana’s classic lineup — which includes Schon and Rolie — have released their first album together in more than 40 years (IV, which is out today) and playing shows – AND the classic Journey lineup is all but back together with drummer Steve Smith rejoining the group on tour last year – Carlos is hoping another San Francisco band from back in the day can, in the words of Ultimate Classic Rock, “pull it together again”.
“It’s 2016,” Santana told Q104.3. “Like Neal says, time is short.”
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