The ongoing legal drama between longtime Journey bandmates Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain has been well-documented. In July, Cain filed a lawsuit against Schon charging the guitarist with creating deep financial strains on the group’s current stadium tour with Def Leppard because of his and his wife’s rampant overspending.
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While Schon has called Cain’s claims about his spending “slanderous” and “false,” Neal posted a message on his social media pages on August 22 explaining that he’d agreed to have an impartial third party sort out their dispute. Cain, however, has filed a new legal complaint accusing Schon of backtracking on his support of having a mediator resolve their business issues.
According to a legal document filed by Cain’s attorneys on August 26, shared by Ultimate Classic Rock, the two parties haven’t been able to agree on all the terms with regard to hiring a mediator.
The filing claims that Schon “is attempting to backtrack on his agreement for the Court to appoint a custodian to serve as a third, deadlock breaking director of Freedom 2020, Inc., and is now seeking to inappropriately limit the role of the custodian.” Freedom 2020 is a company jointly owned by Schon and Cain that manages Journey’s business dealings.
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In his original lawsuit, Cain claimed that Schon had maxed out their company’s credit card, and, given a $1,500 daily allowance, Neal Schon had been spending more than $10,000 a day.
Schon’s August 22 Note
Schon addressed his dispute with Cain in the aforementioned August 22 social media post.
“Anyone who follows Journey will know that Jon Cain and I don’t always see eye-to-eye on everything Or, sometimes, on pretty much anything,” Neal wrote. “Recently, Jon Cain made a number of claims and slanderous accusations about me and my wife—and I can’t stress enough how much it upset me and how wrong they are.”
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He continued, “I am determined to take the high road and push all this aside for the moment to focus on our fans, the tour and all who give so much to make things happen.”
Schon then noted that he’d agreed to hiring an impartial third party “to help us resolve our disputes, bring clarity to what we’re doing and allow us, as a band, to get back to what we should all focus on—making music and performing for our fans.”
About Journey’s 2024 Tour Plans
Journey and Def Leppard kicked of The Summer Stadium Tour on July 6 in St. Louis. The outing, which also has been featuring support acts the Steve Miller Band and Cheap Trick on select dates, is plotted out through a September 8 concert in Denver.
The next show is scheduled for Wednesday, August 28, at Oracle Park in Journey’s hometown of San Francisco.
Journey will then team up with Deep Purple for two concerts in South America— on September 15 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and September 17 in Santiago, Chile. The band will follow up those performances with four shows in Japan in October.
Journey also had been scheduled to tour the U.K. and Ireland in late October and November, but canceled that trek.
Tickets to Journey’s 2024 concerts are available now via various outlets, including StubHub.
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