Jonathan Cain Interviewed By Mixed Media
Fri. August 15, 2008Mixed Media recently interviewed Jonathan Cain. An excerpt…
BT: It’s my understanding that you found your new lead singer Arnel Pineda, then living in the Philippines, through the help of technology.
JC: We sure did. Neal and I were both looking on the Internet and we knew we needed to make a change. We knew the brand was going to suffer if we didn’t. As much as [former vocalist] Jeff Scott Soto helped us out, he wasn’t the future for us. We needed to find someone who was going to take us into the next 10 years. We didn’t want a Steve Perry clone or a tribute band singer - we wanted somebody fresh. Neal found Arnel one night and called me up. I turned it on and said, “Damn, he’s good. How do we get him over here?” The logistics of getting his visa took weeks. He sang “Wheel In The Sky” for some guy in the embassy in the Philippines. They guy said, “You’re going to be in Journey? Sing ‘Wheel In The Sky.” Arnel did, and the guy said, “Get out of here and get to America.”
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