Neal Schon gives up on Journey reunion with Steve Perry

Journey founder Neal Schon has abandoned all efforts to get together with the band’s former frontman Steve Perry, revealing the singer doesn’t seem to be interested.
Possible reunion chatter began last year after the guitarist said he’d like to meet up with Perry over a coffee in an interview, but the Don’t Stop Believin’ singer hasn’t reached out.
“I’m gonna not say anything more about it (sic),” Schon told AZ Central. “I’ve gone way out on a limb in so many different ways and all I can tell you is that he’s not contacted me to have that coffee yet. So I’m just gonna give it a rest.”
Fans were hoping for a get together after Perry released Traces, his first solo record in over 20 years, but Schon, who loved the album, is still waiting for a call.
“I listened to his record and I hear a lot of emotion in it,” the guitarist said. “I understood where the record was coming from and I thought he sounded very good. I said, ‘Well, if we ever got together, I definitely know where I’d go with him, in more of a blues and R&B thing’. But I’m just gonna leave it alone because it just seems like he wants to have his own time to do things and not have a bunch of people talking to him about: ‘Are you gonna get together with Neal? Are you gonna do Journey?’
“All those answers are always, ‘No. No. No. No’. But then, every once in a while, he says something that gives you the feeling that he’s open to it. But after a while, you just have to leave things alone and let them take their own course.”
Last October (18), Perry told Rolling Stone he couldn’t imagine working with Schon again, stating, “I left the band 31 f**king years ago, my friend. You can still love someone, but not want to work with them. And if they only love you because they want to work with you, that doesn’t feel good to me.”
Perry last reunited with Journey when the group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in April, 2017. Perry appeared onstage with his former bandmates but did not perform with the group at the ceremony.