April 3, 1997

Still no solid news from Irving Azoff's Office (he was out of town again). Steve Perry still does not know if he will have to undergo hip surgery and there is absolutely no plans to tour during the summer.

April 4, 1997

In the Sony Music's news section there is a message from the webmaster, David Peris. He says that Steve Perry was not the person who posted to the message board recently. David also said he hopes to add audio updates from Steve himself in the near future. Thanks to Chris Santos, Patricia Anderson, and Heather for informing me.

Scott Lupro revamped his Departure Page. It now includes updated summaries from all the on-line Journey web pages.

April 7, 1997

Modern Drummer now has an excerpt of Steve Smith's interview on-line. Thanks to John Galusha for the info.

April 10, 1997

My Journey Tribute Page was awarded the The Most Powerful Award in American Broadcasting.

This was sent to me by Tom Gilmore. It was recently posted on Rock on TV:

"Sunday, April 13th: 11:00 am - VH1 - Midnight Special : 11 30-minute episodes of the 70's live music show; features the Bee Gees, Al Green, Tom Jones, Village People, Hall and Oates, Ike and Tina Turner, Curtis Mayfield, Jim Croce, Journey, and others."

April 13, 1997

The Journey segment on Midnight Special aired early this afternoon. It included live performances from 1978 with Steve, Neal, Gregg, Ross, Aynsley and guest Eddie Money. Thanks to Oscar Ayala, Willi Kopp, and William Bowen for informing me.

Scott Gardner and Tina Reinhart have started another Journey web page, which includes a message board and on-line chat.

April 14, 1997

Steve Perry left a voice message on the Sony Music web page. It is available in the Real Audio sound format only. Here's the transcript by Mike Sorrentino from the Unofficial Journey Homepage!:

"Well hello everybody, this is Steve Perry and I've come on the site to possibly dispel some rumors. If you see things posted there, more than likely they're rumors. And I'll be from time to time coming on the site here giving you information as to what's going on. So thanks a lot, thanks for being the faithful ones, and uh, we'll be talking soon.......bye."

April 17, 1997

Naoki Hamajima informed me that Gregg Rolie will have a live chat on Greg Kihn's morning show, 94.5 KFOX (San Francisco) tomorrow morning (April 18). I believe it will take place sometime between 5:30 - 10:00 a.m.

Also, Neal's upcoming CD will be renamed "Electric World" and will include 21 songs on two CDs. Again, thanks to Naoki Hamajima from The Neal Schon Home Page.

April 20, 1997

Jonathan Cain's upcoming CD from Higher Octave Music will be titled Body Language, tentatively set for release on May 20, 1997. Thanks to Scott Zink who located the listing in CDNOW's Future Releases (although it's not available for advance order yet).

April 22, 1997

The Journey VH-1Midnight Special will air again tonight at 9 p.m. EST.

Scott Sullivan from The Storm WWW Page recently had the opportunity to interview, via e-mail, Gregg Rolie and Michael Shrieve from Abraxas Pool.