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Neil Schon
American
Musician
About the author
I'm just getting older and better.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Career
#Music
#Sports
World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#World
#Play
#First
When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Journey
What I have is a bunch of really hungry, amazingly talented guys that can kick anybody's rear end.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#End
Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
We are doing what Prince did. Everyone that comes to a show billed as An Evening with Journey will get our new CD. We figured that is our best store because they are our biggest fans.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Fans
#Will
#Journey
#Evening
During the 1970s and 1980s Gibson did use my likeness, but we never signed anything. This new Signature model is the first time we struck a formal written deal for a guitar with my name on it.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Time
#First
#Name
#Guitar
I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Want
#Play
I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Time
#Play
There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#People
#Open
#Fault
I met the Santana band when I was 14. By the time I was 15, I was a member of the band.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Time
You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Music
#Focus
#Business
I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#People
#Will
#Years
#Months
I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#People
#Famous
Nobody's perfect. Everyone slides here and there, and they have their ups and downs. When they are down, that is not the time to step all over them.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Time
The best part was watching Journey grow into this monster. The band was huge, playing these enormous gigs.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Journey
The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Sound
The world now knows that Steve Perry is welcome to come and sing with us anytime he wants.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Now
#World
I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.
Neil Schon,
American
Musician
#Will