An attorney for JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain says that they “don’t want to have anything to do with” the band’s former drummer Steve Smith and bassist Ross Valory anymore.
This past Tuesday, Schon and Cain filed a lawsuit against Smith and Valory, who have been members of JOURNEY on and off since the band formed in 1973, claiming the two attempted a “coup” in order to gain control of the JOURNEY trademark.
Skip Miller, a lawyer for Schon and Cain, told Rolling Stone:
“The contracts are clear on their face. The JOURNEY name is controlled by Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain. And for very good cause, they don’t want to perform with Smith or Valory anymore, they don’t want to have anything to do with them, and that’s their right. They’re going to go on with JOURNEY, continue with the great success of the past and these two guys are going to get replaced.”