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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 05:46 PM Aug 2017

Journey guitarist Neal Schon contemplates new lineup after 3 members visit White House



http://ultimateclassicrock.com/neal-schon-journey-feud/

Journey are apparently at another career crossroads. Founding guitarist Neal Schon spent the week taking a trio of bandmates to task publicly over their recent White House visit, capping a period of deep inner turmoil. By yesterday, Journey appeared to be breaking apart.

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These recent turn of events follow a visit by three band members to President Donald Trump‘s press room – apparently without Schon’s knowledge – in the days before the band’s tour finale at the Classic East festival in New York on July 30. Schon immediately began expressing surprise and dismay. Subsequent news reports then misrepresented the trip as band-sanctioned, which Schon angrily reiterated was not the case. (NBC, for instance, reported that “Journey Poses for Pictures in the White House Press Briefing Room.”)

“Wow, this is not the Journey I started in 1972 and have been fighting to protect since the beginning,” Schon wrote on Facebook on July 28. “I’ve discussed this many times with management and counsel, and they both agreed that there should never be anything to do with religious beliefs or politics with Journey.”

The White House photo op featured keyboardist Jonathan Cain, who has been married to Trump’s spiritual advisor since 2015; singer Arnel Pineda; and bassist Ross Valory, who co-founded Journey with Schon and singer and keyboardist Gregg Rolie in the early ’70s. Schon later confirmed that the group had met specifically to discuss the implications of such an official visit, and that he’d argued against it – “many, many times.”
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Journey guitarist Neal Schon contemplates new lineup after 3 members visit White House (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2017 OP
Wait - Trump has a spiritual advisor? LisaM Aug 2017 #1
She's a prosperity gospel preacher, and ... dawg Aug 2017 #2
The controversial Paula White, now married to Jonathan CAin. Miles Archer Aug 2017 #3
Oh, so no longer having an affair with Benny Hinn? tanyev Aug 2017 #8
He's been a little preoccupied lately Miles Archer Aug 2017 #10
does Christ look much like George Washington on a $$$$bill? rurallib Aug 2017 #13
Well, I can see a couple of things about her GulfCoast66 Aug 2017 #15
Seth Meyers Introduces Trumps Spiritual Advisor Paula White riversedge Aug 2017 #5
also............ riversedge Aug 2017 #6
Looks like the end of the Journey malaise Aug 2017 #4
Separate Ways leftstreet Aug 2017 #9
lol! SusanaMontana41 Aug 2017 #11
You win the thread malaise Aug 2017 #12
So many missed opportunities here--"Separate Ways" geek tragedy Aug 2017 #7
Lovin', Touchin', Gropin'... Blue Owl Aug 2017 #14

LisaM

(27,762 posts)
1. Wait - Trump has a spiritual advisor?
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 05:49 PM
Aug 2017

I know that's not the point of the article, but that strikes me as so unlikely.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
3. The controversial Paula White, now married to Jonathan CAin.
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 05:55 PM
Aug 2017
Donald Trump’s God whisperer
The woman who led the candidate to Christ has many of the same problems connecting with evangelicals as he has.
By KATIE GLUECK 07/11/2016 05:08 AM EDT

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/donald-trump-pastor-paula-white-225315



There were the IRS investigation and the business troubles, the divorces and the rumored affairs splashed across the tabloids. And always, there were the biased media that lay in wait, desperate to seize on any hint of internal dysfunction or family drama.

Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser paced the stage in black stilettos, railing against the unfairness of it all.

It was a spring evening in 2011, and pastor Paula White — the woman credited with leading Trump on a faith journey to Jesus Christ — was speaking at a pastors conference about her own experiences. But at times throughout her two-hour sermon, she could easily have been talking about Trump’s.

For the evangelical leaders she now aims to convert to the GOP nominee’s team, that’s exactly the problem.

riversedge

(69,727 posts)
5. Seth Meyers Introduces Trumps Spiritual Advisor Paula White
Fri Aug 4, 2017, 05:55 PM
Aug 2017

saw this earlier (Paula White is his s. advisor)


http://splitsider.com/2017/08/seth-meyers-introduces-trumps-spiritual-advisor-paula-white/

Seth Meyers Introduces Trump’s “Spiritual Advisor” Paula White
By Megh Wright August 2, 2017

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