During Journey’s set at the 2024 Rock In Rio festival in Brazil, singer Arnel Pineda was criticized after seemingly struggling with his vocals. However, his bandmate, guitarist Neal Schon, has since come to his defense, claiming that the band’s performance sounded off because they were being “extremely limited by Avenged Sevenfold.”
Pineda initially said the following about the show:
“once again,thank u so much everyone who came to @journeyofficial show since #february this year ..i appreciate uou all do kuch..anf not only that,everytime that im on stage w/ the band, i feel this immense gratitude,humility and honor..
i am very aware of this-
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/A4eXCTecRY2Cptqi/?mibextid=WC7FNe
no one more than me in this world feels so devastated about this…
its really amazing how 1 thousand right things you have done will be forgotten just cause of THIS..and of all the place , its in Rock In Rio…
mentally and emotionally, ive suffered already,and im still sufferring..but i’ll be ok..
so here’s the deal here now..i am offering you a chance now ( especially those who’s hated me and never liked me from the very beginning) to simply text GO or STAY right here.. and if GO reaches 1million… im stepping out for good..are you game folks?let’s start…
God bless all of you and thank you once again to all of the fans and friends who believed in me dince Day1🙏🙏🙏”
Schon then shared is own statement:
“All this absolute garbage fabricated bullshit about AP. Does this look like nobody had a good time ? I’m asking you. All fabricated, owed and bought blogs, bullshit. ✌🏽”
He later added:
“This clip is from Rio, even though we found out much later that we got extremely limited by Avenged Sevenfold that means that hardly hardly any sound can get out of the PA to the audience. It’s a bullshit move. Check out the audience. They loved it the rest of its fabricated crap.”
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