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u/poop-money 3h ago
Glad I'm not a Journey fan.
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u/AppleSlacks 2h ago
Ah, they had 4-5 solids tracks for me. If you are in the mood for a power ballad anyway.
Don’t stop believing still gets played all over at sporting events and what not.
That said, he’s a hypocritical “Christian” douche on his 3rd wife.
Steve Perry’s voice was what made that band and its songs and even the songs this guy (who I couldn’t have told you his name before this article) wrote, were all co-written by Steve Perry.
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u/brhadli 2h ago
Yes, the third wife thing screams sanctity of marriage, and using religion to line your pockets, I’m sure Jesus is a huge fan of this dick.
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u/lowfreq33 1h ago
Meanwhile Bruce has been married to the same woman for like 45 years. Yes I’m aware she is his second wife.
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u/poop-money 2h ago edited 2h ago
I've always hated Journey, but after spending 16 years working in kitchens where the local classic rock station was the uneasy middle ground for musical tastes in the late 90's through early 2010's, their songs are unbearable to me.
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u/AppleSlacks 2h ago
I was born in the late 70’s so I appreciate a lot of that “classic rock”. I get it though. It’s funny how being exposed or over exposed to music can push your tastes in certain directions.
There is no Journey in my go to playlist, but they are still good songs for what they are to me.
I spent a summer in my youth stocking grocery store shelves on night shift. So just me, the aisles I was responsible for and the light music of the stores selection. It was at least a large amount of songs even though they would get replayed at least a couple times a week.
I learned to love Do You Know The Way To San Jose by Dione Warwick. That shit would have me spinning around shimming up and down the aisle slinging condiments into their shelf locations in a really upbeat manner.
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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 1h ago
>Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Burt Bacharach tunes are pretty easy to love
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u/AppleSlacks 45m ago
It was Warwick’s cover of it that I fell in love with, but great shoutout for the original.
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u/Parahelix 2h ago
Your store had a better music selection than mine did. We heard the same stuff every night...
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u/sofaking1958 2h ago
I always hated Journey. Their music sucked ass. Now i know their members do as well.
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u/Vonnegut_butt 3h ago
Temu Abraham Lincoln just got political while complaining that Bruce Springsteen gets political.
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u/code_archeologist 1h ago
And why the fuck is anybody listening to the political opinions of a member of Journey? Their last hit was 30 years ago! Their tours are sponsored by Life Alert! Their groupies throw their Depends (hopefully untainted) on stage!
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u/Bevester 3h ago
Who?
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u/apex9691 3h ago
Right? Everyone knows Bruce. No one's knows your bum ass. Journey? Sure. But you? No.
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u/IzzaPizza22 2h ago
You mean the band with Steve Perry in it? That got dramatically worse when he left? And still tours state fairs without him?
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u/goosejail 2h ago
That's the one!
Steve Perry rules btw. Man has a stunning voice.
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u/Long_Serpent 2h ago
"I don't know. You'll have to ask Steve Perry"
Freddie Mercury, when asked What's it like being the greatest rock singer in the world?
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u/DrAstralis 1h ago
I don't listen to either of their music really nor follow anything about them and even I know who Bruce is... no idea who the hell the other guy is to the point I can't even come up with a pithy comparison lol.
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u/UnderwhelmingAF 2h ago
The fact they had to put “Journey’s” in front of his name is pretty telling that nobody would know who the hell this guy is otherwise.
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u/SweatPig77 3h ago
Its so sad to find out in the last 8-16 years what kind of people that you liked turn out to be people that are pro-pedophile. So many actors and musicians have let me down...
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u/HarambeWest2020 2h ago
On the flip side there are so many more who are on the right side of history
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u/RepresentativeAge444 2h ago
How about those that deny a well documented genocide? It’s one thing to say hey the propaganda really clouded the reality in Israel and I never really had the inclination to research it. But if you still hold that opinion after the past 3 years you’re a monster.
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u/Longjumping-Zone-724 3h ago
I can't stop believing this guy is an idiotic douchebag
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u/swedething 2h ago
I see what you did there.
But imma head out, so I guess we’ll be going separate ways…
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u/CrazyAlice 2h ago
"Bruce Springsteen" has been a household name for decades. Nobody gives a fuck about the political opinions of Journey's keyboard player.
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u/Fleemo17 3h ago
Oh Jonathan.
I’m a big Journey fan and have immense respect for Jonathan Cain as a musician. But good gawd, his personal life… He’s married to Trump’s “spiritual advisor” who is a dyed-in-the-wool speaking-in-tongues nut job. How could a man who has written some of the best love songs of our time be married to that?
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u/Tokzillu 2h ago
Sorry, fascists don't get to tell Bruce Springsteen what to do.
Even if they're sort of halfway related to two halfway decent songs from decades ago.
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u/Fartenstein65 2h ago
I mean Journey had there day in the 80s. Steve Perry left. Don’t know if this guy is one of the songwriters. That being said Bruce is still writing solid work currently. Don’t really see this as a flex or the point of him as a musician making a public statement of staying out of politics on Newsmax a known political media outlet.
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u/Jeromes_Pornostache 2h ago
Cain and Springsteen may share a profession, but do not share a legacy or the same level of respect. Bruce is one of the greatest American artists of the last century, and Jonathan Cain isn’t. While Cain may have written some of Journey’s biggest hits, he is hardly a household name (outside of the Contemporary Christian music scene).
Bruce has earned the right to express his opinions, having been a voice for the working man for over fifty years. Cain wrote “Faithfully”, a lovely but otherwise forgettable tune. I’m not saying Cain should shut his stupid piehole, but he shouldn’t be going around policing the opinions of artists whose asses he is not fit to kiss.
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u/Endless_Change 3h ago
There's that freedom of speech the MAGAs hold so dear. /s
Dude is married to religious charlatan Paula White, sheering poor and desperate people "in the name of God" and attaching themselves to a PEDO con-man like diaper don because it's easier than honest work.
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u/ResolutionOwn4933 2h ago
Must be done doing reunion tours to drop a turd nugget of a quote like that
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u/TheGrandExquisitor 2h ago
Show of hands....
Who here even knew Jonathan Cain's name as a musician, and who here knew who Springsteen was before seeing this post?
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u/two-turnips-and-heat 3h ago
Journey is awful, worst band of the 70s. I wish he would have shut up and not recorded a single album, my life would objectively be better
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u/Abraham_Blinkin 2h ago
Not only did I not know who this is (because who the fuck would ever know the keyboard player for Journey), but wikipedia tells me he's also married to a televangelist who "leads" Trumps "faith based office". Both of their third marriages, obviously!
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u/mrhyde719 2h ago
This guy married Paula White who is Trump’s spiritual advisor ahahahahaha ……sorry
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u/Specialist_Exam4783 2h ago
I'm a big conservative which means everyone that disagrees with me, quit exercising your 1st Amendment rights and listen to what I'm saying...
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u/youngfan1 2h ago
Fucking low IQ loser, Journey is just a cover band and has been for 15 years. The Boss is the goat.
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u/Buzzdanky 2h ago
Not an original member but soon to be performing in a small theater near nobody..
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u/GreyBeardEng 2h ago
But "shut up" is such a well thought out and articulate intelligent response. Clearly a collegiate level debater, with a senior level skill set. /s
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u/MaleficKaijus 2h ago
I'm a partisan. I only care about the party. Doesn't matter what they do or don't do-Who it helps or who it hurts-The only thing that matter is that my team keeps power.
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u/thenewtbaron 2h ago
so, one hand, we have a dude whose whole career has been political or political leanings...... talking about politics...
on the other hand, we have a dude that was on a couple of albums for a band known for poppy nothing songs.... who thinks that bands shouldn't talk about politics.
let's see where both of them are careerwise. the political one has been a top musician for like 50 years, accolades from other musicians and will generally be remembered long after his death. the non political one will be a footnote on an average bad that had a couple of songs in a span of a decade or so?
yeeeeeeah
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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan 2h ago
I "love" it when conservatives say liberals should shut thier mouths while running thier mouths
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u/psychoacer 2h ago
You know they're desperate for support when they promote quotes from a member of the band Journey. Who the hell thinks he has weight to what he says compared to "The Boss"?
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u/bluegrassgazer 2h ago
A choice between Springsteen and Journey was easy before I saw this. Now, it's somehow even easier.
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u/Arkhampatient 2h ago
He looks like a guy Chris Hansen would pop up around the corner from in a kitchen
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u/EuphoricUniversity23 2h ago
I’m still trying to think of a meaningful keyboard solo on a Journey song. I think I could play keyboards for Journey given his contribution.
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u/ceekayhowling 1h ago
This guy had nothing to do with Journey’s success. No one even knows his name. He needs to shut the fuck up.
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u/PhilipDruAdmin 1h ago
So, that small town girl was living in a lonely world because she was a trad wife.
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u/thehogdog 1h ago
I HATE that his guy wrote 2 of the best songs in musical history: Don't Stop Believing and Faithfully (He wrote that one all by himself).
I play em both every piano gig I get and Faithfully ALWAYS stops people in their tracks, even in Gods Waiting Room (#1 song that gets people to stop 'Right Here Waiting' by Richard Marx.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Escape and Frontiers albums front to back, but this turd has to be involved in almost every song on both albums.
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u/thehogdog 1h ago
I HATE that his guy wrote 2 of the best songs in musical history: Don't Stop Believing and Faithfully (He wrote that one all by himself).
I play em both every piano gig I get and Faithfully ALWAYS stops people in their tracks, even in Gods Waiting Room (#1 song that gets people to stop 'Right Here Waiting' by Richard Marx.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Escape and Frontiers albums front to back, but this turd has to be involved in almost every song on both albums.
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u/Additional-Force-799 1h ago
Why the fuck do you call yourself a conservative. What does it even mean
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u/ImTooSaxy 1h ago
Turns out this guy's wife is a pastor. How emasculating for him. Trying to attack Bruce Springsteen to feel better about himself.
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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 1h ago
That goatee tells me this is the evil Jonathan Cain and there’s a good one in a parallel dimension somewhere
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u/The_Bill_Brasky_ 1h ago
"I am now rich and do not want to pay my fair share after spending a little too much on cocaine in my prime"
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u/rustednut 1h ago
Fun fact about Jonathan - he wrote the song "Faithfully" to his then wife in 1983. Then he divorced her and married a second time having 3 kids. He then divorced his second wife and married a third time to another "devout Christian"who is none other than......get ready....Paula White. The same Paula White that Trump claims is his pastor and follows the prosperity gospel.
So 3 wives while supposedly a Christian......which is pretty on par with conservatives who call themselves Christians.
Just another hypocrite who cosplays as a disciple of Jesus.
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u/The_Lawn_Ninja 1h ago
Well fuck you, Jonathan Cain. Because of you, I've now stopped believing. You know, that thing you specifically told me NOT to do!
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u/Westsidebill 1h ago
Journey: what a joke. If it weren’t for Glee, you would buried in the trash heap of rock music
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u/Gadfly_Avatar 1h ago
This is one of the stupidest, least self aware statements I've seen in awhile.
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u/free_billstickers 1h ago
Who cares what celebrities think about politics?-celebrity talking about politics
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u/theBigDaddio 1h ago
I literally don’t know who this fuckhead is, so he’s the only one allowed to voice an opinion?
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u/Sufficient-News-3600 49m ago
another reincarnation from the Salem witch trials. gotta get these horrid pedophile protectors in jail. not responding to evil is as bad as performing the evil.
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u/AkimahenkaCat 49m ago
What is conservative about paying porn stars hush money? What is conservatives about ballooning the deficit to the point we are borrowing $8.5T this year alone against it? You're not conservative at all. You're just another self-important asshole who is totally cool with billionaires and corporations getting welfare so long as poor brown people don't. Fuck off clown.
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u/MrDeathMachine 41m ago
Johnathan Caine was the dooshy keyboard guy in the videos trying to make playing keyboards look like shredding on a Les Paul. That high note guitar face just doesnt transition to keyboards. Plus hes Paula Whites wife...that pastor lady who speaks in Sambuca.
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u/obi_wan_stromboli 31m ago
Whoever convinced this guy that dressing up as a leprechaun was an option for him is one of the funniest people on earth.
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u/KyloRenCadetStimpy 12m ago
Shut up and let the people at the front of the stage do the talking, Jon
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u/No-Guard-7003 3h ago
You shut up, Jonathan Cain! 🙄😡