Yeah, I'm sure you already know that what I typed up there in the title is true. I have no clue whether or not you're on Facebook, but Neal is, and he writes things that really shouldn't be made public about his personal life---in my opinion. I used to think he was a private person, but apparently I was wrong. If you have the inclination and the interest, here is the link....read it for yourself. I find it kinda sad.
http://www.facebook.com/schonmusic
The truth always suffices as it has for years.....
The biggest issue I have is protecting my little ones, not using them to try to get what you feel should be yours.
The biggest issue I have is protecting my little ones, not using them to try to get what you feel should be yours.
Anyway, it sounds to me like his new romance with Michaela has apparently fueled a fire from one of his ex-wives (probably the Playboy bunny he was married to for 2 months before cheating on her with this new bimbo, and got sued for $50K by the husband of this new bimbo), and from what I can surmise of the situation, apparently the ex has blabbed some nasty things about him being a "deadbeat dad," in a UK tabloid.
I have been a fan of Journey since the age of 10. But, I had no idea that he has 5 kids. However, knowing that he's a sex-aholic, I am really not surprised. I knew he has a son named Miles, but that's the only kid I have ever known about---or cared to know about. I haven't paid much attention to Neal Schon's personal life much, but this last thing----what a doozy----he's really NOT so bright when it comes to women, is he? The poor schmuck.
But going onto a public forum to blast the ex right back is.....well.....kinda like blabbing nasty things to a tabloid. Ya know? Same thing, different media. So I really wonder about the people who are all "yes men," giving him pep talks about it in the comments, when he is doing the exact same thing. Why doesn't somebody point that out to him, I wonder? Would he just "unfriend" them or would he bitch and moan about it on Facebook like he seems to be doing about his ex?
I mean, if you look at the whole page, there's a question he posed about "what would you do with $5,000 per month tax free?" This is obviously a complaint about an alimony payment to an ex. He doesn't SAY that, of course, but you can definitely piece the puzzle together if you read through it all.
Yeah, well, I know you really don't give a shit about him anymore, but it just strikes me as kinda creepy, for him to go onto Facebook and start sharing stuff with people that really have no business knowing any of it in the first place.
I mean, a long time ago, when I was on the Journey web site message boards, a radio engineer guy named Allen Craft (who worked for Journey), harassed and threatened me and then crashed my computer and ruined my children's web site that I was just about to launch----2 years' of work, gone----Mr. Craft told me all kinds of personal stuff about YOU, and frankly, it pissed me off. I told him as much, but he just kept on blabbing stuff that NOBODY should know about, unless YOU tell them yourself.
I still have the 120 printed pages of his conversations with me, in which he blabbed those things. I gave a copy of all those pages to 2 people, one was Melva, the older sister of Kevin Chalfant, who was my friend for 15 years before she died. I also gave them to Lora at Fan Asylum years ago. I told her that you should sue his sorry ass for slander. I don't know if you ever did or not, but he was fired from the band eventually, so that's poetic justice and karma hard at work. (He was such a loser and a drugged up idiot that you probably wouldn't have gotten much out of him anyway if you sued him).
The thing is, I firmly believe that a personal life should remain personal.
I love that you are such a private person. I respect that a great deal. Your voice has been in my life for MOST of my life, and you've given me DECADES of happiness, just from hearing you sing. That's really what it's all about. Now, you're retired. You do your own thing, and that's cool with me. I don't need to know any personal stuff about you.
I do love that you're a badass, though. Sure, sometimes you like to play it off as being a quiet, shy kind of person, or an "old" retired dude with no agenda----but we all know you're really a badass. We all know and love that you have some musical tricks still up your sleeve that will leave everybody completely blown away---in your own time, the way YOU want to do it. So, keep on keepin' on.
Honestly, I gotta say that when Neal plays that guitar, I love him. I love the music. I love the emotions that come out of that instrument when he plays it. I love that it always gives me chills. I love that it transports me out of the daily drudgery into some cosmic awesome heaven-like place, almost as if it's ethereal. That is truly a gift and a talent. I really don't care about his love life. But, when it becomes a soap opera for all to see, on a public forum no less, I kinda get the creeps about it, like, "I would rather NOT know these things about him." The respect I once felt for him is pretty much in the toilet at this point, and it's all because he has made it all very public.
I mean, those sad press releases he had published awhile back, saying things like "We would welcome Steve Perry back to the band anytime for a reunion" and stuff----dude, that was just pathetic. If he can't even pick up the telephone and tell you those things PRIVATELY, in a SINCERE WAY, instead of going to "Ultimate Classic Rock" on Facebook to give a press release about it, that's just using YOUR NAME to get PR for HIMSELF, and he knows it. He had a new solo album coming out, and that's the ONLY reason he did those press releases, to get his own name out there-----by adding YOURS to the story. Not as many people would bother to read it unless YOUR NAME was involved in it, and he knows that. Damned well. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Ultimate Classic Rock TOLD him that.
His total jealousy of you is apparent. Loud and clear, for everyone to see. It makes him look like a jerk. "I started this band, HE was only the SINGER..." (I can totally hear him whining that phrase). He comes across as an opportunistic, insincere, backstabbing, womanizing douche bag. He might actually be a sweethearted teddy bear for all I know, but the PUBLIC PERSONA and REPUTATION of his just completely ruins that teddy bear idea. He wears nothing but black all the time---like he's trying to be COOL---black t-shirts, black jeans, black boots, black leather jackets, and dark sunglasses...(are those due to getting old and losing his eyesight, or to hide a bad face lift I wonder)?!
STEPHEN, PLEASE DO NOT GET A FACE LIFT!!!! GAAAAA!!! I cannot beg you ENOUGH.
....But I digress....
To see Neal sitting here on Facebook now, bitching and moaning about how his ex is using his kids to get "what she feels she deserves," I mean, come on....that is exactly what HE DID, using YOUR NAME in several public press releases to get the NOTORIETY that he feels HE deserves. Ya know? Why doesn't anybody explain that to him?? Is he THAT obtuse, that he doesn't realize it on his own? If so, that's pretty fucking sad, man. Sad and pathetic.
Sure, there are 2 sides to every story. I know. I'm trying hard to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I gotta be honest, that's not an easy stretch to make at this point.
Nobody is perfect, everyone makes mistakes, we're all human beings with flaws and we do and say stupid things sometimes. But his reputation with women is legendary, and he's made it that way by blabbing so much to so many over the years, and making this latest wife soap opera totally public. I think he actually gets some kind of macho "rock star" boost to brag about stuff like this, to anyone who will listen, and I gotta tell ya, that is just a huge turn-off to me. I think he also doesn't realize---or if he DOES realize, doesn't CARE----that he uses people all the time. So to whine and cry about somebody using something against HIM is just ridiculous.
Seriously. He used what YOU LOVED MOST IN THIS WORLD against YOU, and in doing so, he lost a brother, and an awesome friend. Now his ex is apparently (allegedly) using what HE loves most in this world (his kids) against HIM.
Poor baby. Ain't paybacks a bitch?! Karma will get you every time.
Bottom line: You get what you give.
What goes around comes around.
Lead by example.
Those are simple concepts, but so many people nowadays just don't seem to understand them at all.
Well.....my wrath on politicians who want to take women's reproductive rights away continues. I saw the play "The Vagina Monologues" last night, and while I understand that it's really a "feminist," and/or "lesbian" type of empowering message, I just don't get the whole "my vagina is ME" thing. I would like to think that I am MORE than just a vagina. Ya know? It struck me as odd, and contradictory to what their mission statement is. Women are more than just vagina's. We are the all powerful Oz.
On that note, I will say goodnight. Love you more than you'll ever know. Have a great weekend my friend. SMOOCH!!!
----Rebecca
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