Matt Connarton Unleashed: Journey resolves legal issues

0:00 Speaker 1: Well, well, we'll move on because we have another speaking

0:03 Speaker 1: of people not getting along well in music. No, but

0:09 Speaker 1: see this is positive because this is an example of

0:13 Speaker 1: people being able to put their differences aside for the music.

0:16 Speaker 1: Because as the Gallagher brothers obviously have had to put

0:19 Speaker 1: their differences aside to reunite Oasis and do this tour,

0:22 Speaker 1: the members of Journey, our friends Jonathan Kane and Neil

0:27 Speaker 1: Sean have also put their difference. Well, actually I don't

0:29 Speaker 1: think they've put their differences aside necessarily, but there has

0:32 Speaker 1: been a daytunt because if you've been paying any attention

0:37 Speaker 1: to this, you know that they're in the middle of

0:38 Speaker 1: this stadium tour. Journey is they're out on the road

0:41 Speaker 1: with Death Leopard, so doing a stadium tour it's big business.

0:45 Speaker 1: And you've got band members suing each other while they're

0:48 Speaker 1: on tour and over some disagreements of how money is

0:52 Speaker 1: spent by the company that they are directors of. They

0:56 Speaker 1: each own fifty percent or have fifty percent control I

0:59 Speaker 1: should say not necessary early ownership, but Jonathan Kane and

1:02 Speaker 1: Neil Sewan each having fifty percent control over this company,

1:05 Speaker 1: and they each like to spend a lot of money

1:07 Speaker 1: and then they get mad at the other and it's

1:09 Speaker 1: a whole thing. We talked about this a couple of

1:10 Speaker 1: weeks ago on the show. This is being reported by

1:15 Speaker 1: I like to give the site credit Digitalmusicnews dot com,

1:18 Speaker 1: which is a great site. Don't Stop Believing. In a

1:21 Speaker 1: Journey World tour. The band is back on the road

1:24 Speaker 1: as members settle their legal differences. Really and here's how

1:28 Speaker 1: they did it. And this is one of the ocons.

1:31 Speaker 1: Now that's that's impressive. It's all good. It's all good,

1:35 Speaker 1: it says, don't Stop Believing is in the possibility of

1:38 Speaker 1: a unified Journey, which has seemingly seen members Jonathan Kane

1:41 Speaker 1: and Neil Sean put their latest dispute to rest. There

1:45 Speaker 1: will be others, I'm sure in the future, as history

1:47 Speaker 1: tells us. But that dispute we reported closer to August,

1:53 Speaker 1: So the beginning of August so going on about a

1:56 Speaker 1: month centered on touring related to disagreements between Kin and Sean,

2:02 Speaker 1: with each possessing a fifty percent interest in the companies

2:05 Speaker 1: responsible for handling journeys dealings. The veteran musicians have for

2:09 Speaker 1: years clashed over expenses and a whole lot else. As

2:14 Speaker 1: it pertains to one of the companies Freedom twenty twenty.

2:18 Speaker 1: The two couldn't agree on matters including tour accommodation expenditures,

2:22 Speaker 1: security costs, the employment status of various personnel, and more.

2:26 Speaker 1: Alleged unilateral spending on the part of Sean was a

2:29 Speaker 1: particularly significant issue. Caine described, Yeah, when we talked about

2:34 Speaker 1: this before, we talked about you know, spending, you know,

2:36 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars station of a ten thousand dollars hotel room. Yep, yep.

2:41 Speaker 1: I bet that really exists too. Yeah, no, I believe

2:44 Speaker 1: it and maxed out company credit cards. And the thing

2:49 Speaker 1: about personnel differences, you know, apparently on the current tour,

2:55 Speaker 1: you know, one of the members, Sean or Kine might

2:58 Speaker 1: fire somebody and and the other member is upset and

3:01 Speaker 1: hires that person back. Just a lot of dysfunction, I

3:07 Speaker 1: read too. There was even some disagreement between them about

3:10 Speaker 1: whether or not Jonathan Kane should be playing guitar on

3:14 Speaker 1: the song Wheel in the Sky. Why not, Well, he's

3:19 Speaker 1: technically he's the keyboard player, but he does play guitar.

3:21 Speaker 1: He does, so what don't play guitar? Well, he plays

3:25 Speaker 1: on somebody else's toes. He plays he plays rhythm guitar

3:27 Speaker 1: on Stone and Love. There's I think there's a couple

3:33 Speaker 1: Stone and Love, but but he has to write that

3:37 Speaker 1: song would sound really strange with one guitar, So he

3:40 Speaker 1: plays rhythm guitar on that. Neil Sean, of course the

3:43 Speaker 1: lead player on that and I Live. I think he's

3:45 Speaker 1: always also played on Wheel and the Sky. But I

3:48 Speaker 1: guess there was a disagreement, like Sean didn't want him

3:51 Speaker 1: to play guitar on Wheel in the Sky or something

3:53 Speaker 1: really weird. So according to this, so it says that

4:00 Speaker 1: hang ups which brought about the cancelation of the UK

4:02 Speaker 1: leg of the band's ongoing tour, came to light in

4:06 Speaker 1: late July, and a late July filing submitted by Kin

4:09 Speaker 1: to the Delaware Chancery Court. In the action, the seventy

4:13 Speaker 1: four year old asked the court to appoint a third

4:15 Speaker 1: party director to Freedom twenty twenty so as to remedy

4:19 Speaker 1: the deadlock between him and Sean, who held all voting

4:23 Speaker 1: rights over so many of the famed rock group's business moves.

4:28 Speaker 1: Given the fifty to fifty voting rights structure, it was proving,

4:31 Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, exceedingly difficult to agree on operational

4:38 Speaker 1: details and to appoint another director, Cain explained in more words. Furthermore,

4:46 Speaker 1: the announcement arrived after Sean last week acknowledged that he

4:49 Speaker 1: and Kin quote don't always see eye to eye on

4:52 Speaker 1: everythings or sometimes on pretty much anything unquote, but the

4:55 Speaker 1: seventy year old also expressed a desire to bring on

4:58 Speaker 1: the third party director and move pat friction on the

5:01 Speaker 1: tour as the tour could proceed, So the tour could

5:04 Speaker 1: proceed running With that point, the fresh statement from Kine's

5:07 Speaker 1: legal team reads, quote, mister Shawn is prohibited from unilaterally

5:11 Speaker 1: acting on behalf of the company. In all future, deadlock

5:13 Speaker 1: between mister Kane and mister Sean will be broken by

5:17 Speaker 1: the vote of the custodian, so just a third party

5:21 Speaker 1: to be a tiebreaker. Effectively, as scheduled this tour, we'll

5:25 Speaker 1: see Journey perform in San Diego tonight, play four more

5:28 Speaker 1: state side shows through September eighth, head to Brazil and

5:31 Speaker 1: Chile later that same month, and then entertained fans in

5:35 Speaker 1: Japan while in New October. At present, the group doesn't

5:37 Speaker 1: appear to have rescheduled the previously noted UK dates, which

5:40 Speaker 1: had originally been teed up to begin in October as well. Well, yeah,

5:44 Speaker 1: and that's going to be hard for them to just

5:46 Speaker 1: reschedule those I mean, they're on you know, because it's

5:48 Speaker 1: not just them, they're on this stadium tour with def Leppard.

5:53 Speaker 1: So well, we'll see how long this lasts and how

5:56 Speaker 1: long that the Dayton remains. Yeah,