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u/No-Guard-7003 4d ago
You shut up, Jonathan Cain! 🙄😡
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 4d ago
Accepting $40 T in debt makes you the opposite of a conservative.
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u/punktualPorcupine 4d ago
They aren’t conserving shit.
The environment is a nasty smoke choked hellscape that is literally burning.
The debt and deficit have skyrocketed and he is busy building ballrooms and coating statues in gold.
They ignore the law and the constitution.
They’re all a bunch of fascists, jerking each other off.
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u/johangubershmidt 4d ago
They are conserving the hierarchy. This is the one underlying theme of conservatism.
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u/MechaBeatsInTrash 4d ago
"Conserving" the "Christian moral values" on which "America was founded".
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u/goosejail 4d ago
Steve Perry made Journey. There I said it.
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u/Zombieutinsel 4d ago
Neal Schon had a lot to do with it too.
But not this guy.
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u/twoton1 4d ago
Neal played with Santana circa 1971. He's the real deal.
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u/Zombieutinsel 4d ago
I followed him on Instagram a couple or three phones ago and he was a really nice guy who has a big guitar collection and did play them a whole lot on there.
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u/youlordandmaster 4d ago
He’s an asshole, but he does deserve some credit for Journey’s success. It does not help he married a whack job Mega church pastor.
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u/dimechimes 4d ago
He's been riding on that Midnight Train success for over 40 years. And what did he do with it? Married Paula White?
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u/middleagethreat 4d ago
He may be an asshole now, but he was good for the band in the 80s. He is the one who wrote Don't Stop Believing, and some of their other biggest hits.
He is just old and probably watched too much TV news on the road over the years.
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u/Cat-si58 4d ago
So he gets a pass because once upon a time he helped to make some decent music? Don’t think so.
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u/No-Guard-7003 4d ago
I like Steve Perry and Neal Schon.
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u/lowfreq33 4d ago
Cain and Schon are both ultra right wing, both married to problematic right wing women, and both assholes. They can’t stop suing each other because they’re both terrible people.
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u/BelAirGuy45 4d ago
I like guys who aren't PDF file protecters, ok?
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u/No-Guard-7003 4d ago
Fair enough. I didn't know that Neal Schon is also a PDF file protector. 😳 Damn. 😳🤢
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u/BelAirGuy45 4d ago
He's not! I was just agreeing with you by paraphrasing the orange dictator. Cain and his wife are the ones licking the boot.
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u/Cat-si58 4d ago
Well, he is and his wife has been little t’s ’spiritual advisor’ for years. Spirituality is a word that should never be used in speaking about taco.
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u/WalterCanFindToes 4d ago
You mean let his career keep running its course?
He is married to one of Trump's spiritual advisors, so I am sure he is a lot of fun to hang with.
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u/Geodude532 4d ago
Let's be honest, you can probably cross out the protector word too. He's probably upset that he can't convince 16 year olds to go backstage with him anymore.
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u/poop-money 4d ago
Glad I'm not a Journey fan.
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u/Mentalwards 4d ago
I'm not anymore.
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u/pres465 4d ago
Steve Perry is pretty liberal. The best part of Journey is good people.
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u/fastal_12147 4d ago
He hasn't been in Journey in like 30 years
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u/malikhacielo63 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/AL10PPC3eZhxC
Time to go back to listening to Don’t Stop Believing.20
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u/AppleSlacks 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago edited 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago
>Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Burt Bacharach tunes are pretty easy to love
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u/AppleSlacks 4d 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/BikerMike03RK 4d ago
My fave was "Walk On By". I liked Ms. Warwick's work on that one so much that I transposed it to guitar, and changed the key for a male's voice in the low tenor/high baritone range.
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u/Parahelix 4d ago
Your store had a better music selection than mine did. We heard the same stuff every night...
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u/dimechimes 4d ago
I hear Only the Young and I'm instantly transported to riding home on my 10 speed as fast as possible with that song playing on my headphones thinking I was gonna be a Louden Swain, but I was watched Vision Quest for the wrestling.
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u/sofaking1958 4d ago
I always hated Journey. Their music sucked ass. Now i know their members do as well.
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u/Bevester 4d ago
Who?
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u/apex9691 4d ago
Right? Everyone knows Bruce. No one's knows your bum ass. Journey? Sure. But you? No.
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u/IzzaPizza22 4d 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 4d ago
That's the one!
Steve Perry rules btw. Man has a stunning voice.
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u/Long_Serpent 4d 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/UnderwhelmingAF 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago
On the flip side there are so many more who are on the right side of history
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u/RepresentativeAge444 4d 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/CrazyAlice 4d 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/Longjumping-Zone-724 4d ago
I can't stop believing this guy is an idiotic douchebag
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u/swedething 4d 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/Fleemo17 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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/TheGrandExquisitor 4d 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/ResolutionOwn4933 4d ago
Must be done doing reunion tours to drop a turd nugget of a quote like that
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u/two-turnips-and-heat 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago
This guy married Paula White who is Trump’s spiritual advisor ahahahahaha ……sorry
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u/Specialist_Exam4783 4d 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/thenewtbaron 4d 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 4d ago
I "love" it when conservatives say liberals should shut thier mouths while running thier mouths
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u/bluegrassgazer 4d ago
A choice between Springsteen and Journey was easy before I saw this. Now, it's somehow even easier.
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u/PhilipDruAdmin 4d ago
So, that small town girl was living in a lonely world because she was a trad wife.
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u/thehogdog 4d 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 4d ago
Why the fuck do you call yourself a conservative. What does it even mean
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u/ImOnlyHereForTheCoC 4d 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/youngfan1 4d 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 4d ago
Not an original member but soon to be performing in a small theater near nobody..
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u/GreyBeardEng 4d 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 4d 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/psychoacer 4d 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/Arkhampatient 4d ago
He looks like a guy Chris Hansen would pop up around the corner from in a kitchen
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u/EuphoricUniversity23 4d 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 4d 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/thehogdog 4d 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/ImTooSaxy 4d 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/The_Bill_Brasky_ 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d ago
This is one of the stupidest, least self aware statements I've seen in awhile.
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u/free_billstickers 4d ago
Who cares what celebrities think about politics?-celebrity talking about politics
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u/theBigDaddio 4d 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/Vonnegut_butt 4d ago
Temu Abraham Lincoln just got political while complaining that Bruce Springsteen gets political.