Arnel Pineda Offers to Leave Journey if Enough Fans Say ‘Go’

Next being criticized on-line for his efficiency all through Journey‘s contemporary look at Rock in Rio, govern singer Arnel Pineda says he’ll abandon the band if plethora enthusiasts vote “go” on his Fb web page.

Exit carried out at the yearly Brazilian pageant endmost Sunday (Sept. 15), and video of Pineda suffering to crash the fitting notes was once circulated on-line. “No one more than me in this world feels so devastated about this,” the singer posted on Facebook. “It’s really amazing how [a] thousand right things you have donewillbe forgotten just cause of THIS… and of all the place[s] , it’s Rock in Rio. Mentally and emotionally, I’ve suffered already, and I’m still suffering.”

Next thanking the entire enthusiasts that experience attended Exit displays this pace, and pronouncing that he feels “immense gratitude, humility and honor” each and every occasion he’s on degree with the gang, Pineda presented to advance away if plethora enthusiasts say that’s what they would like: “So here’s the deal now, I am offering you a chance (especially those who hated me and never liked me from the very beginning) to simply text GO or STAY right here.. and if GO reaches 1 million… I’m stepping out for good.” As of press occasion roughly 2,600 community have commented, and apparently that way more are within the “STAY” camp.

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Pineda has been Exit’s govern singer since 2007, and this isn’t the primary occasion he’s presented to step apart. In 2014, occasion noting that he would “never quit” the band, Pineda declared he would fortuitously bow out if former singer Steve Perry ever sought after to go back: “He can take over too. It’s his righteous place anyway..wanna see them happy together. I’d be more than happy to give way,” he said, including, “As long as they need me, I will be there.”

Within the Rock in Rio video Pineda may also be unhidden suffering together with his in-ear screens. In 2022, drummer Deen Castronovo evident that the singer had solved long-running vocal issues by means of running with a vocal coachm and as the band became i’m sick their onstage quantity.

“To think that he’s been struggling with this for 14 years, he said. I had no idea. I think it was something that he didn’t know if he had the liberty to say, ‘Hey, I need to fix this’ or ‘You guys need to try something different here,’ either get a new soundman or whatever,” Castronovo defined. “But once we got this guy, Tom, everything changed. He’s a different guy. [Pineda’s] a different guy. Oh, my God, it blew us away. I think it’s been 15 shows since that [change] , and every night, he sounds amazing.“