Journey’s Jonathan Cain isn’t going anywhere.
Shortly after bandmate Neal Schon, 71, claimed that Cain, 75, “announced his farewell” in a social media post, a spokesperson told PEOPLE that Cain will remain in the band for the foreseeable future.
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“Jonathan Cain remains an active member of Journey, and any reports suggesting otherwise are inaccurate,” the spokesperson said in a statement on Friday, Oct. 10. “He is fully dedicated to touring with the band over the next couple of years and has only expressed plans to retire at a later time.”
In the early morning hours, Schon — who is the sole remaining co-founding member of the band — had shared a post on X that began “Jonathan Cain announced his farewell to Journey tonight.”
Schon continued, “I’m nowhere near done ! Journey has so much more life ahead ! I’m sure we will have a great tour !” He added that Cain, the band’s keyboardist, wanted to focus “on his ministry.” (Cain has also pursued faith and worship music projects for the last nine years.)
Schon later responded to the post and clarified that “Jon is playing. He’s saying at the end of 26-27 he will move on. We will have a great couple of years.”
Earlier this month, Schon confirmed that Journey was planning a massive tour for 2026.
“[There’s] tons of stuff coming. We have about 120 shows [booked] and we’ll probably add to them,” Schon shared during an interview with Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation. ” Half of [them will be] in ’26 and the other half in ’27.”
He continued, “It’s going to be a very different show, and it’s going to entail many of our albums,” he continued. “I won’t go all of the way back to the very, very beginning. But I’d say from ’78 on, we’re going to dig deep — and the sets are going to be much longer.”
In 2024, Journey embarked on a co-headlining stadium tour with Def Leppard. Before that, they played their Freedom Tour, which celebrated their 50th anniversary as a band and the release of 2022’s Freedom.
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This time around, the band wants to go in a different direction.
“I think that our fans are really going to dig what we’re putting together for them in ’26 and, you know, things change,” Schon told Trunk.
“You know, Bryan Adams is someone I’ve been talking to for quite some time. We go way back into the ’80s, when his first album came out and we toured with him. I think he’d be tremendous for us to do a stadium [tour] with. Whether or not we get there in ’27 it’ll happen eventually. It’s kind of inevitable. I think that both of us, together with maybe one more act, would be [really great].”
As of now, the band is scheduled to play Stagecoach Music Festival next April.
