Neal Schon knows that fans would love to see Steve Perry sing with Journey . But as he's said time and time again, it's a door -- even from a friendship standpoint -- which seems to be permanently closed.

In a 2012 interview with UCR, the guitarist and cofounder noted, "We didn't kick him out -- he walked." But he lamented the lack of contact with his former bandmate, who departed the group for the final time in 1998 .

"I hope that someday, that we can get to the point to where I can pick up the telephone and I can talk to him without talking through management and attorneys," he said then. "I still don’t quite realize why we can’t just talk one on one, for whatever reason, just to say hello. Not to pressure anybody to do anything or anything like that - it wouldn’t be like tha

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