Jonathan Cain is discussing Steve Perry’s departure from Journey.
In a new interview, the guitarist/keyboardist explained, “I think the biggest shock for me was Steve Perry retiring. I had to scratch my head when that happened, when he just said, ‘I’ve had enough. I’m burned out. I don’t want to go on.’ I would’ve never bet in a million years that I would hear that from him. That was the biggest shocker. He was willing to just let it all go.”
Cain remembered, “He had the most fun I think he’s ever had on the Raised on Radio tour in ’87. That was the last tour. He really had fun. I mean, it’s the first time he didn’t have [girlfriend] Sherrie [Swafford] telling him he was lousy and all the stuff she did. She was a piece of work, but he was free.”
Before that tour, Perry had reportedly been traveling separately on tour with Swafford.
