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GQ: THE JOURNEY OF ARNEL PINEDA

I wrote back in February about arena rock band Journey's new lead singer, Arnel Pineda who they found off various YouTube videos from Pineda's bands performances in the Phillipines. Well, it looks like GQ picked up on this musical Horatio Alger story for this month's issue.

The members of Journey talk about Pineda like he’s given them their youth back, the way thrice-married men talk about the young wives who’ve got them doing wheatgrass shots and yoga, listening to the Killers. It’s never too late to feel like you’re going to live forever. “I think we’re reborn, right now, with Arnel,” Schon says.

He talks about the band’s first show with Pineda in Chile, how Arnel was all over the stage, jumping around, surprising everyone, and making Schon—who’s playing a cordless guitar for the first time since the ’80s—feel the need to step his game up. “I’m gonna be riding my bicycle a lot, and skating,” he says, “and getting myself in tip-top shape so I can keep up with this little guy.”

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JOURNEY OPENS ARMS TO NEW LEAD SINGER

Remember that movie with Marky Mark and Jennifer Aniston where Marky Mark plays the lead singer of a cover band who by twist of luck and talent becomes the actual lead singer of the very band he covers and idolizes before eventually becoming subsumed by the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll lifestyle?  Yea, me neither. Anyway, Journey found their new lead singer on YouTube.  SO meta.  His name is Arnel Pineda and is the lead singer of a Filipino band called "The Zoo" and in addition to original stuff, they also cover Journey and the Arnel absolutely kills it.

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