The implication is that Cohen will likely reel it in, too, or at least that’s how Seacrest seems to have interpreted it, even though Cohen has gone on record saying he intends to “party harder.” The clean-cut host told EW that he likes to stay sober when on the air. “I don’t know [when drinking during the broadcast] started as a tradition, but it’s probably a good idea [to scale back], CNN,” he said, adding, “I think they had something to say about my show at one point, which was I’m sure from the alcohol because I don’t think they would say what they said about our performers if they weren’t drinking. But, you know, I think our show’s a bigger, broader show and we will not drink until 1:05 in the morning.”
This is a specific call back to last year, when Cohen ranted about the guests on the ABC show, heckling “Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers!” while the legendary band Journey belted out a live version of the arena rock and/or insurance commercial staple “Any Way You Want It.”
Later, Cohen lost it, disrespecting vocalist Arnel Pineda, suggesting that any Journey lineup without Steve Perry was a fraud.
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Cohen texted an apology to Seacrest, according to an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He called the incident “an offhanded comment about nothing that really had to do with him. It was about Journey. I was really going after the current iteration of Journey. Because I’m a big Steve Perry fan.”
But anyone still miffed about the journey to the current position has a little bit of a point: In reality, Steve Perry was not even one of the founding members of Journey. The group began, believe it or not, as a supergroup spin-off from the band Santana, formed in 1973 by guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Gregg Rollie. Also in the mix were bassist Ross Valory, previously of the Steve Miller Band, and Aynsley Dunbar, a ubiquitous force in psychedelic and prog rock, who worked with John Mayall, Jeff Beck, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, and his own groups, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation and Blue Whale (that second one absolutely ruled, by the way.) Steve Perry, who is great, don’t get us wrong, didn’t join the band until the fourth Journey record, man! Personnel has shifted a lot since 1973, with the mighty Neal Schon consistently shredding the whole way through. Perry quit the group in 1998.
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