In what continues to be a lively year for AOR giants , Neal Schon and Deen Castronovo have both gone on the offensive after singer Arnel Pineda's performance during the band's recent Rock In Rio show in Brazil was criticised online. Reacting to a video which appeared to show the singer struggling during the band's set-closing classic , a dismayed Pineda offered fans the opportunity to , before receiving public votes of confidence from several fellow musicians including former guitarist Adrian Vandenberg and frontman Michael Sweet. Now guitarist Schon and drummer Castronovo have both stepped up to support their frontman.
Posting a video shot at the Rio show, Schon wrote, "All this absolute garbage fabricated bullshit about Arnel Pineda. Does this look like nobody had a good time? I’m asking you. All fabricated, owed and bought blogs, bullshit.
" Schon then shared a second video, and appeared to lay the blame for any sound problems squarely at Rock In Rio headliners . "This clip is from Rio, even though we found out much later that we got extremely limited by Avenged Sevenfold. That means that hardly any sound can get out of the PA to the audience," wrote Schon.
"It's a bullshit move. Check out the audience. They loved it.
The rest of its fabricated crap." Asked by a fan why Avenged Sevenfold were picked to headline the event over Journey, Schon responded with a single word: "Politics." Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to.