Paul Rogers and Neal Schon doing a Muddy Waters tribute also playing drums: Deen Castronovo, bass: Ricky Phillips. Part 3 of the segment from Talkin' Jazz.

LL ABOUT NEAL SCHON'S GUITARS AND AMPS: (From Guitar Player Magazine, November 2008) During the more orchestral segments of the Journey set, you'll find Neal Schon playing his 18.5"-scale Veillette Gryphon High 12 acoustic-electric. ("That guitar is tuned really high and has lots of unison strings, so it rings beautifully," says Schon's tech, Adam Day). And when it's time to play "Lights" or other Strat-powered Journey classics, a Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster finds its way into Schon's hands. But for the bulk of a Journey concert, Schon's main guitar is a cherry sunburst flametop Gibson Neal Schon Signature Custom Les Paul. And if you think the Floyd Rose locking bridge and nut are the only custom features, look a little closer. The only truly standard features on a Neal Schon Paul are the tuning machines and the Gibson BurstBucker Pro bridge humbucker. The neck heel has been heavily sculpted—almost erased—to grant easy access to the high frets, and the fretboard is angled more parallel with the body than those on standard Les Pauls so that Floyd bridge sits flush. The neck pickup cavity is occupied by a single-coil-sized DiMarzio Fast Track 2 humbucker and a Fernandes Sustainer Driver. The knobs are widely spaced and have been rewired to include a master volume, a push/pull master tone (the pull position activates a Vari-Tone-type circuit that gives Schon wah sounds without a wah pedal), and a master Sustainer volume. The mini-toggle switches behind the tailpiece control the Sustainer settings. And if you take an MRI of Schon's cherry sunburst Paul, you'll discover it has been chambered for weight reduction. "Its taken many years to develop this guitar with Gibson, but it was worth it," says Schon. "It just works." Resonant with lyrical, B.B. King-style vibrato and ornamented with R&B trills, Schon's guitar playing is still very much alive with the simple blues mojo that gained him notice in the Bay Area clubs when he was still in his early teens. Its the delivery medium thats gotten more complex. When Schon's tech, Adam Day, is asked if he can think of a more complex stage rig, he can only cite the Edge's famously elaborate U2 rig. Schon's setup starts a Lectrosonics wireless. ("Neal had been on the wire for a while," says Day, "but when he heard this system, he liked the sound enough to go wireless again.") From the receiver back in his amp racks, Schons signal passes through 45-foot Mogami cables to and from his pedalboard, which includes a Dunlop Buddy Guy Wah, a Boss compressor pedal used mostly for Strat solos, and Xotic AC- and RC-Booster pedals. ("Lectrosonics systems tend to run a little bright, so the extra capacitance created by all that long cable actually serves to balance out the sound a bit.") A TC Electronic G-System controller at Schon's feet handles all MIDI-implemented effects and amp channel changes, an expression pedal controls the overall delay level (the delay time seems to work nicely for most songs when set

Neal's message for the Journey web site . Neal gives a demo of some new things to come.

Recording solo for "Stars" . Proceeds of final song went to charity.

Neal Schon and Steve Perry share lead vocals.