“I don’t know if I’d call them guitar heroes, but there are players with amazing dexterity that can pretty much play anything – and quicker than the human ear could possibly hear!”: Journey’s Neal Schon says that “classic guitar records” still matter

Neal Schon.

As the last remaining founder member of legendary rock band Journey, Neal Schon is revered as a guitar hero. But does he ever feel like he’s one of the last of a dying breed?

Schon addressed that question in 2012 when he delivered The Calling, a solo album filled entirely with instrumental guitar music.