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\n\tLongtime Journey<\/a> fans got predictably excited when the band co-founder keyboardist Jonathan Cain hinted that he and bandmate guitarist Neal Schon had asked<\/a> original singer Steve Perry to rejoin the group for their 60-show Final Frontier goodbye North American tour<\/a>. \u201cNeal already asked,\u201d Cain told Ultimate Classic Rock<\/a> earlier this week, \u201cand he says [Perry\u2019s] thinking about it. I hope he comes out. It\u2019s never too late. We\u2019ve got 100 shows, so he\u2019s welcome at any one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPerry was the frontman of the band during their most successful years from 1978-1987, during which they scored such iconic hits as the 1982 Billboard Hot 100 No. 2 smash \u201cOpen Arms,\u201d as well as 1981\u2019s No. 4 hit \u201cWho\u2019s Crying Now\u201d and 1983\u2019s No. 8 song \u201cSeparate Ways (Worlds Apart).\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBut after leaving the group in 1987 and then coming back from 1995-1998 and being replaced first by Steve Augeri (1998-2006) and then Jeff Scott Soto (2006-2007) and current vocalist and former Journey cover singer Arnel Pineda (2007-present), it appeared that Perry\u2019s time fronting the group was over. <\/p>\n \n\tAnd now, despite Cain\u2019s claims, it seems like there is not going to be one last run with Perry after all. <\/p>\n