{"id":30439,"date":"2024-09-25T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/journey-drummer-deen-castronovo-defends-frontman-arnel-pineda\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T00:06:26","slug":"journey-drummer-deen-castronovo-defends-frontman-arnel-pineda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/journey-drummer-deen-castronovo-defends-frontman-arnel-pineda\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey drummer Deen Castronovo defends frontman Arnel Pineda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-24\/Getty_ArnelPineda_092424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Medios y Media\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Journey<\/strong> drummer <strong>Deen Castronovo<\/strong> is sharing his support for the band\u2019s frontman,\u00a0<strong>Arnel Pineda<\/strong>, after Pineda\u00a0received online criticism for his performance at the recent Rock in Rio festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The backlash prompted Pineda to launch a poll asking fans whether he should leave the band, noting he would if enough people wanted him to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Castronovo has now come to Pineda\u2019s defense, sharing on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DeenCastronovoOfficial\/posts\/pfbid0P4wKx98FMZxpLd4rbnMG16tFeCWddaBYKxiKFvzM1Hguk6C8HPfWfncgkVqYkJ1ml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, \u201cArnel has RISEN to the challenge of Journey\u2019s catalog, NIGHT after NIGHT, YEAR after tiring YEAR! He gives to YOU ALL and Journey, the best that he can give you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Noting that \u201cthe voice is a BIOLOGICAL INSTRUMENT\u201d that can be affected by a variety of things,\u00a0Castronovo asks, \u201cwhat\u2019s the point of hammering a human being over something they have no control over??\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI know very few who can pull off what Arnel does without ego and with passion and grace,\u201d he adds, warning, \u201cBACK OFF TROLLS! You are MESSING with MY FAMILY NOW and I am A RABID PROTECTOR OF MY OWN!!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Castronovo is the second member of Journey to stand up for Pineda. Guitarist and founding member <strong>Neal Schon<\/strong> previously called the criticism \u201cabsolute garbage fabricated bulls***,\u201d telling Arnel, \u201cYou\u2019ve kicked a**!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medios y Media\/Getty Images Journey drummer Deen Castronovo is sharing his support for the band\u2019s frontman,\u00a0Arnel Pineda, after Pineda\u00a0received online criticism for his performance at the recent Rock in Rio festival. The backlash prompted Pineda to launch a poll asking fans whether he should leave the band, noting he would<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/journey-drummer-deen-castronovo-defends-frontman-arnel-pineda\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}