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...Journey found Pineda is a Cinderella tale of the Internet era. In the wake of Soto's dismissal last June for unspecified reasons, guitarist Neal Schon turned to the Web in search of talent. After two days of surfing on YouTube, he came upon clips of Pineda singing with his band, the Zoo, and nailing all the right notes in a vocal-straining repertoire that included rock anthems by Survivor and Queen as well as Journey's famed power ballads like Faithfully and Don't Stop Believing. "I heard his voice and my eyes got big," says Schon...
...also delighted. "Everyone's talking about it," says Marilyn Deleon, 44, a Filipino-American Journey fan in New York City who helped create animated videos of Pineda and other Journey members and posted them online. At Pineda's first U.S. performance with Journey in Las Vegas in March, Schon estimates Filipino-Americans made up around half of the audience. Many already classify Pineda in the ultimate pantheon of Philippine heroes. "There's [boxer] Manny Pacquiao, [pool player] Efren Reyes and then there's Arnel," says Kookie Luib, a bass player who performed with Pineda during his years in Hong Kong...
...Journey found Pineda is a Cinderella tale of the Internet era. After the band dismissed Soto last June for unspecified reasons, guitarist Neal Schon turned to the Web in search of talent. After two days of surfing on YouTube, he came upon clips of Pineda singing with his band, The Zoo, and nailing all the right notes in the toughest Survivor, Queen and Journey power ballads. "I heard his voice and my eyes got big," says Schon, who has been with Journey since its inception in 1975. "I thought, he can't be that good." Schon left his house, took...
...with Pineda coverage. "Everyone's talking about it," says Marilyn Deleon, 44, a Filipino-American Journey fan in New York City who helped create animated videos of Pineda and other Journey members and posted them online. At Pineda's first U.S. performance with Journey in Las Vegas in March, Schon estimates Filipino Americans made up half of the audience. Some countrymen are already painting Pineda as a kind of national hero. "There's [boxer] Manny Pacquiao, [pool player] Efren Reyes and then there's Arnel," says Kookie Luib, a bass player who performed with Pineda during his years in Hong...
FIRED. JAN HENDRIK SCHON, 32, Bell Laboratories scientist; for allegedly falsifying data in 17 papers that were hailed as breakthroughs in molecular electronics and other fields of physics. Schon admitted he had "made various mistakes" but said he is "convinced" his "[experimental observations] are real...