An attorney for former Journey frontman Steve Perry said he is still trying to figure out who is responsible for falsely promoting a Steve Perry concert at Pipeline Café earlier this month, and he’s also looking into similar claims of a false concert at a nightclub in Pleasantville, NY.

“I’m not trying to cast a disparaging shadow on anybody,” attorney Mark S. Lee of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP in Los Angeles said. “But I am trying to let the world know what happened in Hawai‘i in no way, shape or form had anything to do with Steve Perry.”
A promoter who claimed to have offices in New York, Chicago and Orlando contact Pipeline Cafe owner Greg Azus saying Perry wanted to play a smaller venue because he was coming to Hawai‘i to play a private concert and wanted to get back on stage.
“We were one day from sending our deposit ($2,500) when we sent out the press release announcing the show,” Azus said. “We got a call a few hours later from Perry’s people saying they saw it on one of the newspaper sites and they wanted to know where it came from. They said Steve had no plans to come to Hawai‘i for a private concert.” Lee said the primary concern from Perry is that fans know the former Journey frontman had nothing to do with the faux concerts. Perry also sent out the following release:
"Today I was made aware that there was an attempt to perpetrate a hoax on my most faithful fans.
It has been brought to my attention that there was an announcement of a show that I was supposedly to perform at in Hawaii.
This is absolutely a hoax and should be treated as such.
It has also been brought to my attention that several news sites are reporting that my management had cancelled the supposed performance. There were never any plans for any such performance made by me or anyone authorized by me. This is the first we have heard of this.
I am only posting this out of concern for my faithful fans.
I encourage all news sites to post this statement, with the hope it will clarify the confusion brought about by this hoax.
I simply wanted you to know the truth.
Sincerely,
Steve Perry"
“I think we were fortunate," Azus said. "We didn’t lose any money and hadn’t sold any tickets, so I don’t know what I would gain by filing a police report here about a company in Chicago. I’m sure Steve Perry’s attorneys have more to stand on as far as misrepresentation and legal issues, so right now I just plan on leaving it to them.”