Journey prepares for the last leg of what could be rockers' final tour together
- Journey is set to kick off the last leg of their farewell tour in September in Los Angeles.
- The tour will conclude in November with an emotional homecoming show in San Francisco.
- The band will perform over 100 concerts this year, featuring both hits and deep cuts from their albums.
- Neal Schon expressed excitement about the tour and the opportunity to showcase the band's musical diversity.
NEW YORK (AP) — The long, riding road once more beckons for the members of iconic rock band Journey. Is it the band’s final journey together? The last leg of what is being billed as their farewell tour kicks off in September in Los Angeles and what likely will be an emotional homecoming is at the end of it — in San Francisco in November.
The band has plenty of dates before that finale, with stops in Phoenix, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Cleveland, Denver and Las Vegas, among others. The tour’s last show in San Francisco will cap more than 100 concerts this year, and the band frequently plays for more than two hours, adding deep cuts — like the spacy, melodic “Of a Lifetime” from the early ‘70s and songs from the album “Raised on Radio” from the ’80s — to the reliable hits, like “Faithfully.”
“I’m loving it because it’s the type of show I’ve been wanting to do with Journey,” says Schon, who is frustrated when the band is lumped in with other ‘80s bands like REO Speedwagon, Styx or Foreigner. “I always felt like even though all those bands have contributed something that a lot of people like, we were much different. I thought musically we could go any place that we wanted to. And so now we’re doing that, finally.”
旅程乐队准备进行可能是他们最后的巡演的最后一段
纽约（美联社）——传奇摇滚乐队旅程的成员们再次踏上漫长的旅程。这是乐队的最后一次旅程吗？被称为告别巡演的最后一段将于九月在洛杉矶开始，而这一切的情感回归将在十一月的旧金山结束。
在这一最终演出之前，乐队还有许多演出安排，包括在凤凰城、西雅图、芝加哥、亚特兰大、纳什维尔、巴尔的摩、费城、底特律、波士顿、克利夫兰、丹佛和拉斯维加斯等地。巡演在旧金山的最后一场演出将结束今年超过100场的演出，乐队经常演出超过两个小时，演出曲目包括冷门曲目——如70年代早期的“Of a Lifetime”和80年代专辑“Raised on Radio”中的歌曲——以及经典热门曲目，如“Faithfully”。
“我很喜欢这次演出，因为这是我一直想和旅程乐队一起做的类型，”肖恩说，他对乐队被与其他80年代乐队如REO Speedwagon、Styx或Foreigner混为一谈感到沮丧。“我一直觉得，尽管所有这些乐队都为很多人贡献了喜欢的东西，但我们是非常不同的。我认为在音乐上，我们可以去任何我们想去的地方。所以现在我们终于在这样做。”