Journey goes their separate methods as they announce a 2026 farewell tour.
Journey’s Neal Schon
The rockers will probably be saying to their legion of followers in 60 cities throughout North America and Canada from February 28 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, to July 2, in Laredo, Texas – the primary leg of their Ultimate Frontier Tour.
Nonetheless, Journey’s founding member and guitarist Neil Schon, 71, has vowed to proceed making music.
He stated in an announcement: “This tour is our heartfelt thanks to the followers who’ve been with us each step of the best way – by way of each track, each period, each excessive and low.
“We’re pulling out all of the stops with a brand-new manufacturing – the hits, the deep cuts, the vitality, the spectacle. It’s a full-circle celebration of the music that’s introduced us all collectively.
“As its founding member, I carry the Journey torch to at the present time, wherever I am going. The sentiment and spirit of the band will all the time stay.
“Whereas this marks a farewell to at least one highly effective chapter of the Journey we’ve shared, I would like everybody to know I’m not accomplished. Music remains to be burning sturdy inside me, and there are new artistic horizons forward.
“This tour is each a thanks and the start of what’s subsequent.”
The band’s present line-up additionally consists of singer Arnel Pineda, 58, drummer Deen Castronovo, 61, bassist Todd Jensen, 65, and keyboard gamers Jonathan Cain, 75, and Jason Derlatka.
Journey was shaped in 1973, and so they went on to promote over 100 million data globally, making them one of many world’s best-selling bands.
And the Do not Cease Believin’ hitmakers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 2017, together with former singer, 76 12 months previous Steve Perry – who’s reportedly not concerned within the tour – Neal, Jonathan, keyboardist Gregg Rolie, 78, bassist Ross Valory, 76, and drummers Aynsley Dunbar, 79, and 71 12 months previous Steve Smith.
And Jonathan – who joined Journey in 1980 – stated being part of the group has been an “unimaginable” expertise.
He stated within the assertion: “It’s been an unimaginable journey. We’ve shared our music with hundreds of thousands, and this tour is about gratitude, connection and one final likelihood to really feel that magic collectively. We wouldn’t need it every other method.”
