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  • Doobie Brothers, Journey Announce 2016 Tour

    The Doobie Brothers and Journey are heading out on tour together in 2016. The bands announced the upcoming tour on Tuesday, with tickets going on sale starting December 5th.

    Launching the San Francisco Fest 2016 Tour on May 12, the Doobie Brothers and Journey are two of the iconic groups that defined the San Francisco sound. Special guest Dave Mason will tour with the bands.

    The Doobie Brothers have been around since the 1970s, with classic hits including “Black Water,” “What A Fool Believes,” “Jesus is Just All Right,” “Minute by Minute,” “Takin’ It to the Streets,” “China Grove,” and more.

    Journey made its big debut in the 1980s, with hit songs including “Faithfully,” “Open Arms,” “Lights,” “Who’s Cryin’ Now,” “Separate Ways,” and more. Original lead singer Steve Perry left the band after several years, and in 2007 Neal Schon discovered Arnel Pineda. He has been the lead singer ever since, and his voice bears an uncanny similarity to Perry’s.

    The Doobie Brothers and Journey will travel all across the country, with concerts in California and even Bangor, Maine–as well as many venues in between. Check out the full list of concert venues and dates and buy tickets early.

    LiveNation.com will sell tickets to the Doobie Brothers and Journey tour. Those with the Live Nation mobile app will get access to a free password on December 3rd at 10 a.m. Tickets for everyone else go on sale two days later–December 5th–at 10 a.m.

    Will you be checking out the Doobie Brothers and Journey when they come to a city near you?

  • Steve Perry May Be Rejoining Journey

    Steve Perry May Be Rejoining Journey

    The 80s band Journey have always told their fans,”Don’t Stop Believing,” so it’s possible that people kept their hopes up that front man Steve Perry would rejoin the group one day.

    Well, there’s a good chance that may happen, because Perry said that he and some band mates have been talking about bringing the original lineup back together.

    So far the lead singer has been speaking to Neal Schon, who co-founded the band, but he says it’s still difficult to get everyone on the same page professionally and creatively.

    “It was challenging, because Neal Schon is a goldmine of potential ideas and he doesn’t know really, which are the best or not, cause they’re all interesting to him.” said Perry. “But in come my set of ears and he’d play stuff and I’d hear melodies, I’d say ‘Wait, what was that?,’ and [his response would be] ‘Oh, I don’t know, it’s just a diddle-a doh over this with a fifth.’”

    “I’d say ‘I don’t care what you call it, what was that?’ ‘I don’t know, it’s just an idea I came up with last night.’ I’d say, ‘Well, why don’t you keep playing that for a second while I come up with a melody?’”

    And that folks is what’s been keeping Perry from rejoining the band since he left for a second time in 1998. The first time was in 1987.

    Typically when a band breaks up or somebody leaves, creative differences are just one of the reasons, and there’s usually a bunch of other problems to deal with, like the members not liking each other, or one of the people in the band develops a drug problem or something–so it may surprise some to hear the only issue for Journey is not being able to agree on a song concept or a particular melody.

    Hopefully Perry and Schon will be able to creatively coexist, at least for the sake of Journey’s fans, because there’s tons of people who still want to see the original lineup back together.

    Plus, there’s no one who hits the same notes as Perry, so his absence in the group has always been heavily felt, and that’s certainly no disrespect to his replacements Steve Augeri or Arnel Pindea.

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  • Zayn Malik: One Direction Mate Beseeching Journey

    Zayn Malik, member of the popular British boy band One Direction, is beseeching the 1980s band Journey to reunite and play at the reception for his wedding to Little Mix Singer Perrie Edwards. The young couple became officially engaged a few months back and they plan to tie the knot some time in 2014. Zayn wants Journey to play their mega-hit Don’t Stop Believin’ as Perrie Edwards walks down the aisle.

    Getting Journey to reunite would be no small feat. Original lead singer Steve Perry (he really was Journey, after all) has refused every offer made to him over the past 17 years to get back together with the rest of the band.

    Zayn Malik has incredible contacts and clout in the music world so don’t discount this notion until the 1D singer officially throws in the towel. Maybe it won’t come to that?

    “I know my missus wants the lead singer from Journey. We’ll see what we can do about that,” he was quoted as saying a while back.

    You really can’t blame Zayn and Perrie for wanting Journey in its original state to perform this amazing song.

    Since 2007, Journey has been touring off and on with lead singer Arnel Pineda. Original Journey member Neal Schon found YouTube videos of Pineda singing covers of Journey songs and they auditioned him for the lead spot. He bears a striking voice resemblance to Steve Perry and has even collaborated with the band writing new music. It’s not likely Zayn Malik will settle for him, however. He definitely wants the original band.

    It will certainly be interesting to see exactly how much pull Zayn Malik has. Can he draw Steve Perry out of hiding and get him to reunite with Journey? And if that works out, could it even remotely mean a future for him with the band?

    That’s likely pushing it–a lot. But good luck to Zayn Malik. Perrie Edwards should be incredibly pleased with the effort her future husband is putting into this plan, even if it doesn’t work out.

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