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Getting ready for the concert tonight. Had to drive down from phoenix to see them. Why they didn't play the cricket wireless in Phoenix and add Night Ranger or Heart who knows. They probably would have sold out. Has anyone been to the AVA center where the concert tonight is being held? Is it ok, good or shitty? Thanks

chrisj1970 wrote:Getting ready for the concert tonight. Had to drive down from phoenix to see them. Why they didn't play the cricket wireless in Phoenix and add Night Ranger or Heart who knows. They probably would have sold out. Has anyone been to the AVA center where the concert tonight is being held? Is it ok, good or shitty? Thanks

Shitty.

I was there in 2006. Had to hop the fuckin wall by the women's shitter. Lost my ticket and was determined. Made it in.

Lots of University of Arizona hot assed trim there. keep your eyes peeled for sun tanned clam! I was bonered all show long. Look like a professional Jouster.

How far away is the casino? I will be watching for sun tanned trim while I am there. Joust away.

chrisj1970 wrote:How far away is the casino? I will be watching for sun tanned trim while I am there. Joust away.

I was hard before I saw them dude...You should be feeling wooded up any time now. There is an awful lot of clam there to be had.

AZ Night Buzz.com

JOURNEY'S IN TOWN SUNDAY

Returning To Rock
By Coley Ward
CWARD@AZSTARNET.COM
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.30.2009


http://www.aznightbuzz.com/stories/302630.php

Journey returns to town Sunday for the first time since last July. And lead guitarist Neal Schon is hoping that this time the show will be a little less wet.

"Last time we played in Tucson we had to stop playing," he says. "I was in the middle of an instrumental guitar solo and lightning was going all around and it would have looked wicked if they were filming it. But it started pouring and we had to stop."

Schon, 55, was born on an Air Force Base near Oklahoma City but grew up in San Francisco. He picked up his first instrument around the age of 5. As a child, he practiced oboe, keys and guitar, and when he was15, shortly after Woodstock, Carlos Santana asked him to join his band.

In 1973, Schon formed Journey with fellow Santana castoff Gregg Rolie and Santana manager Herbie Herbert.

Despite a rotating cast of band members, including at least five lead singers, the band's classic power ballads like "Don't Stop Believin' " and "Any Way You Want It" endure.

Journey's latest album, "Revelation," debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard charts in June 2008, selling more than 196,000 units in its first two weeks and staying in the top 20 for six weeks. Critics embraced "Revelation," and the New York Times said "the band seems to have taken rock vitamins: It feels alive."

Last summer's tour with Heart and Cheap Trick was one of the top-grossing concert tours of the year, bringing in more than $35 million. It was also fans' first chance to see new Journey singer Arnel Pineda in action.

Schon recently answered some questions over the phone:

When you performed in Tucson last summer, did you ever get to finish your set?
"We took a break and then came back out. We managed to get through three more songs before it got bad again. We had a little bit of roof on top, but the rain was coming in the front of the stage and it was heavy rain. The crowd was soaked. Some bands will cancel no matter what if they see something like that. I think it's not cool when the audience is sitting there. I think you've got to play unless it gets uncontrollable and dangerous, which it did. Then you have to stop."

Do you run into a lot of bad weather on the road?

"We played outside of Minneapolis with Sheryl Crow. We went on at 11 p.m. and we were all frozen when we got offstage. We got off and my fingers were purple. I got on the bus and a couple of my kids said, 'Dad, you're purple.' "

Is it harder to play in the heat or in the cold?

"Another guitar player who's a friend of mine, his name's Doug, he said to me, 'How can you play in this cold weather?' But it really didn't affect me. What really affects me is the heat, when it's super hot outside and you're sweating so much that your strings get rusted four songs in. You feel a bit clumsy and you don't play as smoothly as you can play. With the cold you feel it later. You wake up and your fingers are stiff and you need to stretch them out."

The Caliente cover story next week is about karaoke. Do you ever sing karaoke?

"No. I tried singing a couple of times in my career with a couple of solo records. But, you know, when you work with really great singers, you stick to the guitar."

What do you think of all the Journey cover bands that there are out there?

"I think we have more cover bands of us right now than any other band. There was one band in particular where the guy looks exactly like our former singer Steve Perry and was fooling people a little bit. They were using the name Journey in big print and in small print it says 'a tribute to.' That gets to be a bit much."

Have you ever thought about taking legal action?

"No. I think it's the highest form of flattery. But they should move on to another band. There's already too many bands that cover us."

Your hair is legendary, but lately it's been a little short. Any plans to resurrect the big hair?

"I'm leaving that to my son. Miles Schon is going to be 21 in August and he's playing the s--- out of the guitar. He's got the 'fro right now. He's taking over the 'fro throne."

Is he in a band?

"The Miles Schon Band. That's what he does. He could have been a pro ballplayer. He was an excellent baseball player. He was a shortstop/second baseman. But with kids, you let them do what they want."

Are you planning on releasing a new album anytime soon?

"We're supposed to go in the studio in October and November. We're definitely writing a rock record. It's not going to be heavy metal, but up-tempo. "

Why the impulse to rock a little harder?

"We want to write some tempos that we don't have in songs that we're already playing. We just did a month in Europe with us doing some festivals over there. We played with Whitesnake and Def Leppard, and guested with Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. We just roughened up our set and did very well over there."

Your new singer, Arnel Pineda, is from the Philippines. How did you find him?

"I found him on YouTube. I was looking for a singer and dreading the whole auditioning ordeal, which involves listening to CDs and flying guys in and checking out singers that way. It would have taken forever. And when you listen to audition CDs you don't know what you're going to get because CDs are doctored. You still don't know what they'll sound like live. When I heard Arnel I thought, if somebody sounds good through a stereo condenser mike, then they'll sound even better live."

LLL wrote:Your hair is legendary, but lately it's been a little short. Any plans to resurrect the big hair?

"I'm leaving that to my son. Miles Schon is going to be 21 in August and he's playing the s--- out of the guitar. He's got the 'fro right now. He's taking over the 'fro throne."


Oh Jana.....

I thought that was funny. You know he reads that stuff here.

LLL wrote:Your hair is legendary, but lately it's been a little short. Any plans to resurrect the big hair?

"I'm leaving that to my son. Miles Schon is going to be 21 in August and he's playing the s--- out of the guitar. He's got the 'fro right now. He's taking over the 'fro throne."


Oh Jana.....

Damn, I wish I was 21. Gotta love the ringlets on a guitar-playing man.

Don't let Jason see a photo of Miles with his fro and bandana from Frank's party last year. He will fall in love.

Good interview. Neal must be happy not to have to answer the same old questions about the popularity of Don't Stop Believin'. But I'll believe the "new rock record" when I hear it. Cain's gotta have his stamp over it, so I think it will be similar to Revelation. Solid album, but not the "rock record" they were touting before recording it.

As posted by FABBEST at the arnelpinedarocks.com:

isla wrote:As posted by FABBEST at the arnelpinedarocks.com:

Pretty fucking cool what this almost once dead band is doing lately! Thanks Steve Augeri, for keeping Journey alive past Steve Perry. Thanks Arnel, for keeping it going! It's lots of fun and you guys sound awsome!

spare us this Twitter shit...

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

Spare us the spare us the twitter shit...

Hi Tom, how ya doin?

Pretty fucking cool what this almost once dead band is doing lately! Thanks Steve Augeri, for keeping Journey alive past Steve Perry. Thanks Arnel, for keeping it going! It's lots of fun and you guys sound awsome!

Oh, boy. What happened to JSS?!

isla wrote:

Pretty fucking cool what this almost once dead band is doing lately! Thanks Steve Augeri, for keeping Journey alive past Steve Perry. Thanks Arnel, for keeping it going! It's lots of fun and you guys sound awsome!

Oh, boy. What happened to JSS?!

He got fucked without the orgasm. But as Bruce Hornsby sang.....that's just the way it is. But, you know, as honorable a person as JSS is, it was better to end it early, as he was not the one for Journey. JSS does fine in his own genre of music....an extremely talented man.

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

Just ignore it, MT, as if it isn't there. Peace, bruddah!

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

OK, Tom, I reposted my post without "this twitter shit" if only to redeem myself from offending you.

I'm an AP guy from day ONE...Tweets don't validate anything we don't already know...

isla wrote:

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

OK, Tom, I reposted my post without "this twitter shit" if only to redeem myself from offending you.

Why would you worry about Tom, or anyone around here. Fuck em...infact, Fuck em in the Ass! We are not a bunch of pussies to be governed by anyone. Got that? If you have to bow to anyone around here, you are a lousy fucking excuse for a humanoid...an embarrasment here. Fucking quit apologizing, quit crying and go blow your nose, or your brains out, then come back and play like a big person. Good Gawd!

steveo777 wrote:

isla wrote:

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

OK, Tom, I reposted my post without "this twitter shit" if only to redeem myself from offending you.

Why would you worry about Tom, or anyone around here. Fuck em...infact, Fuck em in the Ass! We are not a bunch of pussies to be governed by anyone. Got that? If you have to bow to anyone around here, you are a lousy fucking excuse for a humanoid...an embarrasment here. Fucking quit apologizing, quit crying and go blow your nose, or your brains out, then come back and play like a big person. Good Gawd!

fucking lame post...

Im confused.

Maui Tom wrote:

steveo777 wrote:

isla wrote:

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

OK, Tom, I reposted my post without "this twitter shit" if only to redeem myself from offending you.

Why would you worry about Tom, or anyone around here. Fuck em...infact, Fuck em in the Ass! We are not a bunch of pussies to be governed by anyone. Got that? If you have to bow to anyone around here, you are a lousy fucking excuse for a humanoid...an embarrasment here. Fucking quit apologizing, quit crying and go blow your nose, or your brains out, then come back and play like a big person. Good Gawd!

fucking lame post...

Kinda was, wasn't it. I'll work on that.

steveo777 wrote:

Maui Tom wrote:

steveo777 wrote:

isla wrote:

Maui Tom wrote:spare us this Twitter shit...

OK, Tom, I reposted my post without "this twitter shit" if only to redeem myself from offending you.

Why would you worry about Tom, or anyone around here. Fuck em...infact, Fuck em in the Ass! We are not a bunch of pussies to be governed by anyone. Got that? If you have to bow to anyone around here, you are a lousy fucking excuse for a humanoid...an embarrasment here. Fucking quit apologizing, quit crying and go blow your nose, or your brains out, then come back and play like a big person. Good Gawd!

fucking lame post...

Kinda was, wasn't it. I'll work on that.

It's all good....

Steveo, have you thought about a xanax and drink b/f late night posting? Just a suggestion. It's pretty bad when you're calling out one of the few longtime Journey/AP active posters on this board like Maui Tom.

Jana wrote:Steveo, have you thought about a xanax and drink b/f late night posting? Just a suggestion. It's pretty bad when you're calling out one of the few longtime Journey/AP active posters on this board like Maui Tom.

Jana, have you thought that maybe I already had the xanax and drink, hence my late night POSING? Just a thought, my dear, just a thought. Now kindly fuck off! I will not take any shit from anyone around here, not even ewe.

Jeremey wrote:Im confused.

+1

Blog from Neal:

Tucson, AZ.
Monday, August 3, 2009 - 12:55 am - neal_schon
Nice, long stretched out show tonight, always love it when there's not a strict curfew . You guys were awesome!!!
Thanks, gotta get up in 6 hours for a long travel day so going zzzzzzzzzz

Neal

Courtesy of "vilandra21":

DSB and AWYWI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKf3MTBEhVo

Neal's update from Tucson


"Tucson, AZ.
Monday, August 3, 2009 - 12:55 am - neal_schon
Nice long stretched out show tonight alway love it when there's not a strict curfew . You guys were awesome!!!
Thanks , gotta get up in 6 hours for a long travel day so going zzzzzzzzzz

Neall"

Tucson to Bossier City, LA. That's going to be one long ride if the band goes by bus.

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