Arnel Pineda with JOURNEY / San Diego, CA. Concert PIX 7/15/08

[The10thBEE]

Arnel Pineda with "JOURNEY" ROCKS San Diego, California!!!

[The10thBEE]

327 views and no replies....What's up with the yellow pants? I think Arnel needs to stay with black pants para rocker talaga ang dating niya. Anyway, the concert was really great and he even said, quote " I love you mga Kababayan!". It was really a great night...dahil sa dami ng mga pilipino na nanood ng concert.

[Gerbo]

Yes...there is an article on him and the Journey on the current issue of Time magazine.

As a native born Filipino, he trailblazed himself to glory. He has the support of Fil-Ams who attend the concerts in multitudes.

Anyway, it makes you wonder about his acceptability in the mainstream American market because Journey is seen as an All-American band. Well, just imagine the Eagles with a Taiwanese frontman or the Australian band INXS with a Malaysian lead singer? Kind of weird di ba?

Hopefully he would survive the odds. As they say, the height of success is dictated against the winds of adversity. Wish him the best!

[CVT]

My friend who lives in Northern CA bought 4 tickets to his concert there because of these encouraging reviews.... Ang galing talaga ng Pinoy!....

6404:pump:

[bmdabalyu]

327 views and no replies....What's up with the yellow pants? I think Arnel needs to stay with black pants para rocker talaga ang dating niya. Anyway, the concert was really great and he even said, quote " I love you mga Kababayan!". It was really a great night...dahil sa dami ng mga pilipino na nanood ng concert.

obviously no journey fans on this board. probably most of them have never heard of journey before, assuming most posters were born in the 80's.

[chua_riwap]

Arnel Pineda's Journey coming to Manila........



Inquirer.net
Mar. 1 ,2009

http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/...anes-in-Sunday

Rock band Journey planes in Sunday


MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) For all the Filipino fans of the pop-rock band Journey, one song title captures what they probably feel as its members arrive on Sunday for a concert on March 14: “Don’t Stop Believing.”

The band’s arrival, two weeks prior to its scheduled performance at the SM Mall of Asia open-air concert grounds, is very unusual. Most foreign performers who do shows in Manila normally fly in a day before their gigs, if not on the day itself.

But there’s something very special in Journey’s case.

Renowned worldwide for its string of hit songs known as “power ballads,” the group will be playing with a new lead vocalist who happens to be Pinoy -- the Sampaloc-born Arnel Pineda.

The band, which planes in at 5:40 a.m., will have a press conference on Monday, followed by a closed-door rehearsal at Aliw Theater.

Discovered by Journey’s lead guitarist Neal Schon on the video-sharing website YouTube, Pineda is keenly aware of the significance of this Manila show. He calls it a “homecoming concert,” something that has kept him so “excited” that he “can’t sleep.”

Likewise, this marks Journey’s first-ever concert on Philippine soil since forming in 1973.

In 1977 Journey hired a new lead singer, Steve Perry, whose clean, high tenor finally gave the band a distinct, audience-friendly identity. A year later, its fourth album, “Infinity,” was certified platinum (1 million copies sold) and contained the hit singles “Lights” and “Wheel in the Sky.”

For 10 years, starting in ’84, Journey took an extended sabbatical as Perry and Schon pursued solo projects. A reunion in ’95 ended two years later when Perry broke his hip while hiking in Hawaii.

When Perry refused to undergo hip replacement surgery, the band decided to go on and look for another singer.

Journey remained active as a touring band but was rather unlucky with its vocalists. In ’98 it hired Steve Augeri, who was eventually replaced by Jeff Scott Soto in 2006. But it took only one year for Soto himself to exit.

Public interest in the band was renewed when one of its songs, “Don’t Stop Believing,” was used as the soundtrack in the final scene of the long-running TV mob series “The Sopranos.”

With another tour coming up and without a vocalist, Schon as bandleader became desperate -- until his girlfriend reportedly told him about chancing upon a guy singing Journey songs on YouTube, which turned out to be Pineda.

2008 was a big comeback year for Journey. With a new lead vocalist, the band released “Revelation,” a double CD containing 22 tracks, 11 of which are new compositions, while the rest are greatest hits. On the same year the album turned platinum.

What’s special about it? Pineda sings in all of the songs.

[gonzo]

obviously no journey fans on this board. probably most of them have never heard of journey before, assuming most posters were born in the 80's.

Most must havent heard of Arnel Pineda too, not before he made it big in Journey.

I travelled with college barkada back in 80s to Olongapo to watch arnel play amu band.