Journey

AEG Live is thrilled to announce JOURNEY with special guest HEART performing live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre Tuesday, July 21, 2009.
Journey is Neal Schon (guitar), Jonathan Cain (keyboards), Ross Valory (bass), Deen Castronovo (drums) and lead singer Arnel Pineda. Pineda had videos of himself performing cover songs by Journey, Survivor, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Air Supply, The Eagles, Kenny Loggins and other popular acts from the 70s, 80s and 90s on YouTube.com in 2007. In June of that year Neal Schon contacted a longtime fan and friend of Pineda who uploaded many of these videos, to ask for Pineda's contact information. Schon sent an e-mail to Pineda inviting him to audition for lead singer of Journey. Pineda initially dismissed the e-mail as a hoax, but after being persuaded, he finally replied to Schon's e-mail. Ten minutes later, Pineda received a phone call from Schon. Pineda, along with his manager, flew to California for a two-day audition. The star-struck Pineda was welcomed warmly but he described the audition as "nerve-wracking, tense". In December 2007 Pineda was announced as the lead singer of Journey. Pineda debuted as the lead singer of Journey on in February 2008 at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival in Viña del Mar, Chile. Journey's first album with Pineda, "Revelation" debuted at No. 5 in the Billboard Top 200 album charts in the week following its release (released June 3, 2008), and remained in the Top 20 for 6 weeks. It was certified gold by RIAA with more than 336,000 units sold within the first few days. It achieved platinum status by October 1, 2008. In an interview soon after Pineda joined the band, Neal Schon said, "We feel reborn. I think there's a lot of chemistry among the five of us." In 2009 Journey embarked on a world tour accompanying the release of "Revelation."