Quintessential stadium-rock band Journey is extending its Final Frontier Tour with 40 additional North American dates this fall, including a stop at San Antonio’s Frost Bank Center on Saturday, Oct. 10.
General tickets go on sale Friday, May 15 at 10 a.m. through the Frost Bank Center website. Presale tickets are available by signing up for the Frost Bank Center’s All Access Newsletter and selecting the “Rock” genre.
The band, formed by former members of Santana and Steve Miller band, dominated the ’70s and ’80s with a barrage of hits, including “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Any Way You Want It,” “Faithfully” and “Lights.”
Originally a prog-rock band, Journey became known — and sometimes derided — as a purveyor of accessible and commercial pop music. As the band’s golden era with vocalist Steve Perry progressed, it increasingly became known as a somewhat-schmaltzy ballad machine thanks to tracks such as the wildly popular slow-dance special “Open Arms.”
The band’s anthemic “Don’t Stop Believin’” continues to be a tour de force to this very day, certified 18 times platinum. In 2024, it become the highest-selling digital track of all time.
While frontman Perry is no longer in lineup —he hasn’t toured with the band since 1987 — Journey is still led by founder and guitarist Neal Schon. He’s joined by Arnel Pineda (lead vocals), Deen Castronovo (drums, vocals), Jason Derlatka (keyboards, vocals) and Todd Jensen (bass, vocals).
Former keyboardist Jonathan Cain is conspicuously missing from the extended tour’s roster, with Derlatka as his replacement. Outside of the band, Cain is contemporary Christian artist and is married to a televangelist who serves as a senior adviser to Donald Trump’s White House Faith Office.
Cain’s departure follows years of well-documented personal and legal tensions he experienced with Schon.
And that’s not the only behind-the-scenes drama.
Pineda, who’s been with the band since 2007, told Rolling Stone he tried to get out of his contractual obligation to join Journey for the reunion tour — twice — due to “intense personal problems,” including a messy divorce and domestic violence allegations faced in his native Philippines.
“I said to them I wanted to retire because of my personal problems. No answer. Obviously, they don’t want to find another singer,” Pineda told Rolling Stone.
Nonetheless, Schon reminded him of his contractual obligations, so they haven’t yet gone their, erm, separate ways.
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