Journey performs at Oracle Park in San Francisco on Aug. 28, 2024. Aaron Lee/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Bay Area rockers Journey brought their summer stadium tour, with co-headlining buddies Def Leppard and fellow locals Steve Miller Band to Oracle Park on Wednesday, even as long-time members Neal Schon and…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — It was halftime at Levi’s Stadium, the score 24–7 in favor of the Detroit Lions, and the mood about as dismal as one could imagine. The stadium rocked to its foundation for the player intros and that was basically the last thing 49ers were able…

Insert Foot rejoices at the return of Live 105 to the Bay Area radio waves. Dave is dead. Thank God. Dave FM was a dick. Dave had no respect for my ears. Dave told bad jokes he didn’t know were bad, and that’s coming from a dad who still…

Insert Foot picks Neal Schon’s side while lamenting the probable end of Journey. Merry Christmas. Journey is dead.  I don’t want to screw up Jesus’ birthday for fans, but Jonathan Cain has attached himself to the flaming orange Hindenburg that is Donald Trump, and Neal Schon – the other…

MC Hammer on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” in Chicago on Aug. 14, 1990. Photo by Paul Natkin/Wire Image. The original plan, before I actually went to Outside Lands last weekend, was to use this weekend’s column to highlight some bands I unexpectedly enjoyed. You know, acts I wasn’t especially…

Journey, “Freedom.” New Journey music will always be worth a listen while Neal Schon is manning guitar. At least until you get to his solo. Freedom Journey BMG, July 8 5/10 After that, you’re on your own in 2022. Buyer beware. Schon will always be the master of an…

Journey performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on March 31, 2022. Sean Liming/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — With more than a hundred years of cumulative shredding between them, guitarists Steve Lukather and Neal Schon brought their legendary bands Toto and Journey to Chase Center Thursday for some frenetic fretwork. The blistering…

Does the world need a Steve Perry Christmas record? Beyond the shadow of any human doubt … no. It doesn’t. The Season Steve Perry Fantasy Records, Nov. 5 5/10 His loyal fans–of which there are many–might think they need Perry’s new holiday record, cleverly titled The Season, which is fine.…

Concertgoers gather at the first drive-in concert in the Bay Area at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., on June 12, 2020. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Several hundred people who had been cooped up in their homes gathered at the Alameda County Fairgrounds on Friday at the first ticketed concert…

We’re doing another set of 10. I didn’t realize this, but the entire ’80s happened in 1981. It’s true! Because basically every song they play on Sirius XM’s 80s on 8 came out in the same year. It’s weird because I thought I was born in 1982 but, nope,…