{"id":929,"date":"2011-09-25T20:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=929"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:13:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:13:41","slug":"journey-foreigner-night-ranger-woodlands-pavilion-woodlands-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/25\/journey-foreigner-night-ranger-woodlands-pavilion-woodlands-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey \/ Foreigner \/ Night Ranger – Woodlands Pavilion – Woodlands, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by David Clements<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 25, 2011 at 08:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"A sold out audience gathered on a comfortable Sunday evening in late September to hear the music of three rockin\u2019 80\u2019s bands. The music of these bands generated so much excitement and interest that even lawn tickets were being \u2018scalped\u2019 for over $300 each! It surprised me that there was still this much of a following for the opener, Night Ranger, and what now amounts to essentially two cover bands, Foreigner and Journey.<\/p>\n

Night Ranger opened the show with high energy. I was familiar with the San Francisco band\u2019s biggest hit, \u2018Sister Christian\u2019, but little else. They have a great, pure rock and roll sound. Good music and a camera in hand\u2026 what more could I ask for?<\/p>\n

Foreigner was up next. The list of former members of this band is as long as both my arms! Until this past August, this band had only one remaining original member, English guitarist Mick Jones. He has now been sidelined due to illness. Throughout the late 70\u2019s and all through the 80\u2019s, this band had multiple hits. I guess it\u2019s due to this success that this excellent cover band is able to play \u2018Head Games\u2019 with their audience. On their feet, singing along, they remembered their enthusiasm for the music back in the 80\u2019s and convinced themselves this was the real deal. They either didn\u2019t know this was no longer the band they had known and loved, or they simply didn\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Staying on my cover band soapbox, the last band of the evening was the most appalling and perplexing of all. This version of Journey (also originally a San Francisco band) features a kid from the Philippines, Arnel Pineda, mimicking the sound of former front man Steve Perry. Like Foreigner, Journey has held on to one original member, guitarist Neal Schon. Ironically it was Schon who recruited new lead singer Pineda after seeing him singing covers on YouTube! Perry gave Journey its signature sound and now Pineda, half Perry\u2019s age, struts around on the stage daring the audience to doubt his delivery of all their favorite songs. But of course they did not. They cheered and sang and danced under the stars, thinking about their youth and loving it. Long live Rock and Roll, I guess, in whatever form you can get it!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by David Clements Sep 25, 2011 at 08:00 PM A sold out audience gathered on a comfortable Sunday evening in late September to hear the music of three rockin\u2019 80\u2019s bands. The music of these bands generated so much excitement and interest that even lawn tickets were being \u2018scalped\u2019 for over $300 each! It… <\/p>\n

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