{"id":573400,"date":"2026-04-09T07:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573400\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:16:12","slug":"journey-postpones-final-frontier-tour-dates-due-to-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573400\/","title":{"rendered":"Journey postpones \u2018Final Frontier\u2019 tour dates due to illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/entertainment\/article\/journey-final-frontier-tour-21143241.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Journey<\/a> has postponed at least two stops on its \u201cFinal Frontier\u201d farewell tour this week, citing illness within the band\u2019s touring crew, as fresh details about tensions behind the scenes continue to emerge.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco rock band\u2019s Wednesday, April 8, concert at Casey\u2019s Center in Des Moines, Iowa, was postponed because of \u201cillness within the Journey band camp,\u201d according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1410497751119311&amp;set=a.625590996276661\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">announcement from the venue<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New dates for the concerts had not been announced as of Wednesday. Organizers said previously purchased tickets will be honored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe band looks forward to returning to Des Moines to deliver an unforgettable performance for fans as part of their Final Frontier Tour,\u201d the promoter said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The abrupt changes come just days after renewed public attention revealed more turmoil within the veteran band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just kind of planted a little seed,\u201d Cain said. \u201cI was trying to fish a little bit, and say, \u2018Well he\u2019s thinking about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cain added, \u201cHe came immediately out and said, \u2018No, I\u2019m not.\u2019 I kind of did that on purpose, because there\u2019s just so much fake AI stuff going on. You just look at it and go, \u2018Wait a minute, no, that\u2019s not true. None of this is true.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said to them I wanted to retire because of my personal problems,\u201d Pineda told Rolling Stone. \u201cNo answer. Obviously, they don\u2019t want to find another singer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journey guitarist Neal Schon rejected the idea that anyone had forced Pineda to stay on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor clarity, no one was ever prevented by me from making their own personal decisions,\u201d Schon wrote on Facebook on Monday, April 6. \u201cAt the same time, we were all advised by our representatives that there are contractual obligations tied to touring that need to be honored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Journey launched the farewell tour in late February, which is expected to continue into 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Journey has postponed at least two stops on its \u201cFinal Frontier\u201d farewell tour this week, citing illness within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[2224,2356,88,216,5284,78759],"class_list":{"0":"post-573400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-us-and-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}