St. Paul, Minnesota
Roy Wilkins Auditorium
October 13th, 1998

Andy Sinaberg:

We saw Journey tonight in St. Paul, MN, and it was awesome. The new lead singer Steve Augeri was great, and it was great to see Neal and Jonathan in concert again. The crowd was small but loud, mostly people in their 30's. We especially enjoyed the fact that there was no opening band, so we got to see Journey right away. Well thats my review from MN.

Mike Ewing:

Saw the show in St. Paul last night. First of all there is only 1 Steve Perry, however if the group ever had a notion of having to find a replacement, they have found probably found the closest thing on the planet.

Great show, got to meet the band afterwards. A nice group of musicians who are still at top form.

Tim Cary:

I attended the Journey concert in St. Paul, MN last night, and it was a pretty good show. Steve Augeri sounds a lot like Steve Perry, and he did a great job on vocals. The crowd was pretty small - about 1800 or so; I think the reason for that was not a ton of advertisement or publicity. They played for about 2 hours, and the song list was pretty much the same as you have listed on the web site, minus "Just the Same Way" and "Anytime." Also, instead of "Ask the Lonely," they played "When You Love a Woman" for the second encore. Jonathan Cain and Neal Schon are awesome musicians! During the show, Steve pointed at each of them and said something like "Isn't he great?!?" Towards the end of the show, Steve sported a number 84 Minnesota Vikings jersey (Randy Moss), and Deen Castronovo wore number 80 (Cris Carter); they REALLY won the crowd over with that! All in all, it was a good show, but I wish they would have played a bit longer, but isn't that true for all concerts?

Mike:

I went to the Journey show last night in St. Paul, and it was amazing. At first I was a little disappointed, because the place was only about half full. Advertisement was non-existent, the only reason I found out about it was because of your page. The crowd that was there was really loud, though, and we got them to do two encores, and we wanted a third, but they finally turned the house lights on.

The set began with Separate Ways, and once again Steve Augeri was low in the mix, and the bass was too high, but I could still hear him well enough. They played all the hits, and finished with Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'. Augeri's finally doing some Perry-esque things with the intro to that song, and overall his performance was truly great. When they did When You Love a Woman, Augeri's voice mtched the recording with Perry perfectly. It really is amazing how much they sound alike. During the set, Neal did a couple of instrumentals from his Santana days, as well as one from the upcoming album, and it rocked!

The first encore was Faithfully, followed by Don't Stop Believing. It was an amazing night, and it would have been perfect if the show would have sold out. I hope this isn't the trend in every city on the tour stop.

Tom Kearney:

Last night I saw Journey in Saint Paul, MN, or at least a band that uses the name Journey. I really don't mean to sound negative because actually, the music was performed exceptionally well, and the singing was remarkably similar to that of Steve Perry. However, the band looked as if they were "working," which is a huge shift from the last tour in 1986, in which the performers were obviously happy to be back on the road and it was easy to see the enthusiasm on their faces. In general, it was like listening to an album of Journey that had no life, no excitement, and no chemistry that would typically be felt and observed at a live show. In addition, it was hard to get excited about the show when the hall was less than half filled (I estimate about 3,500 people) which made it seem like the super band that once played to one hundred thousand people in Philadelphia in 1983 in all of their glory, was reduced to the Roy Wilkens auditorium for what seemed like a back yard bar-b-que. I am more than sure that many people will find this page to be overly critical of the mediocre show, (well, not too many as few attended the show) but I can't pretend that anyone other than Steve Perry can lead Journey through a successful resurrection, and I refuse to accept an imposter as the new front man (actually, nobody really took the lead during the concert. It was uncomfortable because they each took turns introducing songs, but they didn't do a good job of getting the crowd involved, or excited about the show by promoting any of them) for my favorite band. I believe that before the end of this tour, the current members of Journey will re-evaluate the situation, especially after playing half-filled beer halls, when if they had been patient, provided Steve Perry was actually willing, they could have been playing to packed crowds in major arenas across North America just as the Eagles did a few years ago. I am honestly afraid that this act of impatience by the current band will spell doom for their futures and end the Journey that we have all been on.