On an extremely hot night at Fenway Park, Steve Miller, Journey, and Def Leppard were all fantastic. Unlike previous shows reviewed, all three acts had great sound boards and mixers. Steve struggled a little with his voice at times, but he's almost 80 so I give him a pass. His band was awesome. I was surprised to see mostly bad reviews of Journey in their recent shows, but they were on point tonight, with Arnel hitting all of the high notes, excellent sound throughout, and an enjoyable mix of Neil's (still amazing) guitar solos. They played all of the hits, the crowd sung along, and was very enthusiastic. Any Way You Want It was the pinnacle of the show for me. Def Leppard blew the doors off the park! Highlights included Rock of Ages, Armageddon It, Bringin' On the Heartache, and Photograph. Joe Elliot noted in the middle of their set that he had been fighting a respiratory virus for the past 30 hours and almost cancelled the show, but he was in fine voice and carried on like a champ. He had fantastic backing by his two stellar guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell, and Rick Allen was clearly having a great time pounding out the beats with his (one) arm and feet! The mostly acoustic set in the middle of the show seemed to be the place for Joe to regain his voice, which he succeeded in doing. He thanked the crowd for being "special." It was a great night!

I thought for sure one of the crew would stop the show, and fix the volume mix and get it right. It was so obvious to everyone in the stands, something was wrong. I left my seat and went down the field to talk to Fenway security about the terrible sound from the speakers. He said they sent a message to the sound tent, and it was out of their hands. I am again in shock to hear so many comments from other shows out the sound issues. “Fire the sound Crew/ manager”. I doubt they will get an invite back to Fenway. Boston music fans are crazy supportive at Fenway, but Journey stuck out last night. Hopefully they get word to fix this problem, before it ruins fan loyalty. The sound crew needs to have ears in the stands to help guide and adjust s sound levels. I’ll be watching the reviews to see if they fix it. Hats off to the Fenway crew for managing the concerts. Perfect place to see your favorite band !

I had a blast at Fenway Way park 2018 Aug. 10,11,12. Seeing all performers on the three nights Peter Wolf, Jimmy Buffett, Billy Joel, Cheap Trick, Def Leppard and Journey. I was most excited about seeing Journey for the second time since seeing them in Aug 2017 in Laconia NH. I always enjoyed their music and could not believe how good they sounded in the smaller NH amphitheater. Arnel Pineda was amazing as was all bandmates. The sound mix was perfect and sounded like the recordings. Fenway Park has a perfect speaker / sound system and every show is right on with the quality of instrument mixing and crystal clear sound. I had a good seat about twenty rows off the field opposite the stage. Cheap Trick and Def Leppard were amazing, then Journey started their set. I was in total shock of the total distortion coming out of all the speakers. The Bass guitar and Bass Drums completely dominated the speakers and sounded like booming thunder against the ears. Guitars, Keyboard and Vocal

Cheap Trick /Def Leppard awesome Journey sucked too loud all static I don’t know why sound guy did not fix 1 song into the Journey set? 5 stars for CT / DL

Steve Miller and Def Leppard: spectacular: great sound, great interactions with audience.great musical show voice and instrumentally wonderful. Journey: huge disappointment. Everything was turned up to a loudest of loud, too many guitar solos no one wanted to hear. Band and equalizers up so loud it was extremely difficult to even understand the screaming *new lead singer Arnel Pineda. He had a punky awful, trying to hard to be popular stage presence that didn’t work at all. We heard great things about him and it was just awful. I don’t know if he was having an off night, as we had never heard him before, but bring Steve Perry back! Totally understand why Steve wouldn’t want to be around the self indulgent over playing of the guitar solos…annoying. Just sing the songs! And it was embarassingly awful. We left after a few songs because we were afraid our ear drums were going to be damaged between the loud volume of everything on stage and the atrocious singing, I mean yelling .

July 23, 2024: Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia: Super excited to see Steve Miller, Journey and Def Leppard…. Steve miller started promptly at 6, sounded great, musicianship was spot on, really enjoyed his show. Next up Journey. SUPER LOUD, all volumes equalizers up on high, super annoying loud, drown out your singer loud… could barely understand journeys *newish singer that we had heard really great things about. Volume never equalized where you could hear the singer, so of course he needs to scream the lyrics to even barely be heard. Then he kept referring to the concert goers as Phillies .umm no, no baseball today…ughh we walked out after about 4/5 songs. Too loud with ear plugs couldn’t understand the singer at all, his stage presence was like an annoying drugged out punk. Over done. UGHHHH. I’m sorry I spent good money on a journey tshirt. I want my money back. Maybe will use for kindling for a fire… DEF LEPPARD= awesome! Journey stunk like a nasty poop filled baby diaper.