Journey and Def Leppard Reviews

John O from Portland, Oregon

FUN!, BUT JOURNEY NEEDS SOME CLARITY IMPROVEMENTS

Love both bands, DL was quite good and clear. Journey has the talent but overall the music was muddy and overpowered voice. Journey really needs sound help!! With going though

Jeff M from San Francisco, California

DL ROCKED AND WAS AMAZING JOURNEY HORRIBLE

Def Leppard should have headlines their songs sounded great.. great drumming and guitar work and Joe Ellliot could still belt it out..The production was amazing and the fans were totally into it.. Journey my old SF band I grew up there. was a major major disappointment.. We left after 2 songs.. ARnel is not as good as Steve Perry ..Neal Schon over shadowed everyone and his guitar work was average.. The rest of the band just so-so..No comparison to Def leppard ..Jorney was about 50% as good. We are looking forward to the next DL tour hopefully not with Journey By the way foreigner played 6 songs and sound pretty good.. They had a very high energy lead singer now,,who for the most part sounded pretty good..Not as good as the original Lead singer though.

Jeff in Dallas from Dallas, TX

DEF LEP=HIGH ENERGY, FUN SET. JOURNEY=BAD SOUND, SCRIPTED

Like most reviewers here I was excited to see both bands when they came to Dallas to play at the American Airlines arena (indoors). Def Leppard came out excited, high energy and maintained that throughout. VERY appreciative of the fans, complimented each other within the band (amazing to watch the one-armed drummer) and clearly were having fun playing for the sold out crowd. Journey was a distortion nightmare. I love their music and I like the new lead singer well enough, but it was awful. Neil's guitar droned out everything else and was so distorted and over-amped that you couldn't make out the notes. Really bad. I NEVER leave a show early and we bailed after 40 minutes of their walking around the stage playing unintelligible songs. You'd think they might get this fixed over the course of a 60-stop tour. Sad.

Chuck from San Francisco CA

WENT TO SEE JOURNEY, DL WAS BETTER.

Journey is a vocal driven AOR band but I found the guitars over-powering, the sound mix was simply off. Many have said the same thing so not sure why the band hasn't tweaked things. It's not the venue because Def Leppard sounded crisper, cleaner. Seemed like Arnel was trying to sing thru the distortion. DL sounded like the records. Journey not so much. Someone needs to turn down the volume on Neal Schon's guitar. ATT park is good enough acoustically, I saw AC/DC there and they sounded awesome.

Jordan Seaux from St.Martinville, Louisiana

JOURNEY/DEF LEPPARD

I recently went to the concert in New Orleans and i was disappointed with the way journey performed. It was a one man show, literally. I see why Steve Perry left the band. Neil Shawn stole the show with his continuous solo acts in between every. Single. Song! Overall I like journeys attempt to still stay together, but Def Leppard was a 10 star act! Seriously, amazing! They performed as a band and kept the crowd so energized the entire time! If only they would have ended the show I might not have been as disappointed.

Radonna Holmes from Dallas, Texas

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY JOURNEY?

Def Leppard was spot-on...the music...the mix...and crowd engagement! Journey struggled...start to finish. Just when we thought the guitar solos would never end...they never did! Felt like filler. Too many unfamiliar songs. Journey fans are there to hear the HITS they love and grew up with. Sadly, Arnel's vocals were terribly flat. He seemed exhausted and disconnected from the audience.

Brian from Boise, Idaho

DEF LEPPARD HAS NEVER BEEN BETTER. JOURNEY DISAPPOINTING

I admit that I'm a huge Def Leppard fan and have seen them 3 times in the past. All were fantastic shows but this one was even better. Sound, lighting, band energy, and crowd focused presentation were amazing! Our whole group (10 of us) loved them. I am also a big Journey fan and had never seen them before. I was really looking forward to what they were going to be like. Wow, they were boring! Neil Schon needs to get over himself. He can play the guitar but do we really need an out of place fast guitar riff in Faithfully? The sound was a mess. My wife commented about not being able to hear the vocals, which I couldn't hardly hear either. The singer tries, and jumps around like he's 1/2 the age of everybody else, but Neil just won't let him have any attention. Steve Smith gave an incredible drum solo. You, my man, have skills. The stage show was flat and the lightly only acceptable. Def Leppard destroyed it while Journey seemed to be going through the motions.

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