Journey, The Concert and Arnel Pineda By Rey Andrada San Francisco, California-October 1, 2008 It was a concert of three bands in one night, Cheap Trick, Heart and Journey.  Journey was the main attraction in the line up.  It was held on Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Shoreline amphitheater in Mountain View California. Surprisingly, there were a lot of young kids of different ethnicity but mostly Americans since after all the bands are all American. The night was still warm, I was in shorts and t-shirt but as the night goes on it becomes colder.  The smell of something particular in a concert of this magnitude was all around.  It was like the 60's all over again. The "Cheap Trick" opened the concert followed by "Heart" with leading singers Nancy and Ann. Journey, a San Francisco bay Area band with a Filipino lead singer, followed thereafter.  Wow, I thought I was dreaming but it was real.  Arnel Pineda was proudly introduced by his band on stage at Mountain View's Shoreline amphitheater to a capacity crowd of 22,000 plus adoring fans. As far as I know this is the first Journey concert with Arnel Pineda in the Bay Area and people accepted him well.  Arnel was a total performer, singing with the deepest feeling, dancing, jumping and swirling around and carrying the load of the concert on his shoulders like any lead singer of any band.   While the  other members of the Journey dazzled the audience with their talents on their instruments, Arnel wooed the crowd with his rendition of the Journey songs with his voice which magically adapter to the Journey's kind of music.  We were all standing from beginning to end in the lawn section of the amphitheater when Journey was introuduced as if to say "hey man we dig you".  I am glad Arnel responded by saying "this song is dedicated to you guys in the lawn section, San Francisco and Pinoys".  That was heart warming coming from a Filipino lead singer who is now on stage with one of the famous bands of the 70's. It was a night of rock and roll that my wife and I did not really expected.  We thought we would go to a concert hoping to listen to a band with a Filipino lead singer and be home like any other concert we have been to.  This one was different, we had fun and enjoyed listening to a fresh voice from the Philippines.  It was an electric night for us and for everybody in the audience.  Journey rocks and Arnel rocks. I must admit I was not a fan of Journey but after the show my wife and I declared to watch another of their concert if there will be another one.  Arnel Pineda's version of "Lovin' Touchin' Squezin" their final song did me in.   Arnel did great and I am glad he is proud of his Filipino heritage.