Journey's farewell tour reaches TD Garden on Tuesday

The Final Frontier Tour, billed as Journey's last run, plays Boston on Tuesday, Nov 10. Here's what to know before you go.

Some arena shows are just another night out. A farewell tour is different. On Tuesday, Nov 10, Journey brings the Final Frontier Tour to TD Garden. The band has billed it as its last trip around North America, and for a lot of Boston fans this will be the final chance to hear those songs sung by twenty thousand people at once.

The show starts at 7:30pm, and tickets start at $63.80 through Ticketmaster. TD Garden holds 19,580. Journey is coming off a busy week in the region, with Providence on Oct 29, Northeastern Pennsylvania tonight and Queens and the Bronx on Saturday before the Boston show. Cleveland follows on Nov 12.

The tour was announced as a farewell. The first North American leg was 60 dates, opening Feb 28 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and closing July 2 in Laredo, Texas. In May the band added a fall run of about 40 more North American dates), and that's the leg reaching Boston now. Wikipedia's tally of the tour lists the final date as Nov 28, so the Garden show is one of the last stops.

The lineup for the run, per Blabbermouth, puts guitarist Neal Schon with keyboardist Jonathan Cain, vocalist Arnel Pineda, keyboardist Jason Derlatka, drummer Deen Castronovo and bassist Todd Jensen. Schon is the thread running through the band's whole history, Cain has been at his side for decades, and Pineda has been the voice on these songs on the road for years now. Castronovo is back behind the kit.

A farewell tour is different: this is the last trip around, and the room knows it.

What makes this one worth a Tuesday is simple. Journey's catalog is built for arenas: big choruses, big keyboards, big guitar solos and songs the whole building already knows. A farewell show makes the singalong mean a little more, because this time it's the last one.

Practical notes for the night: it's a 7:30pm start on a weeknight, so plan your T ride or parking with time to spare, since a Garden crowd this size moves slowly through North Station. The ticket link above is the official Ticketmaster listing. The show is billed as "An Evening" with the band. For the tour's full schedule, check journeymusic.com.

Whatever your Journey song is, you'll probably hear it Tuesday. Bring your voice.

Sources: JOURNEY Announces 'Final Frontier' North American Farewell Tour — Blabbermouth (blabbermouth.net); The Final Frontier Tour (Journey) — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Journey announce farewell tour — Far Out Magazine (faroutmagazine.co.uk); Ticketmaster — Journey: Final Frontier Tour, An Evening, Boston (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase listing (jambase.com)