Departure Tour

The Departure Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Journey. The tour was in support of their 1980 album Departure which was their first top 10 album on the Billboard 200 that peaked at No. 8 and like their previous two albums, Infinity and Evolution. The tour kicked off on March 26, 1980, in San Francisco and concluded in October.[1]

Departure Tour
Tour by Journey
Associated albumDeparture
Start dateMarch 25, 1980
End dateOctober 13, 1980
Legs4
No. of shows105
Journey concert chronology

This was the last Journey tour to feature founding member of the band Gregg Rolie, who left the band at the conclusion of the tour to start a family and undertake various solo projects.[2]

Background

The band would head out to perform in Europe and Japan. Steve Perry recalled when they were heading to perform in those places, stating that it was a lot of hard work being on the road as much as the band, and that it can make one "very crazy".[3]

The melodic rock band The Babys toured as a support act for Journey on this tour for certain dates in North America. Ricky Phillips, who was the bass player for The Babys at the time, remembered opening for Journey on the tour:

Well, I thought they were amazing and we got on well with them. On the two bands' first flight together, Steve Perry told me I reminded him of his old bass player... they were amazing to watch. I've never watched another band as much. They were tough on us though. They barely gave us enough room to do our show each night... which turned out good actually, because it pushed us right to the front of the stage, and we rocked our asses off. They gave us about half the sound system at first but started adding as they grew to like us. It was always unsettling opening to empty seats but that made us rock hard from the start. We would sell records in every city we played so the pairing was great for us.[4]

Bill Paige, who had attended the band's concert in Chicago, wrote in a positive review of the performance on Billboard:

Journey, especially the energy-bound Perry, delivers 17 crafted yet still exciting songs, leaving no stone in its relatively short career unturned. Smiles, rather than complaints, punctuate the remarks of exiting fans.[4]

Personnel

Setlist

Tour dates
Date[5] City Country Venue Support Act(s)
Warm Up
March 25, 1980 San Francisco United States The Warfield
(Bay Area Music Awards)		 N/A
March 26, 1980 Palace of Fine Arts
(Benefit performance)
North America
March 28, 1980 Oakland United States Oakland Arena The Babys
March 30, 1980 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
April 2, 1980 Long Beach Long Beach Arena
April 3, 1980 N/A
April 4, 1980 Tucson Tucson Community Center
April 5, 1980 Phoenix Arizona Memorial Coliseum The Babys
April 6, 1980 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
April 8, 1980 Oklahoma City The Myriad Cheap Trick
The Babys
April 10, 1980 Fort Worth Tarrant County Convention Center The Babys
April 11, 1980 Dallas Dallas Convention Center
April 12, 1980 Houston The Summit
April 13, 1980 Beaumont Beaumont Civic Center
April 15, 1980 Little Rock Barton Coliseum
April 17, 1980 Baton Rouge Riverside Centroplex
April 18, 1980 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
April 19, 1980 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum
April 20, 1980 Birmingham Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Center N/A
April 22, 1980 Fort Myers Lee County Civic Center The Babys
April 24, 1980 Lakeland Lakeland Civic Center
April 25, 1980 Miami Miami Marine Stadium
April 26, 1980 Jacksonville Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
April 27, 1980 St. Petersburg Bayfront Center
April 30, 1980 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
May 1, 1980 Champaign Champaign Assembly Hall
May 2, 1980 Louisville Freedom Hall
May 3, 1980 Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium
May 4, 1980 West Lafayette Elliott Hall of Music
May 6, 1980 Utica Utica Memorial Auditorium
May 7, 1980 Springfield Springfield Civic Center
May 9, 1980 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena
May 10, 1980 Cleveland Richfield Coliseum N/A
May 11, 1980 The Babys
May 13, 1980 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena
May 14, 1980
May 16, 1980 Detroit Cobo Arena
May 17, 1980
May 18, 1980
May 19, 1980
May 20, 1980
May 22, 1980 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
May 23, 1980 Indianapolis Market Square Arena
May 24, 1980 South Bend Athletics and Convocation Center
May 26, 1980 Des Moines Iowa State Fairgrounds
(Iowa Jam)		 N/A
May 27, 1980 Chicago Rosemont Horizon The Babys
May 29, 1980 Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center
May 30, 1980 Springfield Prairie Capitol Convention Center
June 3, 1980 Seattle Seattle Center Coliseum N/A
June 4, 1980 Portland Portland Memorial Coliseum The Babys
June 21, 1980 Honolulu Neil S. Blaisdell Arena N/A
June 22, 1980
June 24, 1980 Toledo Toledo Sports Arena
June 25, 1980
June 26, 1980 Milwaukee MECCA Arena
June 27, 1980 Kansas City Arrowhead Stadium Kenny Loggins
April Wine
The Doobie Brothers
June 29, 1980 St. Louis Busch Memorial Stadium
(Superjam '80)		 N/A
July 1, 1980 Springfield Hammons Center
July 2, 1980 Tulsa Tulsa Assembly Center
July 3, 1980 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
July 7, 1980 Denver Denver Coliseum
July 8, 1980 Salina Bicentennial Center
July 26, 1980 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
(Summer Blowout 1980)
July 27, 1980 Oakland Oakland Stadium
(Day on the Green #2)
July 30, 1980 Bloomington Met Center
July 31, 1980 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theater
August 2, 1980 Flint Atwood Stadium Pat Benatar
Eddie Money
August 4, 1980 Sterling Heights Freedom Hill Amphitheatre N/A
August 5, 1980
August 8, 1980 Montreal Canada Montreal Forum Corbeau
August 10, 1980 Saratoga United States Saratoga Performing Arts Center N/A
August 12, 1980 Syracuse Onondaga War Memorial Auditorium
August 14, 1980 Buffalo Buffalo Memorial Auditorium Joe Perry Project
August 15, 1980 Rochester War Memorial Auditorium
August 16, 1980 Uniondale Nassau Coliseum N/A
August 17, 1980 Providence Providence Civic Center Joe Perry Project
August 20, 1980 Philadelphia The Spectrum N/A
August 21, 1980 Bethlehem Stabler Arena
August 22, 1980 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
August 23, 1980 Largo Six Flags America
August 24, 1980 Landover Capital Centre Joe Perry Project
August 26, 1980 Hampton Hampton Coliseum N/A
August 28, 1980 Mobile Mobile Municipal Auditorium
August 29, 1980 Atlanta The Omni LeRoux
August 30, 1980 Knoxville Knoxville Civic Coliseum N/A
August 31, 1980 Dayton Hara Arena
September 1, 1980 Chicago Rosemont Horizon
Europe
September 7, 1980 Hamburg Germany Audimax N/A
September 8, 1980 Berlin Neue Welt
September 9, 1980 Offenbach Stadthalle
September 11, 1980 Düsseldorf Phillipshalle
September 12, 1980 Nuremberg Hemmerleinhalle
September 13, 1980 Munich Circus Krone
September 15, 1980 Heidelberg Rhein-Neckar-Halle
September 16, 1980 Stuttgart Liederhalle
September 18, 1980 Zurich Switzerland Volkshaus
September 20, 1980 Dortmund Germany Westfalenhalle
September 22, 1980 London England Rainbow Theatre
Asia
October 8, 1980 Tokyo Japan Shibuya Kokaido N/A
October 10, 1980 Osaka Banpaku Hall
October 11, 1980 Tokyo Nakano Sun Plaza
October 13, 1980 Kosei Nenkin Hall

References
  1. Daniels, Neil (2011). The Untold Story of Journey. Omnibus Press. p. 44. ISBN 9781849386579.
  2. Daniels, Neil (2011). The Untold Story of Journey. Omnibus Press. pp. 48–51. ISBN 9781849386579.
  3. Daniels, Neil (2011). The Untold Story of Journey. Omnibus Press. p. 46. ISBN 9781849386579.
  4. Daniels, Neil (2011). The Untold Story of Journey. Omnibus Press. p. 45. ISBN 9781849386579.
  5. "Journey's Past Tour Information". www.journey-tribute.com. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2020-08-30.
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