Journey’s farewell tour has hit a scary bump in the road. Longtime drummer Deen Castronovo, 62, is stepping away from the band’s Final Frontier farewell tour to focus on “personal health matters,” the band announced Friday, November 13.

It follows two onstage scares: Castronovo was helped offstage two songs into the October 8 show in Tulsa and taken to a hospital, then left mid-show again in Boston on November 10.

Steve Murphy — veteran of the Alan Parsons Project and Trans-Siberian Orchestra — is filling in for the rest of November. Murphy already played the Cleveland show at Rocket Arena on November 12.

The tour resumes tonight, November 14, in Greenville, South Carolina, and wraps November 28 in San Francisco. And in a twist for a tour billed as a farewell, the band has recently signaled the goodbye may not be final after all.

Source: Blabbermouth

Featured image: Journey live in Minneapolis, September 2008. Photo by Matt Becker, via Wikimedia Commons.