Out Of Control Tour
The Clash
London, UK
At this point in time there were major changes in the band's lineup. Nick Shepard and Vince White were recruited as the Clash’s new guitarists. The reconstituted band played its first shows in January 1984 with a batch of new material and launched into a self-financed Out of Control tour.
Clarence Carter
Show & Band
Brim's Warehouse
Hammond, LA
The Born in the U.S.A. Tour was the supporting concert tour of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. album. It was his longest and most successful tour to date. It featured a physically transformed Springsteen; after two years of bodybuilding, the singer had bulked up considerably. The tour was the first since the 1974 portions of the Born to Run tours without guitarist Steven Van Zandt, who decided to go solo after recording the album with the group. Van Zandt, who was replaced by Nils Lofgren, would appear a few times throughout the tour and in some of the music videos to promote the album. It was also the first tour to feature Springsteen's future wife, Patti Scialfa.
The tour started in June 1984 and went through the United States and to Canada. In March 1985 the tour went to Australia, Japan and Europe. It then headed back for a second leg of the U.S. tour in which Springsteen and the E Street Band played to sold-out professional football stadiums. The tour finished in October 1985 in Los Angeles.
The Born In The USA Tour grossed $80–90 million overall. Of that, $34 million came from Springsteen's summer 1985 stadium dates in North America.[1] The Born in the U.S.A. album was inside the top 10 of the Billboard 200 during the entire tour. Springsteen also was enjoying a hit single from the album (there were seven in total) during any moment of the tour. The album along with Springsteen's previous album, Nebraska, which he did not tour to promote, were performed in their entirety throughout the tour. Total attendance was 3.9 million.
Out Of Control Tour
The Clash
SET LIST
Sex Mad Roar
Police and Thieves (Junior Murvin cover)
Should I Stay or Should I Go
I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
This Is Radio Clash
Janie Jones
Police on My Back (The Equals cover)
Clampdown
I Fought the Law (The Crickets cover)
White Riot
Tommy Gun
Safe European Home
We Are the Clash
The Guns of Brixton
Brand New Cadillac
Malcolm McLaren
Los Lobos
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
Out Of Control Tour
The Clash
Warnor's Theatre
Fresno, CA
An Evening With Frank Zappa
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
Portland, OR
"... a considerable augmentation of percussion and brass, filled the pit and overflowed onto the sides of the stage. The crowd was in a state of excited anticipation, and I glanced through the printed program with the same kind of feelings. I was there to see and hear the U.S. or world premieres of Zappa's Bob in Dacron/Sad Jane, Mo 'n Herb's Vacation, Sinister Footwear, and Pedro's Dowry...
Conductor Kent Nagano has collaborated with Zappa in several previous eruptions, and he proved himself a fine leader in this program of frolics for dancers and life-size puppets...Just before the first number, out came Zappa, himself, to deliver an admonition: 'This stuff is entertainment, nothing more'.
There was definitely a lot of entertaining work by the orchestra and by the people on the stage. The several pieces on the bill featured some hilarious satires on various human foibles, and there were plenty of laughs." (Scott Beach)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Electric Ballroom
London, UK
Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul
Frankfurt, Germany
The Purple Rain Tour
Prince and The Revolution
The Purple Rain Tour marked the live debut of the band now named The Revolution as Wendy Melvoin made her appearance as the new guitarist in Prince's band, taking over for the departed Dez Dickerson, completing the iconic line-up of the band.
In addition to Prince and The Revolution, they were joined on tour by Apollonia 6, and Sheila E. and her band. Despite gaining fame from their appearance in the film and releasing a third album, The Time were not invited to tour, as by 1985 the group had been depleted, with many of its remaining key members quitting to embark on personal careers
Also, The Purple Rain Tour was the first Prince tour to open with brand new material. In this case, it was with the album opener, Let's Go Crazy. A triple dose from the 1999 album followed: Delirious, 1999 and Little Red Corvette. An instrumental interlude of Yankee Doodle usually introduced another 1999 song, Free. The B-side God was often played, followed by a usual sequence of Computer Blue, Darling Nikki, The Beautiful Ones and When Doves Cry (featuring a mirror setup onstage to mimic the video of the song). As encores, the remaining Purple Rain songs closed the concert, I Would Die 4 U, Baby I'm a Star and Purple Rain. The three songs were extended, often taking 30 minutes to perform. Take Me with U was often worked in, completing all the album tracks.
Ramones
D.O.A.
University of Oregon
E.M.U. Ballroom
Eugene, OR
Crucifucs
Human Switchboard
dB's
The Replacements
Dump Truck
Instant Kunk
NRBQ
The Ben Vaughn Combo
Kayawah & The Momement Band
Bricks Motar
Flipper
City Gardens
Trenton, NJ
Black Flag
Meat Puppets
Perkins Palace
Pasadena, CA
R.E.M.
Art in the Dark
The Nightporters
The Mad Hatter
Athens, GA
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
The Ritz
NYC
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble
Rhode Island College
Donovan Center
Providence, RI
Prime Time Tour '84
Go Gos
I.U. Auditorium
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
The Minutemen
The Jockey Club
Newport, KY
R.E.M.
Love Tractor
Guadalcanal Diary
Atlanta Civic Center
Atlanta, GA
Sparks
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Greek Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
Monster Of Rock Tour 1984
Van Halen
Stockholm, Sweden
SET LIST
Unchained
Hot for Teacher
Drum Solo
On Fire
Runnin' With the Devil
Little Guitars
House of Pain
Bass Solo
I'll Wait
Everybody Wants Some!!
Oh, Pretty Woman
1984
Jump
Guitar Solo
Panama
ENCORE
You Really Got Me
Happy Trails
Synchronicity World Tour
The Police
Australian Crawl
Bryan Adams
Coconut Rough
Western Springs, Australia
The Unforgettable Fire Tour
U2
Hamburg, Germany
The second leg of The Unforgettable Fire Tour consisted of 21 shows in halls and arenas in Western Europe, and ran during October and November 1984. Following the largely War Tour setlist and presentation of the first leg, the band adapted the shows to the dreamy nature of the new album, and transformed the visual nature of the show. Pursuing a more subtle stage presentation, the band relied more on the moods transcending from the music and lighting as opposed to Bono's active stage antics of previous tours. When The Unforgettable Fire song was played, for example, slides with Japanese writings and lithographs from the exhibit from which the song takes its name were projected onto a white backdrop. During New Years Day, long white banners were lowered from the ceiling, and during Pride, a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. was projected. While illustrating the songs, the images were intended to bridge the gap between the audience rather than having Bono run around the stage.
The second leg of the tour was initially meant to start in Rotterdam on 1 October, the day of the album's release, but concerts between 1 and 17 October were postponed until 1985 or cancelled to allow U2 more time to rehearse the new songs. Translating the complex layered atmospheric textures of the new studio-recorded tracks to live performance proved a serious challenge. One solution was programmed sequencers, which the band until then had been reluctant to use, on sonically elaborate new songs such as The Unforgettable Fire and Bad. Since then sequencers are now used on the majority of U2 songs in performance. Songs criticized as being unfinished', fuzzy and unfocused on the album, made more sense on stage. Rolling Stone magazine, for example, critical of the album version of "Bad", described its live performance as a 'show stopper.
Van Halen
The Velcros
Cow Palace
Daly City, CA
The Cramps
Eldorado Club
Paris, France
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