Mötley Crüe Final Tour

Mötley Crüe Final Tour
Tour by Mötley Crüe
Start dateJuly 2, 2014 (2014-07-02)
End dateDecember 31, 2015 (2015-12-31)
Legs2
No. of shows158
Box officeUS$86.1 million
Mötley Crüe concert chronology

The Final Tour was a concert tour by heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. At the time, it had been announced as the band's final tour before their initial hiatus from 2016 until their announced comeback reunion in 2019.[1] Alice Cooper was announced as the opening act for the tour. The first leg of the tour began on July 2, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and concluded on November 22, 2014 in Spokane, Washington. The band further announced more dates for the second and final leg of the tour, which started February 11, 2015 in Kobe, Japan, and ended with three concerts at Staples Center in the band's hometown of Los Angeles on December 28, 30 and 31, 2015. The Tour was kicked off by a drum solo by Producer Joe of the FreeBeer & Hotwings show.

Background and development

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On January 28, 2014, Mötley Crüe held a press conference at Beacher's Madhouse Theater in Hollywood, where they announced a final tour with Alice Cooper as the opening act, and later on added New York City-based band The Raskins as a second opening act for the first leg of the tour. The band became the first to sign a binding legal document known as a "cessation of touring" contract, preventing them from touring beyond the year 2015 under the name Mötley Crüe. The first leg of the Final Tour began on July 2, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and ended on November 22, 2014 in Spokane, Washington.

In January 2015, the band announced that the Final Tour would keep going through the year of 2015, beginning with a handful of international dates in Japan, Australia, Europe and Rock in Rio for their only date in South America on the tour, followed by 34 more dates in North America to end the year and the tour. Even more North American dates however were later added in April 2015. Then a couple months later in June while in London preparing to perform at three different festivals across Europe, Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper announced a full set of European dates, with the shows set to take place in November 2015. On July 16, 2015, the band set out on their second North American leg of the Final Tour, beginning with two sold-out nights in Anchorage, Alaska, with the first of the two shows being recorded for an upcoming live album to be released sometime after the tour concludes.[2] They brought along New York City-based band The Cringe as a second opening act for most of the second North American leg of the tour. Drummer Tommy Lee was forced to miss a handful of shows during October 2015 due to a flare up of tendinitis in his wrist. Alice Cooper's drummer Glen Sobel filled in for Lee on drums until he was able to return. Lee was however able to perform the piano parts in the band's hit song "Home, Sweet, Home" during the encore at each of the shows he missed.[3]

The band's final shows were held in different cities throughout the southwest region of the U.S. where the band often played as they were starting out in the early 1980s, leading up to the finales, including a performance in Las Vegas where lead vocalist Vince Neil has most recently been residing, and eventually ended with three nights at the Staples Center in the band's hometown of Los Angeles on December 28, 30 and 31st of 2015. Rumors of an intimate encore performance taking place at the Whisky a Go Go immediately following the band's New Year's Eve performance at Staples Center was dismissed by Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx in an April 2015 interview.[4]

Set list

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The set list was shortened by two songs from the first to the second leg of the tour, no longer playing songs "On With the Show" and "Too Fast for Love". "Too Young to Fall in Love" was also dropped after the fourth concert on the tour's second leg. However "Louder Than Hell" was then added. The opening song was changed from "Saints of Los Angeles" to "Girls, Girls, Girls".[5]

The following set list was taken from the performance on August 5, 2015 in Saint Paul, Minnesota at Xcel Energy Center:

  1. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
  2. "Wild Side"
  3. "Primal Scream"
  4. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
  5. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
  6. "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
  7. "Looks That Kill"
  8. "Mutherfucker of the Year"
  9. "Anarchy in the U.K."
  10. "Shout at the Devil"
  11. "Louder Than Hell"
  12. Tommy Lee drum solo
  13. Mick Mars guitar solo
  14. "Saints of Los Angeles"
  15. "Live Wire"
  16. "Dr. Feelgood"
  17. "Kickstart My Heart"
Encore
  2. "Home Sweet Home"

Shows

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List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Attendance[6] Revenue[6]
North America[7][8]
July 2, 2014 Grand Rapids United States Van Andel Arena 9,970 / 9,970 $784,507
July 4, 2014[a] Milwaukee Henry Maier Festival Park — —
July 5, 2014 Noblesville Klipsch Music Center 23,607 / 23,607 $724,733
July 6, 2014 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center — —
July 8, 2014 Columbus Schottenstein Center
July 9, 2014 Maryland Heights Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 11, 2014 Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena 12,265 / 12,265 $753,877
July 12, 2014 Wichita Intrust Bank Arena 7,763 / 7,763 $723,742
July 13, 2014 Tulsa BOK Center 7,427 / 7,427 $709,567
July 15, 2014 San Antonio Alamodome — —
July 16, 2014 Dallas Gexa Energy Pavilion 17,320 / 17,320 $704,875
July 18, 2014 Albuquerque Isleta Amphitheater — —
July 19, 2014 Phoenix Ak-Chin Pavilion 18,394 / 18,394 $650,994
July 21, 2014 Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl 16,488 / 16,488 $1,333,614
July 22, 2014 Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre 14,169 / 14,169 $656,818
July 23, 2014 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre — —
July 25, 2014 Reno Reno Events Center
July 26, 2014 Ridgefield Sleep Country Amphitheater 14,817 / 14,817 $699,522
July 27, 2014 Auburn White River Amphitheatre — —
July 29, 2014 Wheatland Sleep Train Amphitheatre
July 30, 2014 Chula Vista Sleep Train Amphitheatre
August 1, 2014 West Valley City USANA Amphitheatre 18,940 / 18,940 $770,300
August 2, 2014 Denver Pepsi Center 12,311 / 12,311 $861,208
August 3, 2014 Kansas City Sprint Center 12,246 / 12,246 $843,957
August 5, 2014 Sturgis Buffalo Chip Campground — —
August 6, 2014 Sioux City Tyson Events Center
August 8, 2014 Tinley Park First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre 25,097 / 25,097 $948,742
August 9, 2014 Clarkston DTE Energy Music Theatre 14,617 / 14,617 $611,119
August 10, 2014 Toronto Canada Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 15,259 / 15,259 $729,401
August 12, 2014 Cuyahoga Falls United States Blossom Music Center — —
August 13, 2014 Burgettstown First Niagara Pavilion
August 15, 2014 Pelham Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
August 16, 2014 Alpharetta Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park 12,082 / 12,082 $925,905
August 17, 2014 Tampa MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre 15,401 / 15,401 $664,960
August 19, 2014 Charlotte PNC Music Pavilion — —
August 20, 2014 Virginia Beach Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
August 22, 2014 Bristow Jiffy Lube Live 16,734 / 18,000 $765,045
August 23, 2014 Camden Susquehanna Bank Center — —
August 24, 2014 Mansfield Xfinity Center 18,269 / 18,269 $825,698
August 26, 2014 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center — —
August 27, 2014[b] Allentown Allentown Fairgrounds
August 29, 2014 Wantagh Nikon at Jones Beach Theater 13,322 / 13,322 $815,376
August 30, 2014 Holmdel Township PNC Bank Arts Center 16,470 / 16,470 $730,600
August 31, 2014 Darien Darien Lake Performing Arts Center — —
October 10, 2014 Oklahoma City Chesapeake Energy Arena
October 11, 2014 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion 15,866 / 15,866 $696,095
October 12, 2014 Bossier City CenturyLink Center — —
October 14, 2014 Louisville KFC Yum! Center
October 15, 2014 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 11,513 / 11,513 $725,993
October 17, 2014 Hollywood Hard Rock Live 9,981 / 9,981 $751,425
October 18, 2014
October 19, 2014 Jacksonville Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena — —
October 21, 2014 Greenville Bon Secours Wellness Arena
October 22, 2014 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
October 25, 2014 Atlantic City The Borgata
October 26, 2014 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena
October 28, 2014 New York Madison Square Garden 11,423 / 11,423 $1,082,041
October 29, 2014 Syracuse Oncenter War Memorial Arena — —
November 5, 2014 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
November 6, 2014 Southaven Lander's Center
November 8, 2014 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 13,469 / 13,469 $988,580
November 9, 2014 Moline iWireless Center — —
November 11, 2014 Green Bay Resch Center
November 12, 2014 Madison Veterans Memorial Coliseum
November 13, 2014 Omaha CenturyLink Center 11,880 / 11,880 $734,894
November 15, 2014 Saint Paul Xcel Energy Center 14,514 / 14,514 $860,949
November 16, 2014 Fargo Fargodome — —
November 18, 2014 Edmonton Canada Rexall Place 12,269 / 12,269 $945,547
November 19, 2014 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome 11,163 / 11,163 $871,371
November 21, 2014 Vancouver Rogers Arena 13,025 / 13,025 $1,057,420
November 22, 2014 Spokane United States Spokane Arena 10,410 / 10,410 $671,554
Asia [9]
February 11, 2015 Kobe Japan Kobe World Memorial Hall — —
February 12, 2015 Nagoya Nihon Gaishi Hall — —
February 14, 2015 Tokyo Saitama Super Arena — —
February 15, 2015 — —
February 17, 2015 Fukuoka Fukuoka Convention Center — —
Oceania[10][11][12][13]
May 9, 2015 Auckland New Zealand Vector Arena[14] — —
May 12, 2015 Melbourne Australia Rod Laver Arena 16,053 / 16,053 $1,201,160
May 13, 2015
May 16, 2015 Sydney Allphones Arena 10,190 / 10,190 $975,332
May 19, 2015 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre 6,819 / 6,819 $621,788
May 21, 2015 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre — —
May 23, 2015 Perth Perth Arena 7,366 / 7,366 $656,462
Europe[11]
June 5, 2015[c] Sölvesborg Sweden Sweden Rock Festival Grounds — —
June 12, 2015[d] Nickelsdorf Austria Pannonia Fields — —
June 14, 2015[e] Castle Donington England Donington Park — —
North America
July 16, 2015 Anchorage United States Alaska Airlines Center
July 17, 2015
July 22, 2015 Eugene Matthew Knight Arena
July 24, 2015 Tacoma Tacoma Dome
July 25, 2015 Paso Robles Chumash Grandstand Arena (California Mid State Fair)
July 26, 2015 Billings Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
July 28, 2015 Boise Taco Bell Arena
July 29, 2015 Salt Lake City EnergySolutions Arena
July 31, 2015 Denver Pepsi Center
August 3, 2015 Winnipeg Canada MTS Centre
August 5, 2015 Saint Paul United States Xcel Energy Center
August 7, 2015 Milwaukee BMO Harris Bradley Center
August 8, 2015 Rosemont Allstate Arena
August 9, 2015 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 10,542 / 13,065 $754,680
August 11, 2015 Hershey Giant Center
August 12, 2015 Brooklyn Barclays Center
August 14, 2015 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 9,745 / 12,000 $699,211
August 15, 2015 Worcester DCU Center
August 16, 2015 Uncasville Mohegan Sun Arena 6,703 / 6,972 $631,941
August 18, 2015 Cleveland Quicken Loans Arena
August 19, 2015 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena
August 20, 2015 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse
August 22, 2015 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre 12,113 / 12,113 $858,246
August 23, 2015 Ottawa Canadian Tire Centre
August 24, 2015 Montreal Bell Centre
August 26, 2015 Baltimore United States Royal Farms Arena
August 28, 2015 Raleigh PNC Arena
August 29, 2015 Charlotte Time Warner Cable Arena
August 30, 2015 Atlanta Philips Arena
September 2, 2015 Miami American Airlines Arena
September 4, 2015 New Orleans Smoothie King Center
September 5, 2015 Houston Toyota Center
September 6, 2015 San Antonio Alamodome
September 8, 2015 Monterrey Mexico Arena Monterrey
September 10, 2015 Mexico City Mexico City Arena
South America
September 19, 2015[f] Rio de Janeiro Brazil City of Rock[15][16] 85,000 / 85,000[17] —
North America
October 5, 2015 Hidalgo United States State Farm Arena
October 7, 2015 Dallas American Airlines Center 10,634 / 13,544 $654,583
October 8, 2015 Little Rock Verizon Arena
October 10, 2015 Evansville Ford Center
October 11, 2015 Lexington Rupp Arena
October 13, 2015 Toledo Huntington Center
October 14, 2015 Buffalo First Niagara Center
October 16, 2015 Bridgeport Webster Bank Arena
October 17, 2015 Manchester Verizon Wireless Arena
October 18, 2015 Bangor Cross Insurance Center
October 20, 2015 Quebec City Canada Videotron Centre
Europe
November 2, 2015 Newcastle England Metro Radio Arena
November 3, 2015 Manchester Manchester Arena
November 4, 2015 Birmingham Genting Arena
November 6, 2015 London Wembley Arena
November 8, 2015 Stuttgart Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
November 9, 2015 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Arena
November 10, 2015 Milan Italy Mediolanum Forum
November 12, 2015 Monte Carlo Monaco Sporting Club
November 13, 2015 Munich Germany Zenith
November 14, 2015 Düsseldorf ISS Dome
November 16, 2015 Stockholm Sweden Ericsson Globe
November 18, 2015 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena
Middle East
November 20, 2015 Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Du Arena
North America
December 4, 2015 Lincoln United States Pinnacle Bank Arena
December 7, 2015 Sioux Falls Denny Sanford Premier Center
December 8, 2015 Minneapolis Target Center 5,410 / 7,900 $349,550 [18]
December 10, 2015 Saskatoon Canada SaskTel Centre
December 12, 2015 Edmonton Rexall Place
December 13, 2015 Calgary Scotiabank Saddledome
December 15, 2015 Portland United States Moda Center
December 17, 2015 Fresno Save Mart Center 6,776 / 9,474 $484,518
December 19, 2015 Phoenix Talking Stick Resort Arena
December 20, 2015 San Diego Viejas Arena
December 22, 2015 Anaheim Honda Center
December 27, 2015 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena
December 28, 2015 Los Angeles Staples Center 37,090 / 41,739 $2,760,290
December 30, 2015
December 31, 2015
Total 547,322 / 566,113

(96%)

$32,192,928

Gross

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  • Total Gross: $86.1 million[19][20]
  • Total Attendance: 1,358,423
  • Shows: 158

Notes

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  1. ^ The show on July 4, 2014 was part of Summerfest.
  2. ^ The show on August 27, 2014 was part of the Great Allentown Fair.
  3. ^ The show on June 5, 2015 was part of the Sweden Rock Festival.
  4. ^ The show on June 12, 2015 was part of the Nova Rock Festival.
  5. ^ The show on June 14, 2015 was part of Download Festival.
  6. ^ The show on September 19, 2015 was part of Rock in Rio.

References

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  1. ^ "MÖTLEY CRÜE IS BACK!". Mötley Crüe. 18 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Mötley Crüe Concert Setlist at Alaska Airlines Center, Anchorage on July 16, 2015". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  3. ^ "Tommy Lee Forced to Miss Another MOtley CrUe Concert". Ultimateclassicrock.com. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  4. ^ "Nikki Sixx On MÖtley CrÜe Playing Final Show At Whisky: 'It Sounds Romantic' But Is 'Not A Very Good Idea'". Blabbermouth.net. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  5. ^ Caryn Little (August 20, 2014). "Alice Cooper and Mötley Crüe at PNC". WCCB. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  6. ^ a b "Current Boxscore". Billboard. Retrieved 2016-02-09.
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  8. ^ "Mötley Crüe Tickets, Tour Dates & Venue Information". Retrieved February 18, 2015.
  9. ^ "Tour – Mötley Crüe". Motley.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  10. ^ Williams, Tom (2015-02-19). "Mötley Crüe Announce Australian Tour Dates With Alice Cooper". Music Feeds. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  11. ^ a b Mötley Crüe. "Tour – Mötley Crüe". Motley.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  12. ^ "Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores". Billboard. May 20, 2015. Archived from the original on May 20, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
  13. ^ *"Billboard Boxscore :: Current Scores". Billboard. June 3, 2015. Archived from the original on May 20, 2013.
  14. ^ "Mötley Crüe". Live Nation. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  15. ^ "Line-up | Rock in Rio Brasil". Rockinrio.com. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  16. ^ "4 nomes de peso desembarcam em setembro no Rock in Rio | Rock in Rio Brasil". Rockinrio.com. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  17. ^ "G1 – Ingressos para o Rock in Rio 2015 estão esgotados – notícias em Rock in Rio 2015". G1.globo.com. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  18. ^ "Current Boxscore". Webcitation.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  19. ^ "Top 100 Worldwide Tours 2014" (PDF). Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  20. ^ "op 100 Worldwide Tours 2015" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
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