Get a Grip Tour explained

Concert Tour Name:	Get a Grip Tour
Artist:	Aerosmith
Number Of Legs:	13
Number Of Shows:	240
Last Tour:	Pump Tour (1989–1990)
This Tour:	Get a Grip Tour (1993–1994)
Next Tour:	Nine Lives Tour (1997–1999)

The Get a Grip Tour was a concert tour by American hard rock band Aerosmith that lasted over eighteen months, from early June 1993 to mid-December 1994. The tour was put on in support of the band's third consecutive multi-platinum album Get a Grip, released in April 1993.

Background

The Get a Grip Tour began June 2, 1993 in Topeka, Kansas and ended December 19, 1994 at the band's Mama Kin Music Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. It included approximately 240 shows, alongside special performances. To date, it is the second-longest tour in the band's history, eclipsed only by the Nine Lives Tour, which lasted for three years. However, it holds the record for the most shows performed by Aerosmith on a single tour.^[1]

The band played multiple legs across North America, Europe, Japan, and Central and South America. The tour included their first performances in Central and South America, as well as European nations including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Spain, Finland, Norway, the Czech Republic, and Austria.^[1] "Someone said, 'You've never been to South America,'" recalled Steven Tyler. "We said, 'This is the end of the tour – no more gigs.' But then they said $2 million… and you think, 'Okay, that's the worry taken out of Christmas.'"^[2]

Interspersed among regular show dates were performances on television shows such as Saturday Night Live, Late Show with David Letterman, MTV's Most Wanted, the MTV Video Music Awards, the Grammy Awards, and the MTV Europe Music Awards. The band also played club shows, in Los Angeles, London – as a surprise – Sioux Falls, South Dakota after a concert there.^[3]

At the Woodstock '94 festival in August 1994, the band closed the show on Saturday night, taking the stage at 1:15am to a crowd of 350,000. They were supposed to start at midnight, but a heavy downpour delayed the start time. Steven Tyler and Joey Kramer had attended the original Woodstock Festival in 1969.

Opening acts on the tour included Megadeth, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Cry of Love, Jackyl, 4 Non Blondes, Soul Asylum, Therapy?, Collective Soul, Extreme, Brother Cane, Mr. Big, and Robert Plant in Argentina.^[3]

Megadeth opened the first shows in June, but was fired on July 17, after the band overheard Dave Mustaine talking poorly of Aerosmith in a radio interview: "We think we oughta be headlining, but we don't mind because everyone knows this is Aerosmith's last hurrah." Steven Tyler replied, "Dave, we'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in?" And it turned out to not be "Aerosmith's last hurrah": Aerosmith went on to stage fourteen successful tours, release five top five albums, chart five singles to the Billboard Hot 100 (including a #1 hit), and chart sixteen singles to the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart over the next 20 years.

By the end of the tour, Get a Grip had sold twelve million records worldwide, including six million in the United States alone (eventually seven million), charted four Top 40 hits, and won the band two Grammys, four MTV Video Music Awards, two People's Choice Awards, two American Music Awards, and a Billboard Music Award.

The Geffen compilation Big Ones was released in November 1994. Its new songs "Blind Man" and "Walk on Water" were included in the setlist for the final days of the tour. Those two tracks were recorded at a hotel on the island of Capri in July 1994, after the band's summer dates in Europe.

During the show in Costa Rica on November 10, 1994, a fan was killed when the gates of the stadium were opened. The band had no idea this had happened and played the show. After learning of the death, they sent condolences through local networks for family and friends of the victim.

The tour closed at the band's recently opened Mama Kin Music Hall in Boston on December 19, 1994. Heavy on 1970s classics, the show was broadcast on radio across North America.

Set list

1. "Intro"
2. "Eat the Rich"
3. "Toys in the Attic"
4. "Fever"
5. "What it Takes"
6. "Amazing"
7. "Rag Doll"
8. "Cryin'"
9. "Mama Kin"
10. "Boogie Man"
11. "Shut Up and Dance"
12. "Walk on Down"
13. "Stop Messin' Around"
14. "Janie's Got a Gun"
15. "Love in an Elevator"
16. "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"
17. "Sweet Emotion"
18. "Dream On"
19. "Livin' on the Edge"
20. "Walk This Way"

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
North America
June 2, 1993		United States	Landon Arena
June 4, 1993	Oklahoma City		Myriad Convention Center
June 6, 1993			Omaha Civic Auditorium
June 7, 1993			Sioux Falls Arena
June 9, 1993			Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
June 10, 1993	Billings		MetraPark Arena
June 12, 1993			Fargodome
June 13, 1993			Target Center
June 15, 1993			Five Seasons Center
June 16, 1993			Peoria Civic Center
June 18, 1993			The Palace of Auburn Hills
June 19, 1993			Val Du Lakes Amphitheatre
June 21, 1993			Riverbend Music Center
June 22, 1993			Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
June 23, 1993	Noblesville		Deer Creek Music Center
June 25, 1993			Riverport Amphitheatre
June 26, 1993			World Music Theater
June 28, 1993	Memphis		Pyramid Arena
June 29, 1993	Antioch		Starwood Amphitheatre
July 1, 1993	Richfield		Richfield Coliseum
July 2, 1993			Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater
July 4, 1993			Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 14, 1993			Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center
July 15, 1993			Mississippi Coast Coliseum
July 17, 1993			Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 18, 1993			Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre
July 19, 1993	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
July 21, 1993			Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
July 23, 1993			El Paso County Coliseum
July 24, 1993			Tingley Coliseum
July 26, 1993			Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
July 27, 1993
July 29, 1993			Compton Terrace
July 31, 1993			Pacific Amphitheatre
August 1, 1993	San Diego		San Diego Sports Arena
August 3, 1993			Thomas & Mack Center
August 4, 1993			Great Western Forum
August 6, 1993			Shoreline Amphitheatre
August 7, 1993			Cal Expo Amphitheatre
August 9, 1993			BSU Pavilion
August 10, 1993			Delta Center
August 12, 1993			Memorial Coliseum
August 13, 1993			Seattle Center Coliseum
August 14, 1993	Vancouver	Canada	Pacific Coliseum
August 16, 1993			Northlands Coliseum
August 17, 1993			Olympic Saddledome
August 26, 1993		United States	Great Woods
August 27, 1993
August 29, 1993		Canada	Landsdowne Park Stadium
August 30, 1993			CNE Grandstand
September 4, 1993	Wantagh	United States	Jones Beach Theater
September 5, 1993
September 6, 1993	Foxborough		Foxboro Stadium
September 7, 1993			Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
September 8, 1993	Darien		Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
September 10, 1993			USAir Arena
September 11, 1993				Brendan Byrne Arena
September 13, 1993			Providence Civic Center
September 17, 1993			The Spectrum^[4]
September 18, 1993			Knickerbocker Arena
September 21, 1993			Mullins Center
September 22, 1993	Philadelphia		The Spectrum
September 24, 1993			Charlotte Coliseum
September 25, 1993	Raleigh		Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
September 28, 1993			Roanoke Civic Center
September 29, 1993			Hampton Coliseum
October 1, 1993			Carolina Coliseum
October 2, 1993			Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre
Europe
October 21, 1993			Sheffield Arena
October 23, 1993			National Exhibition Centre
October 24, 1993
October 27, 1993			Point Theatre
October 29, 1993			Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre
October 31, 1993			Forest National
November 1, 1993			Rotterdam Ahoy
November 4, 1993			Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
November 6, 1993			Velodromo de Anoeta
November 8, 1993			Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
November 10, 1993			Frankenhalle
November 11, 1993			Deutschlandhalle
November 13, 1993			Budapest Sportcsarnok
November 14, 1993			Wiener Stadthalle
November 15, 1993		Germany	Olympiahalle
November 17, 1993			Hallenstadion
November 18, 1993			Palatrussardi
November 20, 1993		France	Galaxie Amnéville
November 22, 1993		Germany	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
November 23, 1993			Westfalenhallen
November 25, 1993			Festhalle Frankfurt
November 26, 1993			Weser-Ems Halle
November 28, 1993			Malmö Isstadion
November 29, 1993			Oslo Spektrum
December 1, 1993			Helsinki Ice Hall
December 3, 1993		Sweden	Stockholm Globe Arena
December 4, 1993			Scandinavium
December 7, 1993	London	England	Wembley Arena
December 8, 1993
North America / South America
December 28, 1993		Canada	Halifax Metro Centre
December 29, 1993			Harbour Station
December 31, 1993		United States	Boston Garden
January 1, 1994
January 5, 1994	Binghamton		Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
January 7, 1994			Hersheypark Arena
January 14, 1994		Brazil	Estádio do Morumbi
January 17, 1994
January 21, 1994		Brazil	Praça da Apoteose
January 23, 1994			Poliedro de Caracas
January 25, 1994		Mexico	Palacio de los Deportes
January 26, 1994
January 28, 1994			Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium
February 1, 1994		United States	Orlando Arena
February 2, 1994			Miami Arena
February 4, 1994			USF Sun Dome
February 5, 1994
February 9, 1994			Lakefront Arena
February 10, 1994			Pensacola Civic Center
February 12, 1994			Jacksonville Coliseum
February 14, 1994			Thompson–Boling Arena
February 15, 1994			Charleston Civic Center
February 17, 1994	New York City		Madison Square Garden
February 19, 1994			Rochester Community War Memorial
February 20, 1994			Civic Arena
February 21, 1994	Boston		Hard Rock Cafe
February 22, 1994			MARK of the Quad Cities
February 23, 1994	Ames		Hilton Coliseum
February 25, 1994	Toledo		Toledo Sports Arena
February 26, 1994			Rupp Arena
Japan
April 27, 1994		Japan	Yokohama Arena
April 29, 1994			Osaka-jō Hall
April 30, 1994
May 3, 1994			Sun-Plaza Hall
May 4, 1994			Kokusai Koryo Center
May 6, 1994			Nagoya Rainbow Hall
May 7, 1994	Tokyo		Nippon Budokan
May 9, 1994
May 10, 1994
May 12, 1994
May 13, 1994
May 16, 1994
May 17, 1994
Europe
May 21, 1994		Germany	Rock am Ring
May 22, 1994			Rock in Riem
May 24, 1994		Austria	Schwarzl Freizeit Zentrum
May 25, 1994		Hungary	Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium
May 27, 1994			Stadion Evžena Rošického
May 29, 1994			Gwardia Stadium
May 30, 1994		Czech Republic	Sportovní hala
June 1, 1994		Germany	Gerry Weber Stadion
June 4, 1994		England	Monsters of Rock
June 6, 1994	Paris	France	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
June 7, 1994			Palais des Sports
June 9, 1994		Spain	Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid
			Estudio Cadena 40 Principale Studios
June 10, 1994			Plaza de Toros de Zaragoza
June 12, 1994			Praça de Touros de Cascais
June 14, 1994			Stadionul Național
June 16, 1994		Turkey	İnönü Stadium
June 20, 1994		Russia	White Nights Festival
June 22, 1994		Netherlands	Mega Music Rock Experience
June 23, 1994		Germany	Seidenstickerhalle
June 25, 1994		France	Parc des Expositions
June 27, 1994		Germany	Ostseehalle
June 29, 1994	Stockholm	Sweden	Vasamuseet
June 30, 1994		Denmark	Roskilde Festival
July 2, 1994	Thorout	Belgium	Thorout Rock Festival
July 3, 1994			Rock Werchter
July 6, 1994		Austria	Wels Rock Festival
July 7, 1994		Italy	Sonoria Festival
July 9, 1994		Switzerland	Out in the Green Festival
July 10, 1994		Finland	Turku Ruisrock Festival
July 12, 1994			Yarkon Park
North America
July 29, 1994		Canada	The Forum
July 30, 1994
August 1, 1994		United States	Stowe Mountain Performing Arts Center
August 3, 1994	Richfield		Richfield Coliseum
August 5, 1994			Marcus Amphitheatre
August 6, 1994	Tinley Park		World Music Theatre
August 8, 1994	Syracuse		War Memorial Auditorium
August 10, 1994	Hershey		Hersheypark Stadium
August 11, 1994			Veterans Memorial Coliseum
August 13, 1994	Saugerties		Woodstock '94
August 15, 1994			Montage Mountain P.A.C.
August 17, 1994	Philadelphia		The Spectrum
August 19, 1994	Mansfield		Great Woods
August 20, 1994
August 22, 1994			Seashore Performing Arts Center
August 24, 1994	Ottawa	Canada	Landsdowne Park
August 26, 1994	Landover	United States	USAir Arena
August 27, 1994	Burgettstown		Starlake Amphitheater
August 29, 1994	Wantagh		Jones Beach Theatre
August 30, 1994
September 2, 1994	Atlanta		Lakewood Amphitheatre
September 3, 1994	Antioch		Starwood Amphitheater
September 6, 1994
September 16, 1994	Raleigh		Hardee's Walnut Creek Amphitheater
September 17, 1994			Blockbuster Pavilion
September 19, 1994			Classic Amphitheatre at Strawberry Hill
September 21, 1994			Polaris Amphitheater
September 23, 1994	Noblesville		Deer Creek Music Center
September 24, 1994	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills
September 26, 1994	Maryland Heights		Riverport Amphitheater
September 28, 1994			Sandstone Amphitheater
September 30, 1994			The Summit
October 1, 1994			Southpark Meadows
October 3, 1994	Dallas		Starplex Amphitheater
October 5, 1994			McNichols Sports Arena
October 7, 1994	Sacramento		California Exposition Amphitheater
October 8, 1994			Shoreline Amphitheatre
October 10, 1994	Reno		Lawlor Events Center
October 12, 1994	Paradise		Thomas & Mack Arena
October 14, 1994	Phoenix		Desert Sky Pavilion
October 15, 1994			Blockbuster Pavilion
October 17, 1994	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheater
October 22, 1994	Portland		Memorial Coliseum
October 24, 1994	Vancouver	Canada	Pacific Coliseum
October 25, 1994		United States	Tacoma Dome
Latin America
November 10, 1994			National Stadium
November 13, 1994			Velodromo del Estadio Nacional
November 16, 1994		Argentina	Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras
November 18, 1994			José Amalfitani Stadium
November 20, 1994		Colombia	Estadio El Campin
North America
December 1, 1994		United States	Gund Arena
December 3, 1994			Freedom Hall
December 4, 1994	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills
December 6, 1994	Chicago		United Center
December 8, 1994	Minneapolis		Target Center
December 10, 1994	Philadelphia		CoreStates Spectrum
December 12, 1994			Memorial Auditorium
December 13, 1994	Toronto	Canada	SkyDome
December 15, 1994		United States	The Centrum
December 16, 1994	East Rutherford		Brendan Byrne Arena
December 18, 1994	Albany		Knickerbocker Arena
December 19, 1994	Boston		Mama Kin's Music Hall

References

Sources

• Book: Davis . Stephen . Walk This Way: The Autobiography of Aerosmith . 1997 . HarperCollins . New York . 978-0-380-97594-5 . en.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aero Force One - Login .
2. Ben . Raworth . Quote, Unquote: Steven Tyler . . April 1997. 62.
3. Web site: Aero Force One - Login .
4. Web site: WMMR -- WMMR Rocks! . 2008-10-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080930182929/http://www.wmmr.com/pages/pages.php?page=152 . 2008-09-30 . dead .