Freedom Tour (Santana tour)

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Freedom Tour
Tour by Santana
Santana Freedom Tour Program 1987.jpg
Associated album Freedom
Start dateFebruary 14, 1987 (1987-02-14)
End dateSeptember 12, 1987 (1987-09-12)
Legs7
No. of shows55 in North America
45 in Europe
2 in Asia
102 in total
Santana concert chronology

The Freedom Tour (also known as The Freedom Concert '87 or The Freedom Concert 1987) was the twenty-first concert tour by Santana, supporting their album Freedom .

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History

In 1987, Santana did a long world tour promoting Freedom, their tenth international tour since 1970. Aside from visiting countries they have never visited before, such as East Berlin, the band did two shows in war-torn Israel on April 29 and 30. The concert at the Sultan's Pool in Jerusalem on the 29th attracted at least 10,000 Jewish and Arab fans. Lead guitarist Carlos Santana's highlight of the tour was on July 4 at the Izmailovo Stadium in Moscow, Russia, where the band, alongside James Taylor, the Doobie Brothers, Bonnie Raitt and more, played to more than 25,000 Russians, the band's first show in Russia. [1]

On the night of September 11, 1987 at the Sunrise Musical Theater in Sunrise, Florida, bass player Jaco Pastorius sneaked onstage before being kicked out by the theater's security team. He then made his way to the Midnight Bottle Club in Wilton Manors, Florida, where he ended up in a fight with Luc Havan, the club's manager, after reportedly kicking in a glass door, having been refused entry to the club. As a result of his injuries, he died on September 21, 1987 at the age of 35 at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. [2]

Live releases

Live material from 1987 has appeared on the following releases:

Tour band

Typical set lists

A tour poster advertising the West German shows from March 12 to April 3. Santana German Tour 1987 Poster.jpg
A tour poster advertising the West German shows from March 12 to April 3.

A typical set list of this tour was as follows (a song not followed by the writer indicates that the writer of the song is unknown): [3]

  1. "The Beat of My Drum" (Babatunde Olatunji)
  2. "Veracruz" (Jeffrey Cohen, Buddy Miles, Gregg Rolie, Carlos Santana)
  3. "Primera Invasion" (Graham Lear, David Margen, Alan Pasqua, Santana)
  4. "Open Invitation" (Santana, Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter, Greg Walker, Margen)
  5. "She's Not There" (Rod Argent)
  6. "One"
  7. "Incident at Neshabur" (Alberto Gianquinto, Santana)
  8. "Body Surfing" (Santana, Alex Ligertwood)
  9. "Songs of Freedom" (Tom Coster, Miles, Santana)
  10. "Savor" (José Areas, David Brown, Michael Carabello, Rolie, Santana, Michael Shrieve)
  11. "Cavatina" (Stanley Myers)
  12. "Black Magic Woman" (Peter Green)
  13. "Gypsy Queen" (Gábor Szabó)
  14. "Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente)
  15. "Evil Ways" (Clarence "Sonny" Henry)
  16. "Jin-go-lo-ba" (Babatunde Olatunji)
  17. "Once It's Gotcha" (Cohen, Coster, Alphonso Johnson)
Encore
  1. "The Healer" (John Lee Hooker, Roy Rogers, Santana, Chester Thompson)
  2. "By the Pool"
  3. "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" (Coster, Santana)
  4. "Right Now" (Ligertwood, Santana)
Second Encore
  1. "Soul Sacrifice" (Santana, Rolie, Brown, Marcus Malone)
  2. "Deeper, Dig Deeper" (Sterling Crew, Miles, Santana, Thompson)

Tour dates

The tour itinerary consisted of: [4]

North American show (February 14)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
February 14 Oakland United States Omni Club

European leg (March 5 – April 26)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
March 5 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Ice Hall
March 7 Stockholm Sweden Johanneshovs Isstadion
March 9 Lillestrøm Norway Skedsmohallen
March 10 Copenhagen Denmark Valby Idrætspark
March 12 West Berlin West Germany Deutschlandhalle
March 13 Kassel Eissporthalle Kassel
March 14 Würzburg Carl-Diem-Halle
March 16 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle
March 17 Stuttgart West Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
March 19 Frankfurt Festhalle Messe Frankfurt
March 20 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
March 21 Bremen West Germany Stadthalle Bremen
March 22 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
March 24 Eppelheim Rhein-Neckar-Halle
March 25 Essen Grugahalle
March 26 Hanover Eilenriedehalle
March 28 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
March 29 Lyon Palais des Sports de Gerland
March 31 Munich West Germany Olympiahalle München
April 1 Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle
April 2 Cologne Sporthalle
April 3 Kiel Ostseehalle
April 5 East Berlin East Germany Palace of the Republic
April 6
April 24 Milan Italy Palatrussardi
April 25 Rome Teatro Tenda Pianeta
April 26

Israeli leg (April 29–30)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
April 29 Jerusalem Israel Sultan's Pool
April 30 Tel Aviv Yarkon Park

European leg (May 2–24)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
May 2 Clermont-Ferrand France Clermont-Ferrand Sports Hall
May 3 Perpignan Parc des Expositions de Perpignan
May 4 Bordeaux Patinoire de Mériadeck
May 6 Toulouse Palais des Sports
May 7 Montpellier Le Zénith Sud
May 8 Angers Parc des Expositions d'Angers
May 10 Guilers Parc des Expositions de Penfeld
May 12 Lausanne Switzerland Centre Intercommunal de Glace de Malley
May 13 Brussels Belgium Forest National
May 14 Rotterdam Netherlands Sportpaleis
May 16 London England Hammersmith Odeon
May 17
May 19 Biedermannsdorf AustriaJubiläumshalle
May 20 Graz Eisstadion Graz Liebenau
May 21 Budapest Hungary Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion
May 23 [lower-alpha 1] Konstanz West GermanyBodenseestadion
May 24 [lower-alpha 2] Sankt Goarshausen Freilichtbühne Loreley

U.S. leg (June 13 – July 1)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
June 13 [lower-alpha 3] Berkeley United States William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre
June 14 [lower-alpha 4] San Francisco Harrison Street
June 19
(2 shows)		 Stateline Caesars Tahoe
June 20
(2 shows)
June 26 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre
June 27 Chicago Poplar Creek Music Theatre
June 28 Indianapolis Indianapolis Tennis Center
June 30 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
July 1 Canandaigua Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center

Russian show (July 4)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
July 4 [lower-alpha 5] Moscow Russia Izmailovo Stadium

North American leg (July 8 – September 12)

List of tour dates with date, city, country, venue
Date
(1987)		CityCountryVenue
July 8 Norfolk United States Chrysler Hall
July 10 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 11 Cleveland Nautica Stage
July 13 Mansfield Xfinity Center
July 14 Upper Darby Township Tower Theater
July 16 Holmdel Township Garden State Arts Center
July 17 New York City Pier 84
July 18 Wantagh Jones Beach Marine Theater
July 19 Syracuse Long Branch Park
July 21
(2 shows)		 New Haven Toad's Place
July 23CanandaiguaFinger Lakes Performing Arts Center
July 24 Vaughan Canada Kingswood Music Theatre
July 25 Montreal Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
June 26 Hampton Beach United States Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom
August 14 San Diego San Diego State University
August 15 Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre
August 16
August 19 Ventura Seaside Park
August 20 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
August 22 [lower-alpha 6] Angels Camp Calaveras County Fairgrounds
August 23 [lower-alpha 6]
August 26 Denver McNichols Sports Arena
August 27 Santa Fe Paolo Soleri Amphitheater
August 28
August 29 El Paso Special Events Center
September 1 Austin Lester E. Palmer Auditorium
September 4 San Antonio Sunken Garden Theater
September 5 Dallas State Fair Band Shell
September 6 Houston Buffalo Bayou Park
September 10 Tampa Expo Hall
September 11 Sunrise Sunrise Musical Theater
September 12

Notes

  1. ↑ The concert on May 23 was apart of Rock am See.
  2. ↑ The concert on May 24 was apart of Open Air Festival Loreley.
  3. ↑ The concert on June 13 was apart of the Twilight Dance Concert.
  4. ↑ The concert on June 14 was apart of the Carnaval San Francisco.
  5. ↑ The concert on July 4 was apart of the Soviet/American Peace Concert.
  6. 1 2 The concert on July 4 was apart of Mountain Aire II.

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ Slavicek 2006 , p. 87
  2. ↑ Krause, Renee (16 September 1987). "Noted Musician Listed As Critical After Altercation". Sun-Sentinel . Retrieved September 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Santana Average Setlists of tour: Freedom | setlist.fm". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  4. ↑ "Search for setlists: tour:(Freedom) | setlist.fm". Setlist.fm. Retrieved 2019-08-04.

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