Pump Tour

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Pump Tour
Tour by Aerosmith
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Associated album Pump
Start dateOctober 18, 1989 (1989-10-18)
End dateOctober 15, 1990 (1990-10-15)
Legs9
No. of shows164
Aerosmith concert chronology

The Pump Tour was a concert tour by American rock band Aerosmith that lasted twelve months, from mid-October 1989 to mid-October 1990. The tour was put on in support of the band's second consecutive multi-platinum album Pump , released in September 1989.

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Background

The Pump Tour saw the band continue its successful streak, on the heels of 1987's Permanent Vacation and its associated tour. During the course of the tour, the band charted four Top 40 singles from Pump . By the end of the tour, Pump had sold four million copies, eventually selling seven million copies. [1]

This tour was notable as it saw Aerosmith's first return to Europe since 1977, as well as the band's first-ever performances in Australia. In addition, this tour saw the band tour North America on numerous legs, as well as perform a series of dates in Japan. [2] [3]

Special performances on The Howard Stern Show , Saturday Night Live , and MTV Unplugged were interspersed during the course of the tour. [3] [4]

Opening acts on this tour included Skid Row, Joan Jett, The Cult, Poison, Warrant, Metallica, The Black Crowes, and The Quireboys. Some of these acts were regular openers, while some opened for Aerosmith only at specific festivals or stadium shows. [3] [5]

During the tour, the band got to meet some of their idols. Steven Tyler met Mick Jagger backstage at a Rolling Stones concert, only the second time he had met him, and the first time he met him while sober. [6] In addition, the band met Robert Plant [7] and Jimmy Page, who saw the band perform on separate occasions in England. At one show, The Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington Leicestershire UK, Page jammed with the band on "Train Kept A-Rollin'", and at another show, he played an extended set with the band at the Marquee Club in London. [8]

For this tour, the band employed the use of a Citation II private plane, which the band named "Aeroforce One". The plane was formerly used by Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. [9]

In September 1990, towards the end of the tour, A&R man John Kalodner remarked how Aerosmith were "maybe the biggest band in the world", thinking "Nobody else is this good right now." [10]

Tour dates

[3] [11]

DateCityCountryVenueTickets Sold / AvailableRevenue
Europe
October 18, 1989 Cologne West Germany Sporthalle
October 20, 1989 Florence Italy Palasport
October 21, 1989 Milan Palatrussardi
October 24, 1989ParisFrance Zénith de Paris
October 25, 1989 Brussels Belgium Forest National
October 27, 1989 Arnhem Netherlands Rijnhal
October 29, 1989 Munich West Germany Olympiahalle
October 30, 1989 Würzburg Carl-Diem-Halle
November 1, 1989 West Berlin Deutschlandhalle
November 2, 1989 Münster Halle Münsterland
November 4, 1989 Hanover Eilenriedehalle
November 5, 1989 Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt
November 7, 1989 Böblingen Sporthalle
November 8, 1989 Mannheim Maimarkthalle
November 10, 1989 Copenhagen Denmark K.B. Hallen
November 11, 1989 Stockholm Sweden Johanneshovs Isstadion
November 14, 1989LondonEngland Hammersmith Odeon
November 15, 1989
November 17, 1989 Wembley Arena
November 18, 1989 Birmingham National Exhibition Centre
November 19, 1989
November 21, 1989 Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle City Hall
November 22, 1989 Livingston Scotland Livingston Forum
November 24, 1989 Belfast Northern Ireland Nugent Hall
November 25, 1989 Dublin Ireland Point Theatre
November 26, 1989LondonEnglandWembley Arena
North America
December 15, 1989 Charleston United States Charleston Civic Center 9,000 / 12,000$165,438
December 17, 1989 Landover Capital Centre 17,399 / 17,399$391,477
December 18, 1989 Wheeling Wheeling Civic Center
December 20, 1989 Roanoke Roanoke Civic Center
December 21, 1989 Norfolk The Scope
December 22, 1989 Richmond Richmond Coliseum
December 27, 1989 Springfield Springfield Civic Center 16,928 / 18,300$366,345
December 28, 1989 New Haven New Haven Coliseum 10,470 / 10,470$228,375
December 30, 1989 Boston Boston Garden 38,740 / 38,740$889,245
December 31, 1989
January 1, 1990
January 3, 1990 Ottawa Canada Ottawa Civic Centre
January 4, 1990 Montreal Montreal Forum 8,592 / 10,233$174,664
January 6, 1990 Toronto SkyDome 32,802 / 32,802$684,195
January 7, 1990 Erie United States Erie Civic Center
January 9, 1990 Springfield Springfield Civic Center [a] [a]
January 10, 1990 Glens Falls Glens Falls Civic Center 8,100 / 8,100$182,250
January 12, 1990 Providence Providence Civic Center 13,800 / 13,800$310,500
January 13, 1990 Rochester Rochester Community War Memorial 11,000 / 11,000$217,608
January 15, 1990 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
January 16, 1990 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
January 18, 1990 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
January 19, 1990PhiladelphiaSpectrum
January 21, 1990
January 22, 1990 East Rutherford Brendan Byrne Arena 20,368 / 20,368$417,773
January 24, 1990 Syracuse Onondaga War Memorial
January 25, 1990 Pittsburgh Civic Arena 16,635 / 16,635$300,261
January 27, 1990 Louisville Freedom Hall 16,101 / 18,500$313,970
January 28, 1990 Hershey Hersheypark Arena
February 20, 1990 Austin Frank Erwin Center 13,050 / 15,564$228,612
February 22, 1990 Dallas Reunion Arena 17,092 / 17,092$334,280
February 24, 1990 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum 11,800 / 11,800$206,500
February 25, 1990 Las Cruces Pan American Center 10,569 / 12,007$180,618
February 27, 1990 Tucson Tucson Convention Center Arena 9,081 / 9,231$170,606
February 28, 1990 Chandler Compton Terrace 13,897 / 15,000$271,006
March 2, 1990 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 13,166 / 13,166$270,921
March 3, 1990 Inglewood Great Western Forum 48,507 / 48,507$1,051,200
March 5, 1990
March 6, 1990
March 8, 1990 Reno Lawlor Events Center
March 9, 1990 Daly City Cow Palace 31,000 / 31,000$697,500
March 10, 1990
March 12, 1990 Sacramento ARCO Arena 17,031 / 17,031$383,198
March 14, 1990 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 23,002 / 23,002$505,050
March 15, 1990 Portland Memorial Coliseum 11,903 / 11,903$239,356
March 17, 1990 Vancouver Canada Pacific Coliseum 15,976 / 15,976$339,368
March 19, 1990 Edmonton Northlands Coliseum 14,938 / 14,938$313,282
March 20, 1990 Calgary Olympic Saddledome 14,682 / 14,939$295,702
March 22, 1990 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Place
March 24, 1990 Winnipeg Winnipeg Arena
March 25, 1990 Regina Regina Agridome
March 27, 1990 Billings United States MetraPark Arena
March 28, 1990 Rapid City Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
March 30, 1990 Casper Casper Events Center
March 31, 1990 Salt Lake City Salt Palace 12,972 / 12,972$252,954
April 17, 1990 Jacksonville Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum 9,105 / 10,000$179,824
April 19, 1990 Tampa USF Sun Dome 16,334 / 16,334$371,599
April 20, 1990
April 22, 1990 Miami Miami Arena 14,706 / 14,706$334,562
April 23, 1990 North Fort Myers Lee County Civic Center 9,069 / 9,069$179,113
April 25, 1990 Orlando Orlando Arena 10,261 / 11,500$233,438
April 27, 1990 Chapel Hill Dean Smith Center 14,647 / 19,268$317,768
April 28, 1990 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum 14,315 / 15,936$312,660
April 29, 1990 Columbia Carolina Coliseum 8,559 / 10,500$180,203
May 1, 1990 Johnson City Freedom Hall Civic Center
May 2, 1990 Lexington Rupp Arena 9,621 / 14,000$187,610
May 4, 1990 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena 11,566 / 14,000$225,537
May 5, 1990 Atlanta Omni Coliseum 25,442 / 34,318$572,445
May 6, 1990
May 9, 1990 Savannah Savannah Civic Center
May 10, 1990 Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center
May 12, 1990 Birmingham Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center 16,903 / 16,903$329,635
May 13, 1990 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum 9,565 / 10,000$176,953
May 15, 1990 New Orleans Lakefront Arena 10,601 / 10,601$189,810
May 16, 1990 Shrepevort Hirsch Memorial Coliseum 9,609 / 9,609$172,328
May 18, 1990 Nashville Starwood Amphitheatre
May 19, 1990 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum 10,637 / 10,637$196,785
May 21, 1990 Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center
May 22, 1990 Chattanooga UTC Arena 5,707 / 11,648$99,345
May 24, 1990 Columbus Cooper Stadium 16,800 / 19,000$375,575
May 25, 1990 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 38,506 / 38,506$866,385
May 27, 1990
May 28, 1990 Noblesville Deer Creek Music Center
June 17, 1990 Bethlehem Stabler Arena 5,515 / 5,515$122,760
June 19, 1990 Middletown Orange County Speedway
June 20, 1990 Moosic Lackawanna County Stadium [12] 12,797 / 15,000$282,308
June 22, 1990 Old Orchard Beach Seashore Performing Arts Center 12,123 / 15,000$261,283
June 23, 1990 Bristol Lake Compounce 16,849 / 20,000$354,990
June 25, 1990 Mansfield Great Woods
June 26, 1990
June 27, 1990 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 29, 1990TorontoCanada Exhibition Stadium 27,314 / 30,000$763,987
June 30, 1990RochesterUnited States Silver Stadium
July 2, 1990 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
July 3, 1990
July 5, 1990 Kalamazoo Wings Stadium
July 6, 1990 Charlevoix Castle Farms 9,876 / 14,000$204,481
July 8, 1990 Peoria Peoria Civic Center
July 9, 1990 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
July 11, 1990 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater
July 12, 1990 Valley Center Kansas Coliseum
July 14, 1990 Oklahoma City Myriad Convention Center
July 15, 1990Dallas Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre 12,676 / 20,000$282,408
July 17, 1990 St. Louis St. Louis Arena
July 18, 1990 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center [13] [14]
July 20, 1990 Tinley Park World Music Theater 26,563 / 28,127$603,433
July 21, 1990 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theatre
July 23, 1990 Burgettstown Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheater
July 24, 1990 Philadelphia The Spectrum 17,872 / 17,872$359,111
July 26, 1990East RutherfordBrendan Byrne Arena
July 27, 1990NorfolkNorfolk Scope
July 28, 1990LandoverCapital Centre
Europe
August 15, 1990DublinIrelandPoint Theatre
August 18, 1990 Castle Donington England Donington Park
August 20, 1990London Marquee Club
August 23, 1990 West Berlin West Germany Waldbühne
August 25, 1990 Dortmund Westfalenhalle
August 26, 1990 Utrecht Netherlands Stadion Galgenwaard
August 30, 1990 Bologna Italy Arena Parco Nord
August 31, 1990 Winterthur SwitzerlandWinterthurer Musikfestwochen Festival
September 1, 1990MannheimWest GermanyMaimarkt-Gelände
September 3, 1990ParisFrance Vincennes Racecourse
North America
September 8, 1990 Las Vegas United States Hard Rock Cafe
Asia
September 12, 1990 Osaka Japan Osaka Castle Hall
September 14, 1990 Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
September 16, 1990 Yokohama Yokohama Arena
September 17, 1990Tokyo Nippon Budokan
September 19, 1990
September 20, 1990
September 22, 1990 Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Australia
September 29, 1990 Adelaide Australia Memorial Drive Park
October 1, 1990 Melbourne National Tennis Centre at Flinders Park
October 2, 1990
October 5, 1990 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
October 7, 1990 Canberra Bruce Stadium
October 10, 1990 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
October 11, 1990
October 15, 1990 Perth Perth Entertainment Centre

Setlist

Average set:

  1. "Heart's Done Time"
  2. "Young Lust"
  3. "F.I.N.E."
  4. "Monkey on My Back"
  5. "Don't Get Mad, Get Even"
  6. "Janie's Got a Gun"
  7. "Permanent Vacation"
  8. "Mama Kin"
  9. "What It Takes"
  10. "Voodoo Medicine Man"
  11. "Red House" (The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
  12. "Draw the Line"
  13. "Rag Doll"
  14. "Sweet Emotion"
  15. "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"
  16. "Dream On"
  17. "Love in an Elevator"

Encore:

  1. "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
  2. "Walk This Way"

Notes

  1. 1 2 The score data is representative of both shows at the Springfield Civic Center on December 27 and January 9.

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