The Fire Meets the Fury Tour

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The Fire Meets the Fury Tour
Tour by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
The Fire Meets the Fury Tour Poster.jpg
Promotional poster for the tour
LocationNorth America
Associated album In Step
Start dateOctober 25, 1989
End dateDecember 3, 1989
Legs1
No. of shows29
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble concert chronology

The Fire Meets the Fury Tour is a 1989 concert tour co-headlined by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck. Epic Records paired the two guitarists together for a 29-day concert tour starting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This tour was the third leg of the Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble In Step Tour. [1] In addition to being one of the highest-grossing concert tours of 1989, The Fire Meets the Fury Tour won the Pollstar magazine award for most creative tour package of the year. [2]

Contents

The bands rehearsed at Prince's Paisley Park Studios on October 23 and 24, before beginning the tour at the Northrup Auditorium on October 25, 1989. Both Vaughan and Beck were advertised as headliners and received equal billing for the tour. In order to ensure equal billing, Vaughan and Beck alternated headline spots. Vaughan's manager Alex Hodges commented: "We were very careful to have equal billing and everything done in a way that it would be hard to say anyone was taking advantage of the other." [3] Jeff Beck won a coin flip by lighting designer Andy Elias and was named the headline act for the opening show in Minneapolis. [4] During the final show on December 3 in Oakland, California, in which Jeff Beck was the opening act, Carlos Santana joined Stevie Ray Vaughan on stage while playing a borrowed Stratocaster. [5]

Touring personnel

Bands:

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble [6]

Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas [7]

Management/tour staff: [8]

Videos

Typical setlists

Tour dates

Date [14] CityCountryVenue
October 25, 1989 Minneapolis United States Northrop Auditorium
October 27, 1989 Milwaukee Milwaukee Auditorium
October 28, 1989 Chicago UIC Pavilion
October 29, 1989 St. Louis Fox Theatre
October 31, 1989 Columbus Battelle Hall
November 1, 1989 Montreal Canada Montreal Forum
November 2, 1989 Toronto SkyDome
November 3, 1989 Detroit United States Cobo Hall
November 4, 1989 Pittsburgh A. J. Palumbo Center
November 6, 1989 Landover Capital Centre
November 7, 1989 Philadelphia The Spectrum
November 8, 1989 Worcester The Centrum
November 11, 1989 New York City Madison Square Garden
November 12, 1989 Troy Houston Field House
November 14, 1989 Cleveland Public Auditorium
November 15, 1989 Trotwood Hara Arena
November 16, 1989 Louisville Louisville Gardens
November 18, 1989 Birmingham Boutwell Memorial Auditorium
November 19, 1989 Atlanta The Omni
November 21, 1989 Miami Miami Arena
November 22, 1989 Tampa USF Sun Dome
November 24, 1989 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
November 25, 1989 Dallas State Fair Coliseum
November 26, 1989 Austin Frank Erwin Center
November 27, 1989 Amarillo Amarillo Civic Center
November 28, 1989 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
November 29, 1989 Denver McNichols Sports Arena
December 1, 1989 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena
December 2, 1989 Sacramento Arco Arena
December 3, 1989 Oakland Oakland Coliseum Arena

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