The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour

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The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour
Tour by Blink-182
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Poster for the planned Australian leg, November 2000
LocationNorth America, Oceania
Associated albums Enema of the State and The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!)
Start dateMay 11, 2000
End dateApril 9, 2001
Legs2
No. of shows41
Box office$7,000,000 [1] ($9,780,558.52 in 2023 dollars) [2]
Blink-182 concert chronology

The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour was a concert tour by rock band Blink-182. Launched in support of the group's 1999 album Enema of the State , the tour visited amphitheatres and arenas between the summer of 2000 and spring of 2001. The tour was considered "one of the most anticipated rock tours of the season", and was supported by Bad Religion and Fenix TX, and from Bodyjar on the Australian and New Zealand leg of the tour. [3]

Contents

The tour was celebrated with live album titled The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) (2000). The concert was actually recorded at the band's 1999 Loserkids tour.

Background

With massive radio and video play, Blink-182 played to larger crowds when they began touring in support of Enema of the State. [4] The band played to sold-out audiences and performed worldwide during the summer of 2000 on the Mark, Tom and Travis Show tour. The tour was staged as a drive-in movie, with a giant retro billboard suspended from the ceiling, and films were projected on the screen behind the band—including vintage gay porn as a joke. [5] Barker broke one of his fingers during an altercation with two men who kept flirting with his girlfriend in Ohio, and Damon Delapaz, guitarist of Fenix TX, stepped in on drums for Barker. [3]

When questioned about the decision to tour with Blink-182, Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin said, "I was happy to be asked, because it's a great way to reach some people who've never heard punk rock, who are now willing to listen to it." [6] Hoppus was effusive of their inclusion. "Watching them play every night is just a huge honor for us, and to have them on tour is the best thing ever", said Hoppus. "I think it's rad, because a lot of the kids that come to the shows probably never even heard of Bad Religion or don't know what it's really all about. What Bad Religion gave to us is kind of like what we are giving back to the kids of the next generation, hopefully." [3]

To celebrate the success of the tour, the band released a limited edition live album titled The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) , which featured snippets of the band's infamous between-song dialogue. [7] Released in November 2000, the band returned to the studio with Finn to complete a song left off the final track listing of Enema of the State: "Man Overboard." [8] Although MTV News initially reported the album would feature recordings made "during its spring-summer tour," [8] the album's content ended up featuring concerts from the band's 1999 Loserkids tour. [9]

The band cancelled an Australian leg on November 7, 2000 when Barker was diagnosed with a "severe case of the flu." [10]

Setlist

"When we sold out the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, [...] I was completely overwhelmed. I had never thought that we would do something like that, and we did." -- Hoppus Forum Inglewood.JPG
"When we sold out the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, […] I was completely overwhelmed. I had never thought that we would do something like that, and we did." — Hoppus
  1. "Dumpweed"
  2. "Don't Leave Me"
  3. "Aliens Exist"
  4. "Family Reunion"
  5. "Going Away to College"
  6. "What's My Age Again?"
  7. "Dick Lips"
  8. "Blow Job"
  9. "Untitled"
  10. "Voyeur"
  11. "Pathetic"
  12. "Adam's Song"
  13. "Peggy Sue"
  14. "Wendy Clear"
  15. "Carousel"
Encore
  2. "All the Small Things"
  2. "Mutt"
  4. "The Country Song"
  6. "Dammit"
Notes

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenue
North America [12]
May 11, 2000 Chula Vista United States Coors Amphitheatre
May 12, 2000Los Angeles Great Western Forum
May 13, 2000 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
May 15, 2000 Dallas Starplex Amphitheatre
May 16, 2000 Austin Frank Erwin Center
May 17, 2000 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
May 19, 2000 Miami Miami Arena
May 20, 2000 Tampa Tampa Ice Palace
May 21, 2000 Atlanta Lakewood Amphitheatre
May 24, 2000 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion
May 25, 2000 Camden Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre
May 28, 2000 Stanhope Waterloo Village
May 29, 2000 Worcester Worcester's Centrum Centre
May 30, 2000 Wantagh Jones Beach Amphitheater
June 2, 2000 Toronto Canada Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
June 3, 2000 Darien United States Darien Lake PAC
June 4, 2000 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
June 7, 2000 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena
June 8, 2000 Dayton Ervin J. Nutter Center
June 9, 2000 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Amphitheatre
June 10, 2000 Tinley Park New World Music Theatre
June 11, 2000 St. Paul Midway Stadium
June 15, 2000 Portland Memorial Coliseum
June 16, 2000 George The Gorge Amphitheatre
June 17, 2000 Nampa Idaho Center
June 20, 2000 Sacramento ARCO Arena
June 21, 2000 Oakland Oakland Arena
June 22, 2000 Long Beach Long Beach Arena
June 24, 2000 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena
June 25, 2000Los Angeles Universal Amphitheatre
June 28, 2000 West Valley City E Center
June 29, 2000 Greenwood Village Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
July 3, 2000 Kansas City Kemper Arena
July 1, 2000 St. Louis Kiel Center
July 2, 2000 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater
Oceania [10]
March 31, 2001 Auckland New Zealand Ericsson Stadium
April 2, 2001 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre
April 4, 2001 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
April 6, 2001 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
April 7, 2001 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
April 9, 2001 Perth Perth Entertainment Centre

Reception

In describing the tour, Hoppus said at the time:

There's one review that said, "They played for an hour and 15 minutes, and I think 25 minutes of it was actual music." Which is about right. [3]

Gavin Edwards, who interviewed the band at various stops on the tour for their August 2000 Rolling Stone cover, wrote that "In ninety entertaining minutes, the band zooms through nineteen songs […] they act just like they do offstage, only with musical instruments strapped around their torsos." [5] Nina Garin of MTV News reviewed the band's first show of the tour, commenting, "While the music inspired chest-pounding and breast-flashing, it was the trio's signature stage banter that kept the hour-and-a-half show moving at full speed. They rattled off jokes about vaginas and penises. There was a short song about blow jobs and another featuring nothing but profanities." [11] Christopher Gray of The Austin Chronicle was positive in his assumptions of the band's May 16 Austin performance, writing, "Yes, they may write songs called "Dick Lips", "Shit Piss", and "Blowjob", but still they came across as ... wholesome. Good boys. It could have been the Fifties aura of their drive-in-and-Cadillacs stage set, or perhaps DeLonge's wide-eyed glee at catching a fan's brassiere, but it was probably the songs: jet-engine blasts of adolescent heartache/bliss with more hooks than an East Texas tackle shop." [13]

The tour featured $20-$25 ticket prices and sold 80% of tickets, grossing $7 million. [1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Jason Lipshutz (September 16, 2011). "Blink-182: The Billboard Cover Story". Billboard. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–" . Retrieved February 29, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 MTV News staff. "Blink-182: Enema of the Stage". MTV News. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved June 1, 2010.
  4. 1 2 Hoppus, 2001. p. 99
  5. 1 2 3 Edwards, Gavins (August 3, 2000). "The Half Naked Truth About Blink-182". Rolling Stone . Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  6. ↑ Vineyard, Jennifer (May 11, 2000). "The New State of Bad Religion". Rolling Stone . Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  7. ↑ Hoppus, 2001. p. 100
  8. 1 2 Basham, David (August 28, 2000). "Blink-182 Records New Song For Live Album". MTV News. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved July 18, 2012.
  9. ↑ The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) (liner notes). blink-182. United States: MCA. 2000. 112379.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. 1 2 Teri Vanhorn (November 7, 2000). "Blink-182 Cancel Shows". MTV News. Archived from the original on January 30, 2015. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  11. 1 2 Nina Garin (May 12, 2000). "Blink-182 Kick Off Tour With Hometown Show". MTV News. Archived from the original on June 1, 2016. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
  12. ↑ Mancini, Robert (March 7, 2000). "Blink-182 Preps New Tour, Video". MTV News. Archived from the original on January 17, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  13. ↑ Gray, Christopher (May 26, 2000). "Blink-182, Bad Religion, Fenix TX, Frank Erwin Center, May 16". The Austin Chronicle . Retrieved August 1, 2013.

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