Van Halen 1978 World Tour

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Van Halen 1978 World Tour
Promotional tour by Van Halen
Location
  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia
Associated album Van Halen
Start dateMarch 3, 1978 (1978-03-03)
End dateDecember 3, 1978 (1978-12-03)
Legs8
No. of shows
  • 132 in North America
  • 39 in Europe
  • 9 in Asia
  • 180 total
Van Halen concert chronology

The 1978 World Tour was the first concert tour by American hard rock band Van Halen. The world tour, which was in support of their debut album, covered mainly North America with 125 shows in the United States and two shows in Canada, 38 shows in Europe, and seven shows in Japan. At 172 shows total over a 10-month period, the tour was one of the band's most extensive overall. Throughout the tour Van Halen was mostly a supporting act for bands such as Black Sabbath and Journey, however, Van Halen headlined shows in Europe and Japan.

Contents

Background

First North American leg

See also Infinity Tour

Van Halen started their first leg opening for acts Montrose and Journey. Herbie Herbert, the manager for Journey at the time, recalled bringing guitarist Neal Schon of Journey along with him to go see the band in New York to a sold out audience of 3,500 people. [1]

Opening for Black Sabbath

See also Never Say Die! Tour (Black Sabbath)

"We did 23 shows in 25 days," recalled Eddie Van Halen regarding the European leg. "I didn't know they had that many places! But to meet Tony Iommi when I was so into him was really incredible." David Lee Roth summed up the experience as "a real shot in the ass". The Liverpool Empire Theatre date was attended by future members of Apollo 440 – who, in 1997, issued an adaptation of Van Halen's 'Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love' as 'Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub'. [2]

"We had a great time with the Sabbath guys…" recalled Alex Van Halen. "It was really special because Ed and I were big fans of the band. Every time they came to LA, I was out there in the audience, fighting tooth and nail to get to the front so I could get my eardrums destroyed. But I learned a lot from them about audience participation… One time, we were up near Leicester, about half an hour before showtime, and Ozzy and Bill Ward were out there on the front lawn with the punters, having a beer. I thought, 'Fuck me, none of this star-type shit.' I was really impressed." [3]

"Ozzy used to tell a funny story…" recalled onetime Osbourne sidekick Don Airey. "Sabbath had done a tour for a year [sic] with Kiss… and it nearly killed him because Kiss had been so good. And he said, 'We're never doing that again. Next tour, we just want a bar band from LA. That's all we want.' And then he got to the first gig. Ozzy said they walked in as 'Eruption' was going on. Ozzy said, 'We just went into the dressing room. We sat there going, That was incredible… and then it finished, and we were just too stunned to speak. Then there was a knock on the door and the best-looking man in the world walked in and said, Hello' – you know, David Lee Roth. I think they only lasted about two months on that tour. Then the record broke… I went to see them at the Rainbow when they supported Sabbath. By the time they played the Rainbow again a month later, they were headlining. Incredible!"

Of the North American leg of the tour, Ozzy Osbourne said: "Van Halen are so good they ought to be headlining the tour." [4]

Setlist

Tour dates

Date [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] CityCountryVenueSupport Act(s)
North America
March 3, 1978 Chicago United States Aragon Ballroom (Live premiere)  [14] Journey
Montrose
March 4, 1978 Springfield Nelson Center
March 5, 1978 Indianapolis Indiana Convention Center
March 7, 1978 Madison Shuffle Inn
March 9, 1978 Milwaukee Riverside Theater
March 10, 1978 Detroit Masonic Temple Theater
March 11, 1978 Trotwood Hara Arena
March 12, 1978 Homestead Leona Theater [15] [16]
March 14, 1978 Toronto Canada Massey Hall
March 15, 1978 Cleveland United States Cleveland Music Hall
March 16, 1978 Columbus Columbus Veterans Memorial Auditorium  [17]
March 17, 1978 Louisville Louisville Gardens
March 18, 1978 Evansville Evansville Coliseum
March 19, 1978 South Bend Morris Civic Auditorium
March 20, 1978 Schaumburg B'Ginnings
March 21, 1978UticaUtica Memorial Auditorium
March 22, 1978 Albany Palace Theatre
March 23, 1978 Buffalo New Century Theatre
March 24, 1978 Upper Darby Tower Theater   [18] [19]
March 25, 1978New York City Palladium   [20] [21]
March 26, 1978 Hempstead Calderone Concert Hall
March 27, 1978 Boston Paradise Theater
March 29, 1978 Duluth Duluth Auditorium
March 30, 1978 Saint Paul St. Paul Civic Center Theater
March 31, 1978 Kansas City Memorial Hall
April 1, 1978 St. Louis Kiel Opera House
April 2, 1978 Omaha Omaha Music Hall
April 3, 1978 Wichita Pogo's
April 4, 1978 Tulsa Cain's Ballroom
April 5, 1978 Indianapolis Murat Temple Theater
April 6, 1978 Flint IMA Auditorium
April 7, 1978 Nashville War Memorial Auditorium
April 8, 1978 Murray MSU Field House
April 9, 1978 Birmingham Boutwell Memorial Auditorium
April 11, 1978 Corpus Christi Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
April 12, 1978 Austin Austin Municipal Auditorium
April 13, 1978 Shreveport Shreveport Memorial Auditorium
April 14, 1978 Fort Worth Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium
April 15, 1978 Houston Houston Music Hall
April 16, 1978 New Orleans The Warehouse
April 18, 1978 Memphis Ellis Memorial Auditorium
April 20, 1978 Tallahassee Ruby Diamond Auditorium
April 21, 1978 Pembroke Pines Hollywood Sportatorium   [22]
April 22, 1978 Tampa Curtis Hixon Hall
April 23, 1978 Atlanta Fox Theatre
April 25, 1978 Virginia Beach Rogues' Gallery—
April 26, 1978
April 27, 1978 Norfolk The Scope
April 28, 1978New York CityPalladium  [23]
Europe
May 4, 1978 Poperinge BelgiumZaal Maeckeblijde—
May 5, 1978 Delft NetherlandsDe Stads Doelen
May 6, 1978 Amsterdam Paradiso   [24]
May 8, 1978 Hamburg West Germany Markthalle Hamburg
May 9, 1978
May 10, 1978
May 12, 1978ParisFrance Théâtre Mogador   [25] [26]
May 16, 1978 Sheffield England Sheffield City Hall Black Sabbath
May 17, 1978 Southport Southport Theatre
May 18, 1978 Glasgow Scotland Glasgow Apollo [27]
May 19, 1978 Aberdeen Capitol Theatre
May 21, 1978 Newcastle England Newcastle City Hall   [28]
May 22, 1978 Manchester Manchester Apollo   [29] [30]
May 23, 1978 Stoke Victoria Hall   [31]
May 25, 1978 Portsmouth Portsmouth Guildhall
May 26, 1978 Bristol Colston Hall   [32]
May 27, 1978London Lewisham Odeon   [33]
May 28, 1978 Ipswich Ipswich Gaumont Theatre   [34] [35]
May 30, 1978 Coventry Coventry Theatre
May 31, 1978 Leicester De Montfort Hall
June 1, 1978London Hammersmith Odeon   [36] [37]
June 2, 1978 Oxford Apollo Theatre Oxford
June 3, 1978 Southampton Southampton Gaumont Theatre
June 5, 1978 Birmingham Birmingham Odeon
June 6, 1978
June 7, 1978 Bradford St George's Hall   [38]
June 8, 1978 Preston Preston Guild Hall
June 10, 1978LondonHammersmith Odeon   [39]
June 11, 1978
Asia
June 17, 1978TokyoJapan Tokyo Cultural Hall   [40] [41] —
June 19, 1978
June 21, 1978 Nakano Sun Plaza Hall   [42] [43] [44] [45]
June 22, 1978
June 24, 1978 Nagoya Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall   [46] [47]
June 25, 1978 Osaka Festival Hall
June 27, 1978 Osaka Cultural Hall   [48] [49] [50] [51]
North America
July 1, 1978 Dallas United States Cotton Bowl ( Texxas Jam )  [52] —
July 2, 1978 San Antonio San Antonio Municipal Auditorium
July 3, 1978Austin Armadillo World Headquarters
July 6, 1978 Phoenix Celebrity Theatre
July 7, 1978
July 8, 1978 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
July 9, 1978 Long Beach Long Beach Arena   [53] [54]
July 13, 1978New Orleans The Superdome The Rolling Stones
The Doobie Brothers
July 15, 1978 Kansas City Royals Stadium (Summer Jam) Kansas
Steve Miller Band
Eddie Money
July 16, 1978 Davenport Credit Island Park (Mississippi River Jam)  [55] [56] The Doobie Brothers
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Journey
July 17, 1978 La Crosse Mary E. Sawyer AuditoriumJourney [57]
July 18, 1978 Seymour Seymour Speedway
July 21, 1978 Jackson Carl Perkins Civic Auditorium
July 23, 1978 Oakland Oakland Coliseum ( Day on the Green 1978 #3)  [58] [59] [60] Aerosmith
Foreigner
Pat Travers
AC/DC
July 24, 1978 Redding Redding Civic Center—
July 25, 1978 Reno Washoe County Fairgrounds
July 31, 1978 Alexandria Rapides Parish Coliseum
August 2, 1978 Wichita Falls Wichita Falls Memorial Auditorium
August 3, 1978 Lubbock Lubbock Municipal Auditorium
August 4, 1978AmarilloHollywood Bowl (West Texas Jam 1978) [61] [62]
August 5, 1978 Great Bend SRCA Raceway (Summer Jam)
August 6, 1978 Oklahoma City Oklahoma State Fairgrounds Grandstand
(Oklahoma Jam 1978)  [63] [64] [65] [66]
August 7, 1978 Wichita Pogo's
August 9, 1978 Peoria Second Chance
August 10, 1978 Salem Hooker Lake Inn  [67]
August 12, 1978 Landover Capital Centre Ted Nugent [68] [69] [70]
August 13, 1978 Binghamton Broome County Arena
August 19, 1978 Bay City Engel Stadium (Summer Celebration) Bob Seger
Bandit
August 22, 1978Milwaukee MECCA Arena Black Sabbath
August 23, 1978Chicago International Amphitheatre
August 24, 1978
August 25, 1978 Terre Haute Hulman Arena
August 27, 1978New York City Madison Square Garden
August 28, 1978Uniondale NY Nassau Coliseum
August 29, 1978 Philadelphia Spectrum   [71] [72]
August 30, 1978 Poughkeepsie Mid-Hudson Civic Center
August 31, 1978 Erie Erie County Field House
September 1, 1978 Hampton Hampton Coliseum
September 2, 1978 Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Civic Arena
September 4, 1978 South Yarmouth Cape Cod Coliseum
September 5, 1978 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center
September 7, 1978 Utica Utica Memorial Auditorium
September 8, 1978 Niagara Falls Niagara Falls Convention Center   [73]
September 9, 1978 Baltimore Baltimore Civic Center
September 10, 1978 New Haven New Haven Coliseum
September 12, 1978Indianapolis Indianapolis Convention Center
September 14, 1978Detroit Cobo Arena
September 15, 1978 Richfield Richfield Coliseum
September 16, 1978St. Louis Checkerdome
September 17, 1978Kansas City Kansas City Municipal Auditorium
September 18, 1978Tulsa Tulsa Assembly Center
September 21, 1978 Bakersfield Bakersfield Civic Auditorium
September 22, 1978 Fresno Selland Arena   [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80]
September 23, 1978 Anaheim Anaheim Stadium (Summerfest 1978)  [81] [82]
September 26, 1978 Vancouver Canada Pacific Coliseum
September 27, 1978 Portland United States Portland Memorial Coliseum
September 28, 1978 Spokane Spokane Coliseum
September 29, 1978 Seattle Seattle Center Arena
September 30, 1978
Europe
October 9, 1978HamburgWest GermanyAudimax TheatreBlack Sabbath
October 10, 1978 Essen Grugahalle
October 11, 1978 Offenbach Stadthalle Offenbach   [83]
October 13, 1978 Uhingen Haldenberg Hall
October 14, 1978 Ludwigshafen Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
October 15, 1978 Kuernach Kuernach Hall
October 17, 1978 Neunkirchen Hemmerleinhalle
October 18, 1978 Bad Rappenau Bad Rappenau Sports Hall
October 20, 1978 Cambrai FranceGrottos Palace
October 22, 1978LondonEngland Rainbow Theatre   [84] —
October 27, 1978 Koekelare BelgiumKoekelare Sports Hall
United States
November 3, 1978 St. Petersburg United States Bayfront Center Black Sabbath
November 4, 1978 Jacksonville Jacksonville Coliseum
November 5, 1978Pembroke PinesHollywood Sportatorium
November 7, 1978 Columbus Municipal Auditorium
November 8, 1978BirminghamBoutwell Memorial Auditorium
November 9, 1978NashvilleNashville Municipal Auditorium
November 10, 1978Memphis Mid-South Coliseum
November 11, 1978 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum
November 12, 1978Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium   [85] [86]
November 13, 1978Atlanta Omni Coliseum
November 14, 1978 Mobile Mobile Municipal Auditorium
November 15, 1978 Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center
November 17, 1978AustinAustin Municipal Auditorium
November 18, 1978 Midland Chaparral Center
November 19, 1978 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
November 20, 1978Oklahoma City Myriad Convention Center
November 22, 1978Corpus ChristiCorpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
November 23, 1978 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
November 24, 1978San Antonio San Antonio Convention Center
November 25, 1978Dallas Dallas Convention Center
November 26, 1978
November 28, 1978 Denver McNichols Sports Arena
November 29, 1978 Ogden Dee Events Center
December 1, 1978 San Bernardino Swing Auditorium
December 2, 1978Oakland Oakland Arena
December 3, 1978San DiegoSan Diego Sports Arena
December 4, 1978Long BeachLong Beach Arena—
December 5, 1978 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
December 7, 1978 Abilene Taylor County Expo Center
December 8, 1978 El Paso El Paso County Coliseum
December 10, 1978 Albuquerque Johnson Gymnasium
December 11, 1978

Box office score data

List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date
(1978)		CityVenueAttendanceGrossRef(s)
July 9Long BeachLong Beach Arena8,614$51,652 [87]
July 13New OrleansThe Superdome80,173$1,060,000 [88]
July 15Kansas CityRoyals Stadium34,541$423,904
August 19Bay CityEngel Stadium22,572$201,513 [89]
September 4South YarmouthCape Cod Coliseum7,100$53,888 [90]
September 5PortlandCumberland County Civic Center7,744$57,606
September 8Niagara FallsConvention Center8,186$62,267
September 9BaltimoreCivic Center9,253$65,887
September 10New HavenColiseum7,438$52,289

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