| Tour by Santana | |
 The cover of a tour book for the first North American tour. | |
| Associated album | Zebop! |
|---|---|
| Start date | January 12, 1981 |
| End date | December 1, 1981 |
| Legs | 5 |
| No. of shows | 83 in North America 33 in Europe 5 in Asia 121 in total |
| Santana concert chronology | |
The Zebop! Tour (also known as The Zebop Concert '81) [1] was the sixteenth concert tour by Santana supporting the Zebop! album.
Santana spent 1981 promoting Zebop! by touring in North America, Europe, and Asia. As well as playing at sporting venues and theaters, the group performed at nightclubs. The group started the year off with a huge 76-date tour of North America, followed by a brief tour of Japan with Masayoshi Takanaka. The band then flew to the United States to do seven concerts in California, and a tour of Europe soon followed. After the European tour concluded, the group opened for the Rolling Stones at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan in December.
During the Japanese tour, after visiting the Zōjō-ji temple in Tokyo, Carlos Santana's wife Deborah confessed to him that in early 1976, their guru Sri Chinmoy asked her to get an abortion. [2] Carlos was saddened by this news, and they both parted ways with Chinmoy. [3] [4] Deborah's sister Kitsaun King also left the guru's path, and Dipti Nivas, a restaurant in San Francisco the Santanas helped create in September 1973, was sold. [5]
Live material from 1981 has appeared on the following:
An average set list of this tour is as follows: [7]
| Date (1981) | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2 [lower-alpha 3] | Yokohama | Japan | Yokohama Stadium |
| August 3 | Kyoto | Kyoto Kaikan | |
| August 4 | Nagoya | Nagoya Civic Assembly Hall | |
| August 6 | Osaka | Festival Hall | |
| August 7 | Fukuoka | Fukuoka Sports Center |
| Date (1981) | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 11 | Los Angeles | United States | Greek Theatre |
| August 12 | |||
| August 13 | |||
| August 14 | |||
| August 15 | Berkeley | William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre | |
| August 16 | Sacramento | Charles C. Hughes Stadium | |
| September 2 | California Exposition |
| Date (1981) | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 1 [lower-alpha 4] | Pontiac | United States | Pontiac Silverdome |
| Date (1981) | City | Venue | Attendance | Gross | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Buffalo, United States | Kleinhans Music Hall | 2,994 | $29,020 | [8] |
| July 4 | South Yarmouth, United States | Cape Cod Coliseum | 7,200 | $68,588 | [8] |
| August 15 | Berkeley, United States | William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre | 8,500 | $89,250 | [9] |
| August 16 | Sacramento, United States | Charles C. Hughes Stadium | 21,041 | $331,577 | [9] |
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