Legs 8 | ||
Location North America, South America, Asia, Oceania, Europe Associated album Music from Another Dimension! Start date May 30, 2012 (2012-05-30) End date June 28, 2014 (2014-06-28) No. of shows 41 in North America
5 in Oceania
6 in Asia
7 in South America
15 in Europe
77 total
6 cancelled | ||
The Global Warming Tour was a concert tour by American hard rock band Aerosmith that included 67 concert performances across North America, Oceania, Asia and Latin America. Prior to the first leg of the tour, the band played a private event for Walmart shareholders. The first leg of the tour included 23 performances and lasted from late May through early August 2012. The second leg included 14 performances in November and December 2012. Before the second leg of the tour, the band performed a brief set at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in mid September. Also prior to the second leg, to promote the release of their new album in early November, the band made three special nationally-televised performances in New York City and also did a special performance in front of their old Boston apartment. The performances on the first two legs of the tour were held primarily in indoor arenas, with a couple outdoor shows and a few festival dates on the first leg, including three festivals in eastern Canada and Milwaukee's Summerfest. The third leg of the tour ran from late April to mid May 2013 and saw Aerosmith playing their first shows in Australia since 1990, as well as their first-ever shows in New Zealand and the Philippines. On May 30, the band performed as part of the "Boston Strong" charity concert for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. In July 2013, the band played at the Greenbrier Classic in West Virginia and at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. In August 2013, the band performed four concerts in Japan, but their first-ever shows in China and Taiwan were cancelled due to poor ticket sales. The band also performed in August at the Harley-Davidson 110th anniversary concert series in Milwaukee. Concerts were planned for Latin America in September and October, including their first-ever shows in Uruguay, Guatemala and El Salvador.
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Cheap Trick was the opening act for all dates in the first two legs except for a few festival shows. The Dead Dasies, a supergroup featuring Jon Stevens and Richard Fortus, were the opening act for the Australia/New Zealand leg. The tour is in promotion of Aerosmith's new album Music from Another Dimension!, released on November 6, 2012. In addition to many of their biggest hits and a few choice album cuts, the band has so far performed four new songs from Music from Another Dimension on this tour, three of them regularly ("Oh Yeah", "Legendary Child", and "Lover Alot"), with the potential for more songs to be played in the 2013 leg. During the South America leg, specifically in Argentina and Brazil, Aerosmith toured with Whitesnake, including performances at the Personal Fest in Buenos Aires and at the Monsters of Rock in São Paulo.
On May 5, 2013, the band announced they had cancelled their first-ever show in Jakarta due to safety concerns.
In 2014, Aerosmith played 17 concerts across Europe from May 14 to July 2. A new tour, the Let Rock Rule Tour, was scheduled to follow in July, August, and September 2014 that saw Aerosmith play several dates in North America. This tour featured Slash (with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators) as the opening act. Full details of the tour were announced on April 8, 2014. On May 14, 2014, the band announced that they had cancelled their concert in Istanbul after Turkey declared a three-day mourning for the victims of Soma mine disaster. July 2, 2014 concert in Kiev was cancelled due to civil unrest in Ukraine.
Stage setup
The stage was very close to the design of past tours. The main stage, occupying one end of the venue had the classic Aerosmith logo painted on top and two small platforms off to each side. Like normal, Joey's drums are at the back, Tom and Brad are on the left side, and Joe is on the right side. The back-up musicians were at the back-left of the stage behind a stack of amps, the order usually went Melanie (backing vocals), Mindi (saxophone and backing vocals) and Russ (keyboards and backing vocals). In the middle of the main stage was the catwalk, which ran through nine rows at each venue. At the end of the catwalk was a B-stage, which ran through the tenth row to the sixteenth row. Around the entire stage was a half-meter wide barricade that contained security and a few select fans.
Performance
The show would start with a video playing on the main video screen that was reminiscent of the original opening from The Outer Limits. Near the end of the video, smoke would arise from the end of the B-stage and from the main stage. When the video finished, Joey, Brad, Tom, and Joe would kick into the opening song while Steven and Joe would rise from a trapdoor at the end of the B-stage. For the first song, Steven and Joe would stay on the B-stage and the rest of the band would stay on the main stage. After the first song finished, Tom, Brad, Steven, and Joe would all go where they pleased. At "What It Takes", Steven would look for an attractive girl to sing the opening lines, like in most tours. At the encore which was "Dream On" at every date, smoke would again appear from the end of the B-stage and Steven on a white piano would appear from the same trapdoor as before. The piano had a few blocks beside it used as stairs by Joe and Steven, as they would walk on top of the piano. They followed with a second encore – "Train Kept A-Rollin'" – and at a few venues, a third encore was even played, either "Mama Kin" or "Chip Away the Stone". When the encores wrapped up, a few cannons fired silver confetti into the audience. After the confetti storm, Steven would introduce the back-up musicians (Melanie, Mindi and Russ) and the members of Aerosmith. Finally, he would hand the microphone off to Joe, who would introduce Steven. After the intros, the band would walk out with "Mannish Boy" by Muddy Waters playing over the speakers.