Mötley Crüe Final Tour

Mötley Crüe Final Tour

Tour by Mötley Crüe
Start date	July 2, 2014
End date	December 31, 2015
Legs	2
No. of shows	130 in North America 5 in Asia 6 in Oceania 15 in Europe 1 in Middle East 1 in South America *158 Total
Box office	US$86.1 million
Mötley Crüe concert chronology

The Final Tour was a concert tour by heavy metal band Mötley Crüe. It had been announced as the band's final tour. Alice Cooper was announced as the opening act for the tour. The first leg of the tour began on July 2, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and concluded on November 22, 2014 in Spokane, Washington. The band further announced more dates for the second and final leg of the tour, which started February 11, 2015 in Kobe, Japan, and ended with three concerts at the Staples Center in the band's hometown of Los Angeles on December 28, 30 and 31, 2015.

Background and development

On January 28, 2014, Mötley Crüe held a press conference at Beacher's Madhouse Theater in Hollywood, where they announced a final tour with Alice Cooper as the opening act, and later on added New York City-based band The Raskins as a second opening act for the first leg of the tour. The band became the first to sign a binding legal document known as a "cessation of touring" contract, preventing them from touring beyond the year 2015 under the name Mötley Crüe. The first leg of the Final Tour began on July 2, 2014 in Grand Rapids, Michigan and ended on November 22, 2014 in Spokane, Washington.

In January 2015, the band announced that the Final Tour would keep going through the year of 2015, beginning with a handful of international dates in Japan, Australia, Europe and Rock in Rio for their only date in South America on the tour, followed by 34 more dates in North America to end the year and the tour. Even more North American dates however were later added in April 2015. Then a couple months later in June while in London preparing to perform at three different festivals across Europe, Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper announced a full set of European dates, with the shows set to take place in November 2015. On July 16, 2015, the band set out on their second North American leg of the Final Tour, beginning with two sold-out nights in Anchorage, Alaska, with the first of the two shows being recorded for an upcoming live album to be released sometime after the tour concludes.^[1] They brought along New York City-based band The Cringe as a second opening act for most of the second North American leg of the tour. Drummer Tommy Lee was forced to miss a handful of shows during October 2015 due to a flare up of tendinitis in his wrist. Alice Cooper's drummer Glen Sobel filled in for Lee on drums until he was able to return. Lee was however able to perform the piano parts in the band's hit song Home, Sweet, Home during the encore at each of the shows he missed.^[2]

The band's final shows were held in different cities throughout the southwest region of the U.S. where the band often played as they were starting out in the early 1980s, leading up to the finales, including a performance in Las Vegas where lead vocalist Vince Neil has most recently been residing, and eventually ended with three nights at the Staples Center in the band's hometown of Los Angeles on December 28, 30 and 31st of 2015. Rumors of an intimate encore performance taking place at the Whisky a Go Go immediately following the band's New Year's Eve performance at Staples Center was dismissed by Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx in an April 2015 interview.^[3]

Set list

The set list was shortened by two songs from the first to the second leg of the tour, no longer playing songs "On With the Show" and "Too Fast for Love". However "Louder Than Hell" was then added. The opening song was changed from "Saints of Los Angeles" to "Girls, Girls, Girls".^[4]

The following set list was taken from the performance on August 5, 2015 in Saint Paul, Minnesota at Xcel Energy Center:

1. "Girls, Girls, Girls"
2. "Wild Side"
3. "Primal Scream"
4. "Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.)"
5. "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)"
6. "Smokin' in the Boys Room"
7. "Looks That Kill"
8. "Mutherfucker of the Year"
9. "Anarchy in the U.K."
10. "Shout at the Devil"
11. "Louder Than Hell"
12. Tommy Lee drum solo
13. Mick Mars guitar solo
14. "Saints of Los Angeles"
15. "Live Wire"
16. "Dr. Feelgood"
17. "Kickstart My Heart"

Encore

18. "Home Sweet Home"

Shows

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, opening act, tickets sold, amount of available tickets and gross revenue

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance[5]	Revenue[5]
North America[6][7]
July 2, 2014	Grand Rapids	United States	Van Andel Arena	9,970 / 9,970	$784,507
July 4, 2014	Milwaukee		Henry Maier Festival Park	N/A	N/A
July 5, 2014	Noblesville		Klipsch Music Center	23,607 / 23,607	$724,733
July 6, 2014	Cincinnati		Riverbend Music Center	N/A	N/A
July 8, 2014	Columbus		Schottenstein Center
July 9, 2014	Maryland Heights		Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 11, 2014	Des Moines		Wells Fargo Arena	12,265 / 12,265	$753,877
July 12, 2014	Wichita		Intrust Bank Arena	7,763 / 7,763	$723,742
July 13, 2014	Tulsa		BOK Center	7,427 / 7,427	$709,567
July 15, 2014	Cedar Park		Cedar Park Center	N/A	N/A
July 16, 2014	Dallas		Gexa Energy Pavilion	17,320 / 17,320	$704,875
July 18, 2014	Albuquerque		Isleta Amphitheater	N/A	N/A
July 19, 2014	Phoenix		Ak-Chin Pavilion	18,394 / 18,394	$650,994
July 21, 2014	Los Angeles		Hollywood Bowl	16,488 / 16,488	$1,333,614
July 22, 2014	Irvine		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre	14,169 / 14,169	$656,818
July 23, 2014	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheatre	N/A	N/A
July 25, 2014	Reno		Reno Events Center
July 26, 2014	Ridgefield		Sleep Country Amphitheater	14,817 / 14,817	$699,522
July 27, 2014	Auburn		White River Amphitheatre	N/A	N/A
July 29, 2014	Wheatland		Sleep Train Amphitheatre
July 30, 2014	Chula Vista		Sleep Train Amphitheatre
August 1, 2014	West Valley City		USANA Amphitheatre	18,940 / 18,940	$770,300
August 2, 2014	Denver		Pepsi Center	12,311 / 12,311	$861,208
August 3, 2014	Kansas City		Sprint Center	12,246 / 12,246	$843,957
August 5, 2014	Sturgis		Buffalo Chip Campground	N/A	N/A
August 6, 2014	Sioux City		Tyson Events Center
August 8, 2014	Tinley Park		First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre	25,097 / 25,097	$948,742
August 9, 2014	Clarkston		DTE Energy Music Theatre	14,617 / 14,617	$611,119
August 10, 2014	Toronto	Canada	Molson Canadian Amphitheatre	15,259 / 15,259	$729,401
August 12, 2014	Cuyahoga Falls	United States	Blossom Music Center	N/A	N/A
August 13, 2014	Burgettstown		First Niagara Pavilion
August 15, 2014	Pelham		Oak Mountain Amphitheatre
August 16, 2014	Alpharetta		Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park	12,082 / 12,082	$925,905
August 17, 2014	Tampa		MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre	15,401 / 15,401	$664,960
August 19, 2014	Charlotte		PNC Music Pavilion	N/A	N/A
August 20, 2014	Virginia Beach		Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach
August 22, 2014	Bristow		Jiffy Lube Live	16,734 / 18,000	$765,045
August 23, 2014	Camden		Susquehanna Bank Center	N/A	N/A
August 24, 2014	Mansfield		Xfinity Center	18,269 / 18,269	$825,698
August 26, 2014	Saratoga Springs		Saratoga Performing Arts Center	N/A	N/A
August 27, 2014	Allentown		Great Allentown Fair
August 29, 2014	Wantagh		Nikon at Jones Beach Theater	13,322 / 13,322	$815,376
August 30, 2014	Holmdel Township		PNC Bank Arts Center	16,470 / 16,470	$730,600
August 31, 2014	Darien		Darien Lake Performing Arts Center	N/A	N/A
October 10, 2014	Oklahoma City		Chesapeake Energy Arena
October 11, 2014	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion	15,866 / 15,866	$696,095
October 12, 2014	Bossier City		CenturyLink Center	N/A	N/A
October 14, 2014	Louisville		KFC Yum! Center
October 15, 2014	Nashville		Bridgestone Arena	11,513 / 11,513	$725,993
October 17, 2014	Hollywood		Hard Rock Live	9,981 / 9,981	$751,425
October 18, 2014
October 19, 2014	Jacksonville		Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena	N/A	N/A
October 21, 2014	Greenville		Bon Secours Wellness Arena
October 22, 2014	Greensboro		Greensboro Coliseum
October 25, 2014	Atlantic City		The Borgata
October 26, 2014	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena
October 28, 2014	New York City		Madison Square Garden	11,423 / 11,423	$1,082,041
October 29, 2014	Syracuse		Oncenter War Memorial Arena	N/A	N/A
November 5, 2014	Biloxi		Mississippi Coast Coliseum
November 6, 2014	Southaven		Lander's Center
November 8, 2014	Detroit		Joe Louis Arena	13,469 / 13,469	$988,580
November 9, 2014	Moline		iWireless Center	N/A	N/A
November 11, 2014	Green Bay		Resch Center
November 12, 2014	Madison		Veterans Memorial Coliseum
November 13, 2014	Omaha		CenturyLink Center	11,880 / 11,880	$734,894
November 15, 2014	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	14,514 / 14,514	$860,949
November 16, 2014	Fargo		Fargodome	N/A	N/A
November 18, 2014	Edmonton	Canada	Rexall Place	12,269 / 12,269	$945,547
November 19, 2014	Calgary		Scotiabank Saddledome	11,163 / 11,163	$871,371
November 21, 2014	Vancouver		Rogers Arena	13,025 / 13,025	$1,057,420
November 22, 2014	Spokane	United States	Spokane Arena	10,410 / 10,410	$671,554
Asia [8]
February 11, 2015	Kobe	Japan	Kobe World Memorial Hall	N/A	N/A
February 12, 2015	Nagoya		Nihon Gaishi Hall	N/A	N/A
February 14, 2015	Tokyo		Saitama Super Arena	N/A	N/A
February 15, 2015				N/A	N/A
February 17, 2015	Fukuoka		Fukuoka Convention Center	N/A	N/A
Oceania[9][10][11][12]
May 9, 2015	Auckland	New Zealand	Vector Arena [13]	—	—
May 12, 2015	Melbourne	Australia	Rod Laver Arena	16,053 / 16,053	$1,201,160
May 13, 2015
May 16, 2015	Sydney		Allphones Arena	10,190 / 10,190	$975,332
May 19, 2015	Brisbane		Brisbane Entertainment Centre	6,819 / 6,819	$621,788
May 21, 2015	Adelaide		Adelaide Entertainment Centre	—	—
May 23, 2015	Perth		Perth Arena	7,366 / 7,366	$656,462
Europe[10]
June 5, 2015	Sölvesborg	Sweden	Sweden Rock Festival	N/A	N/A
June 12, 2015	Nickelsdorf	Austria	Nova Rock Festival	N/A	N/A
June 14, 2015	Castle Donington	England	Donington Park (Download Festival)	N/A	N/A
North America
July 16, 2015	Anchorage	United States	Alaska Airlines Center
July 17, 2015
July 22, 2015	Eugene		Matthew Knight Arena
July 24, 2015	Tacoma		Tacoma Dome
July 25, 2015	Paso Robles		Chumash Grandstand Arena (California Mid State Fair)
July 26, 2015	Billings		Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark
July 28, 2015	Boise		Taco Bell Arena
July 29, 2015	Salt Lake City		EnergySolutions Arena
July 31, 2015	Denver		Pepsi Center
August 3, 2015	Winnipeg	Canada	MTS Centre
August 5, 2015	Saint Paul	United States	Xcel Energy Center
August 7, 2015	Milwaukee		BMO Harris Bradley Center
August 8, 2015	Rosemont		Allstate Arena
August 9, 2015	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	10,542 / 13,065	$754,680
August 11, 2015	Hershey		Giant Center
August 12, 2015	Brooklyn		Barclays Center
August 14, 2015	Philadelphia		Wells Fargo Center	9,745 / 12,000	$699,211
August 15, 2015	Worcester		DCU Center
August 16, 2015	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena	6,703 / 6,972	$631,941
August 18, 2015	Cleveland		Quicken Loans Arena
August 19, 2015	Cincinnati		U.S. Bank Arena
August 20, 2015	Indianapolis		Bankers Life Fieldhouse
August 22, 2015	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	12,113 / 12,113	$858,246
August 23, 2015	Ottawa		Canadian Tire Centre
August 24, 2015	Montreal		Bell Centre
August 26, 2015	Baltimore	United States	Royal Farms Arena
August 28, 2015	Raleigh		PNC Arena
August 29, 2015	Charlotte		Time Warner Cable Arena
August 30, 2015	Atlanta		Philips Arena
September 2, 2015	Miami		American Airlines Arena
September 4, 2015	New Orleans		Smoothie King Center
September 5, 2015	Houston		Toyota Center
September 6, 2015	San Antonio		Alamodome
September 8, 2015	Monterrey	Mexico	Arena Monterrey
September 10, 2015	Mexico City		Mexico City Arena
South America
September 19, 2015	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	City of Rock[14][15]	85,000 / 85,000[16]	N/A
North America
October 5, 2015	Hidalgo	United States	State Farm Arena
October 7, 2015	Dallas		American Airlines Center	10,634 / 13,544	$654,583
October 8, 2015	Little Rock		Verizon Arena
October 10, 2015	Evansville		Ford Center
October 11, 2015	Lexington		Rupp Arena
October 13, 2015	Toledo		Huntington Center
October 14, 2015	Buffalo		First Niagara Center
October 16, 2015	Bridgeport		Webster Bank Arena
October 17, 2015	Manchester		Verizon Wireless Arena
October 18, 2015	Bangor		Cross Insurance Center
October 20, 2015	Quebec City	Canada	Videotron Centre
Europe
November 2, 2015	Newcastle	England	Metro Radio Arena
November 3, 2015	Manchester		Manchester Arena
November 4, 2015	Birmingham		Genting Arena
November 6, 2015	London		Wembley Arena
November 8, 2015	Stuttgart	Germany	Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
November 9, 2015	Basel	Switzerland	St. Jakob Arena
November 10, 2015	Milan	Italy	Mediolanum Forum
November 12, 2015	Monte Carlo	Monaco	Sporting Club
November 13, 2015	Munich	Germany	Zenith
November 14, 2015	Düsseldorf		ISS Dome
November 16, 2015	Stockholm	Sweden	Ericsson Globe
November 18, 2015	Helsinki	Finland	Hartwall Arena
Middle East
November 20, 2015	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	Du Arena
North America
December 4, 2015	Lincoln	United States	Pinnacle Bank Arena
December 7, 2015	Sioux Falls		Denny Sanford Premier Center
December 8, 2015	Minneapolis		Target Center	5,410 / 7,900	$349,550 [17]
December 10, 2015	Saskatoon	Canada	SaskTel Centre
December 12, 2015	Edmonton		Rexall Place
December 13, 2015	Calgary		Scotiabank Saddledome
December 15, 2015	Portland	United States	Moda Center
December 17, 2015	Fresno		Save Mart Center	6,776 / 9,474	$484,518
December 19, 2015	Phoenix		Talking Stick Resort Arena
December 20, 2015	San Diego		Viejas Arena
December 22, 2015	Anaheim		Honda Center
December 27, 2015	Las Vegas		MGM Grand Garden Arena
December 28, 2015	Los Angeles		Staples Center	37,090 / 41,739	$2,760,290
December 30, 2015
December 31, 2015
Total				547,322 / 566,113 (96%)	$32,192,928

Gross

• Total Gross: $86.1 million^[18][19]
• Total Attendance: 1,358,423
• Shows: 158

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