The Farewell Tour
Tour by Kiss
Start dateMarch 11, 2000
End dateApril 13, 2001
Legs5
No. of shows142 played, 1 cancelled
Kiss concert chronology

The Farewell Tour was a concert tour performed by the American rock band Kiss. It started on March 11, 2000 and concluded on April 13, 2001. It was the last tour to feature original member Ace Frehley.

Background

It was intended to be Kiss' last tour, however, in late 2002 they announced that they were not going to retire as planned. Although Kiss continued performing after the conclusion of the tour, this was the final tour with the original, reunited lineup. Paul Stanley later revealed the tour was an attempt to "put Kiss out of its misery" following the legal troubles during production of Psycho Circus, and the reunited band having underwhelming live performances and "being virtually prisoners to doing the same songs every tour."[1] The tour began on March 11, 2000 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion.[2]

During the show in Irvine, California, Frehley had missed his flight and ended up having to fly via helicopter to the show, where the band's then-tour manager Tommy Thayer was dressed in his makeup, ready to fill in for him.[3]

Peter Criss had effectively left the band following the final show in North Charleston, in October 2000; however, this was not publicly known at the time. His reunion contract had essentially expired and he and Kiss were unable to come to terms for him continuing with the band, resulting in Criss destroying his drum set out of frustration at the end of the show.[4] He was replaced by Eric Singer for the Japan and Australian legs. Frehley left the band following the farewell tour, intending to focus on his solo career.[5]

In the tour program for the band's final tour, Stanley reflected on the tour:

The Reunion tour made us the number one band again. We played to about two million people in one year. Then we did the Psycho Circus tour and after that we thought, "been there, done it." We're the champs again, let's retire on top and we felt there is nothing worse than having someone go away and you don't get to say goodbye so this tour really is for the fans and to celebrate the whole history of the band.[6]

Setlist

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, and opening acts
Date City Country Venue Opening Act(s)
North America[7][8]
March 11, 2000 Phoenix United States Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion1 Ted Nugent
March 12, 2000 Tucson Tucson Convention Center
March 14, 2000 Las Cruces Pan American Center Ted Nugent
Skid Row
March 17, 2000 Paradise Mandalay Bay Events Center
March 18, 2000 Anaheim Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim2
March 19, 2000 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
March 21, 2000 Bakersfield Bakersfield Centennial Garden
March 23, 2000 Oakland The Arena in Oakland
March 25, 2000 Reno Lawlor Events Center
March 27, 2000 West Valley City E Center
March 28, 2000 Denver Pepsi Center
March 29, 2000 Lubbock United Spirit Arena
March 31, 2000 San Antonio Alamodome
April 1, 2000 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
April 2, 2000 Dallas Starplex Amphitheatre
April 4, 2000 Oklahoma City Myriad Convention Center
April 5, 2000 North Little Rock Alltel Arena
April 6, 2000 Pensacola Pensacola Civic Center
April 8, 2000 West Palm Beach Mars Music Amphitheater
April 9, 2000 Estero TECO Arena
April 11, 2000 Orlando TD Waterhouse Centre
April 12, 2000 Tampa Ice Palace
April 14, 2000 Birmingham BJCC Arena
April 15, 2000 Atlanta Philips Arena
April 16, 2000 New Orleans New Orleans Arena
April 18, 2000 Columbia Carolina Coliseum
April 20, 2000 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum
April 21, 2000 Greenville Bi-Lo Center
April 22, 2000 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
April 24, 2000 Chattanooga UTC Arena
April 25, 2000 Memphis Pyramid Arena
April 28, 2000 Nashville AmSouth Amphitheater
April 29, 2000 Louisville Freedom Hall
April 30, 2000 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena
May 2, 2000 Charleston Charleston Civic Center
May 3, 2000 Roanoke Roanoke Civic Center
May 5, 2000 Cleveland Gund Arena
May 6, 2000
May 7, 2000 Grand Rapids Van Andel Arena
May 9, 2000 Toledo John F. Savage Hall
May 11, 2000 Rosemont Allstate Arena
May 12, 2000
May 13, 2000 Columbus Polaris Amphitheater
May 15, 2000 Peoria Peoria Civic Center
May 16, 2000 Moline MARK of the Quad Cities
May 18, 2000 Minneapolis Target Center
May 19, 2000 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheatre
May 21, 2000 Noblesville Deer Creek Music Theater
May 22, 2000 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center
May 24, 2000 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills
May 25, 2000
May 26, 2000 Burgettstown Post-Gazette Pavilion
North America[7]
June 6, 2000 Richmond United States Richmond Coliseum Ted Nugent
Skid Row
June 9, 2000 Wantagh Jones Beach Amphitheater
June 10, 2000
June 12, 2000 Mansfield Tweeter Center
June 13, 2000
June 15, 2000 Portland Cumberland County Civic Center
June 16, 2000 Camden Blockbuster Sony Entertainment Center
June 19, 2000 Erie Erie Civic Center
June 20, 2000 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center
June 22, 2000 Montreal Canada Molson Centre
June 23, 2000 Toronto Air Canada Centre
June 24, 2000 Buffalo United States HSBC Arena
June 27, 2000 East Rutherford Continental Airlines Arena
June 28, 2000
June 30, 2000 Raleigh Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek
July 1, 2000 Bristow Nissan Pavilion
July 2, 2000 Virginia Beach GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheater
July 5, 2000 Hershey Hersheypark Stadium
July 7, 2000 Scranton Coors Light Amphitheatre
July 8, 2000 Hartford Meadows Music Theater
July 11, 2000 Madison Kohl Center
July 13, 2000 Minneapolis Target Center
July 14, 2000 Fargo Fargodome
July 16, 2000 Winnipeg Canada Winnipeg Arena
July 17, 2000 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Place
July 19, 2000 Calgary Canadian Airlines Saddledome
July 20, 2000 Edmonton Skyreach Centre
July 22, 2000 George United States The Gorge Amphitheatre
July 24, 2000 Portland Rose Garden Arena
July 26, 2000 Nampa Idaho Center
July 28, 2000 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre Ted Nugent
American Pearl
July 29, 2000 Sacramento Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre
July 30, 2000 Concord Chronicle Pavilion Neve
Ted Nugent
August 1, 2000 Fresno Selland Arena
August 2, 2000 Paradise Mandalay Bay Events Center
North America[7]
August 11, 2000 Irvine United States Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre3 Ted Nugent
Skid Row
August 12, 2000 San Bernardino Blockbuster Pavilion
August 14, 2000 Greenwood Village Fiddler's Green Amphitheater
August 15, 2000 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
August 17, 2000 Austin Frank Erwin Center
August 18, 2000 Lafayette Cajundome
August 19, 2000 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum
August 21, 2000 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
August 22, 2000 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion Skid Row
Beautiful Creatures
August 23, 2000 For Worth Fort Worth Convention Center Ted Nugent
Skid Row
August 25, 2000 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater4
August 26, 2000 Maryland Heights Riverport Amphitheatre
August 28, 2000 Valley Center Kansas Coliseum
August 29, 2000 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
August 30, 2000 Ames Hilton Coliseum
September 1, 2000 Carbondale SIU Arena
September 2, 2000 Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center
September 5, 2000 Rockford Rockford MetroCentre
September 6, 2000 East Lansing Breslin Center Skid Row
Beautiful Creatures
September 8, 2000 Lexington Rupp Arena Ted Nugent
Skid Row
September 9, 2000 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse
September 10, 2000 Evansville Roberts Municipal Stadium
September 12, 2000 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre Skid Row
Beautiful Creatures
September 13, 2000 Dayton Ervin J. Nutter Center Ted Nugent
Skid Row
September 15, 2000 Binghamton Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
September 16, 2000 Syracuse Onondaga County War Memorial
September 18, 2000 Providence Providence Civic Center5
September 20, 2000 Quebec City Canada Colisée de Québec Skid Row
Serial Joe
September 21, 2000 Ottawa Corel Centre
September 23, 2000 Hamilton Copps Coliseum
September 26, 2000 Trenton United States Sovereign Bank Arena Skid Row
September 27, 2000 University Park Bryce Jordan Center
September 29, 2000 Columbus Nationwide Arena
September 30, 2000 Tinley Park New World Music Theatre
October 1, 2000 Champaign Assembly Hall
October 3, 2000 Uncasville Uncas Pavilion at Mohegan Sun
October 4, 2000 Columbia Merriweather Post Pavilion Skid Row
Brickfoot
October 6, 2000 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum Skid Row
October 7, 2000 North Charleston North Charleston Coliseum6
Japan[7]
March 9, 2001 Yokohama Japan Yokohama Arena7 —
March 10, 2001
March 13, 2001 Tokyo Tokyo Dome
March 16, 2001 Fukuoka Kokusai Center
March 18, 2001 Nagoya Nagoya Rainbow Hall
March 21, 2001 Osaka Osaka-jō Hall
March 22, 2001
Australia[7]
March 29, 2001 Perth Australia Burswood Dome The Screaming Jets
April 1, 2001 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
April 3, 2001 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
April 4, 2001
April 5, 2001
April 7, 2001 Sydney Sydney Super Dome
April 8, 2001
April 13, 2001 Gold Coast Carrara Stadium8

Postponed and cancelled dates

Date City Country Venue Reason
May 17, 2000 Minneapolis United States Target Center The band was unable to fly out of Chicago due to poor weather conditions, rescheduled to May 18
September 24, 2000 Lake Placid Olympic Center Poor ticket sales
November 13, 2000 Hiroshima Japan Sun Plaza Hall Cancelled due to ongoing contract issues with Peter Criss, all dates except Hiroshima rescheduled to March 2001
November 15, 2000 Osaka Osaka Castle Hall
November 16, 2000
November 17, 2000 Nagoya Nagoya Rainbow Hall
November 19, 2000 Tokyo Tokyo Dome
November 20, 2000 Yokohama Yokohama Arena
April 1, 2001 Adelaide Australia Hindmarsh Stadium Due to soccer match between Adelaide and Marconi at the stadium on March 30

Box office score data

List of box office score data with date, city, venue, attendance, gross, references
Date
(2000) 		City Venue Attendance Gross Ref(s)
March 18 Anaheim, United States Arrowhead Pond 14,009 / 14,009 $826,365 [9]
March 23 Oakland, United States Oakland-Alameda County Arena 14,494 / 15,885 $860,759 [10]
March 25 Reno, United States Lawlor Events Center 9,935 / 10,465 $408,340
March 31 San Antonio, United States Alamodome 20,760 / 20,760 $908,025
April 29 Louisville, United States Freedom Hall 14,467 / 14,868 $689,265 [11]
May 2 Charleston, United States Civic Center 7,711 / 10,000 $361,745 [12]
May 5–6 Cleveland, United States Gund Arena 26,698 / 35,000 $1,685,210
May 7 Grand Rapids, United States Van Andel Arena 11,791 / 12,420 $621,589 [13]
May 15 Peoria, United States Civic Center 9,130 / 9,130 $419,795 [14]
May 19 Milwaukee, United States Marcus Amphitheatre 17,172 / 22,828 $670,177
May 20 Noblesville, United States Deer Creek Music Center 22,633 / 24,210 $1,030,697 [13]
May 22 Cincinnati, United States Riverbend Music Center 11,209 / 20,474 $500,750 [14]
May 24–25 Auburn Hills, United States Palace 27,493 / 27,493 $1,728,300 [15]
May 26 Burgettstown, United States Post-Gazette Pavilion 14,946 / 23,212 $614,934 [16]
June 9–10 Wantagh, United States Jones Beach Theatre 23,542 / 28,200 $1,292,865 [15]
June 27–28 East Rutherford, United States Continental Airlines Arena 27,910 / 30,000 $1,565,100 [17]
July 5 Hershey, United States Hersheypark Arena 18,232 / 28,824 $844,177 [18]
July 22 George, United States The Gorge 17,676 / 20,000 $955,339 [19]

Personnel

Additional musician

References

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