Summer Sanitarium Tour
Tour by Metallica
LocationNorth America
Start dateJune 23, 2000 (2000-06-23)
End dateAugust 10, 2003 (2003-08-10)
Legs2
No. of shows41
Box office$90.8 million
($150 million in 2023 dollars[1])
Metallica concert chronology

The Summer Sanitarium Tour was a music event led by American heavy metal band Metallica. The first edition took place during the summer of 2000, with 20 shows in the United States. A second edition was held during the summer of 2003, with 21 shows in North America. The tour was sponsored by MTV and Mars Music and promoted by SFX Concerts.

Background

It marks the final tour for bassist Jason Newsted, who quit the band in January 2001.[2] Before the concert in Atlanta on July 7, 2000, frontman James Hetfield injured his back in a jet skiing accident and was forced to sit out three shows. Newsted sang most of the songs during these concerts, and the vocals and rhythm guitar were also taken by musicians from the supporting acts, such as Kid Rock and his guitarists Kenny Olson and Jason Krause, Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian of System of a Down, and Jonathan Davis of Korn.[3]

The tour grossed $42 million in 2000[4] and $48.8 million in 2003.[5]

Support acts

Setlist

The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on July 12, 2000; at the Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.[12]

  1. "Creeping Death"
  2. "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
  3. "Seek & Destroy"
  4. "Fade to Black"
  5. "Fuel"
  6. "Whiplash"
  7. "Sad but True"
  8. "No Leaf Clover"
  9. "King Nothing"
  10. "Master of Puppets" / "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"
  11. "Battery"
Encore
  2. "Nothing Else Matters"
  3. "One"
  4. "Turn the Page"
  5. "Enter Sandman"

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
2000 North American Leg[13]
June 23, 2000[A] Seattle United States Memorial Stadium
June 30, 2000 Foxborough Foxboro Stadium
July 1, 2000 Rockingham Rockingham Speedway
July 3, 2000 Madison Gateway International Raceway
July 4, 2000 Baltimore PSINet Stadium
July 7, 2000 Atlanta Georgia Dome
July 8, 2000 Sparta Kentucky Speedway
July 9, 2000 Irving Texas Stadium
July 12, 2000 Denver Mile High Stadium
July 14, 2000 San Francisco 3Com Park
July 15, 2000 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
July 16, 2000 Phoenix Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion
July 18, 2000[B] West Hollywood House of Blues
July 20, 2000[C] East Rutherford Giants Stadium
July 22, 2000[D] Cicero Chicago Motor Speedway
August 2, 2000 Dallas Smirnoff Music Theatre
August 3, 2000
August 5, 2000 Atlanta Lakewood Amphitheatre
August 6, 2000
August 8, 2000 Lexington Rupp Arena
August 9, 2000
2003 North American Leg[14]
July 4, 2003 Pontiac United States Pontiac Silverdome
July 5, 2003 Toronto Canada SkyDome
July 6, 2003 Foxborough United States Gillette Stadium
July 8, 2003 East Rutherford Giants Stadium
July 11, 2003 Atlanta Turner Field
July 12, 2003 Philadelphia Veterans Stadium
July 13, 2003 Orlando Florida Citrus Bowl
July 18, 2003 Landover FedExField
July 19, 2003 Columbus Ohio Stadium
July 20, 2003 Montreal Canada Parc Jean-Drapeau
July 25, 2003 St. Louis United States Edward Jones Dome
July 26, 2003 Stickney Hawthorne Race Course
July 27, 2003 Minneapolis Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
August 1, 2003 Denver Invesco Field at Mile High
August 2, 2003 Houston Reliant Stadium
August 3, 2003 Irving Texas Stadium
August 6, 2003 West Valley City USANA Amphitheatre
August 7, 2003 Seattle Seahawk Stadium
August 9, 2003 Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
August 10, 2003 San Francisco 3Com Park
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A This concert is a part of the "Experience Music Project Opening Celebration"[15]
B This concert is a part of the "MGD Blind Date"[16]
C This concert is a part of "Tattoo the Earth"[17]
D This concert is a part of "Rockfest"[18]

Box office score data

Venue City Tickets sold / Available Gross revenue
Foxboro Stadium Foxborough 49,551 / 49,551 (100%) $3,173,885[19]
Rockingham Speedway Rockingham 24,646 / 35,000 (70%) $1,479,335[19]
Gateway International Raceway Madison 31,840 / 40,000 (80%) $1,923,415[19]
PSINet Stadium Baltimore 39,257 / 50,000 (78%) $3,415,205[19]
Georgia Dome Atlanta 44,023 / 46,202 (95%) $2,803,840[19]
Kentucky Speedway Sparta 50,462 / 60,000 (84%) $3,280,030[20]
Texas Stadium Irving 49,429 / 49,429 (100%) $3,160,170[19]
Mile High Stadium Denver 38,643 / 48,000 (80%) $2,445,950[19]
3Com Park San Francisco 91,643 / 115,007 (80%) $6,037,030[19][21]
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Los Angeles 131,231 / 153,200 (87%) $8,490,755[19][22]
Pontiac Silverdome Pontiac 35,021 / 59,545 (59%) $2,521,275[23]
SkyDome Toronto 36,562 / 37,447 (98%) $2,341,286[24]
Gillette Stadium Foxborough 42,898 / 48,600 (88%) $3,116,300[25]
Giants Stadium East Rutherford 51,934 / 56,600 (92%) $3,500,780[25]
Turner Field Atlanta 22,957 / 50,043 (46%) $1,667,295[24]
Florida Citrus Bowl Orlando 26,982 / 27,000 (~100%) $2,023,650[21]
FedExField Landover 27,656 / 58,377 (47%) $1,943,100[25]
Ohio Stadium Columbus 41,458 / 50,000 (83%) $2,850,885[25]
Parc Jean-Drapeau Montreal 41,738 / 42,000 (99%) $2,523,110[26]
Hawthorne Race Course Stickney 36,614 / 36,614 (100%) $2,746,050[25]
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome Minneapolis 35,979 / 35,979 (100%) $2,803,740[25]
Seahawk Stadium Seattle 28,882 / 37,283 (77%) $2,116,150[21]
TOTAL 979,406 / 1,185,877 (83%) $66,363,236

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