Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour

Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour
Tour by Blink-182
Location North America
Associated album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Start date July 6, 2001
End date September 21, 2001
Legs 1
Shows 44
Blink-182 concert chronology
2001 Honda Civic Tour
(2001)		 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour
(2000–01)		 Pop Disaster Tour
(2002)

The Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour was a concert tour by rock band Blink-182. Launched in support of the group's 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, the tour visited amphitheatres and arenas between July and September 2001. The tour was supported by New Found Glory.

A planned European leg of the tour was postponed following the September 11 attacks, and cancelled when guitarist Tom DeLonge suffered a back injury.[1]

Background

The band partnered with Ticketmaster, setting up a special website where fans could purchase pre-sale tickets for each show.[2]

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the band draped an American flag over a set of amplifiers and drummer Travis Barker played on a red, white, and blue drum kit. At one concert, DeLonge invited the crowd to join him in his cheers of "Fuck Osama bin Laden!"[3]

Tour dates

Date City Country Venue
North America[2]
July 6, 2001 Noblesville United States Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 7, 2001 Tinley Park Tweeter Center
July 9, 2001 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center
July 10, 2001 Columbus Polaris Amphitheater
July 11, 2001 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center
July 13, 2001 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater
July 14, 2001 Somerset Rivers Edge Amphitheatre
July 15, 2001 Maryland Heights Riverport Amphitheatre
July 17, 2001 Burgettstown Post-Gazette Pavilion
July 19, 2001 Clarkston DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 21, 2001 Wantagh Jones Beach Theater
July 22, 2001 Wantagh Jones Beach Theater
July 23, 2001 Darien Center Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 26, 2001 Holmdel PNC Bank Arts Center
July 27, 2001 Camden Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
July 28, 2001 Boston Suffolk Downs
July 29, 2001 Scranton Coors Light Amphitheatre at Montage Mountain
July 31, 2001 Raleigh Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek
August 2, 2001 West Palm Beach MARS Music Amphitheatre
August 3, 2001 Tampa Ice Palace Arena
August 5, 2001 Antioch AmSouth Amphitheater
August 7, 2001 Dallas Smirnoff Music Centre
August 8, 2001 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 9, 2001 Selma Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 11, 2001 Greenwood Village Coors Amphitheatre
August 13, 2001 West Valley E Center
August 14, 2001 Nampa Idaho Center Amphitheater
August 15, 2001 Portland Memorial Coliseum
August 17, 2001 George The Gorge Amphitheatre
August 18, 2001 Vancouver Canada Thunderbird Stadium
August 21, 2001 Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome
August 22, 2001 Edmonton TELUS Field
August 25, 2001 Toronto[A] Molson Amphitheatre
August 26, 2001 Ottawa Ottawa Civic Centre
August 28, 2001 Quebec City Colisée Pepsi
August 29, 2001 Montreal Parc Jean-Drapeau
September 1, 2001 Allentown United States Allentown Fairgrounds
September 2, 2001 Syracuse New York State Fairgrounds
September 3, 2001 Hartford[B] ctnow.com Meadows Music Center
September 8, 2001 Wheatland Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre
September 9, 2001 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre
September 14, 2001 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
September 19, 2001 Long Beach Long Beach Arena
September 21, 2001 Chula Vista Coors Amphitheatre
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A This concert was a part of "Edgefest II"
B This concert was a part of "Radio 104 Fest 2001"[4]

Reception

Reception towards the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour was generally positive. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times was positive in his review of the band's concert at the Tweeter Center, writing, "There is a long and noble tradition in rock 'n' roll of hyperenergetic, ultramelodic, sha-la-la-la stupidity, and Blink has proven itself to be a worthy inheritor of this tradition—not as great as the mighty Ramones just yet, but at least as good as the Troggs or the Archies or Grand Funk Railroad."[5] The band's appearance at Radio 104 Fest in Hartford, Connecticut was reviewed by Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant: "Blink-182 [...] has earned its place at the top. Both bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge are tighter now from working with ace drummer Travis Barker for a few years. The show's focus is more their bracing, melodic songs rather than the childishly vulgar banter between them."[4]

Ed Masley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the trio "the Steely Dan of cartoon punk," feeling that "the [dirty] jokes were nearly overshadowed by musical highlights [...] Some, I'm sure, would argue that the show was worse than reprehensible. But unlike, say, Limp Bizkit, Korn or Eminem, these clowns did it all for the giggles. At a time when so much of teen culture is focused on hate and aggression, last night's show was practically refreshing."[4] Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times felt the concert tasteful in light of the then-recent September 11 attacks; "In some strange way Blink-182's concert Sunday at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim provided a kind of catharsis, or at least temporary escape, for the thousands of fans who turned out." He praised the group's inclusion of humor, while also comparing drummer Travis Barker to Keith Moon of The Who.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Back Injury Scotches Blink-182 Euro Tour". Billboard. December 21, 2001. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Fans Get First Crack At Blink-182 Summer Tour Tix". Billboard. May 11, 2001. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Randy Lewis (September 18, 2001). "Blink-182 Gets Back to Its Punk Business". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Roger Catlin (September 5, 2001). "Blink-182 The Leader Of The Pack At Radio 104 Fest". Hartford Courant. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ Jim DeRogatis (July 9, 2001). "Blink-182 at the Tweeter Center". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved January 31, 2015.

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