Escape Tour

Escape Tour
Tour by Journey
Associated album Escape
Start date July 27, 1981
End date July 2, 1982
Legs 6
Journey concert chronology

The Escape Tour was a concert tour by the American rock band Journey. It was one of Journey's most successful concert tours, in support of their first number one album, Escape. The tour included six consecutive sold out dates at the Pine Knob Theatre in Detroit, and four straight sold out shows at the Los Angeles Forum, and Chicago's Rosemont Horizon. Journey also made an appearance on July 2, 1982 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California with Blue Öyster Cult, Triumph and Aldo Nova. The 8 1⁄2-month tour took Journey through Japan and North America. Point Blank, Billy Squier, Greg Kihn Band and Loverboy were the opening acts during the tour.

Tour dates

Over the course of the tour, Journey played the following dates:[1][2][3][4][5]

Date City Country Venue
Asia
July 27, 1981 Osaka Japan Festival Hall
July 28, 1981 Nagoya Kokai-do
July 29, 1981 Tokyo Koseinenkin Hall
July 31, 1981
August 1, 1981 Nakano Sun Plaza
August 2, 1981
North America
August 15, 1981 Toronto, Ontario Canada Massey Hall
August 16, 1981 Ottawa, Ontario Ottawa Civic Centre
August 17, 1981 Montreal, Quebec The Forum
August 19, 1981 Quebec City, Quebec Le Colisee
August 22, 1981 Montreal, Quebec The Forum
August 25, 1981 Portland, Maine United States Cumberland County Civic Center
August 27, 1981 Saratoga Springs, New York Saratoga Performing Arts Center
August 28, 1981 Columbia, Maryland Merriweather Post Pavilion
August 29, 1981 South Yarmouth, Massachusetts Cape Cod Coliseum
August 31, 1981 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Blossom Music Center
September 1, 1981
September 3, 1981 Hoffman Estates, Illinois Poplar Creek Music Theater
September 4, 1981
September 5, 1981 East Troy, Wisconsin Alpine Valley Music Theatre
September 6, 1981
September 8, 1981 Clarkston, Michigan Pine Knob Music Theater
September 9, 1981
September 11, 1981
September 12, 1981
September 13, 1981
September 14, 1981
September 15, 1981 Saint Paul, Minnesota Saint Paul Civic Center
September 16, 1981 Ames, Iowa Hilton Coliseum
September 18, 1981 Kansas City, Missouri Kemper Arena
September 19, 1981
September 20, 1981 Wichita, Kansas Levitt Arena
September 21, 1981 Omaha, Nebraska Omaha Civic Auditorium
September 23, 1981 St Louis, Missouri Checkerdome
September 29, 1981 Rosemont, Illinois Rosemont Horizon
September 30, 1981 Champaign, Illinois Assembly Hall
October 1, 1981 Cincinnati, Ohio Riverfront Coliseum
October 2, 1981 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Civic Arena
October 3, 1981 Lexington, Kentucky Rupp Arena
October 8, 1981 Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Civic Center
October 9, 1981 Syracuse, New York Carrier Dome
October 10, 1981 Uniondale, New York Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
October 15, 1981 Jacksonville, Florida Veterans Memorial Coliseum
October 20, 1981 Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte Coliseum
October 22, 1981 Lakeland, Florida Lakeland Center
October 23, 1981
October 24, 1981 Pembroke Pines, Florida Hollywood Sportatorium
October 27, 1981 Knoxville, Tennessee Thompson-Boling Arena
October 28, 1981 Nashville, Tennessee Municipal Auditorium
October 30, 1981 Memphis, Tennessee Mid-South Coliseum
October 31, 1981 Mobile, Alabama Municipal Auditorium
November 1, 1981 Baton Rouge, Louisiana LSU Assembly Center
November 3, 1981 Little Rock, Arkansas Barton Coliseum
November 5, 1981 Houston, Texas The Summit
November 6, 1981
November 7, 1981 Dallas, Texas Reunion Arena
November 8, 1981 Austin, Texas Frank Erwin Center
November 10, 1981 Albuquerque, New Mexico Tingley Coliseum
November 11, 1981 Amarillo, Texas Amarillo Civic Center
November 13, 1981 Las Cruces, New Mexico Pan American Center
November 14, 1981 Tucson, Arizona Tucson Convention Center
November 15, 1981 Phoenix, Arizona Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
November 17, 1981 Denver, Colorado McNichols Arena postponed to May 27
November 19, 1981 Salt Lake, Utah Salt Palace postponed to May 29
November 21, 1981 San Diego, California San Diego Sports Arena
November 22, 1981 Inglewood, California The Forum
November 23, 1981
November 24, 1981
November 25, 1981
November 29, 1981 Fresno, California Ratcliffe Stadium
November 30, 1981 Daly City, California Cow Palace
December 1, 1981
December 2, 1981
December 3, 1981 Pocatello, Idaho MiniDome
December 4, 1981 Seattle, Washington Seattle Center Coliseum
December 5, 1981
December 6, 1981
December 7, 1981 Portland, Oregon Memorial Coliseum
December 8, 1981
December 10, 1981 Oakland, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
December 11, 1981 Daly City, California Cow Palace
December 12, 1981
December 21, 1981 Honolulu, Hawaii Neal S. Blaisdell Arena
December 22, 1981
Asia
April 9, 1982 Fukuoka Japan Sun Palace Hall
April 11, 1982 Kyoto Kyoto Kaikan
April 12, 1982 Osaka Festival Hall
April 13, 1982 Prefectural Gymnasium
April 14, 1982 Nagoya Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium
April 16, 1982 Tokyo Budokan
April 17, 1982 Yokohama Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium
North America
April ??, 1982 Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Pacific Coliseum
April 25, 1982 Edmonton, Alberta Northlands Coliseum
April 26, 1982 Calgary, Alberta Stampede Corral
April 28, 1982 Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Arena
April 30, 1982 Toronto, Ontario Maple Leaf Gardens
May 1, 1982 Buffalo, New York United States Memorial Auditorium
May 3, 1982 Boston, Massachusetts Boston Garden
May 4, 1982
May 6, 1982 East Rutherford, New Jersey Meadowlands Arena
May 7, 1982
May 8, 1982 Landover, Maryland Capital Centre
May 10, 1982 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Spectrum
May 11, 1982
May 13, 1982 Richfield, Ohio Richfield Coliseum
May 14, 1982
May 15, 1982 Detroit, Michigan Joe Louis Arena
May 16, 1982
May 18, 1982 Louisville, Kentucky Freedom Hall
May 19, 1982 Indianapolis, Indiana Market Square Arena
May 21, 1982 Rosemont, Illinois Rosemont Horizon
May 22, 1982
May 23, 1982
May 24, 1982
May 27, 1982 Denver, Colorado McNichols Arena
May 28, 1982
May 29, 1982 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Palace
May 30, 1982
June 2, 1982 Portland, Oregon Memorial Coliseum
June 3, 1982
June 4, 1982
June 12, 1982 Dallas, Texas Cotton Bowl
June 13, 1982 Houston, Texas Astrodome
June 26, 1982 Oakland, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum
July 2, 1982 Pasadena, California Rose Bowl

References

  1. ↑ http://steveperryfanclub.homestead.com/EscapeTourSchedule.html
  2. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=kiQEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Billboard&hl=en&ei=BROKTpuhPOzJsQLl4-mhDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=journey&f=false
  3. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=byQEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Billboard&hl=en&ei=MBSKTurTIYKpsQKxpIyXDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Journey&f=false
  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=JSQEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Billboard&hl=en&ei=MBSKTurTIYKpsQKxpIyXDw&sa=X&oi=book_
  5. ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aktTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=24MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7001,1923945&dq=journey+concert&hl=enresult&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=journey&f=false
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