Skyscraper Tour

Skyscraper Tour
Tour by David Lee Roth
Start date March 4, 1988
End date December 13, 1988
Legs 2
No. of shows 146 played
David Lee Roth concert chronology

The Skyscraper Tour was a North American, European, Japanese, and Australian concert tour by hard rock singer David Lee Roth. It was his second ever solo concert tour, and is the only tour to have featured the line-up of Roth, Steve Vai, Matt Bissonette, Gregg Bissonette, and Brett Tuggle.

History

With the success of the Skyscraper album and "Just Like Paradise" single, an even more extensive tour than its predecessor (the Eat 'Em and Smile Tour) was embarked upon - this time visiting outside of just the United States and Canada, and including Europe, Japan, and Australia. Like the prior tour, the setlist featured Van Halen classics ("Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love," "Hot for Teacher," "Jump," etc.), solo hits ("Goin' Crazy," "Yankee Rose," the aforementioned "Just Like Paradise," etc.), and cover tunes ("Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody," "California Girls," "You Really Got Me," etc.). Some of the concert highlights included Roth lowering himself onto the stage via rope (a la a mountain climber) for the song "Skyscraper,"[1] the entire band playing a steel drum solo together, the singer climbing up a ladder and singing the song "Panama" from a boxing ring located at the other end of the venue,[2] and riding a surfboard back to the stage during "California Girls."[3] The stage set can be viewed in the performance footage included in the "Just Like Paradise" music video.[4] The tour included a performance at the Monsters of Rock festival in England, which also included performances by Iron Maiden, Kiss, Megadeth, and Guns N' Roses, among others. This would be the last Roth solo tour to feature Vai in its line-up. The opening acts on the North American leg of the tour included Faster Pussycat and Poison at various points. Guns N' Roses was originally supposed to open the first month of the U.S. leg of the tour, but cancelled;[5] they were replaced by Faster Pussycat.[6]

Set list

  1. "The Bottom Line"
  2. "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" (Van Halen song)
  3. "Just Like Paradise"
  4. "Knucklebones"
  5. "Goin' Crazy!"
  6. "Hot for Teacher" (Van Halen song)
  7. "Easy Street" (Edgar Winter cover)
  8. "Skyscraper"
  9. "Hot Dog and a Shake"
  10. "Just a Gigolo / I Ain't Got Nobody" (Louis Prima cover)
  11. "Yankee Rose"
  12. "Panama" (Van Halen song)
  13. "California Girls" (The Beach Boys cover)
  14. "You Really Got Me" (The Kinks cover)
  15. "Jump" (Van Halen song)[7]

Tour dates

Date City Venue
Rehearsal
February 28, 1988 Lakeland, Florida location unknown
March 1, 1988 Lakeland, Florida location unknown
March 2, 1988 Lakeland, Florida location unknown
March 3, 1988 Lakeland, Florida location unknown
North American Leg
March 4, 1988 Lakeland, Florida Lakeland Civic Center
March 5, 1988 Lakeland, Florida Lakeland Civic Center
March 6, 1988 Hollywood, Florida Hollywood Sportatorium
March 9, 1988 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Five Seasons Center
March 11, 1988 Madison, Wisconsin Dane County Coliseum
March 12, 1988 Peoria, Illinois Peoria Civic Center
March 13, 1988 Battle Creek, Michigan Kellogg Arena
March 15, 1988 Fort Wayne, Indiana Allen County War Memorial Coliseum
March 16, 1988 Saginaw, Michigan Wendler Arena
March 18, 1988 Niagara Falls, New York Niagara Falls Civic Center
March 19, 1988 Toledo, Ohio Toledo Sports Arena
March 20, 1988 Columbus, Ohio Ohio Center
March 22, 1988 Dayton, Ohio Hara Arena
March 24, 1988 Johnstown, Pennsylvania Cambria County War Memorial Arena
March 25, 1988 Hampton, Virginia Hampton Coliseum
March 26, 1988 Salisbury, Maryland Wicomico Civic Center
March 28, 1988 Glens Falls, New York Glens Falls Civic Center
March 29, 1988 Portland, Maine Cumberland County Civic Center
March 30, 1988 Providence, Rhode Island Providence Civic Center
April 1, 1988 Utica, New York Utica Memorial Auditorium
April 2, 1988 Rochester, New York Rochester War Memorial
April 3, 1988 Binghamton, New York Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena
April 5, 1988 Erie, Pennsylvania Erie Civic Center
April 7, 1988 East Rutherford, New Jersey Brendan Byrne Arena
April 8, 1988 Hartford, Connecticut Hartford Civic Center
April 9, 1988 Richmond, Virginia Richmond Coliseum
April 11, 1988 Hershey, Pennsylvania Hersheypark Arena
April 13, 1988 Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens
April 14, 1988 Cleveland, Ohio Richfield Coliseum
April 15, 1988 Washington, DC Capitol Center
April 17, 1988 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spectrum
April 18, 1988 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Stabler Arena
April 19, 1988 Syracuse, New York Onondaga County War Memorial
April 21, 1988 Uniondale, New York Nassau Coliseum
April 22, 1988 Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester Centrum
April 23, 1988 Worcester, Massachusetts Worcester Centrum
April 26, 1988 Minneapolis, Minnesota Met Center
April 27, 1988 Milwaukee, Wisconsin MECCA Arena
April 29, 1988 Kansas City, Missouri Kemper Arena
April 30, 1988 St Louis, Missouri The Arena
May 1, 1988 Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati Gardens
May 3, 1988 Memphis, Tennessee Mid-South Coliseum
May 4, 1988 Nashville, Tennessee Municipal Auditorium
May 5, 1988 Atlanta, Georgia The Omni
May 7, 1988 Houston, Texas Summit
May 9, 1988 Houston, Texas Summit
May 10, 1988 Austin, Texas Frank Erwin Center
May 12, 1988 El Paso, Texas El Paso County Coliseum
May 13, 1988 Albuquerque, New Mexico Tingley Coliseum
May 14, 1988 Denver, Colorado McNichols Arena
May 15, 1988 Casper, Wyoming Casper Events Center
May 17, 1988 Billings, Montana MetraPark Arena
May 18, 1988 Spokane, Washington Spokane Coliseum
May 20, 1988 Seattle, Washington Seattle Center Coliseum
May 21, 1988 Vancouver, British Columbia PNE Coliseum
May 22, 1988 Portland, Oregon Memorial Coliseum
May 24, 1988 Salt Lake City, Utah Salt Palace
May 25, 1988 Reno, Nevada Lawlor Events Center
May 27, 1988 Oakland, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
May 28, 1988 Oakland, California Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena
June 10, 1988 Los Angeles Forum
June 11, 1988 Laguna Hills, California Irvine Meadows
June 14, 1988 Sacramento, California Cal Expo Amphitheater
June 16, 1988 Fresno, California Selland Arena
June 17, 1988 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena
June 18, 1988 Phoenix, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
June 20, 1988 Odessa, Texas Ector County Coliseum
June 21, 1988 San Antonio, Texas Convention Center
June 22, 1988 Lake Charles, Louisiana Civic Center
June 24, 1988 Shreveport, Louisiana Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
June 25, 1988 Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Coliseum
June 26, 1988 Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham–Jefferson Civic Center
June 28, 1988 Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte Coliseum
June 29, 1988 Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro Coliseum
July 1, 1988 Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville Coliseum
July 2, 1988 Albany, Georgia Albany Civic Center
July 3, 1988 Biloxi, Mississippi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
July 6, 1988 Savannah, Georgia Savannah Civic Center
July 8, 1988 Columbia, South Carolina Carolina Coliseum
July 9, 1988 Roanoke, Virginia Roanoke Civic Center
July 10, 1988 Huntington, West Virginia Huntington Civic Center
July 12, 1988 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Spectrum
July 13, 1988 New York City Madison Square Garden
July 15, 1988 New Haven, Connecticut Veterans Memorial Coliseum
July 16, 1988 Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield Civic Center
July 17, 1988 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Civic Arena
July 20, 1988 Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville Civic Coliseum
July 22, 1988 Huntsville, Alabama Von Braun Civic Center
July 23, 1988 Little Rock, Arkansas Barton Coliseum
July 24, 1988 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma The Myriad
July 26, 1988 Wichita, Kansas Kansas Coliseum
July 27, 1988 Omaha, Nebraska Civic Arena
July 29, 1988 Lexington, Kentucky Rupp Arena
July 30, 1988 Indianapolis, Indiana Market Square Arena
August 1, 1988 Akron, Ohio Blossom Music Center
August 3, 1988 Vaughan, Ontario Kingswood Music Theatre
August 4, 1988 Columbia, Maryland Merriweather Post
August 6, 1988 Ionia, Michigan Ionia County Fairgrounds (Ionia Free Fair)
August 7, 1988 East Troy, Wisconsin Alpine Valley Music Theater
August 9, 1988 Montreal, Quebec Montreal Forum
August 10, 1988 Ottawa, Ontario Civic Center
August 11, 1988 Manchester, New Hampshire Riverfront Park
August 13, 1988 Charlevoix, Michigan Castle Farms
August 14, 1988 Troy, Michigan The Palace
European/Japanese/Australian Leg
August 20, 1988 Leicestershire, England Castle Donington
August 24, 1988 Helsinki, Finland Icehall
August 27, 1988 Schweinfurt, Germany Mainwiesen
August 28, 1988 Bochum, Germany Ruhrstadion
August 30, 1988 London, England Hammersmith Odeon
August 31, 1988 London, England Hammersmith Odeon
September 2, 1988 Paris, France location unknown
September 3, 1988 Paris, France location unknown
September 4, 1988 Tilburg, Netherlands Koning Willem II Stadion
September 20, 1988 Sapporo, Japan Makomanai Ice Arena
September 22, 1988 Sendai, Japan Sendai Gym
September 23, 1988 Yokohama, Japan Yokohama Gym
September 24, 1988 Yokohama, Japan Yokohama Gym
September 26, 1988 Nagoya, Japan Nagoya Rainbow Hall
September 27, 1988 Osaka, Japan Osaka Castle Hall
September 28, 1988 Osaka, Japan Osaka Castle Hall
September 30, 1988 Tokyo, Japan Yoyogi Olympic Gym
October 1, 1988 Tokyo, Japan Yoyogi Olympic Gym
October 3, 1988 Tokyo, Japan Budokan
October 4, 1988 Tokyo, Japan Budokan
October 12, 1988 Melbourne National Tennis Center
October 15, 1988 Adelaide, Australia Thebarton Theatre
October 17, 1988 Canberra, Australia Bruce Stadium
October 18, 1988 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Center
October 22, 1988 Brisbane, Australia Brisbane Entertainment Center
November 14, 1988 Birmingham, England National Exhibition Center
November 15, 1988 London, England Wembley Arena
November 17, 1988 Edinburgh, Scotland Playhouse Theater
November 18, 1988 Edinburgh, Scotland Playhouse Theater
November 21, 1988 Toulouse, France Le Gymnase
November 22, 1988 Barcelona, Spain Palacio Municipal De Deportes
November 24, 1988 Madrid, Spain Sports City of Real Madrid Pavilion
November 26, 1988 San Sebastian, Spain Velódromo de Anoeta
November 28, 1988 Milan, Italy Palatrussardi
November 29, 1988 Turin, Italy Palasport
December 2, 1988 Stockholm, Sweden Isstadion
December 3, 1988 Gothenburg, Sweden Scandinavium
December 5, 1988 Oslo, Norway Skedsmohallen
December 7, 1988 Lund, Sweden Olympen
December 8, 1988 Copenhagen, Denmark K.B. Hallen
December 10, 1988 Brussels, Belgium Forest National
December 13, 1988 Rotterdam, Holland Ahoy Rotterdam

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References

  1. ↑ "Skyscraper, Toronto 1988". Youtube.com. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Panama, Toronto 1988". Youtube.com. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  3. ↑ "California Girls, Toronto 1988". Youtube.com. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Just Like Paradise Music Video". Youtube.com. Retrieved October 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ "G n' R 1988 Setlist Almanac". gnrontour.com. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Faster Pussycat". rocktourdatabase.com. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  7. ↑ "David Lee Roth Setlist at Kingswood Music Theatre, Vaughan, ON, Canada , August 3, 1988". Setlist.fm. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ "David Lee Roth – Skyscraper Tour Dates – 1988". Jamtothis.com. Retrieved October 25, 2015.
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