The highly popular bandstravaganza known as Cruefest will be hitting the road again in Summer 2009. True to their word, the masterminds behind this festival, Motley Crue, are making Cruefest a yearly event. Being billed as Cruefest 2: The White Trash Circus, the Crue will reveal the names of the other bands touring with them this summer at a press conference from New York’s FUSE TV studios on March 16th.
Tickets are already on sale, having been made available to the band’s S.I.N. Club members on February 25th and to the general public on March 2nd, 2009.
So, with the tour slated for a July start and none of the other bands on the bill named yet, what is there to entice metalheads into snapping up tickets for the summer blowout in these turbulent economic times? Try the band doing something truly unusual: Playing their classic 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood live in its entirety on every night of the tour.
In an official statement, Nikki Sixx announces that “On this summer’s Crue Fest, we really wanted to give the fans something they’ve never seen before. And since it’s the 20th anniversary of the release of Dr. Feelgood, we figured what better way to celebrate than to play it live TOP TO BOTTOM every night.”
As Motley Crue’s first #1 album, Dr. Feelgood holds a special place in the hearts of the band and its fans. Even more appropriately, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of this landmark disc that yielded several Billboard-charting hits for the band including “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”, “Without You,” “Same Ol’ Situation (S.O.S.), and the disc’s title track.
Several songs on the album haven’t been played live in years, or even at all. For Crue fans craving new additions to the band’s setlist, this is a dream come true.
Cruefest 2 rolls into a town near you beginning on July 19th, 2009. Check out the tour dates below to see when you can make your appointment to see Dr. Feelgood live!
7/19 - Susquehanna Bank Center - Camden, NJ
7/21 - Blossom Music Center - Cuyahoga Falls, OH
7/22 - First Midwest Bank Amphitheater - Tinley Park, IL
7/27 - White River Amphitheater - Auburn, WA
7/28 - Clark County Amphitheater - Portland, OR
7/30 - Shoreline Amphitheater - Mountain View, CA
7/31 - San Manuel Ampitheater - San Bernardino, CA
8/01 - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino - Las Vegas, NV
8/03 - USANA Amphitheatre - Salt Lake City, UT
8/04 - Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater - Englewood, CO
8/05 - Hournal Pavilion - Albuquerque, NM
8/07 - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - Houston, TX
8/08 - Superpages.com Center - Dallas, TX
8/09 - Sprint Center - Kansas City, MO
8/11 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Maryland Heights, MO
8/12 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Indianapolis, IN
8/14 - Riverbend Music Center - Cincinnati, OH
8/15 - DTE Energy Music Theatre - Clarkston, MI
8/16 - Post-Gazette Pavilion - Pittsburgh, PA
8/19 - Comcast Center - Mansfield, MA
8/21 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Virginia Beach, VA
8/22 - Nissan Pavilion - Bristow, VA
8/23 - TWC Music Pavilion - Raleigh, NC
8/29 - Lakewood Amphitheatre - Atlanta, GA
8/30 - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - Charlotte, NC
9/01 - Saratoga Performing Arts Center - Saratoga Springs, NY
9/04 - Toyota Pavilion - Scranton, PA
9/05 - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center - Darien Lake, NY
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