In my “tour guide” series, I’ll be setting up guides to certain tours by certain bands. This is an aspect of a project I have been undertaking in some form or other since the summer of 2017, with some collaboration. I hope it’s useful to fellow music historians and aficionados!
Completed Tours
The following tours are tours for which I have covered every single date, as well as background information.
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Debut Tour (1970)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Get Me a Ladder Tour (1973)
- Tangerine Dream – UK Tour 1975 (1975)
- Emerson, Lake & Powell – North America Tour (1986)
- 3 – North America Tour (1988)
- Deep Purple, Dream Theater, & ELP–North America Tour ’98 (1998)
- Rainbow – Memories in Rock 2018 Tour (2018)
- Robert Fripp – Music For Quiet Moments Project (2020-2021)
Other Tours
The following tours have some, but not all, information about them on this site.
- Deep Purple – Debut Tour (1968)
- Deep Purple – Battle Rages On Tour (1993 – 1994)
- Deep Purple – Secret Mexican Tour (1994)
- Deep Purple – Europe Tour ’01 (2001)
- Deep Purple – Eastern Europe Tour ’02 (2002)
Upcoming Tour Guides
The following tours are on my to-do list, and will be brought onto the site at some point in the near future.
- Deep Purple–Shades of Deep Purple Tour (1968)
- Deep Purple–Book of Taliesyn Tour (1968-1969)
- Deep Purple–European Tour (1969-1970)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer–Tarkus Tour (1971)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer–Trilogy Tour (1972)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer–Brain Salad Surgery Tour (1973-1974)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer—Works Tour (1977-1978)
- Rainbow–Down To Earth Tour (1979-1980)
- Rainbow–Difficult to Cure Tour (1981)
- Gary Moore–Corridors of Power Tour (1982-1983)
- Jethro Tull–Not Quite the World, More the Here and There Tour (1987)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer—Black Moon Tour (1992-1993)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer–Opening for Jethro Tull (1996)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer—Japan Tour ‘96
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer–1997 Tour (1997)
- Deep Purple—The Long Goodbye Tour (2017-2020)
- Rainbow — Memories in Rock 2019 Tour (2019)
If you would like to see me cover a tour, I would be glad to! Just comment with a requested tour and I’ll see what I can do.