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Chili Peppers To Spread Californication Throughout U.S.Foo Fighters to open funk-rock band's extensive tour. by Senior Writer Gil Kaufman |
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Chili Pepper Anthony Kiedis sings, with a naked Flea on bass and John Frusciante on guitar, during the final set of Woodstock '99. ( ) |
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Funk-rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers will mount their first extensive
U.S. tour in support of their 1999 album, Californication, in March. Foo Fighters will be the opening act for the tour, currently scheduled through May.
The trek will kick off March 24 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The first legs of the tour will hit mainly college towns, with major cities such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle slated for summer and fall. "Otherside" (RealAudio excerpt), the third video from the double-platinum Californication, debuted Thursday on MTV. The dramatic clip, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Smashing Pumpkins' "Tonight, Tonight"), features the Chili Peppers in a cartoonlike landscape reminiscent of director Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi classic "Metropolis." Though the Chili Peppers have not toured extensively in the U.S. for Californication, they have played Europe twice and recently did five shows in Japan. They're now in New Zealand, headlining the annual Big Day Out festival, which began Friday (Jan. 21). In May the Chili Peppers headlined a short U.S. outing aimed at high school students, and in July they played the final set of Woodstock '99 in Rome, N.Y. The festival ended in rioting and fires that burned out of control following the group's show-closing cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" (RealAudio excerpt of Chili Peppers version). Californication, which features a mix of the band's signature punk-funk and pop smarts, has spawned the radio hits "Scar Tissue" (RealAudio excerpt) and "Around the World." The group is nominated for three Grammys and on Monday won an American Music Award for Favorite Alternative Artist. Tickets for the tour will be available exclusively on MTV.com from Jan. 26–28, and will go on sale elsewhere Jan. 29, according to Q Prime. (SonicNet is a division of the MTV Interactive Group.) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Foo Fighters tour dates: March 24; Minneapolis, Minn.; Target Center March 25; Madison, Wis.; Dane County Expo Center March 27; Carbondale, Ill.; SIU Arena March 28; Champaign, Ill.; Assembly Arena March 30; Dayton, Ohio; Nutter Center March 31; Columbus, Ohio; Value City Arena April 2; Amherst, Mass.; Mullins Center April 3; Albany, N.Y.; Pepsi Arena April 5; State College, Pa.; Bryce Jordan Arena April 6; Roanoke, Va.; Civic Center April 8; Bloomington, Ind.; Assembly Hall April 9; Lexington, Ky.; Rupp Arena April 11; Knoxville, Tenn.; Thompson-Boling Arena April 12; Chattanooga, Tenn.; UTC Arena April 25; Omaha, Neb.; Civic Auditorium April 26; Iowa City, Iowa; Carver Hawkeye April 28; Columbia, Mo.; Hearnes Center April 29; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Myriad Center May 1; Little Rock, Ark.; Barton Coliseum May 2; Austin, Texas; Frank Erwin Center May 4; New Orleans, La.; TBA May 5; Pensacola, Fla.; Civic Center May 7; Greenville, S.C.; Bi-Lo Center May 8; Norfolk, Va.; Scope Exhibition Arena May 11; Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; NEPA Arena May 13; Providence, R.I.; Civic Center May 14; Portland, Maine; Cumberland County Civic Center |
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