Just Push Play Tour
| Tour by Aerosmith | |
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| Associated album | Just Push Play |
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| Start date | June 6, 2001 |
| End date | February 3, 2002 |
| Legs | 5 |
| No. of shows | 92 (scheduled); 77 (played) |
| Aerosmith concert chronology | |
The Just Push Play Tour was a concert tour headlined by Aerosmith that took the band to dozens of shows across North America and Japan. The tour was put on in support of their 2001 release Just Push Play and ran from June 2001 to February 2002. Alternative rockers Fuel opened the show for much of the tour. The Cult served as the opening act on later dates.
The tour received much success with the only major problems on the tour being cancellations. Three of the cancellations were due in part to the September 11 terrorist attacks; two of these dates were made up on the tour. An earlier show in Irvine was canceled due to a scheduling conflict with the recording of the music video for the single "Sunshine". Eleven shows were canceled later on in the tour due to illness of one of the band members.
The stage for the tour had a very modern look, resembling the moderness of the band's new album and its cover. Most striking was the silver and white colors, as well as two curving staircases which met at a platform at the top, where some of the most exciting moments of each concert took place, including the entrance of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry at the beginning of the show, as well as Steven Tyler singing the eerie lyrics to the beginning of "Seasons of Wither"
Additionally, the band set up a second smaller stage in the rear of the outdoor pavilions to play for those in the lawn section. During the middle of the show, the band members would walk under very heavy security to this stage to do a three-song set from this stage.
Steven Tyler jokingly referred to this tour as the "Back on the Grass Tour" which was a reference to the auxiliary stage set up on the lawn at many outdoor venues, and at the same time a jab at those who had claimed Aerosmith was using drugs again. Tyler especially targeted former manager Tim Collins with these jokes, who had accused Aerosmith of relapsing into drug use before the band fired him in 1996. "Back On The Grass" was never an official name for the tour, just a joke Tyler repeated in several interviews.
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