Reptile World Tour

Reptile World Tour

by Eric Clapton

Presentation album	Reptiles
Beginning of the tour	February 3, 2001
End of the tour	December 15, 2001
Total concerts (by continent)	* 17 in Asia 36 in Europe 45 in North America 10 in South America
Concerts in total	108; 4 of them canceled
revenue	+ $ 80,875,564

Eric Clapton Tour Chronology

Pilgrim World Tour (1997-99)	Reptile World Tour (2001)	Just for You Japan Tour (2003)

The Reptile World Tour [ ˈrɛptaɪl wɜːld tʊə ] ( English for "Reptile World Tour") was a one-year concert tour by British rock musician Eric Clapton . The tour began on February 3, 2001 at the Royal Albert Hall and ended on December 15, 2001 at the Yokohama Arena . In addition to his hit songs, Clapton also performed new pieces from the Reptile album. The world tour consisted of 108 scheduled concerts, four of which were canceled.

The Briton appeared again in South America for the first time since the Journeyman World Tour (1989-1991). Among them, Clapton played during the 2001 tour for the first time in Russia , Venezuela and Mexico . Overall, Clapton joined more than 1.68 million visitors and took more than 80 million US dollars a. Although Clapton announced in 2001 that it would be his last major world tour, he did another major world tour in 2010 and 2011 .

Tour events

Clapton started the tour with six concerts, one of which had to be canceled on February 7th due to illness. After his stand in London, the Briton played three more concerts in the UK until mid-February. After that, Clapton traveled extensively through Europe until mid-April and again visited countries such as Portugal , Spain and Finland , in which he has so far only appeared sporadically. Clapton celebrated a premiere in Russia with the concerts on April 8th, 10th and 11th . It has not previously performed in the country. Clapton did not travel to Austria or the states of the former Eastern Bloc . As far as known, all concerts in Europe were sold out. Clapton took a break until early May.

From May to August, Clapton toured North America and played two sold-out concerts in Canada . In the United States alone, Clapton made 42 appearances and in North America alone generated revenues of 44,346,504 US dollars with 860,827 concertgoers in the United States, making the Reptile World Tour the seventh most successful concert tour in the country. On July 7th, Clapton interrupted his US tour briefly to perform with the band du Lac (including Mike Rutherford and Gary Brooker ). Highlights during the concerts in the States were two sold-out concerts at the Fleet Center, Boston and the Staples Center, Los Angeles. The three concerts in New York's Madison Square Garden were almost sold out.

In October, Clapton returned to South America for the first time since 1990. Out of 10 concerts, two had to be canceled due to disagreements with the government and the organizers in Colombia and Peru . Nevertheless, Clapton played eight completely sold-out concerts in Argentina , Brazil , Uruguay , Venezuela, Chile and Mexico. The concerts in Mexico and Venezuela were also a first for Clapton, as he had never traveled to the countries for concerts before. The most popular events included appearances at the Estadio Nacional (50,982 visitors), the Estádio do Pacaembu (62,450 visitors) and the Foro Sol (55,000 visitors). On October 20, Clapton traveled to New York to attend the concert for New York City .

With seventeen concerts in Asia, Clapton wanted to end the tour. However, the first concert on November 17th in Taiwan was canceled again due to disagreements with the promoter society. The Briton should have performed in the Zhongshan football stadium, for which the around 40,000 available tickets would have quickly sold out. The tour came to an end on December 15 with 16 concerts in Japan, including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Tokyo and Yokohama. As far as announced, these concerts were also completely sold out. A total of 1,680,957 of 1,728,585 available tickets were sold during the entire world tour (canceled concerts not included).

Setlist

For the most part, Clapton wore his hits like Tears in Heaven , Layla , Change the World , Wonderful Tonight , Badge , I Shot the Sheriff and My Father's Eyes during the concerts , but also blues standards like Five Long Years , Hoochie Coochie Man , Have You Ever Loved a Woman , Key to the Highway and I Want a Little Girl . When the Impressions were there during a concert, Clapton also played songs like Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight and I Ain't Gonna Stand for It from the album Reptile , which contain the voices of the vocal group on the studio version. Clapton also performed songs from the Pilgrim album . A show usually ended with the songs Sunshine of Your Love and Somewhere Over The Rainbow . The Briton announced the setlist to his audience in part: “We will play some songs from the past and the present. We started with a few new ones and now comes an old one […] ”.

occupation

The following musicians and groups performed during the tour.

Eric Clapton - guitar , vocals Doyle Bramhall II (guest, support act) - guitar, vocals David Sancious - guitar, backing vocals, keyboard Andy Fairweather Low - guitar, backing vocals Nathan East - bass guitar , backing vocals Steve Gadd - drums

Paulinho da Costa - percussion Billy Preston - keyboard, vocals (only during US concerts) Greg Phillinganes - Keyboard (replacement for Billy Preston) The Impressions - background vocals Jimmie Vaughan (guest) - guitar, vocals Buddy Guy (guest) - guitar, vocals

Miguel "Botafogo" Vilanova - guitar, vocals Roberto Frejat (support act) - guitar, vocals Biella Da Costa (opening act) - vocals Toto (support act) La Mississippi Blues Band (support act) Memphis La Blusera (support act)

Concert dates

date	city	country	Venue	Number of visitors	revenue
Europe
February 3, 2001	London		Royal Albert Hall	NN	NN
February 4, 2001
February 6, 2001
February 7, 2001				- (a)
February 9, 2001				NN	NN
February 10, 2001
February 12, 2001	Sheffield		Sheffield Arena	12,000 / 12,000	$ 669,000
February 14, 2001	Manchester		Evening News Arena	11.150 / 11.150	$ 621,623
February 16, 2001	Birmingham		LG Arena	13,000 / 13,000	$ 724,750
February 20, 2001	Lisbon		Pavilhão Atlântico	16.426 / 16.426	$ 584,765
February 22, 2001	Madrid		Palacio de los Deportes	29,800 / 29,800	$ 1,116,012
February 23, 2001
February 25, 2001	Barcelona		Palau Sant Jordi	23.292 / 23.292	$ 1,106,370
February 26, 2001	Toulouse		Le Zénith	13,545 / 13,545	$ 653,890
February 28, 2001	Florence		Palasport	7,500 / 7,500	$ 197,500
March 2, 2001	Milan		Fila forum	13.071 / 13.071	$ 330,958
March 3, 2001	Pesaro		BPA Palas	13.967 / 13.967	$ 360,628
March 5, 2001	Zurich		Hallenstadion	13,500 / 13,500	$ 814,590
March 6, 2001	Stuttgart		Schleyerhalle	15,500 / 15,500	$ 789,105
March 8, 2001	Cologne		Cologne Arena	19,500 / 19,500	$ 847.052
March 9, 2001	Frankfurt		Festival hall	13,500 / 13,500	$ 701,866
March 20, 2001	Paris		Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy	32,000 / 32,000	$ 2,309,708
March 21, 2001
March 23, 2001	Ghent		Flanders Expo	18,000 / 18,000	$ 638,460
March 25, 2001	Rotterdam		Ahoy Rotterdam	31,570 / 31,570	$ 1,944,944
March 26, 2001
March 28, 2001	Copenhagen		Forum	13,600 / 13,600	$ 884,000
March 29, 2001
March 31, 2001	Gothenburg		Scandinavium	10,000 / 10,000	$ 721,833
April 1, 2001	Oslo		spectrum	8,000 / 8,000	$ 489,643
April 3, 2001	Stockholm		Globes	15.864 / 15.864	$ 1,248,500
April 5, 2001	Helsinki		Hartwall Arena	29.980 / 29.980	$ 944,700
April 6, 2001
April 8, 2001	St. Petersburg		Ice Palace	10,000 / 10,000	$ 665,975
April 10, 2001	Moscow		Kremlin Convention Center	13,000 / 13,000	$ 450,000
April 11, 2001
North America
May 10, 2001	Dallas		Reunion Arena	13.390 / 13.390	$ 822,840
May 12, 2001	San Antonio		Alamo Dome	12,667 / 14,000	$ 691,110
May 14, 2001	Houston		Compaq Center	10,061 / 11,000	$ 661,000
May 15, 2001	New Orleans		New Orleans Arena	NN	NN
May 18, 2001	Sunrise		National Car Rental Center
May 19, 2001	Tampa		Ice Palace Arena
May 21, 2001	Atlanta		Philips Arena
May 22, 2001	Memphis		The pyramid
May 24, 2001	Nashville		Gaylord Entertainment Center	11,518 / 13,000	$ 654,120
May 25, 2001	Charlotte		Charlotte Coliseum	NN	NN
May 27, 2001	Washington		MCI Center
May 30, 2001	University Park		Bryce Jordan Center
June 1, 2001	Columbus		Nationwide Arena
June 2, 2001	Indianapolis		Conseco Fieldhouse
June 4, 2001	Cleveland		Gund arena
June 6, 2001	Auburn Hills		Palace of Auburn Hills	16.540 / 20.602	$ 973,777
June 9, 2001	Toronto		Air Canada Center	19.875 / 19.875	$ 1,574,600
June 11, 2001	Boston		Fleet Center	29.794 / 29.794	$ 1,894,300
June 12, 2001
June 15, 2001	Buffalo		HSBC Arena	15.991 / 15.991	$ 856,390
June 16, 2001	Albany		Pepsi Arena	12.833 / 13.511	$ 778,975
June 17, 2001	Philadelphia		First Union Center	NN	NN
June 21, 2001	new York		Madison Square Garden	46.541 / 47.013	$ 3,268,203
June 22, 2001
June 23, 2001
July 17, 2001	St. Paul		Xcel Energy Center	16.027 / 16.027	$ 1,071,371
July 19, 2001	Fargo		Fargo Dome	NN	NN
July 21, 2001	Milwaukee		Bradley Center
July 22, 2001	St. Louis		Savvis Center
July 24, 2001	Chicago		United Center	21,716 / 25,000	$ 1,390,302
July 25, 2001
July 27, 2001	Moline		Mark of the Quad Cities	NN	NN
July 28, 2001	Kansas City		Kemper Arena	13.129 / 14.140	$ 859,525
July 30, 2001	Denver		Pepsi Center	15.651 / 15.651	$ 1,079,050
August 1, 2001	Salt Lake City		Delta Center	NN	NN
August 2, 2001	Nampa		Idaho Center
August 4, 2001	Seattle		Key Arena
August 5, 2001	Vancouver		General Motors Place	19.865 / 19.865	$ 2,375,754
August 7, 2001	Portland		Rose Garden Arena	NN	NN
August 10, 2001	Sacramento		ARCO arena
August 11, 2001	Oakland		Oakland Arena
August 13, 2001	Las Vegas		Thomas & Mack Center
August 15, 2001	Phoenix		America West Arena	18.057 / 18.057	$ 1,733,472
August 17, 2001	los Angeles		Staples Center	28,600 / 28,600	$ 2,178,130
August 18, 2001
South America
October 4, 2001	Santiago		Estadio Nacional	50.982 / 50.982	$ 1,549,661
October 6, 2001	Buenos Aires		Estadio River Plate	35,000 / 35,000	$ 1,065,750
October 8, 2001	Montevideo		Cilindro Municipal	18.183 / 18.183	$ 553,672
October 10, 2001	Porto Alegre		Estádio Olímpico	33.567 / 33.567	$ 1,022,115
October 11, 2001	São Paulo		Estádio do Pacaembu	62.450 / 62.450	$ 1,901,602
October 13, 2001	Rio de Janeiro		Praça da Apoteose	51.809 / 51.809	$ 1,577,584
October 15, 2001	Bogotá		Estádio El Campín	- (b)
October 16, 2001	Caracas		Poliedro de Caracas	15.372 / 15.372	$ 468,077
October 17, 2001	Lima		Estadio Nacional	- (c)
October 19, 2001	Mexico City		Foro Sol	55,000 / 55,000	$ 1,674,750
Asia
November 17, 2001	Taipei		Zhongshan	- (d)
November 19, 2001	Osaka		Osaka-jō Hall	36.963 / 36.963	$ 1,942,407
November 21, 2001
November 22, 2001
November 24, 2001	Nagoya		Aichiken Taiikukan	7.005 / 7.005	$ 458,621
November 26, 2001	Fukuoka		Convention Center	15.140 / 15.140	$ 795,607
November 28, 2001	Tokyo		Nippon Budōkan	NN	NN
November 29, 2001
November 30, 2001
December 3, 2001
4th December 2001
December 5, 2001
December 8, 2001	Sendai		Grande 21	6.984 / 6.984	$ 439,531
December 10, 2001	Tokyo		Nippon Budōkan	NN	NN
December 11, 2001
December 14, 2001	Yokohama		Yokohama Arena	34,000 / 34,000	$ 2,541,978
December 15, 2001
Summary				1,680,957 / 1,728,585 (97%)	+ $ 80,875,564

Notes on individual appearances

^(a) This concert was canceled due to illness.

^(b) This concert was canceled due to disagreements with the government.

^(c) This concert was canceled due to disagreements with the organizer.

^(d) This concert was canceled due to disagreements with the organizer.

Web links

• Complete tour archive

Individual evidence

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