Mother's Milk Tour
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| Tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers | |
 Promotional poster for two 1990 shows | |
| Associated album | Mother's Milk |
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| Start date | January 22, 1989 |
| End date | December 31, 1990 |
| Legs | 8 |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers concert chronology | |
The Mother's Milk Tour (also known as the Suckle Up to the Breast of Mother Earth Tour, Positive Mental Octopus Tour, The Lazy Cowgirls Tour and The Great Expectorations Tour)[1] was a worldwide concert tour by Red Hot Chili Peppers to support their fourth studio album Mother's Milk, the breakthrough album for the band which launched them to bigger success than ever before. It was the first full tour with guitarist John Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith, who joined late in the previous year.
Background
Following the 1988 death of
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Songs performed
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Other (non-album songs)
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- Anarchy in the U.K. (Sex Pistols)
- Back in Black (AC/DC)
- Batman T.V. Theme song
- Boyz-n-the-Hood (Eazy-E)
- Bulletproof (George Clinton)
- Castles Made of Sand (Jimi Hendrix)
- Cosmic Slop (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Crosstown Traffic (Jimi Hendrix)
- Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey (Sly and the Family Stone)
- Dr. Funkenstein (Parliament Funkadelic)
- F.U. (Bemsha Swing(Thelonious Monk)
- Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix)
- God God (James Brown)
- Heaven on Their Minds (Jesus Christ Superstar)
- How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin)
- If You Got Funk, You Got Style (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Inca Roads (Frank Zappa)
- My Michelle (Guns N' Roses)
- Nervous Breakdown (Black Flag)
- No Head, No Backstage Pass (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Red Hot Mama (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Standing on the Verge of Getting It On (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Tiny Dancer (Elton John)
- What Is Soul? (Parliament Funkadelic)
- Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin)
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers)
- Your Song (Elton John)
Tour overview
The tour was by far the biggest tour for the band at the time breaking them through to new audiences and larger venues to perform at. The tour also included television appearances on such shows as The Arsenio Hall Show where they even performed a tribute to the late night host called "Ode To Arsenio" which was used as an intro to their cover of Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground". In Austin, Texas, during the opening set by Mary's Danish, all four Chili Pepper's ran onstage totally naked, and tackled Mary's Danish two female lead singers. Out of the thirteen songs on the album, only "Johnny, Kick a Hole in the Sky" has never been performed live however it was oddly placed on the band's 1992 What Hits!? album. "Show Me Your Soul", recorded in 1990 which would end up on the 1990 soundtrack for the film, Pretty Woman got a one time only lip-synch performance although it has never been performed live. The band also performed "Naked in the Rain" for the first time ever near the tour's end. The song would appear on their next album, 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik. In July 2017 Chad Smith told in fan interview that actually many songs from the first three records were performed during the tour and some of them were played only one time. He also mentioned that the song "Jungle Man" was also played during this tour.
This tour marked the last time "American Ghost Dance", "Baby Appeal", "
Opening acts
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Personnel
- Flea - bass, backing vocals
- John Frusciante - guitar, backing vocals
- lead vocals
- drums
Additional musicians
- Keith "Tree" Barry- saxophone/horns, backing vocals
- Kristen Vigard - backing vocals
- Vickie Calhoun - backing vocals
- Robbie Allen - opening comedy act, roadie
References
- ^ "t-shirt museum rock(newtype)". Newtypeonlineshop.net.
- ^ "Past Shows - RHCP Tour". Red Hot Chili Peppers. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
- ^ "The Side - 2011 Tour". Theside.free.fr.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "TourDateSearch.com: Tue, Nov 21, 1989 at Phantasy Theatre in Lakewood, OH, USA". Tourdatesearch.com.
