The Painkiller Tour was a

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by English heavy metal band

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which was in support of the album ''

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''. It ran from 18 October 1990 until 15 April 1991. This tour introduced new drummer

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from Racer X, who joined the band in 1989 after previous drummer

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's departure that same year. He has remained with the band ever since, surpassing Holland as the band's longest serving drummer.

Pre-tour

A one-off pre-tour show took place on 13 September 1990 in which the band performed at the third annual

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in Los Angeles. It was recorded and put together along with the performance from

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vocalist

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's solo band (recorded on 27 June 1990 in London) as a bootlegged split live album. The setlist for the event is as follows: # "Riding on the Wind" # "Grinder" # "

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" # "Between the Hammer and the Anvil" # "Bloodstone" # "

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" (

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cover) # "

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cover) # "Leather Rebel" # " Hell Bent for Leather" # "

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" Encore: # "

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" Note * The live versions of "Better By You, Better Than Me" and "Leather Rebel" appear as bonus tracks on the 2001 re-issues of ''

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'' and ''Painkiller'' respectively.

Setlist

# "Blood Red Skies" (Intro Only) # "Hell Bent for Leather" # "Grinder" # "The Hellion" # "

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" # "All Guns Blazing" # "Between The Hammer And The Anvil" (Replaced by "The Sentinel" after 29 October 1990) # "Metal Gods" # "Bloodstone" (Dropped after 19 October 1990) # "Night Crawler" # " The Ripper" # "

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" # "Metal Meltdown" (Replaced by "Riding On The Wind" after 25 October 1990) # Drum Solo (Added 31 October 1990(?)*) # "

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" (Removed after 11 February 1991) # " Victim of Changes" # "

" # "

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cover) # "

" Encore: #

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" # "

" "

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" was also played once.

Tour dates

The band would tour with

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and Testament on the North American leg and with

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and Annihilator on the European and UK leg.

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and

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were originally billed for the European leg, but were dropped for unknown reasons and replaced by Pantera. They also performed at the second annual

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festival with

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, Megadeth, Lobão and

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on 23 January 1991.

References

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