The Final Tour was a

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by heavy metal band

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. At the time, it had been announced as the band's final tour before their initial hiatus from 2016 until their announced comeback reunion in 2019.

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was announced as the opening act for the tour. The first leg of the tour began on July 2, 2014 in

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and concluded on November 22, 2014 in

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. The band further announced more dates for the second and final leg of the tour, which started February 11, 2015 in

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, and ended with three concerts at

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in the band's hometown of

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on December 28, 30 and 31, 2015. The Tour was kicked off by a drum solo by Producer Joe of the FreeBeer & Hotwings show.

Background and development

On January 28, 2014, Mötley Crüe held a press conference at Beacher's Madhouse Theater in

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, where they announced a final tour with

as the opening act, and later on added

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-based band The Raskins as a second opening act for the first leg of the tour. The band became the first to sign a binding legal document known as a "cessation of touring" contract, preventing them from touring beyond the year 2015 under the name Mötley Crüe. The first leg of the Final Tour began on July 2, 2014 in

and ended on November 22, 2014 in

. In January 2015, the band announced that the Final Tour would keep going through the year of 2015, beginning with a handful of international dates in Japan, Australia, Europe and

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for their only date in South America on the tour, followed by 34 more dates in North America to end the year and the tour. Even more North American dates however were later added in April 2015. Then a couple months later in June while in London preparing to perform at three different festivals across Europe, Mötley Crüe and Alice Cooper announced a full set of European dates, with the shows set to take place in November 2015. On July 16, 2015, the band set out on their second North American leg of the Final Tour, beginning with two sold-out nights in

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, with the first of the two shows being recorded for an upcoming live album to be released sometime after the tour concludes. They brought along New York City-based band ''The Cringe'' as a second opening act for most of the second North American leg of the tour. Drummer

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was forced to miss a handful of shows during October 2015 due to a flare up of

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in his wrist. Alice Cooper's drummer

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filled in for Lee on drums until he was able to return. Lee was however able to perform the piano parts in the band's hit song "Home, Sweet, Home" during the encore at each of the shows he missed. The band's final shows were held in different cities throughout the southwest region of the U.S. where the band often played as they were starting out in the early 1980s, leading up to the finales, including a performance in

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where lead vocalist

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has most recently been residing, and eventually ended with three nights at the

in the band's hometown of

on December 28, 30 and 31st of 2015. Rumors of an intimate encore performance taking place at the

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immediately following the band's New Year's Eve performance at Staples Center was dismissed by Mötley Crüe bassist

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in an April 2015 interview.

Set list

The set list was shortened by two songs from the first to the second leg of the tour, no longer playing songs "On With the Show" and "Too Fast for Love". "

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" was also dropped after the fourth concert on the tour's second leg. However, "Louder Than Hell" was then added. The opening song was changed from "

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" to " Girls, Girls, Girls". The following set list was taken from the performance on August 5, 2015 in

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: #" Girls, Girls, Girls" #"Wild Side" #"

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Shows

Gross

*Total Gross: $86.1 million *Total Attendance: 1,358,423 *Shows: 158

Notes

References

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