Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour

Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour

Continental tour by Blink-182
Location	North America
Associated album	Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Start date	July 4, 2001
End date	September 21, 2001
Legs	1
No. of shows	44
Blink-182 concert chronology

The Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour was a concert tour by rock band Blink-182. Launched in support of the group's 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, the tour visited amphitheatres and arenas between July and September 2001. The tour was supported by New Found Glory, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio and Midtown.

A planned European leg of the tour was postponed following the September 11 attacks, and cancelled when guitarist Tom DeLonge suffered a back injury.

Background

The band partnered with Ticketmaster, setting up a special website where fans could purchase pre-sale tickets for each show.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the band draped an American flag over a set of amplifiers and drummer Travis Barker played on a red, white, and blue drum kit. At one concert, DeLonge invited the crowd to join him in his cheers of "Fuck Osama bin Laden!"

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue
North America
July 4, 2001	Moline	United States	Mark of the Quad Cities
July 5, 2001	Milwaukee		Marcus Amphitheater
July 6, 2001	Noblesville		Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 7, 2001	Tinley Park		Tweeter Center
July 9, 2001	Cincinnati		Riverbend Music Center
July 10, 2001	Columbus		Polaris Amphitheater
July 11, 2001	Cuyahoga Falls		Blossom Music Center
July 13, 2001	Bonner Springs		Sandstone Amphitheater
July 14, 2001	Somerset		Rivers Edge Amphitheatre
July 15, 2001	Maryland Heights		Riverport Amphitheatre
July 17, 2001	Burgettstown		Post-Gazette Pavilion
July 19, 2001	Clarkston		DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 21, 2001	Wantagh		Jones Beach Theater
July 22, 2001
July 23, 2001	Darien Center		Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 24, 2001	Columbia		Merriweather Post Pavilion
July 26, 2001	Holmdel		PNC Bank Arts Center
July 27, 2001	Camden		Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
July 28, 2001	Boston		Suffolk Downs
July 29, 2001	Scranton		Coors Light Amphitheatre at Montage Mountain
July 31, 2001	Raleigh		Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek
August 2, 2001	West Palm Beach		Mars Music Amphitheatre
August 3, 2001	Tampa		Ice Palace Arena
August 5, 2001	Antioch		AmSouth Amphitheater
August 7, 2001	Dallas		Smirnoff Music Centre
August 8, 2001	The Woodlands		Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 9, 2001	Selma		Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 11, 2001	Greenwood Village		Coors Amphitheatre
August 13, 2001	West Valley		E Center
August 14, 2001	Nampa		Idaho Center Amphitheater
August 15, 2001	Portland		Memorial Coliseum
August 17, 2001	George	The Gorge Amphitheatre
August 18, 2001	Vancouver	Canada	Thunderbird Stadium
August 21, 2001	Calgary		Pengrowth Saddledome
August 22, 2001	Edmonton		Telus Field
August 25, 2001	Toronto[A]		Molson Amphitheatre
August 26, 2001	Ottawa		Ottawa Civic Centre
August 28, 2001	Quebec City		Colisée Pepsi
August 29, 2001	Montreal		Parc Jean-Drapeau
September 1, 2001	Allentown	United States	Allentown Fairgrounds
September 2, 2001	Syracuse		New York State Fairgrounds
September 3, 2001	Hartford[B]		ctnow.com Meadows Music Center
September 8, 2001	Wheatland		Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre
September 9, 2001	Mountain View		Shoreline Amphitheatre
September 14, 2001	Phoenix		Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
September 19, 2001	Long Beach		Long Beach Arena
September 21, 2001	Chula Vista		Coors Amphitheatre

Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

^A This concert was a part of "Edgefest II"

^B This concert was a part of "Radio 104 Fest 2001"

Reception

Reception towards the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour was generally positive. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times was positive in his review of the band's concert at the Tweeter Center, writing, "There is a long and noble tradition in rock 'n' roll of hyperenergetic, ultramelodic, sha-la-la-la stupidity, and Blink has proven itself to be a worthy inheritor of this tradition—not as great as the mighty Ramones just yet, but at least as good as the Troggs or the Archies or Grand Funk Railroad." The band's appearance at Radio 104 Fest in Hartford, Connecticut was reviewed by Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant: "Blink-182 [...] has earned its place at the top. Both bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge are tighter now from working with ace drummer Travis Barker for a few years. The show's focus is more their bracing, melodic songs rather than the childishly vulgar banter between them."

Ed Masley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the trio "the Steely Dan of cartoon punk", feeling that "the [dirty] jokes were nearly overshadowed by musical highlights [...] Some, I'm sure, would argue that the show was worse than reprehensible. But unlike, say, Limp Bizkit, Korn or Eminem, these clowns did it all for the giggles. At a time when so much of teen culture is focused on hate and aggression, last night's show was practically refreshing." Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times felt the concert tasteful in light of the then-recent September 11 attacks; "In some strange way Blink-182's concert Sunday at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim provided a kind of catharsis, or at least temporary escape, for the thousands of fans who turned out." He praised the group's inclusion of humor, while also comparing drummer Travis Barker to Keith Moon of The Who.

External links

• Official website