After the 23 July show at the Days on the Green festival at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, California, Bonham and members of the band's support staff were arrested after a member of promoter Bill Graham's staff had been badly beaten during the band's performance.

Although it debuted at No. 4, and in spite of a live performance at the American Music Awards, the album was a commercial failure, due in part to the band's label's lack of support.

In October 1996, in support of Test For Echo, the band embarked on a North American tour, the band's first without an opening act and dubbed " An Evening with Rush ".

In February 1978 the Stranglers began a mini-tour, playing three secret pub gigs as a thank-you to those venues and their landlords for their support during the band's rise to success.

The Goo Goo Dolls also toured in support for the band's final tour.

The group also picked up a cult following in Australia thanks to the support of the Sydney rock radio station 2JJ ( now Triple-J ) and the nationally broadcast weekly music TV show Countdown, which screened all of the band's early videos ( beginning with their first Australian single release-" This Is Pop "); thanks to this interest, the group made two well-received tours there in 1979 and 1980.

In early 2007 it was announced that Difford and Tilbrook would re-form Squeeze for a series of shows throughout the latter half of the year, in support of Universal and Warner's re-issuing of the band's back catalogue and the release of a new ' best of ' album, Essential Squeeze, on 30 April.

" Gleason's support raised the band's profile considerably, and within three months their manager Matthew Katz was fielding offers from recording companies, although they had yet to perform outside the Bay Area.

After taking a short break to allow Scott to support his recently released second solo album, production for the band's sixth studio album began in mid-2009.

In 2004, following the great success of his acclaimed live performances of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album, and with the support of his band's musical director Darian Sahanaja, Wilson made the surprise announcement that he was going to finish the mythical record using his current touring band.

A national tour in support of the album followed, and the band's performances began to grow more intense and violent.

It needed the band's participation in town festivals and parades in the surrounding area in support of the local tobacco market.

The Kung Fu label had grown since its founding in 1996 and was well-positioned to provide the recording, marketing, and touring support the band's popularity now necessitated, including marketing and touring opportunities in Japan.

The band's live performances began to gain momentum and acclaim and they were asked to support first The Rezillos ( featuring future band member Jo Callis ), then Siouxsie and the Banshees as early as September 1978.

The band's first full-scale U. S. tour ( in support of this album ) was as the opening act for Kiss on their Animalize tour.

Geffen pulled financial support for the band's tour with Slash's Snakepit disbanding soon after.

Providing saxophone, guitars and background vocals, she travelled extensively during the band's early days, including performances in West Germany, Spain and Poland to support the band's debut studio album, The D is for Drum.

The band's final tour was to support U2 in August 1993, after which the trio officially disbanded.

After the incident the band's management stated that The Vines would cease touring in support of Winning Days and would record another studio album.

The band's first musical appearance since Edwards ' departure was recording a cover of " Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head " for The Help Album, a charity effort in 1995 in support of aid efforts in war-torn Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The band's UK sales began to decrease in the latter half of the 1980s, as did critical support there, but they remained popular.

The Upside-Down EP was released on CD in support of the album, rounding out the band's releases on Alias.

In June 1994, Pfaff died of an apparent heroin overdose, and Love recruited bassist Melissa Auf der Maur for the band's upcoming tour.

It would be the band's final album of all-new material, and lead singer Holly Johnson would leave the band following the corresponding world tour, followed by a flurry of lawsuits from ZTT.

For the band's R30 tour, one dryer was replaced with a rotating shelf-style vending machine.

The recording had taken place during three concert nights at Madison Square Garden in July 1973, during the band's concert tour of North America.

The rest of the tour was immediately cancelled, prompting widespread speculation about the band's future.

A North American tour, the band's first since 1977, was scheduled to commence on 17 October.

The band released an album and DVD, entitled Live in Texas, which consisted of audio and video tracks of some of the band's performances in Texas during the tour.

The band spent the first few months of 2004 touring around the world, first with the third Projekt Revolution tour, and later several European concerts. At the same time, the band's relationship with Warner Bros. Records was deteriorating rapidly on account of several trust and financial issues.

Despite the tour ending prematurely in financial disaster, it was the basis for the band's first international press.

Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

" The tour became notable for the band's in-jokes, such as playing their entire set list in alphabetical order.

Intended to be the band's first " break-through " album, Caress of Steel sold below expectations and the promotional tour consisted of smaller venues, which led to the moniker the " Down the Tubes Tour ".

The album was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including first-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played to some of the largest crowds of their career.

Roxy Music performed seven dates around the UK in January and February 2011, in a tour billed ' For Your Pleasure ', to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary.

The band's appearance at Reading Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure.

Since the band's inception, Andi Watson has been their lighting and stage director, designing the visuals of Radiohead's live concerts, such as the carbon-neutral " LED forest " of the In Rainbows tour.

In 2000, Bill Viola collaborated with the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, and its lead singer Trent Reznor to create a video suite for the band's tour.

On the band's tour through the segregated South in 1934, they avoided some of the traveling difficulties of African-Americans by touring in private railcars.

Queen commenced the News of the World Tour in October 1977, and Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times called this concert tour the band's " most spectacularly staged and finely honed show yet ".

The band's drummer Roger Taylor commented ; " We never thought we would tour again, Paul came along by chance and we seemed to have a chemistry.

The band's 1984 – 1985 tour was the most lucrative in their history and spawned 9012Live, a concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh with added special effects from Charlex that cost $ 1 million.

The tour was also dogged by legal battles sparked by Atlantic Records due to the band's references to Yes in promotional materials and the tour title.