Bad Company/Styx/Billy Squier Tour Announced

03/28/2001 6:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Bruce Simon

(3/28/01, 6 p.m. ET) -- Members of Styx and Bad Company were on hand at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Wednesday (March 28) to announce a co-headlining tour. Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers and all six members of the current Styx lineup were joined by Billy Squier and young blues-rocker Joe Stark to reveal the details of their 40-show outing, which kicks off May 10 at the Blossom Music Center outside Cleveland and is scheduled to wrap on July 14 at the World Music Theatre in Tinley Park, Illinois.

LAUNCH asked Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke why he thinks people are always excited to see a Bad Company show, and he said: "We play good songs, (and) we play them well. I think that's always been the strength of Bad Company, is its songs. You know, we, we don't put on any flashing, multi-laser, exploding midgets, you know? We (laughs), we just tend to get up there, almost understated, and, and rely on our own ability to come across."

Styx and Bad Company will return to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame on May 7 for an acoustic concert, which will be open to anyone with a paid admission ticket that day with no additional charge. A portion of the proceeds from the tour's ticket sales has been earmarked for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

The Bad Company/Styx/Billy Squier/Joe Stark itinerary (subject to change):

May 10 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center

May 11 - Columbus, OH - Polaris Amphitheatre

May 12 - Maryland Heights, OH - Riverport Amphitheatre

May 13 - Bonner Springs, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre

May 15 - Omaha, NE - Omaha Civic Auditorium

May 17 - Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre

May 18 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Center

May 19 - The Woodlands, TX - Woodlands Pavilion

May 20 - Selma, TX - South Texas Amphitheatre

May 22 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion

May 24 - Englewood, CO - Fiddlers Green

May 25 - West Valley, UT - E-Center

May 26 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheater

May 27 - George, WA - The Gorge Amphitheatre

May 31-June 1 - Universal City, CA - Universal Amphitheatre

June 2 - Las Vegas, NV - Silverbowl Park

June 3 - Phoenix, AZ - Desert Sky Pavilion

June 5 - Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre

June 6 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Irvine

June 8 - Concord, CA - Chronicle Pavilion

June 9 - Reno, NV - Reno Hilton Amphitheatre

June 21 - Atlanta, GA - HiFi Buys Amphitheatre

June 22 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless

June 23 - Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheatre

June 24 - Virginia Beach, VA - GTE Virginia Beach

June 26 - Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion

June 28 - Boston, MA - FleetBoston Pavilion

June 29 - Scranton, PA - Montage Mountain

June 30 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center

July 1 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach Amphitheatre

July 3 - Toronto, ONT - Molson Amphitheatre

July 4 - Quebec City, QUE - Le Colisee

July 6 - Auburn Hills, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre

July 7 - Burgettstown, PA - Post-Gazette Pavilion

July 8 - Darien Centre, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheatre

July 11 - Traverse City, MI - National Cherry Festival

July 12 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center

July 13 - Fishers, IN - Verizon Wireless Music

July 14 - Tinley Park, IL - World Music Theatre

-- Bruce Simon, New York

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