Family Values Tour

The Family Values Tour was created by the band Korn in 1998 to be an annual rock & rap Tour.

The tour took the year off in 2000, due to heavy competition, like the Anger Management Tour. After a four year hiatus, the Family Values returned in 2006 with Korn, Deftones as the headliners. 2006 featured a second stage for the first time in the festival's history. James "Munky" Shaffer has confirmed (in an interview) that a DVD and CD documenting 2007's Family Values Tour has been recorded. It has been confirmed by Munky that the band are doing a Family Values Tour in 2010 after the release of their 9th Studio Album.

History

Family Values Tour 1998

Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Incubus (replaced Ice Cube on October 25, 1998 for four remaining dates), Orgy, and Rammstein.

In one of the more infamous moments, Rammstein's vocalist, Till Lindemann engaged in simulated anal sex with the keyboardist, Christian Lorenz using a liquid squirting dildo, during their performance of "Bück dich" in Worcester, Massachusetts. They were subsequently arrested and spent the night in jail.

The underground Bakersfield nu-metal band Juice was offered a spot on the tour but turned it down due to unknown reasons.

Ice Cube replacement

On September 25, 1998 due to the beginning of shooting the movie "Next Friday", Ice Cube was replaced by alternative metal band Incubus for remaining four dates. The band is featured on the Family Values Tour '98 CD release with song "New Skin", and can be also seen during performance of "All in the Family" on DVD release.

Feud with Rob Zombie

Initially, Rob Zombie was to be one of the artists participating on the tour, but due to the high production costs each Rob Zombie concert would cost $125,000 in bandfees and show production alone. Therefore, Rob Zombie was replaced by German industrial metal act, Rammstein. However, explanation was somewhat confusing. The Firm, Korn's management said Zombie continually expressed dissatisfaction over not wanting to work with a hip-hop act on the bill, and was supposedly lectured by Rob Zombie management that "rock kids don't like hip-hop." Rob Zombie's manager, Andy Gould said those comments were false. He explained that Zombie has never even spoken to Korn, so he could not have made those comments. ^[1] Although the statement released by Korn's management resulted in anger, Rob Zombie shared no bad blood with the bands participating in Family Values Tour. Next year, in 1999 both Rob Zombie and Korn got on good terms again, and launched together highly successful "Rock is Dead" tour.

Family Values Tour 1999

Family Values Tour 2001

Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park, Puddle Of Mudd, Staind, Static-X, Deadsy, and Spike 1000

Dates

October 11 - Cleveland, OH @ CSU Convocation Center
October 12 - Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
October 13 - St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
October 15 - Auburn Hills, MI @ Palace of Auburn Hills
October 16 - Indianapolis, IN @ Conseco Fieldhouse
October 18 - Washington, DC @ MCI Center
October 19 - Columbus, OH @ Schottenstein Center
October 20 - Toronto, ON @ Toronto Skydome
October 22 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Union Center
October 23 - Uniondale, NY @ Nassau Coliseum
October 24 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Continental Airlines Arena
October 26 - Hartford, CT @ The Hartford Civic Center
October 27 - Worcester, MA @ The Centrum
October 28 - Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena
October 30 - Charlotte, NC @ Cricket Arena
October 31 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
November 2 - Fort Lauderdale, FL @ National Car Rental Center
November 3 - Tampa, FL @ Ice Palace
November 4 - Biloxi, MS @ Mississippi Coast Coliseum
November 6 - Dallas, TX @ Reunion Arena
November 7 - Houston, TX @ Compaq Center
November 9 - San Antonio, TX @ Alamodome
November 10 - North Little Rock, AR @ Alltel Arena
November 11 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Myriad Convention Center
November 13 - Phoenix, AZ @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum
November 14 - Las Vegas, NV @ Thomas & Mack Center
November 16 - Portland, OR @ Rose Garden Arena
November 17 - Tacoma, WA @ Tacoma Dome
November 19 - Oakland, CA @ Oakland Arena
November 20 - Sacramento, CA @ ARCO Arena
November 23 - Inglewood, CA @ The Forum
November 24 - Anaheim, CA @ Arrowhead Pond

Family Values Tour 2006

Korn, Deftones, Stone Sour, Flyleaf, Dir en grey, 10 Years, Deadsy, Bury Your Dead, Bullets and Octane, and Walls of Jericho

Controversies

In 2006 a violent fight allegedly broke out in the mosh pit at the Family Values Tour in Atlanta, Georgia while Deftones were performing, resulting in the death of Andy Richardson, age 30, on August 1, 2006. Lawyers representing Mr. Richardson's family said they may pursue civil actions against Korn and the show's promoters.

Mr. Richardson's mother, Gloria Richardson, said "It's not right that someone could go to a concert for a good time and wind up dead ...There needs to be more security or they need to not have these concerts at all…", in a statement to Cox News Service made on August 1, 2006. One week later, a 24-year-old Michael Scott Axley was arrested and charged with Richardson's murder. Witnesses claim Axley punched Richardson, causing his head to hit the concrete floor, an injury that ultimately proved to be fatal.

Dates

Family Values Tour 2007

Main Stage: Korn, Evanescence, Atreyu, Flyleaf, Hellyeah, Trivium, Neurosonic Side Stage: Droid, Five Finger Death Punch, Through You, Invitro, Twin Method, and Bloodsimple

Dates

July 20 - Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
July 21 - Somerset, WI - Float-Rite Amphitheatre
July 22 - Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
July 24 - Toronto, Ontario - Molson Amphitheatre
July 25 - Clarkston, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 27 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts
July 28 - Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion
July 29 - Hartford, CT - New England Dodge Music Center
August 3 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
August 4 - Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
August 5 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center
August 7 - Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center
August 8 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
August 10 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
August 11 - Atlanta, GA - HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
August 12 - Orlando, FL - Amway Arena
August 14 - West Palm Beach, FL - Sound Advice Amphitheater
August 15 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
August 17 - Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Music Centre
August 18 - The Woodlands, TX - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
August 19 - Selma, TX - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 21 - Oklahoma City, OK - Zoo Amphitheatre
August 22 - Bonner Springs, KS - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Kansas City
August 24 - Englewood, CO - Coors Amphitheatre
August 25 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
August 26 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
August 29 - Bakersfield, CA - Rabobank Arena
August 31 - Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
September 1 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
September 2 - Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

CD and DVD releases

• The Family Values Tour 1999
• The Family Values 2001 Tour
• The Family Values Tour 2006

The initial edition of Family Values Tour was highly successful and it was documented on separate DVD and CD releases, both put on sale on March 30, 1999 via Immortal/Epic Records. The CD release achieved gold record status in the US while DVD release went platinum.

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