Ballbreaker World Tour
Tour by AC/DC | |
Associated album | Ballbreaker |
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Start date | 12 January 1996 |
End date | 30 November 1996 |
Legs | 7 |
No. of shows | 155 played, 1 cancelled, 6 postponed |
AC/DC concert chronology |
The Ballbreaker World Tour was a rock concert tour played by the hard rock band AC/DC, which had 5 legs around the world lasting 11 months starting on 12 January 1996 in Greensboro, North Carolina finishing on 30 November 1996 in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Background
This was returning drummer Phil Rudd's first tour with the group since 1981's For Those About to Rock Tour.
Live footage can be found on the DVD No Bull , filmed at Plaza de Toros Las Ventas, Madrid, Spain. A few more shows were released on the 2007 DVD box set Plug Me In.
Four shows were postponed on an early leg so Brian Johnson could attend his father's funeral.
A video was played at the beginning of each concert featuring Beavis and Butt-head attempting to get into the band's dressing room, only to be chased away by a female security guard sent by Angus Young.
Each concert began with a large wrecking ball 'destroying' part of the stage, forming a gap in the stage, from which the band would emerge to play "Back in Black." During "Ballbreaker", Johnson would climb onto the wrecking ball to sing. At the beginning of "Highway to Hell", the wrecking ball would drop to the floor of the stage, creating a "hole to hell", after which Angus Young would emerge from the hole in a cage from hell to play the song.
The Wildhearts supported on the second European and third US legs. "It turned from majesty to comedy to tragedy all in one month," shuddered mainstay Ginger. "We got there [the US] and took full advantage of the welcome that America affords a young band, which is as much drugs and alcohol as we could get our hands on – and then, inevitably, we started fighting with each other… I love AC/DC. They turn up, do their job and go. You tour for years and years and you don't do that by hanging out and partying all the time… We managed five dates."[1]
Personnel
Tour dates
First Night Setlist
- "Back in Black"
- "Shot Down in Flames"
- "Girls Got Rhythm"
- "Dog Eat Dog"
- "Thunderstruck"
- "Cover You in Oil"
- "Shoot to Thrill"
- "Boogie Man"
- "Ballbreaker"
- "Hells Bells"
- "Down Payment Blues"
- "The Jack"
- "Who Made Who"
- "Hard as a Rock"
- "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"
- "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
- "You Shook Me All Night Long"
- "Whole Lotta Rosie"
- "T.N.T."
- "Let There Be Rock"
Encore:
Typical setlist
- "Back in Black"
- "Shot Down in Flames"
- "Thunderstruck"
- "Girls Got Rhythm"
- "Cover You in Oil" (Played sometimes instead of "Hail Caesar")
- "Shoot to Thrill"
- "Hard as a Rock"
- "Boogie Man"
- "Hail Caesar"
- "Hells Bells"
- "Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be" (played three times)
- "Dog Eat Dog" or "Down Payment Blues"
- "The Jack"
- "Ballbreaker"
- "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"
- "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap"
- "You Shook Me All Night Long"
- "Whole Lotta Rosie"
- "T.N.T."
- "Let There Be Rock"
Encore:
References
- ↑ Wilding, Philip (March 2011). "Ever Meet Hendrix?". Classic Rock #155. p. 36.
- ↑ http://acdc-bootlegs.com/concerthistory/?year=1996