What was the first band (that you remember) who announced a farewell tour?

Did Cream start this trend or were there others before?

And of those who announced one, who stuck to their word (for at least 20 years)?

the only one I remember was the Who..

I had seen the Who twice before the farewell tour....and they rocked....but on the Farewell tour they played the Cotton Bowl In Dallas.....probably sold about 1/2 the seats....they were not very good that night...and to make things worse they had Billy Squire as the warm up....STROKE ME..STROKE ME!!!!!!!

For me the Farewell tour the Who did was one of their worst times

Maybe Cream was first but too young to remember much of that... First one I remember was the Who. Did their much-ballyhooed Farewell Show in Toronto ... about 6 tours ago... c'est tres amusant!

Elton John

About 6 years ago?

That would have to have been their 2nd farewell tour!!!!!

Cause the one I caught was in the mid to early 80's..and it was promoted as their Farewell Tour!!!!!

JaggerMister Wrote:
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> About 6 years ago?


6 TOURS ago... they are perennial...

i think it WAS cream bluz dude. not sure but it's the first one i remember. they even had that most excellent "goodbye cream" album, so they worked the breakup for tour and on recording...

i'm gonna leave this self-edited reader review from "goodbye cream" here (amazon.com) because i thought it pretty cool...[www.amazon.com]

this guy also reviews their other output if you wanna click on it.
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"Say Hello to "Goodbye", November 13, 2004
By J P Ryan (Waltham, Massachusetts United States)


This fourth and final album to be issued--in January 1969--during Cream's two-and-a-half year career is probably their most consistent, and among their best. At six songs in just over thirty minutes, it's short, and for anyone awaiting a major final statement in 1969 it must have been a bringdown. But looking at the group's work 35 years later, it is by far their tightest album, with nary a weak cut....

...Cream broke up in December 1968, and "Goodbye" is its farewell (though a 'Best Of' and two volumes of "Live Cream" would follow). The three live tracks are loose and full of fire (especially the classic nine-minute "I'm So Glad"), recorded near the end, in October 1968. Clapton's guitar is blistering, but the trio maintains focus and these killer tracks beat the live disc on "Wheels of Fire" hands down.

The three studio tracks show the continuing growth of the band (with Pappalardi once again playing and producing throughout). This is not the sound of the famed power trio, but a creative studio collaborative. Each member contributes a gem: Clapton's "Badge" (with George Harrison) is one of his greatest achievements.

Bruce plays piano (and Pappalardi, mellotron) on Jack's delightfully whimsical "Doing That Scrapyard Thing," which, like "Badge" is more reminiscent of the Beatles or Traffic than anything on the first two Cream albums. Ginger Baker's track, typically mordant and surreal(he was, after all, both the oldest member and in the midst of a lengthy period of opiate addiction)"What A Bringdown," is terrific: driving and jazzy, a four minute antecedent to Blind Faith's "Do What You Like," with Bruce on keyboards and Pappalardi playing bass!

"Goodbye" was no grand final statement - thank god! - but a fleet, near flawless minor classic that has aged better than some of the group's more famous work. If you can find it, check out Mobile Fidelity's killer transfer (now out of print)."
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i really dug that when The Supremes reunion finally took place, that it tanked, because Diana was such a greedy hawg; what was the story with that? she was dissing mary or tried a 'reunion' without the only other one still alive and singing? something like that...anyway, to her surprise, even tho huge solo and all that...the public stayed away in droves and did not at all appreciate the bullshite. i dug that.
OOOPs ; just realized...but that was a "reunion" not a "goodbye" so ulp, maybe i'll erase this out...my bad. sorry bluz dude.



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Beelyboy,
I remember getting the Goodbye Album the day it came out. I was a real fan, went to the farewell show in L.A. and the Movie they made of the Royal Albert Hall Shows! (Now they know how many holes it takes to fill it!)

There was an article about Cream in my local paper this morning:

[www.presstelegram.com]

Lucky guy.

To have those memories...and still remember them!

A complete history of the Who's farewell tours:

1982 - The Farewell tour
1989-90 The we thought we'd just come back to say goodbye again while Pete plays acoustic guitar in a soundproof booth tour
1996-97 The we just figured out you need 18 people on stage to perform Quadrophenia properly tour
1999-2000 The Pete CAN still play electric after all, just not very loud tour
2002 - The John can't make the mortgage payments on his castle, and even though he just dropped dead, we found someone else to stand over there and play the bass tour
2004 - The no particular reason tour
2006-07 The get a load of our horrible new album tour



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LOL..ouch. Very funny.

I seem to remember Meatloaf embarking on a farewell tour about 3-4 years ago. Either he changed his mind or he's still on it.

Gary Glitter did one in the mid 70s,as I recall. Pity he didnt retire from breathing while he was at it.

Bowie did a tour in 1990 where he said he was retiring his old songs, but he went back on it. Prince's latest trek is making the same promise.

Stonestod being the Sinatra buff may correct me on this, but I think the myth of endless Sinatra 'comeback' tours was somewhat overexaggerated. He announced a 'retirement' from showbusiness from a concert stage in 1971 before returning a couple of years later. he still made some charity appearances in between, though.

Cream must have been first.

In 1982, both The Doobie Brothers and The Who "retired" from touring. That was the first time I remember hearing this, as I was 8 years old when Cream did it.

"No Anchovies, Please"



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tatters Wrote:
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> A complete history of the Who's farewell tours:
>
> 1982 - The Farewell tour
> 1989-90 The we thought we'd just come back to say
> goodbye again while Pete plays acoustic guitar in
> a soundproof booth tour

At the time Pete was doing interviews about how playing loud music had screwed up his hearing, and I seem to recall him also regretting his earlier drug abuse.

I told my friends they should call this Who reunion the "Your Mother Was Right" tour...

loog droog Wrote:
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> tatters Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A complete history of the Who's farewell tours:
> >
> > 1982 - The Farewell tour
> > 1989-90 The we thought we'd just come back to
> say
> > goodbye again while Pete plays acoustic guitar
> in
> > a soundproof booth tour
>
> At the time Pete was doing interviews about how
> playing loud music had screwed up his hearing, and
> I seem to recall him also regretting his earlier
> drug abuse.
>
> I told my friends they should call this Who
> reunion the "Your Mother Was Right" tour...


"Your Mother Was Right"? I don't get it. But I did come up with a name for the 2004 Who Tour. It was the "Pete Wants To Thank You For Your 'Unconditional Support' In The Wake Of His Having To Register As A Sex Offender" tour.

Back in the day, everyone's mom warned them of the dangers of drugs, and how you'd go deaf if you didn't turn that loud music down.

So here comes Pete, moaning about how he got messed up on drugs and was going deaf from playing in the 'oo.

So it's almost like saying...(fill in the blank)

Status Quo must be the band which played most farewell tours, isn't it ???

[doctorstonesblog.blogspot.com]

I believe Sarah Bernhardt was the first to announce a farewell tour.

well if the who have been touring on a crappy album, someones mortage payments. would the stones tours be called..........Well we like more money so were going to charge 400 bucks. or a bigger bang tour should be called an over hyped album that everyone believes is great but its not tour.

im kind of lost on the idea of those. or maybe this tour should be called we need to get to 500 million while we play miss you for the 20,000th time.

i have a feeling not many people are going to like this post

tatters Wrote:
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> A complete history of the Who's farewell tours:
>
> 1982 - The Farewell tour
> 1989-90 The we thought we'd just come back to say
> goodbye again while Pete plays acoustic guitar in
> a soundproof booth tour

Acoustic guitar yes, soundproof booth, no

> 1996-97 The we just figured out you need 18 people
> on stage to perform Quadrophenia properly tour

> 1999-2000 The Pete CAN still play electric after
> all, just not very loud tour

On the contrary, he played very loud and very well on that tour

> 2002 - The John can't make the mortgage payments
> on his castle, and even though he just dropped
> dead, we found someone else to stand over there
> and play the bass tour

Of course I would rather that Entwistle lived to go on that tour, but I would rather see Pete and Roger as The Who than no Who at all

> 2004 - The no particular reason tour

see above

> 2006-07 The get a load of our horrible new album
> tour

Parts of it are actually quite good, in my opinion. It got pretty good reviews as well.

"It wasn't my fault ... liquors drunkened me!" Homer Simpson

Doc Wrote:
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> Status Quo must be the band which played most
> farewell tours, isn't it ???


I went and saw them in 83 I think it was, it was announced as their farewell tour...we all know what happened to that..

Vilhelm
Nordic Stones Vikings

Ramones 1995-1996 "Adios Amigos" Tour. They extended it by 6 months when they were offered the Lollapalooza tour but they kept their word once it was over. I saw the last 3 shows. The 3rd to last was the best of the 3. The last one was just too depressing.

ohnonotyouagain Wrote:
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> tatters Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > A complete history of the Who's farewell tours:
> >
> > 1982 - The Farewell tour
> > 1989-90 The we thought we'd just come back to
> say
> > goodbye again while Pete plays acoustic guitar
> in
> > a soundproof booth tour
>
> Acoustic guitar yes, soundproof booth, no
>
> > 1996-97 The we just figured out you need 18
> people
> > on stage to perform Quadrophenia properly tour
>
> > 1999-2000 The Pete CAN still play electric
> after
> > all, just not very loud tour
>
> On the contrary, he played very loud and very well
> on that tour
>
> > 2002 - The John can't make the mortgage
> payments
> > on his castle, and even though he just dropped
> > dead, we found someone else to stand over there
> > and play the bass tour
>
> Of course I would rather that Entwistle lived to
> go on that tour, but I would rather see Pete and
> Roger as The Who than no Who at all
>
> > 2004 - The no particular reason tour
>
> see above
>
> > 2006-07 The get a load of our horrible new
> album
> > tour
>
> Parts of it are actually quite good, in my
> opinion. It got pretty good reviews as well.


Yes, I know, I exaggerated about the soundproof booth, but he WAS partially surrounded by some sort of soundproof baffling on the "quiet side" of the stage.

As far as you saying he played "very loud" in 2000, I can only ask "compared to what"? Did you see the Who in the 70s? I did. It was so loud I could hardly stand it. In 2000 he didn't even make my ears ring.

A perverse aspect of the 2002 tour is that ticket sales actually increased after John died. I guess fans were getting bored with the three man Who and were curious to see what a two man Who would be like. I was. But I already had my tickets when John died. I went because I wanted my Who show. It was good, but I don't think I would have bought the tickets if I'd known John wasn't gonna be there.

As for Endless Wire, I was expecting a bad album, but not this bad. The best track on it is not as good as the worst track on what used to be their worst album, It's Hard.

chrisking Wrote:
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> well if the who have been touring on a crappy
> album, someones mortage payments. would the stones
> tours be called..........Well we like more money
> so were going to charge 400 bucks. or a bigger
> bang tour should be called an over hyped album
> that everyone believes is great but its not tour.
>
>
> im kind of lost on the idea of those. or maybe
> this tour should be called we need to get to 500
> million while we play miss you for the 20,000th
> time.
>
> i have a feeling not many people are going to like
> this post


I'll try to think up some funny names for Stones tours. In the meantime I'll just say that every Stones tour since 1989 has been a kind of recreation, not of how Stones concerts used to be, but of how someone in their 20s or 30s IMAGINES them to have been. They are paying ridiculous sums to experiece someone else's nostalgia, the nostalgia of someone older than themselves. It's a peculiar phenomenon.



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How about The Band and the "Last Waltz"

Thats true, although Robbie Robertson never played with The Band again after that show so its not QUITE the same...

So the Who's 75/76 tour was: so loud i can hardly hear? That would've been a great tour to "hear". However I must say I saw them in 02 and my ears were ringing for a few hours afterwards.

With John Entwistle out of the picture ticket prices went up...explain that one?

Elmo Lewis Wrote:
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> Cream must have been first.
>
> In 1982, both The Doobie Brothers and The Who
> "retired" from touring. That was the first time I
> remember hearing this, as I was 8 years old when
> Cream did it.


LOL Elmo. Yeah I remember sitting watching The Who's farewell concert with some buddies back in '82. I think it was on ppv and I believe it was in Toronto. I have also seen a couple of Doobie Bros. farewell shows. But their still kicking as far as I know.

Let's face it...the Who is THE primary offender in rock music history for falsely announcing Farewell tours...

There would be NOTHING wrong with the Stones announcing a farewell tour, so long as they stuck to it...

In fact, I'd say announcing and doing a final farewell is a gracious gift to deserving fans who'd surely make it an incredible lovefest...

C'mon boys...return to the States for at least a farewell tour, if not one more go round before the final bow!!!!!!!!




tatters Wrote:
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> A complete history of the Who's farewell tours:
>
> 1982 - The Farewell tour
> 1989-90 The we thought we'd just come back to say
> goodbye again while Pete plays acoustic guitar in
> a soundproof booth tour
> 1996-97 The we just figured out you need 18 people
> on stage to perform Quadrophenia properly tour
> 1999-2000 The Pete CAN still play electric after
> all, just not very loud tour
> 2002 - The John can't make the mortgage payments
> on his castle, and even though he just dropped
> dead, we found someone else to stand over there
> and play the bass tour
> 2004 - The no particular reason tour
> 2006-07 The get a load of our horrible new album
> tour