Family Values Tour

Family Values Tour
Genre	Nu metal rap metal funk metal alternative metal industrial metal hip hop alternative rock post-grunge post-hardcore metalcore
Dates	Fall, summer
Location(s)	United States, Canada
Years active	1998, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2013
Founded by	Korn

The Family Values Tour was created by the American nu metal band Korn in 1998 to be an annual rock and hip hop tour. The first tour took place in 1998 and the second tour in 1999, but the tour took a hiatus in 2000 due to heavy competition from the Anger Management Tour, the Summer Sanitarium Tour, and others. The Family Values Tour happened again in 2001 before taking another hiatus, this time for four years. The Family Values Tour returned in 2006 with Korn and Deftones as the headliners. Another tour occurred in 2007, before taking another hiatus until 2013. In 2013 the event took place for the final time as a one-day music festival instead of the traditional tour under the name "Family Values Festival".

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 band members all got dragged off stage by police and were subsequently arrested during their performance on Halloween. Each band decided to dress up while Rammstein were barely dressed at all, with most members performing in underwear. Their lead guitarist, Richard Kruspe, was the only one decently dressed, he wore a wedding dress. All of them had to spend the night in jail on charges of indecent exposure.

Ice Cube replacement[]

On October 25, 1998 due to the beginning of shooting the movie Next Friday, Ice Cube was replaced by alternative band Incubus for remaining four dates. The band is featured on the Family Values Tour '98 CD release with the song "New Skin", and can be also seen during performance of "All in the Family" on the 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's 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 the highly successful "Rock is Dead" tour. Korn also toured with Rob Zombie in the summer of 2016.^[2]

Family Values Tour 1999[]

Headliners:

• Limp Bizkit
• Filter
• Staind

On select dates:

• Korn (from 05/10 to 13/10)
• The Crystal Method (first part of the tour until the 10/13)
• Mobb Deep (first part of the tour until the 10/08)
• Run-DMC (started on 09/24 as a surprise guest until 10/03)
• Primus (second part of the tour, started on the 10/13)
• Method Man and Redman (second part of the tour, started on the 10/16)
• Sevendust (replaced Filter on the 10/23)

Korn did not take a full part in the tour, instead made surprise appearances at a handful of dates.^[3]

Insane Clown Posse and System of a Down were originally scheduled for the tour but did not make the final roster.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} DMX and Ja Rule was also on the bill for the first half of the tour,^[11] but cancelled all the shows prior to the beginning of the tour. Mobb Deep and Run-DMC was became their replacements on the tour.

Sevendust filled in for Filter on the Denver date while Filter took time off to film the video for "Take a Picture".^[12]

It was during this tour that Staind's frontman Aaron Lewis, alongside Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, performed the emotional hit single "Outside" for the first time in Biloxi, Mississippi. This live version quickly found widespread radio play before being recorded in the studio for Staind's next album, Break the Cycle. Footage of this on-stage performance also was used for the song's music video.

Dates[]

Date	City	Country	Venue
September 21, 1999	Pittsburgh	United States	Civic Arena
September 22, 1999	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills
September 24, 1999	University Park		Bryce Jordan Center
September 26, 1999	Hampton		Hampton Coliseum
September 28, 1999	Worcester		Worcester Centrum
September 29, 1999	Albany		Pepsi Arena
October 1, 1999	Hartford		Hartford Civic Center
October 2, 1999	Uniondale		Nassau Coliseum
October 3, 1999	Philadelphia		First Union Center
October 5, 1999	Grand Rapids		Van Andel Arena
October 6, 1999	Indianapolis		Market Square Arena
October 8, 1999	Columbus		Schottenstein Center
October 9, 1999	Rosemont		Allstate Arena
October 10, 1999	St. Louis		Kiel Center
October 12, 1999	Kansas City		Kemper Arena
October 13, 1999	Minneapolis		Target Center
October 16, 1999	Portland		Rose Garden Arena
October 17, 1999	Tacoma		Tacoma Dome
October 19, 1999	San Francisco		Cow Palace
October 20, 1999	Sacramento		ARCO Arena
October 22, 1999	Phoenix		America West Arena
October 23, 1999	Anaheim		Arrowhead Pond
October 25, 1999	Denver		Pepsi Center
October 27, 1999	Dallas		Reunion Arena
October 28, 1999	Houston		Compaq Center
October 30, 1999	San Antonio		Alamodome
October 31, 1999	Biloxi		Mississippi Coast Coliseum

Family Values Tour 2001[]

Bands taking part in the 2001 tour were Stone Temple Pilots, Linkin Park, Staind, Static-X, Deadsy, and Spike 1000 (replacing Deadsy on only first five dates).^[13]

Dates[]

Date	City	Country	Venue
October 11, 2001	Cleveland	United States	CSU Convocation Center
October 12, 2001	Rosemont		Allstate Arena
October 13, 2001	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center
October 15, 2001	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills
October 16, 2001	Indianapolis		Conseco Fieldhouse
October 17, 2001	Lafayette		Cajundome
October 18, 2001	Washington, D.C.		MCI Center
October 19, 2001	Columbus		Schottenstein Center
October 20, 2001	Toronto	Canada	Toronto Skydome[13]
October 22, 2001	Philadelphia	United States	First Union Center
October 23, 2001	Albany		Pepsi Arena
October 24, 2001	East Rutherford		Continental Airlines Arena
October 26, 2001	Hartford		Hartford Civic Center
October 27, 2001	Worcester		The Centrum
October 28, 2001	Buffalo		HSBC Arena
October 30, 2001	Charlotte		Cricket Arena
October 31, 2001	Atlanta		Philips Arena
November 2, 2001	Sunrise		National Car Rental Center
November 3, 2001	Tampa		Ice Palace
November 4, 2001	Biloxi		Mississippi Coast Coliseum
November 6, 2001	Dallas		Reunion Arena
November 8, 2001	Denver		Pepsi Center
November 10, 2001	Anaheim		Arrowhead Pond
November 11, 2001	Phoenix		Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum
November 13, 2001	San Jose		Compaq Center
November 14, 2001	Sacramento		ARCO Arena
November 16, 2001	Portland		Rose Garden Arena
November 17, 2001	Tacoma		Tacoma Dome

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 30-year-old Andy Richardson on August 1, 2006. Lawyers representing Mr. Richardson's family said they may pursue civil actions against Korn and the show's promoters.

Andy'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 Fox News Service made on August 1, 2006. One week later, 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.

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

Family Values Festival 2013[]

On August 30, 2013 Korn revealed to Billboard that they were bringing the tour back as a one-day event festival. On September 3, 2013 it was revealed that the Family Values Festival would take place in Broomfield, CO at the 1stBank Center.^[14]

Korn, Hollywood Undead, Asking Alexandria, Machine Gun Kelly, Beware of Darkness, and Love and Death

CD and DVD releases[]

• The Family Values Tour 1999
• The Family Values Tour 2001
• 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 United States while the DVD release went platinum.

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