Favorite "Co-Headlining" Tour?

Legend Valley (outdoor venue north of Columbus, OH):
Utopia
Cheap Trick
The Cars

Nautical Stage (outdoor venue on the riverbank in downtown Cleveland, OH)
Echo and the Funnymen
New Order

World Series of Rock:
Ted Nugent
Aerosmith
AC/DC
Thin Lizzy
(...and other lesser bands like Journey )

The Coliseum in Richfield, OH:
Utopia
The Tubes

The Coliseum in Richfield, OH:
Eric Clapton
Muddy Waters
Johnny Winter

The Coliseum in Richfield, OH:
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult

 

This was a great show!

 

Pixies/Weezer did a short co-headlining tour around 2007-8 where they alternated who closes out the show. It was excellent...though, as a big fan of both bands, I really think that Weezer had trouble closing out the night - the Pixies are the tighter (and more dynamic) of the 2 bands, so it was hard for Weezer to follow them.

 

The only two shows I've seen that would qualify as co-headlining were:
Chicago/Earth Wind & Fire
Elton John/Billy Joel

And not co-headlining, but I saw Springsteen as the opening act for Chicago in 1974.

 

I've seen several shows with co-headliners, they were everywhere in 77-82 or so, but I'm not sure they were "tours" as much as mini-festivals. Heart, Kansas, Chicago, REO, Journey, and other huge bands of the late 70s often play shows together. I figured splitting a stadium gate was better than keeping an arena.

 

Monster Magnet / Union Carbide Productions in 1991 was really insane!

 

The Sheffield Steel City Tour was a dream for me - ABC. Heaven 17 and The Human League.

 

KISS/Blue Oyster Cult
Cheap Trick/Reo Speedwagon
Rolling Stones/Van Halen
Aerosmith/KISS
Def Leppard/KISS
Aerosmith/Journey/Bryan Adams

 

Def Leppard/Bryan Adams
KISS/Aerosmith

 

Siouxsie and The Cure, with Robert playing in both bands.

 

that was lots of fun. saw them in Albany, ny and on the 2012 cayamo music cruise.

 

Dylan and Van Morrison in 1998.

saw them in Belfast - Morrison closed the show being the hometown act - and then two days later in Glasgow (Bob closed the gig, as was the norm).

 

Yeah. And if I'm going to see Gabriel (especially since he never plays anywhere near Nashville, so it'd be at least a 6 drive), I want to see him get weird on us.

 

Bowie/NIN (even if we aren't technically counting that one...)
The XX and Grizzly Bear. I think XX were the bigger draw, but I do remember it being billed together, not as an opener.
Neutral Milk Hotel/Olivia Tremor Control

 

What's your favorite "co-headlining" tour?

Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes

The Who

2000 Tour - Back to back nights , alternating .

 

Chicago / Beach Boys - Beachago Tour 1975, @ MSG.

 

At UIC pavilion, right? Me too. SRV was always better when he felt pushed by another great guitar player. Going Down was the final song, I think. That was a lot of noise for just two guitarists to make.

 

My favorite, not necessarily because it was the best show, but because it was so rare was the first Elton John/Eric Clapton show at Shea Stadium in 1992. Elton came out first and after a three year break had the stadium shaking. Eric Clapton was good, too, but his show was far more deliberate and not necessarily suited for a stadium setting. They each did over two hours and the show ended at 12:30 a.m. The only down side was it the only one of the four U.S. shows not to feature their duet "Runaway Train".

 

Yes that's where it was . I was in the fourth row and the PA was stacked , not flown.

When I woke up the next morning I couldn't distinguish conversation from my left ear , the ear closest to the PA.Words sounded garbled. It came back later but it really pushed my tinnitus over the edge . That ear really rings bad all the time . I know it wasn't the result of just that concert, it was years of concerts and being in a band my entire life but this concert is the one that pushed my ear over the edge.

Great show though , but it was an eye opener, or an ear closer actually . I've been extremely careful with volume since then.

 

Not co-headlining - VH opened.

I don't think the Stones have genuinely "c0-headlined" with anyone since the mid-60s - if then!

Other successful bands may be on the same bill as the Stones, but the Stones are always the headliners...

 

I think the days of Pete "getting weird" are done! He still puts on interesting shows but not in the "quirky" vein of his earlier tours...

 

Staging-wise, maybe. But it still seems like he incorporates some interesting choices into the setlist, which is what counts. I doubt he'd be breaking out "Humdrum" or "Darkness" in such a short set.

 

It's been so long since I saw a "standard" Gabriel tour that I don't remember what rarities he might do! The last US go-rounf was the "So" anniversary tour - when was his last traditional US tour? Like 2003?

 

jethro tull / elp (1996)

 

I think The Cure were the support on that tour.

I saw NIN & QOTSA co-headline. The running order was allegedly decided by a coin toss on the night but in reality I think they just took turns.

Sugarcubes, PIL and New Oder did a three band co-headline tour in the late eighties, probably great, I never saw it.