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1983 – OPENING FOR ZZ TOP – The first two major concerts ever

SEPTEMBER 24, Madison Square Garden NYC, USA Support for ZZ Top
SEPTEMBER 25, Madison Square Garden NYC, USA Support for ZZ Top

1984 SMALL CLUB DATES after the first album released

03/03/1984 Ripley Music Hall Philadelphia, PA USA – Recorded for promotional distribution
10/03/1984 USA Boston The Metro
12/03/1984 USA Harrisburg The Metron
15/03/1984 USA Boston Paradise Theatre
16/03/1984 USA Philadelphia Syria Mosque Theatre – Rehearsal for Cleveland Radio Broadcast
17/03/1984 USA Cleveland Agora Ballroom – First EverBon Jovi Radio Broadcast
20/03/1984 USA Syracuse The Lost Horizon
22/03/1984 USA Pittsburg Heaven Club
29/03/1984 USA Portland Starry Night
01/04/1984 USA San Francisco The Stone
02/04/1984 USA Reseda Reseda Country Club

1984 USA TOUR  – First major Tour – Opening for SCORPIONS

20/04/1984 USA Reno Lawor Events Center
24/04/1984 USA Los Angeles The Forum
25/04/1984 USA Los Angeles The Forum
26/04/1984 USA San Diego Sports Arena
28/04/1984 USA TV American Bandstand – This was Bon Jovi’s television Debut
29/04/1984 USA San Francisco Cow Palace
30/04/1984 USA San Francisco Cow Palace

(Canadian Tour – 4 shows opening for JUDAS PRIEST)

02/05/1984 Canada Vancouver Pacific Coliseum
04/05/1984 Canada Edmonton Northlands Coliseum
05/05/1984 Canada Calgary Stampede Corral
07/05/1984 Canada Winnipeg Arena

09/05/1984 USA St Paul Civi Center
10/05/1984 USA Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Arena
12/05/1984 USA Wichita Kansas Coliseum
13/05/1984 USA Kansas City Muncipal Auditorium
15/05/1984 USA Omaha Civi Auditorium
16/05/1984 USA Cedar Papids Five Seasons
17/05/1984 USA St. Louis Kiel Auditorium
19/05/1984 USA Springfield Prairie Capitol Center
20/05/1984 USA Chicago Rosemont Horizon
21/05/1984 USA Chicago Rosemont Horizon
23/05/1984 USA Chicago Rosemont Horizon –
24/05/1984 USA Kalamazoo Wings Stadium
24/05/1984 USA Kalamazoo Wings Stadium
26/05/1984 USA East Troy Alpine Vally
27/05/1984 USA Charlevoix The Castle
28/05/1984 USA Clarkstone Pine Knob
30/05/1984 USA Richfield Coliseum

01/06/1984 USA Philadelphia The Spectrum
02/06/1984 USA Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
03/06/1984 USA Binghampton Broome County Arena
04/06/1984 USA Rochester War Memorial
07/06/1984 USA New York City Madison Square Garden
09/06/1984 USA Providence Civic Center Arena
10/06/1984 USA New Heaven Veterans Memorial Coliseum
12/06/1984 USA Worcester Centrum
13/06/1984 USA Portland Cumberland County Civic Center
15/06/1984 USA Glen Falls Civic Center
16/06/1984 USA Allentown Fairgrounds
17/06/1984 USA Hampton Coliseum
19/06/1984 USA Charleston Civic Center
20/06/1984 USA Pittsburgh Civic arena
20/06/1984 USA Pittsburgh Civic Arena
22/06/1984 USA Indianapolis Market Square Arena
23/06/1984 USA Fort Wayne Coliseum
24/06/1984 USA Cincinati Gardens
26/06/1984 USA Columbus Ohio Center
27/06/1984 USA Toledo Sports Arena
29/06/1984 USA Nashville Municipal Auditorium
30/06/1984 USA Knoxville Civic Coliseum

01/07/1984 USA Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center
03/07/1984 USA Memphis Mid South Coliseum
04/07/1984 USA Louisville Cardinal Stadium
07/07/1984 USA Atlanta The Omni
08/07/1984 USA Greensboro Coliseum
10/07/1984 USA St. Petersburg Bayfont Center
11/07/1984 USA Fort Myers Lee County Arena
13/07/1984 Puerto Rico San Juan Hiram Bithorn Stadium
14/07/1984 USA Miami Hollywood Sportatorium
15/07/1984 USA Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
17/07/1984 USA Savannah Civic Center
18/07/1984 USA Charlotte Coliseum

Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora perform on stage at Nagoya Stadium for Super Rock ’84, 4th August 1984, Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by Midori Tsukagoshi/Shinko Music/Getty Images)

1984 JAPAN TOUR  – SUPER ROCK 84 FESTIVAL

06/08/1984 Japan Fukuoka Super rock 1984, Fukuoka sports center
08/08/1984 Japan Osaka Super rock 1984, Osaka Nankou
09/08/1984 Japan Osaka Super rock 1984, Osaka Nankou
11/08/1984 Japan Saitama Super rock 1984, Seibu stadium
12/08/1984 Japan Saitama Super rock 1984, Seibu stadium

1984 EUROPEAN TOUR – Opening for KISS

30/09/1984 UK Brighton Brighton center

01/10/1984 UK Southampton Gaumont Hall
02/10/1984 UK St. Austell Cornwall Coliseum
04/10/1984 UK Manchester Manchester Apollo
05/10/1984 Scotland Glasgow Glasgow Apollo
06/10/1984 Scotland Edinburgh Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre
07/10/1984 UK Newcastle Newcastle City Hall
08/10/1984 UK Newcastle Newcastle City Hall
10/10/1984 UK Leicester De Montfort Hall
11/10/1984 UK Ipswich Gaumont Theatre
12/10/1984 UK Stafford Bingley Hall
13/10/1984 UK Leeds Queens Hall
14/10/1984 UK London Wembley Arena
15/10/1984 UK London Wembley Arena
17/10/1984 Germany Offenbach Stadthalle
18/10/1984 Germany Munchen Circus Krone
19/10/1984 Germany Nurnberg Hammerleinhalle
21/10/1984 Denmark Copenhagen Falkoner Theater
22/10/1984 Norway Oslo Drammenshalle
24/10/1984 Sweden Lund Olympen
26/10/1984 Sweden Stockholm Isstadion
27/10/1984 Sweden Gothenburg The Scandinavium
28/10/1984 Germany Manheim
29/10/1984 Germany Hanover Stadion Sporthalle
30/10/1984 Germany Dusseldorf Philipshalle
31/10/1984 Germany Ludwigshafen Friedrich-Ebert-Halle

01/11/1984 Switzerland Lausanne Palais Des Beaulieu
03/11/1984 Belgium Brussels Forest National
04/11/1984 Holland Zwolle Ijsselhal
05/11/1984 France Paris Le Zenith

1985 JAPAN TOUR –  7800 FAHRENHEIT  – FIRST TOUR AS HEADLINER

20/04/1985 Japan Tokyo Nakano sun plaze
21/04/1985 Japan Tokyo Nakano sun plaze
24/04/1985 Japan Nagoya Nagoya Koukaidou
25/04/1985 Japan Osaka Kouseinenkin-kaikan
26/04/1985 Japan Tokyo Sunplaza Hall
28/04/1985 Japan Tokyo Shibuya Public Hall
29/04/1985 Japan Tokyo Shibuya Public Hall
30/04/1985 Japan Tokyo Shibuya Public Hall
02/05/1985 Japan Sapporo Kouseinenkin-kaikan

1985 EUROPEAN TOUR – 7800 FAHRENHEIT

07/05/1985 France Paris El Dorado
09/05/1985 Germany Frankfurt Volksbildungsheim
10/05/1985 Germany Mannheim Rosengarten
11/05/1985 Germany Munchen Alabamah
14/05/1985 Finland Helsinki Culture House
15/05/1985 Sweden Stockholm Gota Lejon
16/05/1985 Denmark Copenhagen Falkoner Theatre
18/05/1985 Holland Tilburg Noorderlicht
20/05/1985 UK Manchester Manchester International
21/05/1985 UK Birmingham Odeon theater
23/05/1985 UK London Dominion theater
24/05/1985 UK Newcastle Mayfair club
25/05/1985 UK Edingburgh –

1985 USA TOUR FIRST LEG – 7800 FAHRENHEIT –  Opening for RATT

20/06/1985 USA Milwaukee –
22/06/1985 USA Detroit Hart Plaza
29/06/1985 USA Milwaukee Summer Festival
06/07/1985 USA Grand Rapids Welsh Auditorium
09/07/1985 USA Columbus Battelle Hall
10/07/1985 USA Dayton Hara Arena
12/07/1985 USA Louisville Louisville Gardens
13/07/1985 USA Charleston Charleston Civic Center Coliseum
17/07/1985 USA Battle Creek Kellogg Arena
19/07/1985 USA Indianapolis Market Square Arena
20/07/1985 USA St. Louis Kiel Auditorium
22/07/1985 USA Kansas City Starlight Theatre
23/07/1985 USA Valley Center Kansas Coliseum
24/07/1985 USA Norman Lloyd Noble Center
26/07/1985 USA Odessa Ector County Coliseum
27/07/1985 USA Lubbock Lubbock Municipal Coliseum
29/07/1985 USA Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum
30/07/1985 USA San Antonio Convention Center

01/08/1985 USA Tucson Tucson Convention Center
02/08/1985 USA Phoenix Compton Terrace
03/08/1985 USA Irvine Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
06/08/1985 USA Abilene Taylor County Expo Center
07/08/1985 USA Beaumont Beaumont Civic Center
08/08/1985 USA Baton Rouge Riverside Centroplex
09/08/1985 USA Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum
10/08/1985 USA Sheveport Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
11/08/1985 USA Little Rock Barton Coliseum
13/08/1985 USA Memphis Festival Island Amphitheatre

15/08/1985 UK Castle Donington MONSTERS OF ROCK w/ ZZ Top etc.
17/08/1985 UK Castle Donington MONSTERS OF ROCK w/ ZZ Top etc.

20/08/1985 USA Johnson City Freedom Hall Civic Center
21/08/1985 USA Chattanooga UTC Arena
22/08/1985 USA Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium
24/08/1985 USA Dallas Cotton Bowl
25/08/1985 USA Dallas FARM AID World Music Festival w/ Deep Purple etc.

05/09/1985  Germany  Frankfurt – MONSTERS OF ROCK w/ ZZ Top etc.

Jon Bon Joviat the first Farm Aid Concert Sept 22, 1985

1985 USA TOUR SECOND LEG – 7800 FAHRENHEIT –  Opening for RATT

11/09/1985 USA Denver McNichols Sports Arena
22/09/1985 USA Austin Texas – Champaign Memorial Stadium – FARM AID
28/09/1985 USA Detroit Hart Plaza featuring Bob Dylan etc.
29/09/1985 USA Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

02/10/1985 USA Pittsburgh Civic Arena Thetre
05/10/1985 USA Worcester Worcester’s Centrum Centre
07/10/1985 USA Portland Maine
08/10/1985 USA Portland Civic Center
10/10/1985 USA Rochester War Memorial Arena
12/10/1985 USA Philadelphia First Union Spectrum
15/10/1985 USA Landover Capitol Centre
18/10/1985 USA East Rutherford Meadowlands arena
19/10/1985 USA Johnstown War Memorial Arena
26/10/1985 USA Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum
30/10/1985 USA Ashville Ashville Civic Center

09/11/1985 USA Uniondale Nassau Colliseum
10/11/1985 USA Lansing Lansing Civic Center
12/11/1985 USA Bloomington Met Center
13/11/1985 USA Troy RPI Fieldhouse
15/11/1985 USA Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium
17/11/1985 USA Springfield Hammons Student Center
22/11/1985 USA Monroe Monroe Civic Center Arena
23/11/1985 USA Lake Charles Le Centre Civique Arena
26/11/1985 USA Jackson Mississippi Coliseum
27/11/1985 USA Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center Arena
29/11/1985 USA Knoxville Coliseum
30/11/1985 USA Birmingham Civic Center

01/12/1985 USA Columbus Municipal Auditorium
05/12/1985 USA Tallahassee Tallahassee-Leon Co. Civic Center
06/12/1985 USA Orlando Bob Carr Performing Arts Center
08/12/1985 USA Jacksonville Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum
10/12/1985 USA Fort Myers Lee county arena
11/12/1985 USA Hollywood Sportatorium
17/12/1985 USA Dallas Reunion Arena
18/12/1985 USA Houston The Summit
20/12/1985 USA Amarillo Civic center
21/12/1985 USA Johnstown War Memorial
22/12/1985 USA Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum
25/12/1985 USA Fresno –
27/12/1985 USA San Bernadino Orange pavilion
28/12/1985 USA Inglewood Great western forum
30/12/1985 USA Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center
31/12/1985 USA San Diego Sports arena