The Stadium Arcadium World Tour (also known as The Intergalactic Tour) was a 2006–2007

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by the band

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in support of their ninth studio album, ''

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''. The band started out with a pre-tour promotional leg of dates around the world while the world tour was composed of six legs, three in Europe, one in Australia, New Zealand and Asia, and the other two in the US and Canada. The tour was the last to feature guitarist

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until 2022's Global Stadium Tour. Frusciante confirmed his departure from the band in 2009 but rejoined in 2019. Frusciante was replaced in the band by longtime friend and musical partner,

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, who was a backing musician for the Peppers in 2007 on the final legs of the Stadium Arcadium tour, serving as an additional guitarist, backing vocalist, and performing keyboard parts. Adding an extra guitarist for the first time to their touring lineup gave the band a chance to perform songs that they were otherwise unable to play with just one guitarist.

Tour overview

Most shows started with an opening jam by

and the band before the signature riff of " Can't Stop" signalled

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' arrival on stage. The rest of the songs changed with each venue; however, " Charlie" and "

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" were usually played as the second or third songs. The set list consisted mainly of songs from the new album, ''

'' and the previous two albums, ''

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'' and ''

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''. Singles such as " Tell Me Baby", " Snow ((Hey Oh))" and "

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" were core numbers. The band also incorporated several acoustic numbers from the recent release and the back catalogue, which gave the show both a fast and slow pace. Some of the band's more popular singles that were played often on the previous tours such as " Around The World", " Parallel Universe" and " Suck My Kiss" were rarely played. The encore of the show usually consisted of "

" along with a classic Red Hot Chili Peppers anthem, such as " Give It Away" or " Higher Ground", one of the band's more popular songs from the 1980s which was added to the setlist on the tour's final legs and performed for the first time since the

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. "Higher Ground" was one of only two songs from '' Mother's Milk'' played on the entire tour with the other being "Nobody Weird Like Me". The band also played "Funky Monks" twice on this tour, their first and last performance leading this tour was in 1991. Two songs from '' Freaky Styley'', "

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" and "Sex Rap" were performed for the first time in over 15 years. The tour also marked the first time since 1991 that two of the Peppers' biggest and best known singles, " Give It Away" and "

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", were not included in all performances leaving some fans at certain shows upset that one if not both of the songs were left out of the setlist. Of the album's 28 songs and 10 B-sides, only 20 songs have been played live in any capacity, none of which were B-sides, and "Hard to Concentrate" was not played live until the band's I'm With You tour. This tour marked the last time "21st Century", "

", "C'mon Girl", " Desecration Smile", "Funky Monks", "Readymade", "Sex Rap", "So Much I", "Stadium Arcadium", "This Velvet Glove", "Torture Me" and "Warlocks" were played live.

Songs performed

Tour dates

*Reschedules on March 19(Osaka), 22 and 23(Tokyo) because of Anthony Kiedis' pneumonia.

North American leg I

The first North American leg grossed 25.6 million dollars in ticket sales.

North American leg II

Boxscore

Opening acts

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Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals Benjamin Charles Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Harper plays an eclectic mix of blues, folk music, folk, Soul music, soul, reggae, and rock music, and he is known for his guitar-playin ...

* Dinosaur Jr. * Jet *

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* The Missingmen *

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* !!! * Dirty Pretty Things *

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* Chuck Dukowski Sextet *

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* Reverend and the Makers *

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and

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also joined the band onstage to cover their own songs.

Personnel

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–

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, backing vocals, trumpet, keyboards *

–

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, backing vocals *

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–

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Additional musicians

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(2007) *

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– keyboards,

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(2006–January 2007) *Chris Warren – keyboards, backing vocals on Catholic School Girls Rule (2007)

Notes

External links

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