Scorpions Tour 2003

Scorpions Tour 2003

Tour by Scorpions
Start date	29 January 2003
End date	6 September 2003
Legs	2
No. of shows	46 38 in North America 8 in Europe
Scorpions concert chronology

The Scorpions Tour 2003 was a concert tour headlining by the German heavy metal band Scorpions. The band played 38 show in North America and couple of show in Europe. Like the Scorpions Tour 2002 the band played most of their classic songs from the 80's. During the show in Tampa, Brian Johnson from AC/DC come on stage and sung "Rock You Like a Hurricane" with the band. The final show of the USA tour in Detroit, Ted Nugent came on stage to play guitar on Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Personnel

• Klaus Meine: Lead vocals, Guitar (On Coast To Coast)
• Matthias Jabs : Lead guitar, Rhythm Guitar (On Big City Nights, Still Loving You and Wind of Change), Talk box (On The Zoo), Backing vocals
• Rudolf Schenker: Rhythm guitar, Lead guitar (On Big City Nights, Still Loving You and Wind of Change), Backing vocals
• Ralph Rieckermann: Bass, Backing vocals
• James Kottak: Drums, Percussion, Backing vocals

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Tickets sold / available	Revenue
North America (co-headliner: Whitesnake, Opening Act: Dokken)
29 January 2003	Jacksonville, Florida	United States	Veterans Memorial Coliseum
31 January 2003	West Palm Beach, Florida		Coral Sky Amphitheatre	8,421 / 19,971	$162,271
1 February 2003	Fort Myers, Florida		TECO Arena	3,301 / 6,333	$104,115
2 February 2003	Tampa, Florida		St. Pete Times Forum	4,330 / 8,736	$137,775
4 February 2003	Pensacola, Florida		Pensacola Civic Center
5 February 2003	Bossier City, Louisiana		CenturyTel Center	2,566 / 5,365	$100,164
7 February 2003	Grand Prairie, Texas		Next Stage at Grand Prairie
8 February 2003	San Antonio, Texas		Alamodome	13,700 / 13,700	$424,065
9 February 2003	Austin, Texas		Frank Erwin Center	4,457 / 7,017	$160,915
11 February 2003	Albuquerque, New Mexico		Tingley Coliseum	5,063 / 9,800	$160,300
12 February 2003	El Paso, Texas		Don Haskins Center	4,842 / 4,842	$175,550
14 February 2003	San Diego		Cox Arena	4,518 / 7,398	$164,326
15 February 2003	Las Vegas		Mandalay Bay Events Center	5,672 / 9,784	$230,270
16 February 2003	Bakersfield, California		Centennial Garden
18 February 2003	San Jose, California		HP Pavilion	7,359 / 8,524	$222,042
19 February 2003	Sacramento, California		ARCO Arena	6,249 / 6,309	$201,985
21 February 2003	Phoenix, Arizona		Cricket Pavilion	6,887 / 7,837	$189,329
22 February 2003	Los Angeles		Universal Amphitheatre	10,924 / 11,295	$592,755
23 February 2003
25 February 2003	Denver		Magness Arena
27 February 2003	Minneapolis		Target Center
28 February 2003	Chicago		Allstate Arena	8,978 / 15,031	$292,635
2 March 2003	Champaign, Illinois		Assembly Hall
4 March 2003	Erie, Pennsylvania		Erie Civic Center
5 March 2003	Uniondale, New York		Nassau Coliseum	4,634 / 9,963	$168,874
6 March 2003	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania		Stabler Arena
8 March 2003	Wallingford, Connecticut		Oakdale Theatre	4,755 / 4,755	$173,675
9 March 2003	Boston		Orpheum Theatre
11 March 2003	Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania		First Union Arena
12 March 2003	Syracuse, New York		Oncenter
14 March 2003	Montreal	Canada	Bell Centre	9,040 / 9,631	$301,557
15 March 2003	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	8,309 / 8,309	$264,307
16 March 2003	Quebec City, Quebec		Colisée Pepsi
18 March 2003	London, Ontario		John Labatt Centre
19 March 2003	Dayton, Ohio	United States	Hara Arena
21 March 2003	Grand Rapids, Michigan		Van Andel Arena	7,078 / 10,202	$247,730
22 March 2003	Detroit		Fox Theatre	3,880 / 4,761	$151,480
Europe
31 May 2003	St. Petersburg	Russia	Place unknown
2 August 2003	Rüsselsheim	Germany	Opel-Premises
3 August 2003	Helsinki	Finland	ANKKAROCK 2003
9 August 2003	Praia da Vitória	Portugal	Campo de Jogos
10 August 2003	Ponta Delgada		Jacome Correia
13 August 2003	Albufeira		Marina de Albufeira
15 August 2003	Lorca	Spain	Lorca Rock Festival
6 September 2003	Moscow	Russia	Red Square

References

• http://www.the-scorpions.com/english/tourography/tour_2003.asp