The Fire Meets the Fury Tour

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LocationNorth America
Associated albumIn Step
Start dateOctober 25, 1989
End dateDecember 3, 1989
The Fire Meets the Fury Tour
Tour by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Promotional poster for the tour
LocationNorth America
Associated albumIn Step
Start dateOctober 25, 1989
End dateDecember 3, 1989
Legs1
No. of shows30
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble concert chronology

The Fire Meets the Fury Tour is a 1989 concert tour co-headlined by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Beck. Epic Records paired the two guitarists together for a 30-date concert tour starting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This tour was the third leg of the Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble In Step Tour.[1] In addition to being one of the highest-grossing concert tours of 1989, The Fire Meets the Fury Tour won the Pollstar magazine award for most creative tour package of the year.[2]

The bands rehearsed at Prince's Paisley Park Studios on October 23 and 24, before beginning the tour at the Northrup Auditorium on October 25, 1989. Both Vaughan and Beck were advertised as headliners and received equal billing for the tour. In order to ensure equal billing, Vaughan and Beck alternated headline spots. Vaughan's manager Alex Hodges commented: "We were very careful to have equal billing and everything done in a way that it would be hard to say anyone was taking advantage of the other."[3] Jeff Beck won a coin flip by lighting designer Andy Elias and was named the headline act for the opening show in Minneapolis.[4] During the final show on December 3 in Oakland, California, in which Jeff Beck was the opening act, Carlos Santana joined Stevie Ray Vaughan on stage while playing a borrowed Stratocaster.[5]

Bands:

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble[6]

Jeff Beck with Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas[7]

Management/tour staff:[8]

  • Paul "Skip" Rickert (tour manager)
  • Mark Rutledge (production manager)
  • Bill Mounsey (stage manager)
  • René Martinez (guitar technician)
  • John "Bondo" Bond (keyboard technician)
  • Johnny "JW" Roberts (monitor engineer)
  • Andy Elias (set/lighting designer)
  • Gary Kudrna (sound technician)
  • Randy Bryant (sound technician)
  • Richard Luckett (tour merchandise manager)
  • Alex Hodges/Strike Force (talent management/Stevie Ray Vaughan)
  • Ernest Chapman (talent management/Jeff Beck)[9]

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Typical setlists

Tour dates

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