Oh. I didn’t catch on. I don’t remember too many tour “names”, but since almost all of the concerts I saw were in or near San Diego I would probably match up with several people here.
My wife and I both attended Peter Gabriel’s Security tour at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas two weeks before we met.
Most of the tours I’ve seen were either unnamed or named after the recent album being flogged. The exceptions I can remember were:
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[li]Sex Pistols - Filthy Lucre Tour[/li][li]David Bowie - Sound+Vision Tour[/li][li]The Who - The Farewell Tour (the first one in 1982)[/li][li]Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Reunion tour (boring name, but it was the name)[/li][li]Ray Davies - 20th Century Man tour[/li][/ul]
I saw **Bruce Springsteen **on the *Darkness on the Edge of Town *tour.
I saw **Molly Hatchett **on the *Flirting with Disaster *tour.
I saw **Bonnie Raitt **on the *Nick of Time *tour.
I saw the Rolling Stones on tour before they freakin’ named them or even called them tours. Ha!
New York City 1964. A couple of friends and I went into NYC and went to the movie theater where they were to perform about 2 weeks before the performance date. The movie ticket cashier told us to go to the manager’s office. He asked us what kind of seats we wanted. We said the best you have. Third row center. 
I don’t remember how much the tickets were but we were in high school, still young enough to have an allowance and it was cheap enough for us. Yeah, those were the days…
Then there were The Beatles in Shea Stadium in 1965…
Me, too. In Anchorage, Alaska no less. That was also the first time I saw the Grateful Dead, as part of the “We Haven’t Stopped Touring Since 1968 Tour.”
OK, I’m back. This half-assed list is the best I can come up with. I know I must have forgotten a couple.
Beatles, with Sounds Incorporated, '65 Balboa Stadium (My first concert, age 14)
Bob Brozman, Claremont, late 90’s (THE best concert of my life)
Doors, Golden Hall ‘67
Doors, Golden Hall ‘68
Doors, Ingelwood Forum ‘68 (had strings, horns, and bass player onstage for four songs from as yet unreleased Soft Parade album)
Doors, Crabby Appleton opening, Sports Arena ‘70 (?)
Doors, (post Jim) Balboa Stadium ‘72 (?)
David Lindley, McCabes, Santa Monica
Dan Hicks, McCabes Santa Monica (terrible show, was recorded for the terrible “Shootin’ Straight” CD)
Dan Hicks, Adams Avenue Street Fair
ELP, Brain Salad Surgery Tour, Sports Arena
ELP, Pirates tour, Sports Arena
ELP, Pirates tour two nights later, Inglewood Forum
Frank Zappa, Tom Waits opening, Golden Hall
Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart & Magic Band opening, Golden Hall
Frank Zappa, Sports Arena “Apostrophe Tour”
Virgil Fox, early 70’s, San Diego State College
Virgil Fox, early 70’s, Orpheum Theater
Virgil Fox, mid 70’s, Balboa Park Organ Pavilion
Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Sports Arena ‘69
Sonny & Cher, ‘67 Golden Hall
Gary Puckett & Union Gap, ‘67 Golden Hall
The Who, Who’s next tour, Sports Arena
BoxTops, Turtles, Simon & Garfunkel, and Buffalo Springfield, ‘67 Sports Arena (roof leaking, IIRC)
Simon & Garfunkel, '68, Golden Hall (played “Mrs. Robinson” some upcoming movie)
Flo & Eddie, early 70’s, Sports Arena (after Zappa European tour cancelled because of the attack)
Igor Kipnis, late 80’s, private venue (I was the harpsichord technician for this one)
Loggins & Messina, 70’s, Sports Arena
Iron Butterfly, ‘68, Sports Arena
Linda Ronstadt & Stone Poneys, late 60’s, Golden Hall
Allman Bros Band, Sports Arena, first tour without Duane
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Saw Queensryche twice on this tour, and once on Promised Land.
Twice on the Black Album tour, and once on the subsequent tour.
Twice on this tour, Louisville, KY, and Lexington, KY.
Counting Crows Louisville, KY on the Recovering the Satellites tour, twice on the This Desert Life tour (Minneapolis, MN and Indianapolis, IN), and once on the Hard Candy tour.
Allison Krauss on the tour where she recorded her live CD/DVD in Louisville, KY (I was at the taping the second night).
More to come as I remember them. I’m going to bed.
Talking Heads
Stop Making Sense tour
1983
Red Rocks, Colorado
The ultimate concert, never topped, never equaled.
Still my favorite concert venue of all time. Who could forget the two Union 76 globes hanging from the ceiling?
If those walls could talk…I’d rip their tongues out!
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Tubes - Remote Control
Zappa - Overnight Sensation
Springsteen - Born To Run
and many many more that I’ve forgotten the names of…
That’s a match! I saw them at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh, November 7th 1974.
Seat D19, price £1.75! Great show.
Two days later I saw Jethro Tull touring Warchild at the same venue. Same price, but they were supported by Fanny (!) I had seat C1, right in front of the RHS speaker stack!
That was my impression too when I saw the tour in Niagara Falls, NY Not even sure what Dylan sang now, maybe “Hurricane”
A bunch of tours in the 1980s but the most interesting pairing was Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) doing the “Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” and he got Eric Clapton to play guitar on the tour..in a period where Clapton shaved his beard. His looks have been pretty standard for about three decades now but in the mid 1970s we used to joke about Clapton having a different look/hair/facial hair style on each album. Album is still a self indulgent mess though.
Michael Jackson on the Victory Tour.
Rush on the R30 tour in 2004 and on the Snakes & Arrows tour in 2008 (and I’m likely seeing them again in July on the current tour).
That’s the only major rock band I’ve seen live.
I went on my first formal date to this concert.
I used to love, the way Dr. Fox talked, in italics.
As well as the music. His performances were eccentric, often a little sloppy, and brilliant.
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As long as I’m here, I remembered another one this morning:
Zappa again, conducting a small orchestra, '75 (?), Royce Hall, UCLA. A few minutes before showtime Howard Kaylan walked in quietly and took his seat in the audience just in front of me. Three rows ahead, one seat to the right.
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I saw Paul McCartney & Wings on their “secret” universities tour.
I saw a lot of other bands back in the day (1970s mostly) but I don’t think tours really had names then. I suppose if, like a lot of this thread, I just take the tour name to be equivalent to the latest album being promoted I could add a few more: Stones on the Sticky Fingers Tour; David Bowie probably on his Man Who Sold the World tour (back when nobody cared about Bowie); Bad Company on their Bad Company tour (i.e. their first album, actually I think their very first gig); Led Zeppelin on the Led Zeppelin III Tour (catchy, huh?)…Shoot, I can’t even remember what albums most of the others were promoting.
I saw Rush on their Time Machine 2010-2011 tour… last Thursday.