Last chance to rock and roll all night with these bands as their farewell tours stop in Indy
Artists who contributed to the soundtracks of many boomer and Gen-Xer youths are calling it quits for touring this year.
Farewell tours abound, and many artists bidding the road adieu are coming through the Indianapolis area, many of them Rock & Roll Hall of Famers.
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Opportunities to see them off include:
Foreigner
July 21 at Ruoff Music Center, 12880 E. 146th St., Noblesville
The rock band’s worldwide “Historic Farewell Tour” started in early July and runs through the end of 2024. Loverboy is opening.
Foreigner started in 1976 and has sold more than 50 million records worldwide with the likes of “Feels Like the First Time,” “Hot Blooded,” “Urgent” and the power ballad “I Want to Know What Love Is.”
The lineup has seen more than 24 performers over the years. Mick Jones is the last original member still active in the band, but due to health reasons he doesn’t perform at every show and tends to come in the latter portion of sets.
Tickets are available at concerts.livenation.com.
Parliament-Funkadelic featuring George Clinton
Aug. 25 at Holliday Park, 6363 Spring Mill Rd.
Can George Clinton really give up the funk?
The Godfather of Funk and Afrofuturism pioneer announced a retirement in May 2019, and yet here we are, preparing to welcome him fronting what Rolling Stone and Spin have identified as one of the top bands of all time (“One Nation Under a Groove,” “Flashlight,” “Atomic Dog”).
Live performances from the P-funk collective’s heyday featured a spaceship descending onto center stage.
Fishbone will open. Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com.
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The Eagles
Oct. 9-10 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, 125 S. Pennsylvania St.
“The Long Goodbye Tour” will feature Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, with Vince Gill and Deacon Frey — son of the late founding member Glenn Frey — performing hits like "Hotel California," "I Can't Tell You Why," "Desperado" and others from the more than 150 million albums the group has sold worldwide.
Steely Dan is opening. Both groups have more than 50 years in the game, each being founded in 1971.
The Eagles’ tours have consistently ranked in the Top 10 of concert industry publications Billboard and Pollstar.
The Live Nation tour begins on Sept. 7 in New York City and is expected to continue into 2025.
For additional information, visit livenation.com.
Aerosmith
Oct. 29 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse
The 40-date “Peace Out Tour" of the rock legends (“Dream On,” “Love in an Elevator,” “I Don't Want to Miss a Thing”) coincides with their 50th anniversary. It runs from Sept. 2 through Jan. 26, 2024.
The Black Crowes will open the show.
Tickets are available at bit.ly/3HqrABW.
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KISS
Nov. 25 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse
The Indy stop is part of the final leg of the “End of the Road World Tour” that began in Canada back in January 2019. The tour wraps up in New York a week after the Gainbridge Fieldhouse show.
It’s actually the band’s second farewell tour. The first ran 2000-01.
The band ("Rock and Roll All Nite," “Detroit Rock City,” “Beth”) is another that’s celebrating its 50th anniversary, having exploded onto the scene with face paint, elaborate stage outfits and live performances that featured fire-breathing, blood-spitting and pyrotechnics.
Tickets are available through Live Nation at livemu.sc/3KIpqQM.
Contact the IndyStar reporter at 317-444-6264.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Indianapolis concerts: These farewell tours are coming through Indy
