# Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour

The Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour was a concert tour by rock band Blink-182. Launched in support of the group's 2001 album Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, the tour visited amphitheatres and arenas between July and September 2001. The tour was supported by New Found Glory, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio and Midtown.
A planned European leg of the tour was postponed following the September 11 attacks, and cancelled when guitarist Tom DeLonge suffered a back injury.

## Background

The band partnered with Ticketmaster, setting up a special website where fans could purchase pre-sale tickets for each show.
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, the band draped an American flag over a set of amplifiers and drummer Travis Barker played on a red, white, and blue drum kit. At one concert, DeLonge invited the crowd to join him in his cheers of "Fuck Osama bin Laden!"

## Tour dates

| Date | City | Country | Venue |
| North America ||||
| July 4, 2001 | Moline | United States | Mark of the Quad Cities |
| July 5, 2001 | Milwaukee | United States | Marcus Amphitheater |
| July 6, 2001 | Noblesville | United States | Verizon Wireless Music Center |
| July 7, 2001 | Tinley Park | United States | Tweeter Center |
| July 9, 2001 | Cincinnati | United States | Riverbend Music Center |
| July 10, 2001 | Columbus | United States | Polaris Amphitheater |
| July 11, 2001 | Cuyahoga Falls | United States | Blossom Music Center |
| July 13, 2001 | Bonner Springs | United States | Sandstone Amphitheater |
| July 14, 2001 | Somerset | United States | Rivers Edge Amphitheatre |
| July 15, 2001 | Maryland Heights | United States | Riverport Amphitheatre |
| July 17, 2001 | Burgettstown | United States | Post-Gazette Pavilion |
| July 19, 2001 | Clarkston | United States | DTE Energy Music Theatre |
| July 21, 2001 | Wantagh | United States | Jones Beach Theater |
| July 22, 2001 | Wantagh | United States | Jones Beach Theater |
| July 23, 2001 | Darien Center | United States | Darien Lake Performing Arts Center |
| July 24, 2001 | Columbia | United States | Merriweather Post Pavilion |
| July 26, 2001 | Holmdel | United States | PNC Bank Arts Center |
| July 27, 2001 | Camden | United States | Tweeter Center at the Waterfront |
| July 28, 2001 | Boston | United States | Suffolk Downs |
| July 29, 2001 | Scranton | United States | Coors Light Amphitheatre at Montage Mountain |
| July 31, 2001 | Raleigh | United States | Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek |
| August 2, 2001 | West Palm Beach | United States | Mars Music Amphitheatre |
| August 3, 2001 | Tampa | United States | Ice Palace Arena |
| August 5, 2001 | Antioch | United States | AmSouth Amphitheater |
| August 7, 2001 | Dallas | United States | Smirnoff Music Centre |
| August 8, 2001 | The Woodlands | United States | Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion |
| August 9, 2001 | Selma | United States | Verizon Wireless Amphitheater |
| August 11, 2001 | Greenwood Village | United States | Coors Amphitheatre |
| August 13, 2001 | West Valley | United States | E Center |
| August 14, 2001 | Nampa | United States | Idaho Center Amphitheater |
| August 15, 2001 | Portland | United States | Memorial Coliseum |
| August 17, 2001 | George | United States | The Gorge Amphitheatre |
| August 18, 2001 | Vancouver | Canada | Thunderbird Stadium |
| August 21, 2001 | Calgary | Canada | Pengrowth Saddledome |
| August 22, 2001 | Edmonton | Canada | Telus Field |
| August 25, 2001 | Toronto | Canada | Molson Amphitheatre |
| August 26, 2001 | Ottawa | Canada | Ottawa Civic Centre |
| August 28, 2001 | Quebec City | Canada | Colisée Pepsi |
| August 29, 2001 | Montreal | Canada | Parc Jean-Drapeau |
| September 1, 2001 | Allentown | United States | Allentown Fairgrounds |
| September 2, 2001 | Syracuse | United States | New York State Fairgrounds |
| September 3, 2001 | Hartford | United States | ctnow.com Meadows Music Center |
| September 8, 2001 | Wheatland | United States | Sacramento Valley Amphitheatre |
| September 9, 2001 | Mountain View | United States | Shoreline Amphitheatre |
| September 14, 2001 | Phoenix | United States | Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum |
| September 19, 2001 | Long Beach | United States | Long Beach Arena |
| September 21, 2001 | Chula Vista | United States | Coors Amphitheatre |

### Festivals and other miscellaneous performances

    $^A$ This concert was a part of "Edgefest II"
    $^B$ This concert was a part of "Radio 104 Fest 2001"

## Reception

Reception towards the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour was generally positive. Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times was positive in his review of the band's concert at the Tweeter Center, writing, "There is a long and noble tradition in rock 'n' roll of hyperenergetic, ultramelodic, sha-la-la-la stupidity, and Blink has proven itself to be a worthy inheritor of this tradition—not as great as the mighty Ramones just yet, but at least as good as the Troggs or the Archies or Grand Funk Railroad." The band's appearance at Radio 104 Fest in Hartford, Connecticut was reviewed by Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant: "Blink-182 [...] has earned its place at the top. Both bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Tom DeLonge are tighter now from working with ace drummer Travis Barker for a few years. The show's focus is more their bracing, melodic songs rather than the childishly vulgar banter between them."
Ed Masley of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the trio "the Steely Dan of cartoon punk", feeling that "the [dirty] jokes were nearly overshadowed by musical highlights [...] Some, I'm sure, would argue that the show was worse than reprehensible. But unlike, say, Limp Bizkit, Korn or Eminem, these clowns did it all for the giggles. At a time when so much of teen culture is focused on hate and aggression, last night's show was practically refreshing." Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times felt the concert tasteful in light of the then-recent September 11 attacks; "In some strange way Blink-182's concert Sunday at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim provided a kind of catharsis, or at least temporary escape, for the thousands of fans who turned out." He praised the group's inclusion of humor, while also comparing drummer Travis Barker to Keith Moon of The Who.