Family Values Tour 1998
Family Values Tour 1998 was the first edition of the fall tour put together by Korn. The show featured Korn, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit, Orgy, Rammstein, and Incubus, and ran from September 22 to October 31, 1998, across North America in one leg. The tour promoted Korn’s album Follow the Leader and began with a pre-tour, campaign-style series called the “Korn Kampaign,” which toured from August 17 in Los Angeles to September 1 in Phoenix to spread their “Family Values” message. Korn traveled by jet to meet fans at special “fan conferences” at stops across the country, visiting record stores in cities like Riverside, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Atlanta, and Dallas. Celebrities such as Ice Cube and Todd McFarlane joined at various stops.
On October 27, Ice Cube was replaced by Incubus for the last five dates because Ice Cube started filming Next Friday. Incubus is featured on the Family Values Tour ’98 CD with their song “New Skin,” and they appear in the DVD during the performance of “All in the Family.” Ice Cube did not appear at the October 26 show in Kalamazoo. Rob Zombie was originally supposed to take part, but was replaced by Rammstein due to production costs; Zombie’s camp later denied comments about the switch. In 1999, Rob Zombie and Korn teamed up again for the successful Rock is Dead tour.
One of the tour’s most infamous moments came when Rammstein members dressed nearly naked for Halloween, leading to police involvement and a 10-minute end to the concert. The tour was a commercial and critical success. The live CD debuted at no. 7 on the Billboard 200 and went gold, while the DVD went platinum. Rammstein’s album Sehnsucht also reached platinum in the U.S., and Orgy’s debut Candyass, released on Korn’s Elementree Records label, did well. Limp Bizkit gained huge popularity from the tour, helping establish them as leaders in the nu-metal wave.
The 28-date run grossed about $6.5 million and drew over 243,000 fans, with tickets priced from $26 to $29.50. Critics praised the show for blending heavy metal, rap, and electronic music into a bold, energetic performance. The Family Values Tour helped promote Follow the Leader and other acts, and it also toured in Japan and Australia. Europe did not get a stop that year, and Korn would return there in 2000 with the Issues Tour.
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