The 2006 Family Values Tour was a summer concert tour headlined by Korn. The tour originally started in 1998.
Overview
Although originally conceived as an annual tour, the Family Values Tour returned in 2006 after a five-year hiatus.
The 2006 tour featured a total of ten bands across two separate stages, with Californian rockers Droid appearing on a number of shows. Korn, the creators of the tour, headlined the 2006 show with the Deftones as co-headliners.
On July 30, at the tour's stop in Atlanta, a fan was severely beaten over a baseball cap by another concert-goer during the Deftones' set. The victim, 30-year-old local man Andy Richardson, later died as a result of his injuries in the Grady Memorial Hospital.
The defendant, 25-year-old Michael Scott Axley, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault and was sentenced to 10 years incarceration and 10 years probation.[1] "All the bands on the Family Values Tour offer their sincerest condolences and prayers to the family of 30-year-old Andy Richardson", read an official statement from Korn.[2]
KoRn shot the video for their third "See You on the Other Side" single, "Politics" in East Troy, Wisconsin, putting handheld cameras in the hands of ten lucky members of its fanclub and local area fans who were given all-access passes to shoot the performance and any behind-the-scenes footage that they chose, along with the traditional camera shoot.
More than 400,000 wildly enthusiastic fans turned out for the Family Values Tour for the 30-show city trek.
Two shows during the tour were canceled. One in Wantagh, New York was forced to cancel due to terrible weather that hit the area, flooding the entire floor of the Jones Beach Theater. The second cancelled show was in Virginia Beach, Virginia for undisclosed reasons.
KoRn bassist Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu was also forced to jump in for guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer during the band's closing song, "Blind" in Holmdel, New Jersey after he was reportedly drunk and had to leave the stage.
On the 2006 Family Values Tour, Korn played almost the same songs at every stop of the tour, except for some songs played in different places, such as Politics and Twist. The set list was, usually:
The songs that Dir En Grey played differed from each show (with the exception of the song G.D.S. being used to open each show), but these songs were played more frequently during the tour:
Merciless Cult
Ryoujoku no Ame,
Spilled Milk,
THE FATAL BELIEVER,
KODOKU NI SHISU YUENI KODOKU,
The Final,
dead tree,
THE IIID EMPIRE,
Clever Sleazoid.
These songs were played once or twice during the tour:
The 2006 edition of Family Values Tour was highly successful and it was documented on separate CD and DVD releases, both of which were released on December 26, 2006 via Firm Music.
Dir En Grey released a live DVD to their fan club entitled Despair in the Womb. The DVD featured a documentary of the tour on its second disc.
