Some performers appeared at selected dates and others performed just once. Some opened on entire legs of the tour, others for only half. The tour included a range of support acts.
At that time, that was what we did: we would be on the road for twelve or eighteen months, and the only time we came off the road was to make another record.' 'We continued to tour off that song for another year. 'We were just about to go off the road and that song came around,' explained drummer Joey Kramer. The length of the tour was due to the chart-topping success of ' I Don't Want to Miss a Thing'. It initially promoted their 1997 release Nine Lives and ran from May 1997 to July 1999. The Nine Lives Tour saw Aerosmith playing in North America, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Holland, Italy, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Portugal. 283 (scheduled) 204 (played) 43 (cancelled) 36 (rearranged)
