Mr. Big, the LA rock band responsible for the acoustic love ballad ‘To Be With You’, are hanging up their guitars after one final lap around the globe.
They’ve just announced their final world tour, with a bunch of international dates locked in for 2023 in Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. No Australian dates have been announced at this time.
“We are announcing our world tour, The Big Finish”
The band has promised The Big Finish tour will also travel to South America, Europe, UK and the US in 2024, but there’s been no mention of Australia.
“If we were in the movie business, we’d just put it all up in lights and say, ‘Welcome to The BIG Finish,'” lead vocalist Eric Martin said in a statement, shared by Consequence Of Sound. “Seriously, I’m glad we’re getting a chance to do it all onstage together as Mr. Big again and raise a flag to everything we’ve done as a band over the years.”
The veteran rock supergroup formed in 1988 and features Martin on vocals, Billy Sheehan (Steve Vai, David Lee Roth) on bass and Paul Gilbert on guitar. The 1991 single ‘To Be With You’, from their second album, Lean Into It, went to number one in Australia and the US.
‘To Be With You’ was the fourth highest selling single in Australia in 1992, behind Boyz II Men’s ‘End of the Road’ (#3), Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain’ (#2) and Billy Ray Cyrus’ ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ (#1).
Mr. Big have just announced a new drummer in the form of Nick D’Virgilio of Spock’s Beard, who’ll be joining them for the tour. He’s filling the place of the late Pat Torpey, who died in 2018 after a battle with Parkinson’s disease.
“We found a wonderful drummer in Nick, and he’s got a great voice too,” Sheehan said of D’Virgilio. “Nick has a vocal range similar to Pat’s, and he’ll be able to do the parts Pat did with a similar finesse. It’s a big relief because Mr. Big has always been heavy on the harmonies.”
You can find more info about the tour here and we’ll keep you posted with any updates.
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