The Storm Front Tour was a 1989âÂÂ1991 concert tour by singer-songwriter Billy Joel. This tour was the first tour by Joel in two years.
The recording of the album, which commenced in 1988, coincided with major changes in Joel's career and inaugurated a period of serious upheaval in his business affairs. In August 1989, just before the Storm Front album was released, Joel dismissed his manager (and former brother-in-law) Frank Weber after an audit revealed major discrepancies in Weber's accounting. Joel subsequently sued Weber for US$90 million, claiming fraud and breach of fiduciary duty. Because of this, Joel was in a huge financial gap, and to make the money back Joel toured extensively for a year and a half.
The album's producer Mick Jones gave Joel the idea of using different musicians on the album. Because of this, this tour marked a lot of changes with the band. Gone were Doug Stegmeyer on bass guitar, Russell Javors on rhythm guitar, David Lebolt on keyboards, and Peter Hewlett and George Simms on backing vocals. They were replaced by Schuyler Deale on bass guitar, Mindy Jostyn on violin and guitar (who was replaced with Tommy Byrnes on rhythm guitar partway through the tour), Jeff Jacobs on keyboards and Crystal Taliefero on percussion, saxophone, and guitar.
Following a rehearsal gig at the Suffolk County Police Academy in Westhampton, New York on December 2, 1989, the tour kicked off in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 6, 1989, and ended in Mexico City, Mexico on March 24, 1991.
The two concerts at Yankee Stadium on June 22 and 23, 1990 were professionally filmed for the video special ', which was aired on television followed by a release on VHS in late 1990 and given a limited theatrical re-release in October 2022.
This setlist is from the June 22, 1990 show at Yankee Stadium. It does not represent all the dates throughout the tour.