PAPA ROACH ANNOUNCE HEADLINING “MASTER BAY TOUR” WITH (HED)PE AND LINKIN PARK DATES SET TO KICK OFF NOVEMBER 25 IN SAN DIEGO, CA

FROM: MAGGIE WANG/KRISTINE ASHTON

PAPA ROACH ANNOUNCE HEADLINING “MASTER BAY TOUR” WITH (HED)PE AND LINKIN PARK DATES SET TO KICK OFF NOVEMBER 25 IN SAN DIEGO, CA

Road warriors PAPA ROACH will embark on their own headlining dates immediately after their month-long stint with Limp Bizkit and Eminem on the “Anger Management” tour. Dubbed the “Master Bay Tour,” these dates kick off November 25 in San Diego, CA and wrap up December 19 in Portland, OR. (hed)pe take opening slot honors for the first half of this theater tour, while Linkin Park join them mid-way through the trek.

In order to keep their fans up-to-date on all their touring activity, PAPA ROACH— COBY DICK (vocals), JERRY HORTON (guitar), TOBIN ESPERANCE (bass) and DAVID BUCKNER (drums)-oversee the tour diary section on their website (www.paparoach.com) which provides a look at life on the road. The section is updated regularly by HORTON who provides a first-person account of each night’s performance.

In the diary, HORTON offers insight into PAPA ROACH‘s pre-show ritual. “Before we play, we huddle up. In that huddle, we tell ourselves the crowd doesn’t like us,” he said. The band began doing this earlier this year when things started taking off in order to bring back the energy that drove the band in the early days. DICK told the Detroit Free Press in a recent interview, “You make yourselves feel like you’re hated. It gets you into a frame of mind that your shit still stinks, gets you into the mode where it’s like you’re going onstage for the first time and you can tear things up.”

With “Last Resort” and “Broken Home” still strongly impacting rock/alternative rock radio and MTV, and their DreamWorks Records debut Infest nearing triple-platinum status, PAPA ROACH are aware of how far they’ve come since their inception in 1993. They’ll return to their roots on November 20 by playing a special show in Vacaville, CA for their longtime hometown supporters. This show is set to take place at the Three Oaks Community Center and will be taped for a forthcoming episode of MTV’s “Road Home.”

Catch PAPA ROACH performing live in the following cities:

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