Iron Maiden will spend most of this summer on the road in North America, and they’re bringing Alice Cooper and Coheed and Cambria along for the ride.

The tour will kick off in Charlotte, N.C. on June 21 and will continue through August 18, when it will conclude in Houston. In all, there will be 29 shows on the tour, and Alice Cooper will provide support on all dates through July 21, and Coheed and Cambria will meet up with the tour then. Other cities the tour will hit include Atlanta, Washington D.C., Chicago, Quebec, Toronto, Detroit, San Francisco, Denver and Dallas.

Dubbed the “Maiden England World Tour,” the tour will resemble, in both production and song selection, the 1988 concert video, “Maiden England.” Frontman Bruce Dickinson explains on the official Iron Maiden website why the group wants to recreate that tour.

“We have great fun playing the “History of Maiden” tours because it gives us an opportunity between new albums to go out and play songs from our earlier catalog,” he said. “It’s always fantastic seeing the crowd reactions from a new generation of fans who have never experienced some of these tracks performed live before, and of course we know our longstanding fans will enjoying seeing the original “Seventh Son Tour” revisited – with many surprises.”

Seventh Son of a Seventh Son was the band’s seventh album, released in 1988, and the tour for that album resulted in the “Maiden England” video. Iron Maiden hasn’t released a studio album since 2010’s The Final Frontier.

Later in the statement, Dickinson reveals what attendees can expect to hear on the new tour.

“Our intention is to play about two thirds of the original track list of “Maiden England,” including some songs we have not played live in a very, very long time, plus other favorites we just know the fans are going to want to hear!”

At the Induction Ceremony for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night in New York City, Alice Cooper was inducted by Rob Zombie, Neil Diamond was welcomed by Paul Simon, Dr. John was inducted by John Legend, Tom Waits was inducted by Neil Young, Darlene Love was brought in by Bette Middler and Leon Russell was inducted by Elton John.

Waits, who is never without his snappy one linesr, was last night in rare form. He described his songs being very interesting things that could be done with air. He quipped, they say I’m hard to work with and have no hits. They say that as if that’s a bad thing. He performed “House Where Nobody Lives,” “Rain Dogs” and “Make It Rain.”

While inducting Waits Neil Young said, this man is indescribable. I am here to try to describe him for you. This man’s a great performer, singer, magician actor, changeling and spirit guide.

Paul Simon describing Neil Diamond said, he was called a Jewish Elvis Presley. In many synagogues in fact Elvis was considered to be a fake Neil Diamond.

“Sweet Caroline” was performed by Diamond. Robbie Robertson and Bruce Springsteen joined him and later on The Crystals song “Da Doo Ron Ron” was joined by Bette Middler, Dr. John, Leon Russell, Elton John, Darlene Love and Alice Cooper.

Fuse TV will be showing Tom Waits’ Induction ceremony performance at 9 pm EDT on March 20.

Two of rocks more hardcore personalities, Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper, will join forces for a handful of tour dates in April and May. Aptly dubbed the “Gruesome Twosome Tour,” the co-headlining trek will kick off in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 26 and wrap up in Casper, Wyoming on May 4. After the duo have closed out the 7-city outing, Rob Zombie will launch his own summer tour. Full tour dates on both are listed below.

Via a press release, Rob Zombie said about the upcoming tour, “The dream or nightmare comes true! Me and The Coop have been talking about touring together for about 15 years and finally the moment is here. This will be without a doubt a rock ‘n’ roll spooktacular for all the cool ghouls.”

Rob Zombie’s just released his latest album “Hellbilly Deluxe 2” this month which serves as the bookend to the original “Hellbilly Deluxe” released in 1998. Alice Cooper’s last album “Along Came a Spider” was released in 2008.

2010 Rob Zombie/Alice Cooper Concert Tour
April 2010
26 – Winnipeg, Manitoba – MTS Centre
27 – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Credit Union
28 – Edmonton, Alberta- Rexall Place
29 – Calgary, Alberta – Corral

May 2010
1 – Vancouver, British Columbia – Pacific Coliseum
2 – Kennewick, WA – Toyota Center
4 – Casper, WY – Casper Events Center

2010 Rob Zombie Concert Tour
July 2010
10 – San Bernadino, CA – San Manuel Amphitheater
11 – Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheatre
13 – Auburn, WA – White River Amphitheater
14 – Nampa, ID – Idaho Center Amphitheater
16 – Phoenix, AZ – Cricket Wireless Pavilion
17 – Albuquerque, NM – Journal Pavilion
18 – Englewood, CO – Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
20 – Maryland Heights, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
21 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
23 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
24 – Hartford, CT – Comcast Center
25 – Montreal, Quebec – Parc Jean Drapeau
27 – Mansfield, MA – Comcast Center
28 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
30 – Tinley Park, IL – First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
31 – Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Music Center

August 2010
1 – Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
4 – Virginia Beach, VA – Virginia Beach Amphitheatre
6 – Clarkston, MI- DTE Energy Music Theatre
7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Post Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake
8 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
10 – Tampa, FL – Ford Amphitheatre
11 – West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheater
13 – Dallas, TX – SuperPages.com Center
14 – Oklahoma City, OK – Zoo Amphitheatre