Editing Cosmic Thing (section)

==Tour==
In addition to the album's successful singles, the band embarked upon the extensive "Cosmic Tour" to promote the album worldwide, their first tour since Ricky Wilson's death. Drummer Strickland switched to guitar for the tour with [[Zack Alford]] serving as the touring drummer. [[Sara Lee (musician)|Sara Lee]] played bass guitar and [[Pat Irwin]] was keyboardist and extra guitarist.<ref name="Azerrad"/> This was also the first tour in which the group hired a [[backing band]], meaning the group's members, especially Pierson, had more opportunity to move around on stage<ref name="Azerrad"/> and gave their songs more accuracy to the [[studio version]]s in concert. Due to the band's growth in popularity at this time, the tour venues grew from theaters to large arenas and stadiums.<ref name="LLC1990">{{cite magazine |last=Schoemer |first=Karen |title=Beehives & Ballyhoo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CuD_QHQ-2KEC&pg=PA43 |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |date=March 1990 |publisher=Spin Media LLC |volume=5 |issue=12 |pages=40–44, 86–87 |issn=0886-3032}}</ref>

The band's first comeback performance was at a benefit for [[PETA]] and they arranged for various organizations, including PETA, [[Greenpeace]] and [[Amnesty International]], to advertise at each concert's venue.<ref name="Azerrad"/>