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Old 05-26-2006, 07:21 PM
Izzy Izzy is offline
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Well, I won't be as negative as Seb here, but having attented the show myself I must agree with most things he said...
Boring setlist, no These Days, no Dry County, no Garageland, so nothing really special... Having heard a couple bootlegs from 2006 and seeing the setlists from Dusseldorf, Dublin and even Hessisch Lichtenau, I got my hopes up high... maybe too high....
Indeed, too many HAND songs, apart from HAND and WSYCGH nothing got the crowd really going, Story Of My Life sounded better live than studio imo and I actually enjoyed it... too bad Complicated was played afterwards. Why do we get Complicated instead of Novocaine? And what is switching Richie's IBTFY with the TLFR version about? Well, I thought if they were going to do an acoustic, why not play Blaze Of Glory 2005? But BOR was played... Actually, the whole audience around me sang the original melody on top over Jon's altered melody, which was cool
By the time Bad Medicine, with Gloria in between which was fun, started I started to think they were not playing anything special, cause KTF and Saturday Night were not being played in the main set... so, the encore's included KTF and Saturday Night leaving not much space for any special songs...

And now for some good things
Jon was very good, he sang well and wasn't out of breath. Everyday was a good example, on the Bounce tour this song lacked so much energy, but during this tour they make it work somehow. Also, the endingnotes on WTWYA was done very well... I disagree with Seb that ITA was too slow, Jon hit almost all the high notes and it indeed woke people up after a couple of HAND songs.
The band sounded real tight and especially Tico was giving it all, you could frequently see him on the videoscreen puffing and huffing and slamming his drums... Richie was smiling and joking with the audience during a couple of songs: Bad Medicine comes to mind... They played 26 songs in 2,5 hours, which is good... apart from this particular setlist, they really give you value for the money...
Very cool stage and good sound. In 2000 I saw them in Arnhem in the Gelredome and the sound sucked, this time you could clearly distinguish all instruments, even the bass...

So, all in all a good show, good performance, The audience who only came to hear Prayer, IML and the rest of the 'Greatest Hits' package had a good time, but the lack of a These Days song or Dry County makes it a bit disappointing for the true fan...
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