[TheseDays2005]

Originally Posted by born_to_run

Deaf ? The most brutal rapture of a song in rock history. The fiddling part seems to be the main theme of the song now and Richie struggles more to hit the high notes than Jon.
Listen to any These Days-Tour Era Bootlegs - that's how the song should sound like. Sounds even worse than during the US tour. What a shame!

and i heard you say, like a million times, that you can't judge on bootlegs (plus you didn't had any)

[hackster73]

A couple of examples of other smaller set lists in the same city:

Date: 3 April 2001 City: Nagoya, Japan

One Wild Night
You Give Love A Bad Name
Raise Your Hands
Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
Livin' On A Prayer
Born To Be My Baby
It's My Life
Just Older
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Wild Is The Wind
Wild In The Streets
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Bad Medicine (Shout)
Runaway 2000
Something To Believe In
Keep The Faith
Tequila
Twist & Shout

Date: 21 January 2003 City: Nagoya, Japan

Bounce
You Give Love A Bad Name
Livin' On A Prayer
Everyday
Raise Your Hands
Runaway
It's My Life
Always
Undivided
The Distance
Misunderstood
Right Side of Wrong
I'll Be There For You
Hook Me Up
Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
I'l Sleep When I'm Dead
Born To Be My Baby
Heroes
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bad Medicine

I know they had some rare tracks but not long shows?

[hackster73]

And another one:

Date: 15 July 2000 City: Nagoya, Japan

Livin' On A Prayer
You Give Love A Bad Name
Just Older
Two Story Town
It's My Life
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
I Got The Girl
Next 100 Years
Love For Sale (*A)
Runaway (*A)
That's Alright (*A)
One Wild Night
Lay Your Hands On Me
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Bad Medicine
Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars
Mystery Train
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Keep The Faith

All these have less songs than the LH set list?

[born_to_run]

Originally Posted by TheseDays2005

and i heard you say, like a million times, that you can't judge on bootlegs (plus you didn't had any)

Have those I was there personally. As we don't have a time machine the only way to compare BJ live THEN and now is listen to vintage BJ from bootleg (as they are not able to release a proper live CD/DVD - sad again!)
And the TD version 2008 is absolute horrible. I would even say that if I loved LH believe me!

[Bounce7800]

Originally Posted by hackster73

All these have less songs than the LH set list?

Don't the Japanese shows all start early, like early afternoon? I thought I read somewhere that is the case, rather than the traditional evening concerts we are used to.

[Emil]

The most boring set so far. And that says a lot.

[bjcrazycpa]

Nagoya was a warm up show,plus they needed to catch a train, lol!

deb

[Neurotica33]

Originally Posted by rainsong

I think they just opted for the biggest venues rather than playing more shows. What I want to know is did they use the bar stage they used in Jersey and Canada or is the set a new one, as was rumored??
The set list looks like a pretty normal first show, I believe they are doing a big tv broadcast show in Tokyo, my guess would be the surprises would be for that show.

They've always played the Domes in Japan. The venues are no different, but there seems to be less of them.

[Neurotica33]

Originally Posted by bjcrazycpa

Nagoya was a warm up show,plus they needed to catch a train, lol!

deb

Surely the warm up shows were in NJ. And do they not have hotels in Nagoya?!

[Supersonic]

Aloha !

Originally Posted by hackster73

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All these have less songs than the LH set list?

On the Crush Tour an average set contained 20 songs. On the One Wild Night Tour it contained 20 songs. Your examples of those Japanese shows all show a set with the same average length of what was played on that tour.

On the Lost Highway Tour a show contains at least 23 songs, yet this set "only" has 21 songs. 23 songs means 2 hours and 10 minutes, so this show barely lasted 2 hours.

The first show in Japan is always shit, but this time they really hit rock bottom.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan