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Originally Posted by KeepTheFaith2211
For example: Ending with 'Rockin' All Over The World' or even starting with it, just wouldn't work IMO.
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I agree with you that ending the show with Rockin' All Over The World doesn't work.
Starting with it does though. I was there in Amsterdam and it worked like a charm. It's got this big party vibe. However, I do think it only works if the audience has gotten a proper support act before it and looks forward to the show in a more special way. In Amsterdam we had all watched the match Holland - France and Holland won, which set the atmosphere straight for the rest of the night. Opening with the song when it's pissing down and there's no atmosphere at all is pointless. It all depends on what the atmosphere is like.
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Originally Posted by KeepTheFaith2211
The mistake they made on the last tour and the HAND tour(and even the Bounce one if I'm correct) was breaking up 'Lay Your Hands'/'Sleep When I'm Dead'/'Bad Medicine', which were really great together, whether it was for ending the main set or just in the middle.
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I don't see that as a mistake. It was great to finally see them breaking it up, and to see Sleep return as a proper fun song. When it was played early in the show it got the show going like crazy. Bad Medicine, though it's nothing special to me anymore, should always be one of the few last songs of the main set or be somewhere in the encore. Yes, they did play it in the beginning of the set back in 1996, but the 1996 setlists were completely different compared to anything else the band has done. You can't really compare them to any other tour.
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Originally Posted by KeepTheFaith2211
For the record - they should open with 'Runaway' on the next tour in my opinion.
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I don't think they should. The song has no great party vibe in it, sure, it's a great rock song and I do think it works very well as one of the first songs. But as an opener? No.
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Originally Posted by KeepTheFaith2211
Actually, one thing  , I don't think there should be any acoustic sets for a stadium gig.  |
Not for stadium gigs, no. It would work incredibly well for the arena shows in America (if the band would fill it with hits over there) and for shows on an open field like Hyde Park or the Hippodrome in Belgium. And again, it depends on the audience. If the audience is really laid back, an acoustic set works like a charm. It'd give the show a bit of a festival vibe (without the bottles of piss and bad smell). If the audience however is very hard to please, an acoustic set will only make it harder to for the band to connect to it's audience.
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Originally Posted by Thierry
Seb, all I can say: You have the vision.
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I know, ouwhoer.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan