Let's compare.
 

there is alot of talk of how setlists have been a bit shite this tour....well i just thought i'd pull up the first gig from the HAND and LH tours and see which is best....

1st gig of HAND tour Des Moines:

Last Man Standing / You Give Love A Bad Name / Born To Be My Baby / Story of My Life / The Radio Saved My Life Tonight / Have A Nice Day / Last Cigarette / It's My Life / Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (acoustic) /
Love For Sale (acoustic) / Bed of Roses (acoustic) / Blaze of Glory (acoustic) / Lay Your Hands On Me (acoustic) / I'll Sleep When I'm Dead / Bad Medicine / Raise Your Hands / Who Says You Can't Go Home / Livin' On A Prayer

Encore 1: Bells of Freedom / Wanted Dead or Alive
Encore 2: Treat Her Right (Cover)

1st gig of LH tour (newark night 1):

Lost Highway / You Give Love A Bad Name / Summertime / Born To By My Baby / Just Older / Whole Lot of Leavin' / (You Want to) Make A Memory / It's My Life / We Got It Goin' On / Have A Nice Day / In These Arms / These Days (Richie on vocals) / Seat Next To You / Blaze of Glory (acoustic) / I Love This Town / I'll Sleep When I'm Dead /
Raise Your Hands / Bad Medicine (with Shout) / Who Says You Can't Go Home

Encore:
Any Other Day / Blood On Blood / Livin' On A Prayer / Wanted Dead Or Alive


well i'd rather be at the LH gig, barring Love For Sale there is nothing that stands out from the HAND tour gig. and hmm finishing on a cover ;)....
so anyway my question is was there all this talk of shite setlists at the start of the HAND tour too?

On the HAND day tour they had fire and ther was no ****in violin! Thats enuff! And LMS is a rockin opener not that dull country shite!

hmm good point.....

but taken as a whole setlist, ignoring whether there is the violin shit and that stupid intro... i think the second setlist is better.

Tbh, I'd much rather be at the LH gig.

Can't stand Love For Sale for a start, and like you pointed out earlier, ending on a cover? Craaaaazy.

In your opinion - don't ****ing assume you're right about it.

The LH tour opener is better, it has BOBITA! Of course we all know it all went to shit after that. Whereas in HAND tour, it started quite bad, but towards the end, ITA became a mainstay. So that was good. TOO BAD IT WAS AFTER MY SHOW! :mad:

I am believe me. Try listening to the TD and the LH record back to back: You will be crying !

i'm not a fan of lost highway but i do prefer the opening set of this tour, the only thing from the hand set would be Bells Of Freedom...

Last man standing wasn't a great openen as it lacked energy live, but with Lost Highway its even worse, there is no, uuuh energy at all.
Lay your hands on me would be great, prayer would be nice, even a cover like rockin in the free world would be nice, but not this crap.
Wanted would be a nice change

Why not "wanted". Bruce Springsteen opened the Rising Tour in 2003 wih a hardly recognizable acoustic version of "Born in the USA". On the other hand - he is the better Bruce Springsteen and he has the E not the B-Street-band.
Opening with "LH" is really a joke! Lame Lame Lame!