Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.metal
Titolo: [SPOILER] Queensryche - Live in Amsterdam (scaletta e recensione)

Beh, assolutamente non male la scaletta! Speriamo facciamo qualche
sorpresina del genere anche al Gods...
[spoiler]
My 2cts...
Opening act was Sun Caged (dutch band). They were quite good, and reminded
me a bit of Helloween.
QR's show was about 2hrs (including encores). The complete (?!) setlist was
(in no particular order):
Warning:
NM156
RFO:
Screaming in Digital
OM:
I remember now, Anarchy-X, Revolution Calling, Speak, Spreading the disease,
The Mission (with Electric Requiem), The needle lies, Eyes of a stranger
Empire:
Best I can (last encore), Jet City Woman (Q2K tour style, without the drums
during the verses), Empire, Silent Lucidity
PL:
I am I, Damaged, My Global Mind, One more time
HITNF:
Hit the Black, Save (first encore)
Q2K:
Breakdown, Sacred Ground, Right side of my mind
Tribe:
Open (opener), Desert Dance (2nd encore)
Geoff's vocals were good, he played keyboards during some songs.
Mike Stone was Kelly Gray, but without the attitude problems  He played his
own versions of CDG's solos but at least with some respect to the original.
He also played some good harmonies with Michael.
Scott was amazing (as always).
Michael was flawless (as always).
Eddie was "Steddie" and delivered some great backup vocals.
The light show was better that the Q2K tour, there were no video screens.
Geoff's stage presence/dramatics were a lot better than the Q2K tour, he was
quite talkative.
The band sounded much more inspired than on the Q2K tour
All in all a great show, with only two flaws: Breakdown (please leave that
out next time) and Silent Lucidity (allthough played with a lot more passion
than last time, it was killed by the poor sound; the steel guitar was way
too loud and Michaels guitar sounded terrible). It was good to hear some
HITNF in Europe (finally!) and some surprises (Best I Can, My Global Mind),
and is was good that they left some 'standards' out (Operation Mindcrime, I
Don't Believe In Love, Walk In The Shadows).
If I take into account that this was the first show (and therefore things
only will get better) combined with what I've heard so far from Tribe (I
really like Desert Dance, and it is a great live song!), I almost start
believing that QR is on its way back!
--
"Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea."
- Rush, Natural Science -
www.stargazer.it

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Hey gang! 
I just came back from the first QR show on this very short European
tour! 
What can I say about it...I have mixed feelings...some parts were
great, but there were some really shitty parts too! 
They started off with a new song (Open) and it took them two songs to
get the audience going. The second song was One more time around. But
from there it just became better and better up until The Needle lies.
They continued with some Q2k songs and Hit the black from HITNF. And
as everybody knows, those aren't their best albums, so the audience
didn't respond that good to it. And the whole thing went absolutely
wrong when the band started with Jet City Woman and Geoff couldn't
remember the first lines of the lyrics. So he solved that problem by
letting the audience sing. 
Another song that came out very bad was Silent Lucidity. If there's
one QR song that has Chris DeGarmo written all over it, then it's this
one...Mike Stone (yep, the fifth "member") played some kind of slide
guitar in it, and it just didn't work...I guess they have to play
around with it a little bit more. 
The regular set ended with Operation: Mindcrime. Not the whole album
but up until The Mission and ending it off with Eyes of a Stranger.
Needless to say that the crowd went wild during this part of the show.
Most people still think Operation: Mindcrime is QR's best album. 
After a short break the band came back for three more songs: Save me
(from HITNF; first time I heard it live!), Desert Dance (first time I
heard it at all; don't know what to think of it yet, the guitar work
is good, but the chorus (keep reaching, come on come on keep reaching
(preaching?) kinda sucks) and the show ended with The best I can. 
A friend of mine was there too and he wrote down the complete setlist,
so I will post it later... 
That same friend also had two tickets for the meet & greet afterwards.
He was kind enough to give me the spare one. 
The meet & greet took place in a small room somewhere at the back of
the venue. Everybody was there (even Scott Rock) and I have to say
they all were very friendly and relaxed. It still is kinda strange
looking at Geoff with his bald head... 
Looking back at this evening I have to say that it was great! The band
can use a little bit more playing together, but that problem will be
solved once they hit the States for the QR/DT/FW tour...Mike Stone
told me that they had 10 days off between the last rehearsal and this
show, so that explains the little "mistakes" here and there. Now if
they throw Silent Lucidity off their setlist I'm sure everybody will
have a great time at the American leg of the tour... 
Fabio Lentola
www.fabiolentola.tk
www.theitalianempire.tk
www.anarchy-x.it