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05/16/1982
Jethro Tull
Set 1the clasp
hunting girl
fallen on hard times
pussy willow
broardsword
jack in the green
seal driver
heavy horses
weathercock/fires at midnight
flute solo
keys/drums
Set 2sweet dream
songs from the wood
watching me watching you
swirling pit
pibroch/black satin dancer (instrumental)
beastie
too old to rock and roll
aqualung
minstrel in the gallery
locomotive breath
cheerio
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05/18/1985
The Firm
Set 1Intro > Overture >
Closer
City Sirens
Make Or Break
The Morning After
Together
Cadillac
Prelude > Money Can't Buy
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Radioactive
Live In Peace
Midnight Moonlight > Jimmy Page Guitar solo >
Midnight Moonlight
You've Lost That Loving Feeling
Band Intro > The Chase: Tony Franklin Bass solo (incl - Purple Haze tease)>
The Chase> Jimmy Page Guitar/bow solo> Chris Slade Drums solo >
The Chase >
I Just Want To Make Love To You
Someone To Love
Set 2Encores :

Everybody Needs Somebody To Love > Crowd > Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (reprise)
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12/16/1987
Simply Red
Set 1Come To My Aid
Infidelity
Look At You Now
Jericho
Move On Out
Sad Old Red
Resume
Picture Book
I Wish (instrumental)
Love Fire
Turn It Up
Shine
Red Box
Money's Too Tight
I Won't Feel Bad
Holding Back The Years
Do The Right Thing
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Set 2
Set 3
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03/07/1988
Dokken
Set 1Kiss Of Death
When Heaven Comes Down
Standing In The Shadows
Sleepless Night
Heaven Sent
Burning Like A Flame
George Lynch Guitar Solo
Into The Fire
In My Dreams
Set 2
Set 3
CommentOpening for AC/DC
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03/08/1988
Dokken
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
CommentOpening for AC/DC
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03/09/1988
Dokken
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
CommentOpening for AC/DC
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03/20/1988
Meat Loaf
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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03/08/1989
Scorpions
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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05/19/1989
Elton John
Set 1Sixty Years On
I Need You To Turn To
The King Must Die
Burn Down The Mission
Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Have Mercy On The Criminal
Funeral For A Friend/love Lies Bleeding
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Philadelphia Freedom
Sad Songs (Say So Much)
Kiss The Bride
A Word In Spanish
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters (Part Two)
Nikita
Daniel
I'm Still Standing
Candle In The Wind
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
Your Song
Song For Guy
Set 2
Set 3
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09/25/1989
Jethro Tull
Set 1Strange Avenues
Steel Monkey
Big Riff and Mando
Thick as a Brick
Rock Island
Requiem
Black Satin Dancer
Cheap Day Return
Mother Goose
Jack-A-Lynn
Another Christmas Song
My God
Undressed to Kill
The Pine Marten's Jig
Drowsy Maggie
The Whaler's Dues
Budapest
Farm on the Freeway
Sealion
Kissing Willie
Nothing Is Easy
Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
The Third Hoorah
The Dam Busters March
Set 2
Set 3
CommentIan Anderson - lead vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, harmonica, mandolin
Martin Barre - guitar, mandolin
Dave Pegg - bass, mandolin, backing vocals
Martin Allcock - keyboards, acoustic guitar
Doane Perry - drums
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10/07/1989
The Who
Set 1I Can't Explain
Substitute
I Can See For Miles
Trick Of The Light
Boris The Spider
Eminence Front
Face The Face
I'm A Man
Tommy Intro
Overture/It's A Boy
1921
Amazing Journey
Sparks
Acid Queen
Pinball Wizard
We're Not Gonna Take It!
See Me, Feel Me
Roger talks about his voice "squeaking"
Magic Bus
Mary Anne With Shaky Hands
Baba O'Riley
My Generation
A Little Is Enough
5:15
Love Reign O'er Me
Sister Disco
Rough Boys
Join Together
You Better You Bet
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
Roger decries media re: Who 'mailing it in'
Dig
Born On The Bayou
Who Are You
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10/10/1989
The Who
Set 1I Can't Explain
Substitute
I Can See For Miles
Eminence Front
Face The Face
Pictures Of Lily
Trick Of The Light
Boris The Spider
I'm A Man
overture
1921
Amazing Journey
Sparks
Acid Queen
Pinball Wizard
We're Not Gonna Take It
Magic Bus
Mary Anne with The shaky Hands
Baba O'Riley
My Generation
A Little Is Enough
5:15
Love Reign O'er Me
Sister Disco
Rough Boys
Join Together
You Better You Bet
Behind Blue Eyes
Won't Get Fooled Again
Naked Eye
Summertime Blues
Who Are You
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11/16/1989
Stevie Nicks
Set 1Outside The Rain
Dreams
Rooms On Fire
Gold Dust Woman
Alice
Stand Back
Whole Lotta Trouble
Two Kind Of Love
Edge Of 17
Has Anyone Ever...
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01/23/1990
Simply Red
Set 1A New Flame
Look At You Now
More
Jericho
Move On Out
Enough
Holding Back The Years
Low Rider (instrumental)
It's Only Love
Something Got Me Started
Come To My Aid
To Be With You
Turn It Up
Money's Too Tight (To Mention)
I Won't Feel Bad
You've Got It
(Open Up The) Red Box
If You Don't Know Me By Now
Band Intros
The Right Thing
Set 2
Set 3
CommentA New Flame Tour 1990
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01/20/1992
Simply Red
Set 1A New Flame
Jericho
Your Mirror
Enough
Model
It's Only Love
Holding Back The Years
How Could I Fall?
More
Stars
Wonderland
She's Got It Bad
Come To My Aid
Infidelity
Red Box
Freedom
Thrill Me
The Right Thing
I Won't Feel Bad
Money's Too Tight (To Mention)

Encore:
For Your Babies
Something Got Me Started
CommentNEC Arena 20/02/1992 - Stars Tour
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12/19/1992
Simply Red
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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02/28/1993
Simply Red
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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05/20/1993
Iron Maiden
Set 1Intro
Be Quick Or Be Dead
The Number Of The Beast
Prowler
Transylvania
Remember Tomorrow
2 Minutes To Midnight
From Here To Eternity
Wasting Love
Bring Your Daughter...To The Slaughter
Wasted Years
The Evil That Men Do
Afraid To Shoot Strangers
Fear Of The Dark
The Clairvoyant
Heaven Can Wait
Run To The Hills
Iron Maiden
Hallowed Be Thy Name
The Trooper
Sanctuary
Set 2
Set 3
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11/21/1995
David Bowie
Set 1The Motel
Look Back In Anger
The Hearts Filthy Lesson
Scary Monsters
The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (As Beauty)
I Have Not Been To Oxford Town
Outside
Andy Warhol
The Man Who Sold The World
Boys Keep Swinging
Strangers When We Meet
Hallo Spaceboy
Breaking Glass
We prick you
Nite Flights
My Death
DJ
Teenage Wildlife
Under Pressure
Moonage Daydream
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01/08/1996
Simply Red
Set 1Out On The Range
To Be With You
So Many People
A New Flame
Enough
Lives And Loves
Your Mirror
Never Never Love
So Beautiful
Holding Back The Years
You Make Me Believe
Thrill Me
Remembering The First Time
Come To My Aid
Infidelity
Hillside Avenue
Stars
The Right Thing
Money's Too Tight To Mention
If You Don't Know Me By Now
Something Got Me Started
Fairground
Set 2
Set 3
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05/03/1998
Spice Girls
Set 1If You Can't Dance
Who Do You Think You Are?
Do It
Denying
Too Much
Stop
Where Did Our Love Go? (Emma Bunton solo)
Move Over
The Lady Is a Vamp
Say You'll Be There
Naked
2 Become 1
Walk of Life
Sisters (Are Doin' It for Themselves)
Wannabe
Spice Up Your Life
Mama
Viva Forever (encore)
Never Give Up On the Good Times (encore)
We Are Family (encore)
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04/21/2002
Simple Minds
Set 1Intro
New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
I Travel
Up On The Catwalk
One Step Closer
Space
Speed Your Love To Me
The American
Love Song
See The Lights
Glittering Prize
Ghost Dancing
New Sunshine Morning
This Is Your Land
Set 2Belfast Child
Waterfront
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She's A River
Spaceface
Don't You (Forget About Me)
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Let There Be Love
Dead Vandals
Sanctify Yourself
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11/23/2002
Alice Cooper
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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09/11/2004
Rush
Set 1Intro
R30 Overture
The Spirit of Radio
Force Ten
Animate
Subdivisions
Earthshine
Red Barchetta
Roll the Bones
Bravado
YYZ
The Trees
The Seeker
One Little Victory
Set 2Darn That Dragon Intro
Tom Sawyer
Dreamline
Secret Touch
Between the Wheels
Mystic Rhythms
Red Sector A
O Baterista
Set 3Resist
Heart Full of Soul
2112: Overture/The Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale
La Villa Strangiato
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
Xanadu
Working Man
Summertime Blues
Crossroads
Limelight/Outro
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09/15/2004
Rush
Set 1Intro
R30 Overture
The Spirit of Radio
Force Ten
Animate
Subdivisions
Earthshine
Red Barchetta
Roll the Bones
Bravado
YYZ
The Trees
The Seeker
One Little Victory
Set 2Darn That Dragon Intro
Tom Sawyer
Dreamline
Secret Touch
Between the Wheels
Mystic Rhythms
Red Sector A
O Baterista
Set 3Resist
Heart Full of Soul
2112: Overture/The Temples of Syrinx/Grand Finale
La Villa Strangiato
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
Xanadu
Working Man
Summertime Blues
Crossroads
Limelight/Outro
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10/12/2007
Rush
Set 1Limelight
Digital Man
Entre Nous
Mission
Freewill
The Main Monkey Business
The Larger Bowl
Secret Touch
Circumstances
Between The Wheels
Dreamline
Far Cry
Workin' Them Angels
Armor And Sword
Spindrift
The Way The Wind Blows
Subdivisions
Natural Science
Witch Hunt
Malignant Narcissism
Hope
Distant Early Warning
The Spirit Of Radio
Tom Sawyer
One Little Victory
A Passage To Bangkok
YYZ
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11/10/2007
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Set 1Bad Reputation
Cherry Bomb
Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah)
ACDC
Five
Naked
Fetish
I Love Rock And Roll
Crimson And Clover
I Hate Myself For Loving You
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03/25/2009
Machine Head
Set 1Clenching The Fists Of Dissent
Imperium
Halo
Beautiful Mourning
Descend The Shades Of Night
Davidian
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12/22/2013
Black Sabbath
Set 1War Pigs
Into The Void
Under The Sun
Snowblind
Age Of Reason
Black Sabbath
Behind The Wall Of Sleep
N.I.B.
End Of The Beginning
Fairies Wear Boots
Rat Salad
Drum Solo
Iron Man
God Is Dead?
Dirty Women
Children Of The Grave
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath /
Paranoid
Set 2
Set 3
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