#02:2012.10.06, Regina, SK - Brandt Centre, Canada,# SPOILER AHEAD #

[nababo]

Well I think it is the worst set list ever by MK.
I hope he changes a lot next Year

1. What It Is - too often heard
2. Cleaning My Gun - okay
3. Sailing to Philadelphia - too often, bad exchange with Yon two crows
4. Privateering - already heard in Europe
5. Redbud Tree - not my fave
6. I Used to Could - there are better blues tracks on the album
7. Song for Sonny Liston - okay, but...
8. Done with Bonaparte - oh no with all the same jokes??? 
9. I

[ferguitar]

Just a remark :
The tour that almost all fans call the best tour ever is the one with NO setlist changes :
The LOG tour : apart one song dropped, it was the same songs, in the same order with exactly same solos each night, and I think that most Will agree if I say that it was Mark at his best, don't you think ?

However, I would love if he'd go away from the routine these days

We can't never get satisfied, can't we ?  

The LOG tour is indeed great and a "dear" to the fans, but solely in terms of guitar playing (technic, fluency, ideas etc ) im pretty sure MK had his peek in the OES tour. The best in terms of guitar, not the best overall tour....
I love the 96 tour too, the last great MK tour. In fact i love all tours  , but since 2002 MK lost a lot.......(the albums are still ok...)

[herlock]

Just a remark :
The tour that almost all fans call the best tour ever is the one with NO setlist changes :
The LOG tour : apart one song dropped, it was the same songs, in the same order with exactly same solos each night, and I think that most Will agree if I say that it was Mark at his best, don't you think ?

However, I would love if he'd go away from the routine these days

We can't never get satisfied, can't we ?  

The LOG tour is indeed great and a "dear" to the fans, but solely in terms of guitar playing (technic, fluency, ideas etc ) im pretty sure MK had his peek in the OES tour. The best in terms of guitar, not the best overall tour....
I love the 96 tour too, the last great MK tour. In fact i love all tours  , but since 2002 MK lost a lot.......(the albums are still ok...)

Why last great tour ? The 2005 shangri-la tour feature top class guitar playing IMHO... Listen to TR in Lyon 2005 ! There was a speed drop in 2008, which was offset by increased emotion and clarity. 2010 was better, and 2011/2012 and hopefully 2013 looks like we are almost back to 2005 ! No ?

[JF]

Just a remark :
The tour that almost all fans call the best tour ever is the one with NO setlist changes :
The LOG tour : apart one song dropped, it was the same songs, in the same order with exactly same solos each night, and I think that most Will agree if I say that it was Mark at his best, don't you think ?

However, I would love if he'd go away from the routine these days

We can't never get satisfied, can't we ?  

The LOG tour is indeed great and a "dear" to the fans, but solely in terms of guitar playing (technic, fluency, ideas etc ) im pretty sure MK had his peek in the OES tour. The best in terms of guitar, not the best overall tour....
I love the 96 tour too, the last great MK tour. In fact i love all tours  , but since 2002 MK lost a lot.......(the albums are still ok...)

Why last great tour ? The 2005 shangri-la tour feature top class guitar playing IMHO... Listen to TR in Lyon 2005 ! There was a speed drop in 2008, which was offset by increased emotion and clarity. 2010 was better, and 2011/2012 and hopefully 2013 looks like we are almost back to 2005 ! No ?

I often read about the famous TR in Lyon 2005
well I was at this gig, and I don't remember especially some awesome TR this night.
The 96 versions have impressed me much more

the only thing that struck me in 2005 was that he played TR on the red strat ! at first I thought it was the '61 ! and I said OMG !

but it was only the day after I realized that it was (sadly) the sig model...

[herlock]

I often read about the famous TR in Lyon 2005
well I was at this gig, and I don't remember especially some awesome TR this night.
The 96 versions have impressed me much more

the only thing that struck me in 2005 was that he played TR on the red strat ! at first I thought it was the '61 ! and I said OMG !

but it was only the day after I realized that it was (sadly) the sig model...

Just go listen to it ! out-of-this-world end solo ! nothing to envy to '96 versions really.
In 2005 Mark was still able to play fast just like in 96...
The major dropped happened in 2008, improved a bit in 2010, and seems to be almost back to 2005 levels in 2011/12.
If only Mike could go to bed with his flute during some songs... in WII the flute over the guitar is just as irritating as Paul Franklin's pedal steal over TR in '92... out of place...

[dustyvalentino]

Flute is worst on Speedway, esp on the Simfy recordings where it is mixed very high and you can't hear Richard's wonderful crunchy chords. 

[dona74]

Flute is worst on Speedway, esp on the Simfy recordings where it is mixed very high and you can't hear Richard's wonderful crunchy chords. 

+100000000000000000 

[asouza]

Information's Guy Fletcher site

I'm the fool
Rocco Romenghi
Parma, Italy
13th October 2012

Hi Guy, could you please confirm 'I'm the fool' was played live few days ago in Regina? news is out in some forums, Best W    no

[Vesper]

I think this source for the setlist isn't right:
Only time STP is being played and I'm the Fool  instead of YTC and HFB:hmm
But we'll probably never know for sure

[tunnel85]

We'll find out after the tour. Terry usually provides the setlists.
Or maybe recordings will clarifiry.  
Ok, let's wait for TK

[Pottel]

Recordings WILL clarify...

[vgonis]

I'm not so sure.  I think he practised a lot in-between and wanted to make sure he played well during the BIA tour due to the sheer success the band was having at that time and the pressure they were under to perform at a high level.  He also had the chance to play with Chet in-between these tours too and maybe a little rubbed off?

On second thoughts: I am not sure if we should believe him, but Mark stated several times that he never anticipated the huge success of the BIA album. If you watch/listen to Mark & Ed interview on Sydney'86, you'll notice that Ed states about the tour that "... it just grew", and that it was not intended to be a huge tour from scratch. It seems that this success caught them by storm and that the pressure only came during the tour... what do you think ?

I think although lot of dates were added (UK december dates e.g.), the tour was always going to be a big one;  the band had been growing and growing since day one.  Even the LOG tour was big but you can tell by the venues chosen even early on in the tour e.g. Wembley Arena in '85 instead of Hammersmith Odeon in '83 that this one was going to be a biggie.

Surely some of them were added due to growing demand but a considerable number, surely had a second reason. Tax exile. I remember reading somewhere that they had to be away from UK, due to tax reasons (a law that gets less from the artists if they are away from homeland) so what a better way to play some concerts while on exile. The album really took off and since they weren't expecting it, they were not legally prepared to avoid heavy taxation and it was the only way.

[naif]

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[Pottel]

Mark Knopfler
Brandt Centre
Regina, Saskatchewan
October 6, 2012

01. What It Is
02. Cleaning My Gun
03. Sailing To Philadelphia
04. Privateering
05. Redbud Tree
06. I Used To Could
07. Song For Sonny Liston
08. band introduction
09. Done With Bonaparte
10. Hill Farmer's Blues
11. Haul Away
12. Miss You Blues
13. Marbletown

Band Members
Mark Knopfler - vocals, guitar
Jim Cox - keyboards, piano, accordian
John McCusker - violin, cittern
Glenn Worf - bass
Mike McGoldrick - flute, whistle and pipes, acoustic guitar
Ian Thomas - drums
Richard Bennett - guitar, steel guitar
Guy Fletcher - keyboards, guitar

source: soomlos
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[Jules]

So put Hill farmer blues when I