My 2 cents:
I am a bit puzzled and sad by the harshness of some of the comments. Ingrid, many, many thanks for posting the setlist in real time, this is very much appreciated, but why on earth do you want to write to Guy about disappointment ? He will not even be in his hotel room after the very first show of the tour, that he will have a message waiting already, from fans who did not even attend the show, to bash the tour right from start ?? Not very constructive IMHO.
Yes, this is not my #1 setlist; yes, I miss Border, Piper, and KOG in the same show as YTC. Yes, the hell with Sony Liston, can't understand what Mark finds great about this "song"... But "total disaster" ? "offensive"? we have not even heard the show yet, and we already use such radical words ??
Am I the only one to be glad that the milestones from my youth are still there ? to be joyful to still have the "usual suspects", which are gems to me: SOS, TR, BIA, SAN, MT, HFB, WII ?
Some of you speak as if everybody had heard or attended last year's US shows... come on ! we are just a smal bunch of geeks ! for the great majority of people who attended tonight's show, there were SIX NEW SONGS FROM THE NEW ALBUM ! not exactly what I would call a pale copy of the GL tour !!
So before I put ANY sort of judgment about tonight's show, I will wait until I hear it. Especially, I want to hear TR. I have high hopes: if Mark removed it from the Madrid show of the Super Deluxe Box, it was either to retire the song... or.... to improve it ! back to 2005 standards !
Com'on guys !! a little bit of optimism !
Cheers