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StoneGold
11-30-2008, 10:52 PM
Basically, what bands have the best opening and closing numbers in a concert?

I'm watching the No Bull DVD, and AC/DC starting with Back in Black and finishing with For Those About To Rock is a hell of a tandem.
howyadoin
11-30-2008, 11:01 PM
Cheap Trick, with "Hello There" and "Goodnight".
J. Robb
11-30-2008, 11:39 PM
When I saw Motley Crue back during the "Dr. Feelgood" tour, they opened with "Kickstart My Heart" and finished the encore with "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)".
StoneGold
12-01-2008, 10:38 AM
Welcome to the Jungle to Paradise City is like it's own little journey.
howyadoin
12-01-2008, 10:56 AM
Welcome to the Jungle to Paradise City is like it's own little journey.Even by itself, "Welcome to the Jungle" is a journey. Or at least, the video is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRC4H64EFk
StoneGold
12-01-2008, 04:11 PM
Even by itself, "Welcome to the Jungle" is a journey. Or at least, the video is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYRC4H64EFk

True. But you get hick kid arrives in big town in the first song, begs to go back home in the last, and in between is a bunch of stuff about addiction like Mr. Brownstone. OK, the album wasn't exactly set up that way, but it should have been.
edhopper
12-01-2008, 04:30 PM
Bruce

Thunder Road - Born to Run
Spike-X
12-01-2008, 04:38 PM
Bruce

Thunder Road - Born to Run
I don't know that he's ever actually opened and closed the one show with those two particular songs. Did you see him do that one night? That would've been damn cool.
howyadoin
12-01-2008, 04:59 PM
True. But you get hick kid arrives in big town in the first song, begs to go back home in the last, and in between is a bunch of stuff about addiction like Mr. Brownstone. OK, the album wasn't exactly set up that way, but it should have been.Yeah, that works. In "Paradise" he's not really wanting to go back to Indiana, though - just to some mythic place where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.
StoneGold
12-01-2008, 05:07 PM
Yeah, that works. In "Paradise" he's not really wanting to go back to Indiana, though - just to some mythic place where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.

Well, if not back to Indiana exactly, then out of the Jungle/LA.
edhopper
12-01-2008, 05:08 PM
I don't know that he's ever actually opened and closed the one show with those two particular songs. Did you see him do that one night? That would've been damn cool.

Yep, Jacksonville Florida, 1975
Spike-X
12-01-2008, 05:14 PM
Yep, Jacksonville Florida, 1975
Just out of curiosity, do you have a date for that one? I can't find it on Brucebase.
Ontir
12-01-2008, 05:28 PM
My first concert was a triple bill of a Flock of Seagulls, the Fixx and the Police. It was an amazing day at Holleder Stadium, and a very fond memory!
KiFF86
12-01-2008, 07:01 PM
Foo Fighters- Long Road to Ruin/Everlong
STP- Big Empty/Interstate Love Song
twilight
12-01-2008, 07:10 PM
Not one I personally attended but the show that was recorded and became Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps.

I love that kind of bookending.

-Twi
edhopper
12-02-2008, 07:13 AM
Just out of curiosity, do you have a date for that one? I can't find it on Brucebase.

I was in college smoking weed, it's lucky I remember it was in Jacksonville:biggrin:
jesse_custer
12-02-2008, 07:48 AM
"Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who. A great album closer. A great concert closer.