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Ballbreaker tour Opening night
I was looking at the set list and I noticed that they played 23 songs that night. My question is how long was that show?
Well, let me see... The 2-CD Live album is 23 songs (24 in the original Japanese issue) and it's 2 hours 16 minutes. Add in about 5 minutes for the Beavis & Butthead film, about three minutes for in between song banter and encore crowd noise, and you have about 2 hours 24 minutes. Now a two and a half hour set is a long thing.
Wow. I wonder why they played a longer set on this night? Since they usually play a two hour set.
My guess is that they were feeling out the crowd for reactions to the songs they played. Who Made Who was cut completely from the set list after this show, and other songs were put in different orders. They were still changing the order half way through the tour.
Also, it was Phil's first live gig back with the band in over 10 years. They probably wanted to give the crowd a good indication that, no offense to Chris Slade, Phil really was the drummer for the band.