Favourite concert opener

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by MikeInNV

Rooms was done in the millennium shows.

Oh, was it? I knew "Whole Lotta Trouble" was, I wasn't sure about RoF.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by gssmith

I can see how GDW is the wrong vibe for a show. Doesn't really get the crowd on thier feet, but she is known as the witchy woman so it kind of has that vibe going on. It's kind of like the chain. Slower in the beginning, rocking at the end.

I loved that she opened her Bella Donna shows with a dark and menacing Gold Dust Woman. Not all openers have to be peppy; there's plenty of room in a set for those moments too. I regret not attending a Street Angel show, but I always think about how she could have opened her show with a truncated version of the song - just the first verse and chorus, then bust into Outside the Rain or some other upbeat song. Sometimes it's more dynamic and dramatic not to start off full force. If all cylinders fire right off the bat, where do you go from there? That's why I don't like Dreams being performed right after the The Chain; its a really downer, deflating all the energy that was built up from the opening song.

[Neal]

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I've long thought that 'Dreams' should come later in the set, too...