#01 - 1988/10/31 - RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, Ireland
Location: RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin, Ireland
Capacity: 6.500
Attendance: -
Support Act: Lita Ford
Setlist:
01. Lay Your Hands On Me
02. You Give Love A Bad Name
03. Runaway
04. Homebound Train
05. Wild In The Streets
06. Born To Be My Baby
07. Wild Is The Wind
08. Wanted Dead Or Alive
09. Living In Sin
10. Blood On Blood
11. 99 In The Shade
12. Livin’ On A Prayer
Encore I:
13. Young Blood
14. Bad Medicine
Encore II:
15. I Don’t Wanna Go Home
16. The Boys Are Back In Town
17. Street Fighting Man
18. It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll)
19. Long Tall Sally
Notes:
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The start of the band’s massive New Jersey Syndicate world tour! Jon later recalled an interview right before the show where he was asked why they were already back on the road: “At first I thought ‘what a stupid question’. It was only much later that I realized the interviewer had been right.”
- It's their first ever tour visit in Ireland.
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As can be seen on Access All Areas, the show was filled with technical issues and it seemed that sometimes, the band had no monitors either. They had a long and loud argument in dressing rooms afterwards. Meanwhile, audience interviews right afterwards showed a very different perception.
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Probably because of that, the entire encore section got incredibly weird, with 6 out of 7 songs being covers.
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Young Blood, Street Fighting Man and It’s A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘n’ Roll) were most likely played for the first and the last time ever.
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It’s hard to decipher whether the band wanted to make up for the show’s shortcoming by playing on and on or if they got cynical and just did whatever they wanted to do at some point. After the last song, there was a moment of silence, then a quick “good night” by Jon and the band was off stage.
Some vids from that night (not mine):