MARTY FRIEDMAN was able to fit in one more song than TRAUMA. Despite his seven song set being all instrumental, he had the crowd hooked from the opening chords of "Stigmata Addiction".

Friedman leaned heavily on material from his first Japanese solo album Loudspeaker. For his MEGADETH fans, Marty covered "Tornado of Souls". For those that have followed Friedman from his Shrapnel Records shredder days, he unloaded with "Dragon's Kiss".

QUEENSRYCHE did not come to play ‘the hits' with this round of touring. They came to promote their highly-praised, old-school tinged album Digital Noise Alliance. "Behind The Walls", "In Extremis", "Sicdeth", and "Forest" were not only recreated live from the album recording, but they fit in flawlessly with the band's song legacy.

QUEENSRYCHE also visited many deep tracks from their 1984 full elngth debut The Warning. Current vocalist Todd La Torre's voice inflected the band's past vocalist, while putting his own powerful stamp on the material. La Torre's era with the band was honored beyond the current album with "Don't Look Back" and "Light-Years" .

Now I know that I said this wasn't a 'hits' set, but of course there were some of QUEENSRYCHE's most well-known songs in the set list. "Jet City Woman" and "Empire" both triggered the crowd to sing as expected. What was unexpected was the omission of the biggest single from that album.

It didn't really matter what songs QUEENSRYCHE pulled from Operation: Mindcrime, because every song is a classic with fans. QUEENSRYCHE went to the deep cut well for their 3 song encore that left the crowd excited and perfectly aligned.

Setlist:

• "Behind the Walls"
• "Don't Look Back"
• "Child of Fire"
• "En Force"
• "Spreading the Disease"
• "In Extremis"
• "Light-Years"
• "Sicdeth"
• "Forest"
• "Jet City Woman"
• "Empire"
• "My Empty Room"
• "Eyes of a Stranger"
• "Deliverance"
• "Queen of the Reich"
• "Roads to Madness"