Extreme - "Thicker Than Blood" tour - Boston

[risingfarce]

Extreme
"Thicker Than Blood" tour ("Six")
Roadrunner (Allston, MA)
8/5/23


#Rebel
Decadence Dance (shortened)/It ('s A Monster)
Rest In Peace
Hip Today
First lp medley: Teacher's Pet/Flesh 'n' Blood/Wind Me Up/Kid Ego/We Will Rock You (first verse and chorus)/Play With Me
Tragic Comic (shortened)/Hole Hearted
Other Side Of The Rainbow
Banshee
Drop Dead Legs (Van Halen cover) (intro)
Cupid's Dead (shortened) ("What's The Buzz")
Am I Ever Gonna Change
Midnight Express
More Than Words
Take Us Alive / That's All Right (Elvis cover)
Flight Of The Wounded Bumblebee
Get The Funk Out

Encore:
Small Town Beautiful (shortened)/Song For Love (shortened)
Rise



Living Colour

Middle Man
Go Away
Memories Can't Wait (Talking Heads cover)
Ignorance Is Bliss
This Little Pig
Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince cover)
Rock And Roll (Led Zeppelin cover)
Elvis Is Dead
Type
Cult Of Personality



Excellent show. Extreme is always great in concert. High energy. Band was tight. Lead vocals and backgrounds/harmonies were excellent. That was my 7th time seeing them, the first being a year before the first lp was released.

Large crowd. Very into the show.

The venue, Roadrunner, is a great place to see a show. The venue opened last year. Modern. Great sound. Clean. No bad sight lines. 3,500 capacity. General admission.

Living Colour were good, but I don't really know them. I only know "Cult Of Personality" and "Open Letter (To A Landlord)", which sadly wasn't performed. Didn't need to hear any cover songs from them. They went over well.


Go see this tour if they're near you.

[JizzySynatra]

Saw Ween at Roadrunner last fall and it's a great venue. Strange setlist from Living Colour. Three covers and no Glamor Boys, Open Letter, or Love Rears Its Ugly Head.

[Anthrax442]

Sweet, they're playing Hip Today.

Looks like Living Colour is mixing things up from a night to night basis, if you go check their recent setlists.

[LAglamrocker]

So all good songs were shortened and melody garbage?

Kiss fans give this a thumbs. up
Next two months is maybe best months ever for hair metal shows in LA area- it’s actually unbelievable
So easy to pass on this tour

[Mister Freeze]

When was the last time Extreme played "Stop the World" live? That song got more MTV play than 75% of that setlist. It's sort of forgotten now.

Looks like they've disowned "Mutha" too, which is more understandable.

[Nobodyspecial]

When was the last time Extreme played "Stop the World" live? That song got more MTV play than 75% of that setlist. It's sort of forgotten now.

Looks like they've disowned "Mutha" too, which is more understandable.

Mutha was pre Nuno so he doesn't like to play it.

[uwec95]

I'm really looking forward to seeing this show in Milwaukee. I wish Living Colour was playing a little longer set, though.

[Spongie]

Looks like they've disowned "Mutha" too, which is more understandable.

Brilliant! Omit your best song.

[Nobodyspecial]

Looks like they've disowned "Mutha" too, which is more understandable.

Brilliant! Omit your best song.

Nuno doesn't want to play it as he wasn't involved in writing it.

https://youtu.be/ma4dcGQAkCM

[DemonFilth2001]

Looks like they've disowned "Mutha" too, which is more understandable.

Brilliant! Omit your best song.

Nuno doesn't want to play it as he wasn't involved in writing it.

https://youtu.be/ma4dcGQAkCM

Still. They only have a few decent songs. Gotta play Mutha

[Nobodyspecial]

Brilliant! Omit your best song.

Nuno doesn't want to play it as he wasn't involved in writing it.

https://youtu.be/ma4dcGQAkCM

Still. They only have a few decent songs. Gotta play Mutha

Oh I agree 100% It's my favorite song of theirs too, but Nuno the diva doesn't wanna play it so we don't get it.

[jorge]

I like Vernon as media head and those first 3 albums are great. But I've never heard a guitarist whose tone gets worse and worse over the years

[JizzySynatra]

Mutha is good musically, but those lyrics are so awful that I don't blame them for not playing it anymore.

[tooth]

Roadrunner is meh, at best.
Pros - sight lines, sound/pa, big stage plenty of room for stage dressing
Cons - While it's in "Boston", it's kinda in no mans land. No public transportation & it takes forever to get out of the garage. Not great cell service. You can't go out for air/smoke/vape. No food, for a 3500 seater I should be able to get hot dog & a bag of chips, at least. The only somewhat comfortable seats are upstairs in the back where you can't see the stage. Other than that you can sit on cement bleachers up in the back. The security is drunk with power/heavy handed and will toss you for so much as looking at them wrong.
Also, they have a midnight curfew so they can keep you there even longer, if they want. That place was built strictly to make you spend cash at the bar & nothing more.

[BootyDaddy69]

This tour is coming to Australia next month (not cancelled hahahaha), ticket prices are way too high so giving it a miss

[PBFSUCKS]

Nuno got that Ozempic face going on in that video.

[uwec95]

I just saw this show in Milwaukee last night. Both bands were awesome. Living Colour had a good setlist, better than the one posted, and sounded great. Corey can still sing his ass off, Vernon is still great, but their rhythm section is really what's impressive. Extreme was really, really good as well. They look and sound great. Their setlist was about two hours long, and they really spread out the albums that they dive into. Gary sounded really good, the rhythm section brought it, and Nuno is still a guitar god. It was a really fun show, I highly recommend checking it out if you get a chance.

[crowes74]

Seen the Gary In show the other night. Great time with two of the better bands from “my high school era” still standing.
I’ve seen Living Colour in recent years but first I’ve seen Extreme since the Punchline tour. Both still great live!
The LC setlist was weak compared to some other ones off this tour, extreme mostly keeps it the same from show to show.
Personally, I’d like have heard a couple more of the new songs, but thrilled to hear the songs we got. Those guys have aged well.

Will gladly go see them next time around (hopefully not 4 hours away).

[REO Cokewagon]

Seen the Gary In show the other night. Great time with two of the better bands from “my high school era” still standing.
I’ve seen Living Colour in recent years but first I’ve seen Extreme since the Punchline tour. Both still great live!
The LC setlist was weak compared to some other ones off this tour, extreme mostly keeps it the same from show to show.
Personally, I’d like have heard a couple more of the new songs, but thrilled to hear the songs we got. Those guys have aged well.

Will gladly go see them next time around (hopefully not 4 hours away).

U came all the way up for this show? That's fucked up. Dont they have any shows in St Louis or southern Indy or some shit??

Did u spend the night at a hotel or did u drive back the same night?

[LAglamrocker]

Only awesome Extreme cd is the first
Living Colour always sucked
Larry Bird likes Fasterpussy Cat

[risingfarce]

Seen the Gary In show the other night. Great time with two of the better bands from “my high school era” still standing.
I’ve seen Living Colour in recent years but first I’ve seen Extreme since the Punchline tour. Both still great live!
The LC setlist was weak compared to some other ones off this tour, extreme mostly keeps it the same from show to show.
Personally, I’d like have heard a couple more of the new songs, but thrilled to hear the songs we got. Those guys have aged well.

Will gladly go see them next time around (hopefully not 4 hours away).

I would have liked to have heard "Here's To The Losers", "Beautiful Girls", and all of "Small Town Beautiful".

In an interview Nuno mentioned wanting to play "Thicker Than Blood" and "X Out". I don't dislike anything on the new cd, but those two are at the bottom of my list.