With a new album on the way there would obviously need to be some space made for new songs, but if I were just working with the tracks already released up to this point, mine would probably look something like this:
Solar Confinement
Power Of The Sun
The Tower
Taking The Queen
Darkside Of Aquarius
Silver Wings
Innerspace
Chemical Wedding
Son Of A Gun
Firechild
Sacred Cowboys
The Magician
Kill Devil Hill
Book Of Thel
Tears Of The Dragon
Encore:
Eternal
A Tyranny Of Souls
Strange Death In Paradise
A nice spread of tracks drawing from all of his albums and a couple of B-sides, including the unofficial cowboy trilogy, “The Magician” (which was a surprisingly great live track in 1997), and the stunning ballad “Eternal”.
Yes, I skipped over some old favorites in favor of more deep cuts, but there are still plenty of crowd pleasers in there!
I’m a fan of slower, mistier openers (you don’t always have to run to the stage at the start of the show) and because Cyclops is a huge favorite of mine, it would be my dream opener. And then the song list just… evolves from there.
I loved your idea to open the encore with Eternal, so I just copied it from your list to mine. To me, Tyranny is an easy choice for the final song.
Edit: In 1998, King in Crimson was THE perfect second song on the list, but I could not do without Broken there.
