Here's the setlist for Saturday night's concert of Billy Idol and his band at the Las Vegas House of Blues on Saturday, March 26th, 2016. Idol and his very solid band played about 100 bands. His band is his longtime guitarist Steve Stevens, bassist Stephen McGrath, guitarist Billy Morrison, drummer Erik Eldenius and keyboardist Paul Trudeau. Morrison wore a Sigue Sigue Sputnik shirt at Saturday's concert as he does here in the publicity shot at http://billyidol.net/band/ I hadn't thought of that band for years. I listened to some of their music last night on Youtube and none of their songs rang a bell. But it was still a nice old school touch.
The House of Blues is a nice, intimate place to see a concert. However we had general admission tix- read standing. We stood about 45 minutes before the show even started and then 100 minutes during the show. My old body isn't built for that. I know it isn't very rock and roll, but it is what it is.
First here are some of the songs that Idol and his band didn't play: "Catch My Fall", "Cradle of Love", "Endless Sleep", "Flesh For Fantasy", "Romeo's Waiting" and "Daytime Drama".
Setlist:
1) "Shock To The System":
2) "Dancing With Myself"- in which he invited Las Vegas to dance with them.
3) "Pumping On Steel":
4) "Can't Break Me Down":
5) "The Untouchables":
6) "Sweet Sixteen" which Billy Idol introduced with this story:
I was always under the impression that Sweet Sixteen was just another lust song by Idol, until a recent replay of AT40 featured the story origins of the song that hit No. 20 in 1987. The story of Sweet Sixteenwas inspired by the tale of Edward Leedskalnin and his Coral Castle in Florida. Besides Casey Kasem's account, the Coral Castle was also featured on the syndicated program "In Search Of" hosted by Leonard Nimoy and it was that episode in 1981 that fascinated Idol and inspired Sweet Sixteen.
Edward Leedskalnin was a Latvian millionaire who was jilted by his 16-year fiancée one day before their wedding day in 1913. After his rejection, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and moved to the warmer climate of Florida City, Florida and decided to build a castle for his lost love. He pronounced himself cured from disease after discovering the secret properties of magnets and over the next 28 years he constructed his castle, made mostly of corral reef, in secret. The marvel is how Leedskalnin, a meek man who was five foot tall and weighed only 100 lbs, was able build by himself The Coral Castle with of over 1,000 tons of stone/reef (some stones weighed 30 tons individually). The nine-ton gate to the castle was so precisely calibrated that even a child could open the gate with the touch of a finger.
The partially built castle was moved from Florida City to Homestead in 1931 and is still a popular tourist attraction in south Florida. Leedskalnin took his secret to his grave in 1951 and made claims he knew the secrets of how the pyramids were built and the secrets of Atlantis. (Thanks to Kevin Wuench at the Tampa Bay Times.)
7) Steve Stevens solo
8) "Eyes Without A Face"- which obviously mentions Las Vegas
9) "LA Woman"
10) Another Steve Stevens solo- he includes snippets from The Moody Blues and a couple of Zeppelin songs.
11) "Don't Need A Gun" (Extended)
12) "Whiskey and Pills":
13) "Blue Highway"- which featured yet another Stevens solo. Someone please stop the madness.
14) "Rebel Yell" (Extended- yet again) Idol lead the crowd on chants of "Do you feel alright? I feel all right" and then we would repeat the "I feel alright" - or something similar to that. Thankfully the sound was much better than the video shows below.
Encore
15) "White Wedding"- which starts out acoustic:
16) Drum solo- please no more solos!
17) "Mony Mony"- yet another song extended, and not for the better:
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