Associated album Reg Strikes Back Legs 3 End date June 10, 1989 | Start date 9 September 1988 No. of shows 87 in total Leg 3 | |
Elton John started the Reg Strikes Back tour in promotion of the album with the same name. It was his self-proclaimed comeback album, and his way of fighting back against bad press. It started on 9 September 1988 and ended on 10 June 1989.
Contents
Instrumentation
Elton does not play a grand piano on this tour, replacing it with a Roland RD-1000 digital piano, a mainstay of the Elton sound. Where Elton uses a Yamaha DCFIIISPRO concert grand piano with MIDI output on stage and has done since his switch to Yamaha pianos in 1993, the rack form of the RD-1000, the MKS20, has been in his rack ever since, and its bright, expressive pianos and warm electric pianos are part of Elton's live sound to this day.
Setlist
- Sixty Years On
- I Need You to Turn To
- The King Must Die
- Burn Down the Mission
- Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
- Have Mercy on the Criminal
- Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
- Tiny Dancer
- The Ballad of Danny Bailey
- I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues
- Philadelphia Freedom
- The Bitch Is Back
- Sad Songs (Say So Much)
- Kiss The Bride
- A Word in Spanish
- Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
- Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part Two)
- Nikita
- Daniel
- Rocket Man
- I Don't Wanna Go on with You Like That
- Candle in the Wind
- Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Your Song
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- I'm Still Standing
- Song for Guy
Tour band
References
Reg Strikes Back Tour Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA