Okay...
You KNOW I HAD to do it...so...
You should have been EXPECTING this:
My idea-as usual-is a little different, in that it includes both drummers both separately and together. Also nothing newer than a couple of songs from "12"
Set One:
(First three songs played by the current version of the band)
1) Behind the veil (or The Looking Glass)
2) This is the Life (or Lost Not Forgotten)
3) A Rite of Passage (or Forsaken)
(The stage goes almost completely black for a few seconds. Then when the lights come back up, Mangini is gone, and the lighting over his "space" is still very dim. James walks to the edge of the stage and says something about "welcoming back and old friend." The lights go up on a section of the stage that had been previously been dark and/or closed off, to reveal Portnoy sitting at a second drum kit. The next three songs are played with him, and they are:)
4) The Glass Prison
5) This Dying Soul
6) The Root of All Evil
(Portnoy makes a joke about not being able to play the rest of the show by himself. The lights go back up on Mangini back at his kit, and they play a drastically altered version of the next song---)
7) Repentance
(They skip most of the intro, and after James sings the main two verses and choruses, the band plays an instrumental section featuring the two drummers, concluding with about 4 or 5 minutes of "dueling" between "the two Mikes.")
8) The Shattered Fortress
~~~~Intermission~~~~~
1) Overture 1928
2) Just Let Me Breathe
3) The Ones Who Help to Set the Sun
4) The Count of Tuscany (with extended guitar solo)
5) Constant Motion
6) As I am
7) Piano/keyboard solo / Along for the Ride
8) A Change of Seasons
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Encore:
1) 6:00
2) A Fortune in Lies (or Afterlife)
3) Metropolis