I honestly couldn't remember whether AIA was in there or not.
Ok, now I can confirm posts above saying you, sir, are a liar.. I knew they were going to play that one since you posted that "read between the lines" comment in the other thread..
First show wasn't even over yet, and people were already complaining about the set list. DTF never fails to deliver!!
While a few tweaks could have made it better, it is still pretty awesome overall. I&W alone makes it worthy, A Change of Seasons is awesome, and it is beyond wonderful to see Hell's Kitchen back in the live set. And you gotta love them finally playing The Bigger Picture.
If you had said, "they will play three songs from The Astonishing," I would have figured The Gift... and Our New World would be two of them. A Life Left Behind is a little surprising. While not one of my favorites, it's still a very good tune and a good inclusion.
This pretty much sums up my thoughts about what I've read in this thread..
I can understand the "oh, I wish they've played this one instead" kind of comments, but don't get why playing 'overplayed' songs (which they aren't -as some have said before, while having live staples like PMU, TSCO or AIA, DT lacks of that type of songs-), or not using video screens or tuning down just a half step (a totally needed thing for James... the man's 53 and he sings in Dream Theater ffs) would mean decisions to be upset about..
Actually, now that they've played TBP, there are only THREE songs they haven't played: "The Best of Times" (and we know why they haven't or never will play this one), "False Awakening Suite" (and they did use it as the intro tape for the AftR tour anyways) and "Surrender to Reason" (which I think it's a matter of time for them to play it)... And that's it.. I don't think there's any other band in the world that can say they've played the amount of different songs and thus diversity of music DT has played over the years.. But yeah, for some E is NE..
About the TA songs, ALLB is one of my favorites, although almost everything in that album is it.. As for the other two songs, I do like them too, although I'd have prefer something like Three Days, Ravenskill or The Path that Divides, but I'm cool with them anyways (after all I'm not seeing them this time -my brother is though, this very day!)..
In line with what I said above, I can't see how not playing a song from a 34-track album like TA would be doing an "omission" at all.. But what do I know?..
Ok, now, let's see those vids...