By Drew Carrano
Remember when we all enjoyed going to live concerts? Wasn’t even that long ago, but it feels like forever.
While live concerts are on temporary hiatus due to the coronavirus outbreak, everyday we’ll look back at some of the great rock shows that came to our area.
Today’s Throwback Concert:
Queensrÿche
Hear In The Now Frontier Tour
Sunday August 3, 1997
The Meadows Music Theatre – Hartford (now The XFINITY Theatre)
About The Tour: Queensrÿche took to the road in the summer of 1997 to support its sixth studio album, Hear In The Now Frontier. Though the band saw great success in the early part of the decade, this particular album and tour didn’t have the same commercial success as Empire and Promised Land. This was Queensrÿche’s second time playing the venue formerly known as The Meadows Music Theatre. They previously played there in 1995. The Hartford show in ’97 featured a solid selection of songs, however just 5 of the 23 songs came off the new album. Interestingly both encore songs were two of those new songs.
Setlist*
- The Voice Inside
- Walk In The Shadows
- Empire
- Jet City Woman
- You
- Spreading The Disease
- The Mission
- I Am I
- Damaged
- Reach
- Bridge
- Another Rainy Night (Without You)
- Take Hold of the Flame
- The Lady Wore Black
- Silent Lucidity
- Della Brown
- Anarchy-X
- Revolution Calling
- Breaking The Silence
- I Don’t Believe In Love
- Eyes of a Stranger
- Sign of the Times (encore)
- Some People Fly (encore)
*source: setlist.fm
Watch: Queensryche 1997 Tour (full concert)