Setlist & Support Acts 1995




  • Setlist:

  • Spotlight Kid
  • Too Late For Tears
  • Long Live Rock'n'Roll
  • Hunting Humans
  • Wolf To The Moon
  • Difficult To Cure
  • Still I'm Sad
  • Man On The Silver Mountain
  • Temple Of The King
  • Black Masquerade
  • Ariel
  • Since You Been Gone
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Hall Of The Mountain King
  • Burn
  • Smoke On The Water
  • Black Night

  • Setlist Rarities/Rumours:

  • "Stand And Fight" was played in Helsinki
  • A short version of "Catch the Rainbow" was played in Munich
  • "Hey Joe" was played with adlib vocals about O.J. Simpson a few times as encore
  • "Love Hurts" was played a few times as encore
  • "Mistreated" was played a few times as encore
  • Traditional adlib songs like "Waltzing Mathilda" in many shows
  • A short version of "Rainbow Eyes" was played a few times (without Ritchie)
  • In Japan "Black Night" was no longer an encore but put early in the set
  • "Stone Cold", "Street Of Dreams", "Maybe Next Time" played a few times as encores in Japan
  • "Smoke On The Water" early in the set on the last two shows of the tour (Yokohama & Tokyo)




  • Support Acts Europe :

  • Thunder
      Thunder are an English hard rock band, who originally formed in 1989 when the band Terraplane broke up, leaving lead singer Danny Bowes and guitarist/main songwriter Luke Morley to form a new group. Thunder was originally going to be support for the complete European tour but they pulled out and by the time of the second gig, they were replaced by Milky.
  • Milky
      Milky is a Scandinavian band who replaced Thunder as support act after the first date in Helsinki. Milky did all the other dates on the European tour in 1995.
  • The Jackie Lynton Band
      London singer Jackie Lynton who started out as an early Rock n Roll type in the 60's. In the early he joined 70's Savoy Brown. After that he formed The Jackie Lynton Band and played since then above all on the Pub-Rock circuit. The Jackie Lynton Band was support act on both the London dates.
  • Support Act Japan:

  • Valentine D.C.
      Valentine D.C. is a rock band from Japan. Originally formed as Valentine they added the DC as in Washington DC. They were like Rainbow on the BMG Victor label. Valentine D.C. was the support act on all Japanese dates in 1995.