re: Have You ever been to a concert where they played the same song twice?

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1985 in Monroe, Bon Jovi opening for Ratt. started with Runaway and ended with it.

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Setlist.fm does not reflect that. It shows:

Tokyo Road
Breakout
Only Lonely
In and Out of Love
Runaway
I Don't Want to Go Home
(Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes cover)
Get Ready

Monroe 1985 setlist

I looked it up because I saw that tour in Shreveport and did not recall a double.

I think they did it on that entire tour

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Unless it is a segue, it’s hard to believe a band would actually do this.

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About 30 years ago I went and saw that New Wave band Big Country in New Orleans on the USS Riverboat. They ended up kind of being a one hit wonder type band. But anyway , yeah they played their hit song “in a Big Country” twice that night, once in the regular set, and once as part of their encore.

I heard that Percy Sledge would do “When a Man Loves a Woman” twice in his shows, but it could be urban legend. I never saw him play.

But I did go through the breakfast buffet with him and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee at a hotel in Natchez one hungover Saturday morning.

Percy said something about meeting Bill Clinton and how he played sax. Huckabee plays something (bass?). Percy asked, “What’s up with all you governors playing music?”

Brush with fame.

I was fully expecting it last night, won tickets to see John Cafferty at the Stone Pony. When he played On the Dark Side the third some in, I fully expected to hear it again and surprisingly did not