Megadeth, Motorhead & the rest of Gigantour hit the Theatre at Madison Square Garden (pics/vid/setlists)

January 31, 2012

Megadeth‘s Gigantour set played like most of their festival appearances of the past year- a greatest hits of their career with a few surprises peppered in. As longtime fans of Megadeth, their catalog of songs are all extremely solid live. But while the band never disappoints, we feel fortunate that Megadeth still exists at all considering all that Mustaine and the boys have been through physically and emotionally over the past decade. At around nine thirty the stage went dark and Shawn Drover’s unmistakable drum beats crashed for the opener “Trust,” from the ‘Cryptic Writings’ album. “Trust,” albeit not as hard as the rest of their catalog is a perfect opener…

At one point Mustaine had Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia come out on stage to sing, “À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)” with him. It was a fantastic duet of a classic, and the first time I’ve ever seen Mustaine sing with a female. Besides being one of the best shredders in the business, this dude can harmonize with the best of them. Along with these rare on stage moments, fans got the red meat they wanted with staples such as, “Hanger 18″, “Wake Up Dead,” and “Symphony of Destruction,” all of which were played to perfection. -[Local Bozo]

Gigantour, which continues at Glens Falls Civic Center tomorrow night (2/1), rolled into NYC on Saturday (1/28) at The Theatre at Madison Square Garden with apperances from Megadeth, the legendary Motorhead, Lacuna Coil and Volbeat. Pictures/setlists from that show (sans shots of Lacuna Coil, though there are some of Cristina on stage with Dave) are in this post. More of them with some videos, the setlists and all dates, below….

Volbeat

Volbeat

Motorhead

Motörhead – Killed By Death/Ace of Spades/Overkill [New York City] 01.28.12

Megadeth

Megadeth – Hangar 18 [Live @ Madison Square Garden, NY – 01/28/2012]

Megadeth – Holy Wars (live)

MEGADETH SETLIST (via)
TRUST
WAKE UP DEAD
HANGAR 18
SWEATING BULLETS
ANGRY AGAIN
PUBLIC ENEMY No. 1
WHOSE LIFE (IS IT ANYWAYS?)
GUNS DRUGS AND MONEY
A TOUT LE MONDE with Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil
SYMPHONY of DESTRUCTION
PEACE SELLS in the middle of the song the band stops and Dave Mustaine tells the crowd it’s his daughter’s 20th birthday and they do a Happy Birthday song for her.
HOLY WARS Dave Mustaine mentions ” This is our last song and says “if this was L’amour we would play all night”

MOTORHEAD SETLIST
BOMBER
DAMAGE CASE
I KNOW HOW TO DIE
METROPOLIS
OVER THE TOP
THE CHASE IS BETTER THAN THE CATCH
THE ONE TO SING THE BLUES
DRUM SOLO
GOING TO BRAZIL
KILLED BY DEATH
ACE OF SPADES
OVERKILL

VOLBEAT SETLIST
The Human Instrument
Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
The Mirror and the Ripper
Sad Man’s Tongue
Hallelujah Goat
Fallen
I Only Want to Be with You (Dusty Springfield cover)
Pool of Booze, Booze, Booza
Still Counting
Raining Blood (Slayer cover) (Partial)

GIGANTOUR – 2012 TOUR DATES
Wed 2/1 Glens Falls, NY Glens Falls Civic Center
Thu 2/2 Quebec City, QC Colisee Pepsi Arena
Fri 2/3 Montreal, QC Bell Centre
Sun 2/5 Kingston, ON K-Rock Centre
Tue 2/7 Oshawa, ON General Motors Centre
Wed 2/8 Hamilton, ON Copps Coliseum
Thu 2/9 Auburn Hills, MI Palace of Auburn Hills
Fri 2/10 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
Sun 2/12 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Ballroom
Tue 2/14 St. Paul, MN Myth
Thu 2/16 Saskatoon, SK Prairieland
Fri 2/17 Edmonton, AB Shaw Conference Centre
Sat 2/18 Calgary, AB Big 4 Building
Mon 2/20 Abbotsford, BC Abbotsford Ent & Sports Centre
Tue 2/21 Kent, WA Showare Center
Thu 2/23 San Jose, CA Events Center
Fri 2/24 Universal City, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
Sat 2/25 Phoenix, AZ Comerica Theatre Sun
2/26 Albuquerque, NM Tingley Coliseum
Tue 2/28 Denver, CO The Fillmore Auditorium