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The Mindcrime II set opens with a live action video accompanying the first two songs, "Freiheit Ouverture" and "Convict," and eventually kicks into gear when Tate takes the stage dressed in a slick business suite, gun in hand, and harassing a group of bar yuppies while belting out "I'm An American." Early highlights from the second set included a dynamic performance of "Hostage," which portrays the trial of Nikki 18 years earlier, as well as "Fear City Slide," which sounded far more powerful than the album version. As a matter of fact, the entire performance was much better than the album.

"The Chase" was done rather poorly, as both Ronnie James Dio's part as Dr. X and Geoff Tate's vocals were only presented via the big screen. It is understandable that RDJ could only make it to the Los Angeles performance, which is included in the Bonus Features, but the actual video they put together for this song looked unimpressive. "Murderer?" concluded with the second most shockingly violent scene of the show, as a dazed Nikki (Tate) eventually fires a blood-splattering bullet into the head of a tied-up Dr. X, while the ghost of Sister Mary looks on. The most shocking imagery, of course, was when Mary blew her own head off during the first set.

The Mindcrime II set ends very anti-climactically with the lackluster Tate-Moore ballad "All The Promises," which stands in stark contrast to the explosive "Eyes Of A Stranger" first set finale. They do settle the score when they come back out for killer encore performances of their Rage For Order classic "Walk in the Shadows" and Empire's "Jet City Woman," which brings the show's total running time to an impressive two and one-half hours. 

De gegevens:

Colour: NTSC
Aspect ratio: 16:9 en 4:3
Geluid concert: DD 5.1
Cover, labels en inlay: ja
Total runtime: 109 minuten
Runtime concert: 78 minuten

Setlist:

01. Freiheit Ouverture
02. Convict
03. I'm American
04. One Foot In Hell
05. Hostage
06. The Hands
07. Speed of Light
08. Signs Say Go
09. Re-Arrange You
10. The Chase
11. Murderer?
12. Circles
13. If I Could Change It All
14. An Intentional Confrontation
15. A Junkie's Blues
16. Fear City Slide
17. All the Promises
18. Walk in the Shadows (Encore)
19. Jet City Woman (Encore)