Alchemy Tour Reports - Japan / Korea

Japan Concerts - reported by Yoko Miyazaki

Nov. 24, 1999: Zepp-Fukuoka (standing room only). SET LIST: 1. Playing With Fire 2. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 3. Stand (The) 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Leonardo 6. Paganini - Adagio - Far Beyond The Sun 7. Guitar Solo 8. Dreaming 9. Bass Solo (Randy) 10. Legion of The Damned 11. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 12. Drums Solo (John) 13. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 14. Blue 15. Wield My Sword 16. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 17. Acoustic Guitar Solo 18. I Am A Viking. The sound balance was not good, vocal level is too low, and acoustic guitar sound had some trouble happen during the playing of "Dreaming," but audience feel big satisfaction with Yngwie's miracle playing and Mark's great vocals. Set list was wonderful but show time was not long enough for the thirsty audience. They think they want to hear some more old tunes from the "Trilogy" album.

Nov. 25, 1999: Osaka Koseinenkin Osaka. SET LIST: 1. Playing With Fire 2. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 3. Stand (The) 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Leonardo 6. Paganini - Adagio - Far Beyond The Sun 7. Guitar Solo - Smoke On The Water (Yngwie) - Guitar Solo 8. Dreaming 9. Bass Solo (Randy) 10. Legion of The Damned 11. Keyboard Solo (Mats) 12. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 13. Drums Solo (John) 14. Drums Battle (Yngwie vs John) 15. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 16. Blue 17. Wield My Sword 18. You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget 19. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 20. Acoustic Guitar Solo 21. I Am A Viking 22. Liar. This was the greatest show in this Japan tour. Yngwie's playing was so exciting, wonderful and unbelievable, all of the audience was knocked down by the complete (and much more thrilling) live renditions of full Alchemy tunes. It's becomes a legend already. Of course, the most wonderful story from the fans about this show was Yngwie's drum playing ( looks like Ian or Cozy) and Mark's tremendous vocal solo. Set list of old trilogy tunes makes fans very happy and excited; also the old Deep Purple tune "Smoke on the Water" (I guess it's a happening tune by Yngwie) makes the audience become so crazy. In addition this day's sound balance was wonderful.

Nov. 26, 1999: Nagoya-shi Kokaido Nagoya. SET LIST: 1. Playing With Fire 2. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 3. Stand (The) 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Leonardo 6. Paganini -"Ack Varmland du Skona" - (Swedish classic folk) Far Beyond The Sun 7. Guitar Solo 8. Dreaming 9. Legion of The Damned 10. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 11. Drums Solo (John) 12. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 13. Drums Battle (Yngwie vs. John) 14. Blue 15. Wield My Sword 16. You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget 17. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 18. Acoustic Guitar Solo 19. Liar. Special event is Yngwie playing "Ack Varmland du Skona" (Swedish classic folk) instead of Adagio; it's such a beautiful tune. Yngwie's playing was so great, but this day's audience was very quiet and shy. Yngwie was patient with this. Show was great. The drum battle didn't start after the Drum solo, but Yngwie and audience enjoy with great drum battle after the wonderful Vocal solo. The sound balance was not good enough , 2nd floor was much better, but it's not a matter of sound engineer I think.

Nov. 27, 1999: Shibuya-kokaido Tokyo. (sold out show) SET LIST: 1. Playing with Fire 2. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 3. Stand (The) 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Leonardo 6. Paganini - Adagio - Far Beyond The Sun 7. Guitar Solo (Kojyo No Tsuki) 8. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 9. Legion of the Damned 10. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 11. Drums Solo (John) 12. Drums Battle (Yngwie vs. John) 13. Dreaming 14. Blue 15. Wield My Sword 16. You don't remember I'll never forget 17. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 18. Acoustic G. Solo 19. Liar. This day's special event was Yngwie played a very beautiful Japanese tune "Kojyo No Tsuki" into the guitar solo, he played first stage just before 14 years before, very old fans feel so emotional enjoying the good memory. Some people say it's the best show that they ever saw Yngwie stage. The show time looks little bit short but band play is very tight, good combination, good sound and very good vocal voice. Yngwie played with no mistakes and wonderful high speed. Some audience members think they must buy the other remaining show ticket.

Nov. 29, 1999: Shibuya-kokaido Tokyo. SET LIST: 1. Rising Force 2. Playing with Fire 3. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 4. Stand (The) 5. Blitzkrieg 6. Leonardo 7. Paganini - Adagio - Far Beyond The Sun 8. Guitar Solo (Kojyo No Tsuki) 9. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 10. Legion of the Damned 11. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 12. Drums Solo (John) 13. Drums Battle (Yngwie vs. John) 14. Dreaming 15. Blue 16. Wield My Sword 17. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 18. Acoustic G. Solo 19. Liar. I was not there for this show but by the voice from audience, Yngwie play is very best and so wonderful. The only unhappy thing was Mark's voice condition was not good by the smoke machine makes very bad air on some tune and Yngwie get angry at "Wield My Sword" of miss-matched tempo with guitar and drum (and Vocal) but it's a very small trouble. The audience feels what a great composer Yngwie is and how great a singer Mark is. Randy and Mats are very good and John is powerful, too. Many fans think Mark is the most important band member for Yngwie; his great talent makes to enhance Yngwie's great songs and great playing.

Dec. 1, 1999: Izumity21 Sendai. SET LIST: 1. Playing with Fire 2. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 3. Stand (The) 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Leonardo 6. Paganini - Adagio - Far Beyond The Sun 7. Guitar Solo (Kojyo No Tsuki) 8. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 9. Legion of the Damned 10. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 11. Drums Solo (John) 12. Drums Battle (Yngwie vs. John) 13. Bass Solo (Randy) 14. Dreaming 15. Blue 16. Wield My Sword 17. You don't remember I'll never forget 18. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 19. Acoustic G. Solo 20. Liar. Small hall for this show but the audience was wonderful, very exciting show it was, very happy show. Bass solo comes back again, but no keyboard solo, "You don't remember" makes audience so emotional, they feel big satisfaction with this show and say big thanks to Yngwie for visiting such a small town.

Dec. 2, 1999: Kanagawa-Kenmin-Hall Yokohama. SET LIST: 1. Playing with Fire 2. Deamon Dance (7,405,926) 3. Stand (The) 4. Blitzkrieg 5. Leonardo 6. Paganini - Adagio - Far Beyond The Sun 7. Guitar Solo (Kojyo No Tsuki) 8. Vocal Solo "Nessun Dorma" (Mark) 9. Legion of the Damned 10. Asylum (Asylum - Sky Euphoria - Quantum Leap) 11. Drums Solo (John) 12. Drums Battle (Yngwie vs. John) 13. Bass Solo (Randy) 14. Burn 15. Dreaming 16. Blue 17. Wield My Sword 18. Hangar 18, Area 51 [encore] 19. Acoustic G. Solo 20. Liar. Last show had such emotional playing, Yngwie looks very exciting; his big effort to make good show was transmitted to the audience and everybody feels so excited. Yngwie gives to the fans extra thanks speech and big smile. Every thing was OK, the show was a complete success. This show's acoustic guitar playong of Yngwie was specially beautiful and emotional, it's so great.

Korea Concerts

From Hyun Kyung Kim -- Hi! How are you? First of all I live in Korea and I saw your concert here! That time was great and fantastic!!! because I have waited for your concert for 7 years... I had an great experience from your concert. May god bless you!!!

From Jimi Devillian -- Hi there... I personally thought your Korea tour was fantastic. Especially I loved the part where before you guys set off the fireworks, and prepared us by moving us all back. It was awesome that you guys considered the welfare of the audience, and warned us before the fireworks began. During the concert, the part where you guys silenced the acoustic guitar, without making the crowd mad, in reality all it did was boost up the adrenaline of the crowd. In conclusion the way you started and finished the concert was very well done, and I am sure I'm not the only one that thinks that also. Next time you have a Korea tour, I hope you have it in a bigger place so more people can attend. Good Job!