Sully and the boys of Godsmack made good on their promise to bring their “Best of Times World Tour” back to Camden, NJ and the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion after Mother Nature and a severe storm had other plans earlier this summer. This time around they brought their Boston-area brothers in Extreme along with them.
Extreme is touring in support of their brand-new album SIX that was released back in June. They had been on the road most of the summer with Living Colour on their “Thicker Than Blood 2023 Tour”. They had so much fun on the tour, that they added another leg of it set to kick-off in 2024, with a stop at the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City on Saturday January 27th.
Godsmack is touring in support of their 8th, and possibly final, studio album Lighting Up the Sky, released earlier this year via BMG. And though this show was the last night of Godsmack’s 2023 tour, Sully mentioned from the stage that the band would be back on the road as early as February of 2024 with a whole new show and tour.
Highlight of the night, and quite possibly the whole tour, was Godsmack and Extreme teaming up for a blazing rendition of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”, which you can view here.
Godsmack “Best of Times World Tour” @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion setlist
When Legends Rise
1000hp
Cryin’ Like a Bitch
What About Me
Surrender
You and I
Awake
Red, White & Blue
Voodoo
Batalla de los Tambores (Included Back In Black, Walk This Way, Enter Sandman, Moby Dick, and Tom Sawyer in the medley.)
Whatever
Highway to Hell (AC/DC cover) with Extreme
Encore:
Under Your Scars (In dedication to Godsmack’s nonprofit the “Scars Foundation,” and the rockers who have passed away.)
Bulletproof
I Stand Alone
Extreme “Thicker Than Blood Tour 2023” @ Freedom Mortgage Pavilion setlist
It (‘s a Monster)
Comfortably Dumb
Decadence Dance
#REBEL
Am I Ever Gonna Change
Play With Me (Intro’d with Queen’s “We Will Rock You”)
Midnight Express
More Than Words
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine (James Brown cover)
Cupid’s Dead (with Nuno playing a bit of Van Halen’s “Eruption” in the middle of the song)
Flight of the Wounded Bumblebee / Get the Funk Out
RISE