When push came to shove, there were a handful of songs that The Red Devils always leaned on.
But if you were one of the lucky ones at Sully’s bar in Dearborn, Michigan, on Oct. 14, 1992, you heard the Devils tackle rarely played songs such as “Okie Dokie Stomp,” “Shake For Me” and “Sweet Little Angel.”
NoFightin.com looked at 13 available show setlists and calculated how many times songs were played during Red Devils shows (we are talking the prime years, 1992-94).
The results may be surprising! Here are the Top 7:
█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ She’s Dangerous (10)
█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Blackwater Roll (9)
█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Backstroke (8)
█ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Who Do You Love (8)
█ █ █ █ █ █ Devil Woman (6)
█ █ █ █ █ █ Shake Your Hips (6)
█ █ █ █ █ █ The Hook (6)
The band seemed to favor a wider variety of songs than what were found on “King King,” relying on mainstays “She’s Dangerous” and “Devil Woman” (and “Goin’ To The Church”).
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It’s a small sample size, but still cool to see some trends emerge.
NoFightin.com will continue to update this list as we are able to confirm more setlists. This list will focus on The Red Devils (and Blue Shadows, when appropriate) circa 1988-1994. Setlists from 13 and the 2017 reunion tour are a little more programmed, with much smaller sample sizes. So we’ll focus on the classic years.
Here are the shows we are drawing from:
- Sept. 1, 1992: Richmond, Virginia
- Sept. 4, 1992: Charlotte, N.C.
- Oct. 4, 1992: “Mountain Stage” radio show
- Oct. 13, 1992: Jake’s, Bloomington, Indiana
- Oct. 14, 1992: Sully’s, Dearborn, Michigan
- Nov. 30, 1992: King King, Hollywood
- Dec. 7, 1992: “Morning Becomes Eclectic” radio show
- April 5, 1993: Borderline, London
- May 3, 1993: “2 Meter Sessies” program
- June 3, 1993: King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow
- July 2, 1993: Davenport, Iowa
- July 16, 1993: Tower Records, London
- Nov. 30, 1993: OJC Cannix Lottum, The Netherlands
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