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Location: Philadelphia, Pa. Venue: The Spectrum
Set list: Unknown Notes: Opening act for Deep Purple and Bad Company on the former's House of Blue Light tour. This show is completely unconfirmed. During this time, Queensr˙che was likely in a Philadelphia recording studio doing some pre-production for Operation: Mindcrime. Because of that, it is theoretically possible that they could have been added to the bill on this show in support of Deep Purple and Bad Company. I cannot confirm this, however. That said, keep in mind that during this period, the band was between management and booking agents, and Chris DeGarmo was doing the booking for Queensr˙che. So it is certainly a possibility he could have booked an "escape from the studio" gig for the band.
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Date: April 24, 1987
The trigger point for adding this date was discovering a ticket stub on eBay, which has Deep Purple on it. But the seller listed it as Deep Purple/Bad Company/Queensryche. After being contacted, the seller said he got that info from setlist.fm. While setlisf.fm is not very accurate, given the info on Queensryche's location at the time, I do find the date to be likely. Unfortunately, after contacting Dirk at the