i could too.... IF they were playing more stuff from KTF or the first 4 albums to compensate

Jon won't check the message boards personally (at least not regularly - he might be an occasional visitor) - Thierry upped a little speech from Japan where he was talking about the fans complaining on the websites and played in these arms (as if that is a rare song)...

personally i think it would be cool if jon visited these boards because despite people's passionate arguments, they do all like the band for one reason or another and are more honest than on backstage/BJ.com etc... where it may as well be heavily censored (if it isn't already - i never post on there just read sometimes)...

perhaps the problem with 2000/2002 is that the band are only hearing "yes-men" in record companies and management etc telling them what they are doing is amazing and the best stuff they have ever done, then they check the official message boards and hear the same things...

good or bad songs - the crowd at a concert will cheer rather than boo

so they have the impression it's what everyone wants - and while i know many do... some don't - and it's at least good if the band knows this so they can decide what to do themselves...

david coverdale, glenn hughes amongst many others communicate with their fans personally, and at the concerts talk to them on a name basis because they communicate so often and are genuinely "friends" - while coverdale's MSG board is very "i'm a yes-man" in person people tell them the honest truth and they genuinely do what ever the fans tell them to do... they are performers, they have pride in all the albums they do...

i don't see it as an insult to say the band should play homebound train instead of captain crash - because i am actually complementing them on how brilliant a song homebound train is and how well-recorded and excellent the musicianship is on it...