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Old 02-12-2017, 05:49 PM
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Re fans whining about stupid things: people who only post hating tweets are plain bullies to me. Noisy and vocal, but bullies nonetheless

With every tour they add more hits* to the basic setlist so WTF are they complaining about? There are less and less slots for the new songs or anything that hasn't been played to death since the LH tour. Are we crazy? WTH do they want? A static Greatest Hits setlist every night??? The average BJ setlist caters heavily to the regular fan, at least in the USA. Are they deaf or not, don't they hear Jon going on and on about having a new no.1 album, new hit songs, being lucky to have new material and don't have to rely only on the hits (whether it's true or not, it's what he believes). What band are they following?

Let's see, according to setlist.fm tour statistics, the new songs that were played almost every night for each album/tour where:

HAND = 6 songs (I'm counting Radio here since it was released prior to the album and has been played quite regularly since the HAND tour)
LH = 5 songs
TC = 3-4 songs depending on your definition of regular
WAN = 3 songs

It's easy to see that even if the new songs where real hits every time, the next tour they either stretch the setlist and make it to 3hrs every night to fit all the songs (old and newer hits, popular regulars and new songs) or they need at least few slots for the new songs because otherwise it wouldn't make sense to bill it as the *Insert New Album title here* tour.

recent hits* = songs that Jon loves and plays every night whether the album tanked or not or the actual song was ever heard on the radio
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