Originally Posted by jovifan85

As Jon and the Band have got older, you don't see the world as you did when they first started out.

Jon has changed the type of Music he now makes, due to age but also perspective. His voice is a liability, on the old stuff, but an asset as he can sound different now, compared when he was younger and screaming and hitting the high notes all the time. That couldn't go on forever, even if he didn't damage his voice, it's about finding a medium and Jon has found that.

From time to time he can still hit a high note, see LYHOM, in Toronto 2017, AMAZING for his age, but he can't sustain that for 12 songs on a album, or doing that all the time live, as he will have no vocals left.

Hence, what we see in reduced tours, and omitting certains songs on tours, to help preserve what he has left.

Interesting if we ever see "Blaze of Glory" ever again, certainly that hasn't been sung since 2011, but I am not ruling it out, as I didn't expect we see "Always" again.