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Originally Posted by Thomas S
Hate to break it to you, but it's not realistic. Vocally, maybe Jon could pull it off. But I'm pretty sure that he'll refuse to drop LH, WSYCGH, Sleep, WGIGO, WWBTF etc.
If he just played 1 or 2 of those songs every show it would leave room for some awesome, yet terribly under-played gems like you've suggested. It's a shame that he insists on playing the same songs every night.
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I think the main problem with the setlists of the current tour is that they only include half of the big hits. Last night, I wondered if there was actually a way to make both casuals and die-hards happy and came up with an idea, which, if you guys don't mind, I'd like to share with you. It concerns the contents of the setlists. From a fan's point of view, you want to hear the classics and a few hidden gems, and I think this is absolutely possible.
If I were Jon, I would compile two pools of songs - one with the classics that should be played
every night without exception and another one with the album cuts which could be rotated each night, somethink like this:
Pool A - The Classics (I'm writing them in chronological order for more convenience):
1. Prayer
2. Bad Name
3. Wanted
4. Bad Medicine
5. I'll Be There For You
6. Blaze Of Glory
7. Keep The Faith
8. Bed of Roses
9. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
10. Always
11. This Ain't a Love Song
12. It's My Life
13. EveryDay
14. Have a Nice Day
15. Make a Memory
16. Superman Tonight
+ 3 songs from the new record - e.g: the title track, born again tomorrow & roller coaster.
In a mixed running order, this set will contain 19 songs. Now, if we assume that an average set contains 24 songs, Jon can put 5 different songs each night and select those 5 songs from:
Pool B - the album cuts, fan favorites and Jon's favorites:
1. Die for You
2. Lay Your Hands on Me
3. Wild is The Wind
4. Blood on Blood
5. I Believe
6. In These Arms
7. Dry County
8. Hey God
9. These Days
10. Something to Believe In
11. Hey God
12. Next 100 years
13. Undivided
14. I am
15. Any other day
16. Love's the only rule
17. I'm with You
18. That's What the Water made Me
19. We Don't Run
20. Lost Highway (Jon's favorite)
21. WGIGO (Jon's favorite & crowd pleaser)
22. who says (Jon's favorite & a hit in the U.S.)
23. captain crash (Jon's favorite)
24. Sleep (Jon's favorite & fun song live)
Assuming that:
1. the songs from pool A are played every night
2. the 3 thinfs songs are changed with another 3 songs from the same record each night
and
3. jon picks 5 random songs from pool B and those 5 songs are different each night,
then we can conclude that:
1. casual fans will be happy because they will hear ALL the hits
2. multiple concert visitors will be happy because they could
potentially be getting up to 8 different songs from the previous show (5 new picks from pool B + 3 different tracks from the new album)
3. die-hards will be happy because this setlist structure would allow Jon to throw them a bone or two per night (dry county one night, something to beieve in on the next, etc).
4. the setlists will vary from night to night, keeping things fresh.
The band will have to rehearse 52-53 songs in total, which should not be a problem considering that they played 70+ different song on the European 2011 tour.
What do you all think? I know Jon may struggle with a lot of those songs but if we put this aside, would you all be happy if the setlist were built on a basis like this one?