[Dave88]

Originally Posted by TwinFan

If that's the case, seeing I Am and Love Me Back To Life on there is quite interesting. Now THAT would be a setlist shakeup

I think most of the songs have been on that sheet for ages, like a list inherited from the previous tours with just the new songs added... so it's not an indication of what they have rehearsed recently.

There's stuff they would never ever play in this tour, like Something to Believe In, Hardest Part, Tokyo Road just to name a few...

Anyway, interesting to see some "obscure" never played live songs like Into the Echo and Learn to Love in there.

[symbeline]

Originally Posted by Panda

ALSO:

Everyone LOVES this setlist. Why? Because we are now down to ONE THINFS song on the set. I don't even think the Circle Tour ever got that low. Knowing my luck, Jon will treat me with half the album at MSG. But judging by the trend that's happening now, probably not.

I hope he does. And then points at you and smirks. Or winks. Or blows you a kiss.

[symbeline]

Originally Posted by bjcrazycpa

I guess it comes down to what do we want as fans. Do we want an attempt at a rarity that is difficult to sing and also shows rust from not being performed often or do we want a whole bunch of less difficult vocal songs (meaning we pretty much kill all rarities from the 90s and before) that no one cares about and that we've probably heard a lot since the Lost Highway tour. I vote for the former personally but y'all know I've said that before.

That's exactly my sentiment. I honestly cringe when I hear any difficult songs, but it's not in a "OMG what a horrible performance, my ears are bleeding" way but more like shaking my head in disbelief.

But rock and roll shouldn't be perfection or a high-tech light and special effects show. It's about the songs and the attitude. Both have been lacking so I'm all for these kind of setlists. For a casual BJ fan this is still pretty good, I've seen way worse singers and bands. And much better singers deliver terrible shows.

[Zacm95]

Dry County might be the only song they have done this year that I haven’t heard live before. It was on the setlist for my show in Raleigh in 2011 and they skipped it, I was pretty upset. So hope to hear it tonight, makes you wonder what else they could pull out...Hey God, Blaze? Pretty excited for Philly tonight

[BJFan99]

Originally Posted by symbeline

That's exactly my sentiment. I honestly cringe when I hear any difficult songs, but it's not in a "OMG what a horrible performance, my ears are bleeding" way but more like shaking my head in disbelief.

But rock and roll shouldn't be perfection or a high-tech light and special effects show. It's about the songs and the attitude. Both have been lacking so I'm all for these kind of setlists. For a casual BJ fan this is still pretty good, I've seen way worse singers and bands. And much better singers deliver terrible shows.

And it’s not like Jon sounds as bad as, for example, Paul Stanley, whose voice basically cracks during every line he sings nowadays. Meat Loaf I won’t even start discussing.

[Kathleen]

Originally Posted by bjcrazycpa

I guess it comes down to what do we want as fans. Do we want an attempt at a rarity that is difficult to sing and also shows rust from not being performed often or do we want a whole bunch of less difficult vocal songs (meaning we pretty much kill all rarities from the 90s and before) that no one cares about and that we've probably heard a lot since the Lost Highway tour. I vote for the former personally but y'all know I've said that before.

I couldn't agree with you more Deb. I complain enough about vanilla setlists. I would much rather hear rarities that might not be note perfect.

[bjcrazycpa]

Originally Posted by symbeline

That's exactly my sentiment. I honestly cringe when I hear any difficult songs, but it's not in a "OMG what a horrible performance, my ears are bleeding" way but more like shaking my head in disbelief.

But rock and roll shouldn't be perfection or a high-tech light and special effects show. It's about the songs and the attitude. Both have been lacking so I'm all for these kind of setlists. For a casual BJ fan this is still pretty good, I've seen way worse singers and bands. And much better singers deliver terrible shows.

Very well stated and how I feel.

[efpg0708]

Originally Posted by Kathleen

I couldn't agree with you more Deb. I complain enough about vanilla setlists. I would much rather hear rarities that might not be note perfect.

It doesn’t have to be note perfect. Even in 2008-2011 it wasn’t. But this DC performance is atrocious. He can’t hit the notes and tries to stretch them somehow, thus being completely off key. And he pretty much shouted the last chorus in order to get through with it. So in this case, as much as I do want them to shake up the sets, i’d rather not get this song live,as there are other rarities he could try to sing without making my ears bleed.

I’m not being negative just for the purpose of being negative. If you search for my reviews, you’ll see bad ones and good ones from 2010-2013 and I even stated that RIR2017 was fantastic, and it really was. The energy was surreal. But I’m sorry, it just amazes me how can one consider this a good performance.

[nikos greece]

kudos to jon for trying, it wasnt good but there is still hope...the band sounded tight.the comment about phil x rushing some notes was spot on..

nice setlist for a samller market.
i hope jon manages to get better and be able to do these songs justice.

[Kathleen]

Originally Posted by efpg0708

It doesn’t have to be note perfect. Even in 2008-2011 it wasn’t. But this DC performance is atrocious. He can’t hit the notes and tries to stretch them somehow, thus being completely off key. And he pretty much shouted the last chorus in order to get through with it. So in this case, as much as I do want them to shake up the sets, i’d rather not get this song live,as there are other rarities he could try to sing without making my ears bleed.

I’m not being negative just for the purpose of being negative. If you search for my reviews, you’ll see bad ones and good ones from 2010-2013 and I even stated that RIR2017 was fantastic, and it really was. The energy was surreal. But I’m sorry, it just amazes me how can one consider this a good performance.

I understand - and I hear you. I wasn't saying it was good but I would rather have him try than not try I guess.