Aloha !
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Originally Posted by Elvistico
Jon is aware of what their hits are in different countries and caters the setlist a bit to it. I suppose Jon knows that there is no need to play 'Who says' , 'Born to follow' and even no songs of lost highway. (Even if LH is a decent track i.m.o.)
So let's hope they dive deeper into KTF and TD which are their hit records over here.
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Yeah, that's why those songs have been in the setlist for Europe the past 15 years. I've no idea why, after so many world tours have had the same set everywhere people believe Jon honestly caters towards a certain audience just because he's said he would. Even during the run at the O2 arena the main set was rather similar to the one done in America.
Going by Jon's logic there's no reason to drop these songs anyway. They've never played Russia so there's all the more reason to include them. He'll spend time "catching up to do so won't waste time talking" only by then ignoring most of the back catalog people have come to hear, he'll talk a bit of half arsed Russian, will do an encore with the wrong Russian singer as the right one wasn't available (Alsou) and management didn't spend time looking up what audiences would like and he'll then end the show saying "he doesn't know why it took so long as they've been great" only to never come back again as sales had been slow and the band didn't make enough money to warrant a return.
If this show would be different it'd be the first time in their entire career they'd change a setlist because they're playing somewhere they haven't been to before.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan