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Originally Posted by The Walrus
ARGH you'd have thought people would have had enough of this by now! But no! Lets all complain about the setlists some more, just so everyone knows for the 1600th time that they're not liked! Look, I don't know about you, but when I go to London tomorrow, I'll be seeing my FAVOURITE band playing some of my most FAVOURITE songs. If thats your defenition of crap, then you are an EXTREMELY hard person to please. So you may not get 100% the show you want, because, horror of horrors, the band actually do have other people to please besides you, believe it or not. So you don't get exactly the setlist that YOU personally want, that automatically makes it a bad show does it? God, for people that listen to a band with uplifting optimistic lyrics, you're all BLOODY MISERABLE. I'm going to London tomorrow, and I'm gonna enjoy it whatever the hell they play
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Thing about the set lists is that they're not changing at all. Bon Jovi always change them about, bring in different songs, do something different. Look at some of the European sets for instance, Munich and Ostend. Problem with what the band are doing is that it;s the same old same old. Also I think it's a very poorly devised set list. They have all the big hitters early, and in actual fact, if you leave after 40mins you won't miss much! Captain Crash kills the concert dead. If you're going to play it do it early, because that late on it really does bring the tone down. Particularly last night, after Lola, when I think the band had the audiance in the palm of their hand, and then they did that
I'd say there's pretty much a majority who want to hear Dry County, and if not like most of us hear desperate to hear it, woudln't mind it, and would like it as much as I got the Girl or Captain Crash. Same with a lot of others, but the band just ignore these... Wolverhampton there were banners for Hey God, Dry County, homebound Train e.t.c, yet did the band try to please the fans with the sets? no!
I'm not misserable, I've just spent over £100 on two concerts that in actual fact weren't worth it. Manchester maybe passed of as an OK Jovi concert, nothing special, but worth going to, ejoyable. But Wolverhampon for me was just a huge let down. This has been said before, a set list can't make a concert, but it can spoil one. If they were to do my idea set with no passion, no drive it would make a bad concert. Yet with the set they have, I don't htink the band on fire could make the concert better than just very very good....
For me to get 100% the show I wanted they would have had to make about 4 changes, maybe something very unexpected like Homebound Train or Fear, somethign like Livin in Sin, Something to believe in, and say Bed of Roses. You know that niether of the last two are fav's of my by any means, in fact I usually find Bed of Roses a bit, erm... but still, it would be a change, it would make the set list much much more enjoyable, I'd have heard something I really wanted to hear, and it would have made the show. Basically I want them to live up to my expectations, and I expected a few changes, and didn't get them. It's such a small thing for them to do these few changes, but it makes all the difference to fans like me. I dont' expect my dream set list, I'm realistic, and I think I was right to expect a lot more than I've had this week
