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Originally Posted by manarosi
That's called marketing my friends..otherwise why a casual would buy a ticket for this year's shows if he knews is the same as last year?? I know bj has never been the 90%, but frankly i don't think the setlist is the main problem nowadays...furthermore they're not stupid, they know that jbj can't pull off stbi for example and they know that if they play that(as "requested" from the fans like in this forum) these same fans would totally bury jbj alive, so why would they??
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It's not marketing, it's very much past experience. A casual wouldn't buy a ticket based on setlist - they wouldn't care that much to check in advance, but there's certain songs you expect artists to do, and if the show is broadly similar to the last one you went to, you may not do it again so soon. Or they'd just be disappointed "I can't believe they didn't play Always" etc... But the setlist based on previous shows does not matter too much for the casual / average concert goer, but there is an expectation of certain songs to play and for them to know most of them.
Obviously he couldn't play STBI, but there are plenty of songs that can be added from their vast catalogue that casuals and diehards will know/like - I still stick by the rule, anything with a video from HAND prior would have had decent rotation on music tv. Your Own Wild Nights, Misunderstood, Thank You For Loving Me, Say It Isn't So. All post-2000, all familiar to casuals and this forum would lose their shit if they played any or all in a setlist.