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Originally Posted by Bounce7800
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.
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you're right, people expect some songs to be played but as far as you check the setlist the BIG hits are being played already, apart always and few others(remember that these days album isn't considered that good by many americans so i wouldn't count that album). tyflm was buried when played at christmas, misunderstood won't suit to jon's vocals nowadays, say isn't so is known by how many?? we've been used to 2008-2011 where jon could have sang "good" all of them and could have chose every night a different setlist, but now he simply can't anymore because of his voice and doesn't want anymore mainly because of people like us (yeah i'm one of those) that checks every single bum note he hits and insults him for not taking care of his voice/smoking/drinking ecc...he's confident with these 25-30 songs, he plays them, that's all...not saying that i wouldn't like to hear something different (i've been to milan 2013, i'm used to very good setlist you know
) but i can perfectly understand why he doesn't play anything particular