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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Aloha !
You still don't get it. Saying 99 In the Shade is known by 4 people is saying a song like Raise Your Hands is known by 4 people. Both are album cuts from the big albums from the eighties and both were never issued as a single. Raise Your Hands works well because of its catchy chorus, 99 In the Shade might just work the same way. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead has been played at pretty much every single show since 1993 yet it barely charted in America. I very much doubt a casual fan knows the song, but it's got a party vibe. Little Bit Of Soul would work the same way but that one gets ignored.
Further on, Whole Lot Of Leavin' caused a piss break at every Bon Jovi show I've seen in America. The same for Lost Highway and We Weren't Born To Follow. You keep going on about vocal issues being the reason why he won't play the rare stuff, but considering how he sings Bad Medicine there's no reason to believe that's the reason why.
I saw 4 shows in New Jersey back in 2010. The show with the most rare songs had the loudest crowds because there was no Lost Highway/Whole Lot Of Leavin' combo. It kills a crowd every single time I saw it getting played. Yet he insists on keeping it in there. I'm sure Jon loves the songs, but if your argument is not being able to play other stuff people don't know, it should count for those songs as well.
By now the band has released roughly 200 songs. They've got 10 top 40 hits. And you're saying out of the other 190, stuff like Amen, Lost Highway, Whole Lot Of Leavin', We Weren't Born To Follow and so on needs to be played in order for a casual fan not to leave disappointed? They can't risk it?
If you honestly believe this band would lose people over 4 songs in a set including 10 top 40 songs you have little faith in the hits anyway. They're in the Hall of Fame exactly because the huge amount of hits and the people who keep coming to these shows. Even with the band at its all time low right now they're still able to play Madison Square Garden. They've got nothing to lose, which should be all the more reason to mix it up.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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as you said, both hands and sleep have been played a lot so, even if those didn't chart, them are well known to the fan that goes to the concert and just don't care about jon's vocals, richie's absence and so on. same thing works for lh, follow and so on that have been overplayed (i agree that those have grown tired to many) but that have been at least heard few times by that same fan. meanwhile 99 or soul are going to be the same way a piss break,same as whole lot of leavin', but for different reasons (just because people don't know them...and please don't tell me that nowadays the casual who goes to a bj concert is interested in knowing new songs or rare songs like 99 'cause that's not the case) but this way the diehard would just complain cause that song has been butchered and the casual will be disappointed because he didn't know the song... diehards always complain
btw how long do u think they can sell out msg?? i don't see big and florid days coming for this band...we'll all be happy when probably they'd retire as a group and jbj will sell acoustic shows in theathers playing the entire catalogue rearranged