Aloha !
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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
Remember when they toured before WAN came out? I feel like that totally backfired.
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That backfired because the main sets were awful. Just have a look at the set played at Washington:
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- Lost Highway
- Whole Lot of Leavin'
- Because We Can
- That's What the Water Made Me
- Wild Is the Wind
- It's My Life
- What About Now
- When We Were Beautiful
- We Got It Goin' On
- Keep the Faith
- Amen (Acoustic)
- The Fighter (Acoustic)
- Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Acoustic)
- Army of One
- We Weren't Born to Follow
- What's Left of Me
- Wanted Dead or Alive
- Who Says You Can't Go Home
- Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars
- Bad Medicine
That's 4 songs in 2 hours catered towards casual fans. The songs highlighted in green are songs which cause a lul in concerts no matter when they're played. I'm all for playing songs that weren't hits but the songs in green were neither rare or fan favourites apart from Wild Is The Wind. It's really no wonder the first 15 shows had lacklustre reviews and it had little to do with the album being new.
If you'd swap Lost Highway, Whole Lot Of Leavin', When We Were Beautiful, Someday I'll Be Saturday Night, We Weren't Born To Follow and Captain Crash for the more exciting cuts like I'd Die For You, Blood On Blood, Raise Your Hands and the likes I'm sure reviews would've been different and crowds would've been more forgiving towards the new material. It's just a shame that whenever Jon realizes his selection of songs doesn't work he'd always resolve to playing the same other songs.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan