Which Song from Black Mountain will stay in the setlist?, After this tour concludes.... Options

[SJN1279]

Thanks to Livefornorway for this poll! I voted Mystery because Ed seems happiest to me when he sings it. Not sure if thats a good reason but still

[Pokey]

If it had to be any .. I'd hope it's none of those and one that was not performed on the actual SFBM tour, it would at least give the band some credibility that the rest of the album wasn't filler to them and is worth performing to the audience.

Just on the subject of setlists though .. Live seems to keep very little songs from recent albums in favour of always keep the old faithfuls from older albums (mostly TC) in the setlist .. do people see this as an admission that they think these songs are better? Sure they are the biggest hits and the ones the casual fans want to see .. but why cater to the casual fan? I mean if I were a muso and I know a lot of other artists perform the songs they really want to play, I find it hard to believe that Live really want to play those same songs over and over from so long ago and if they do .. then like I say, is that an admission their old stuff is better?

[Heather]

If it had to be any .. I'd hope it's none of those and one that was not performed on the actual SFBM tour, it would at least give the band some credibility that the rest of the album wasn't filler to them and is worth performing to the audience.

Just on the subject of setlists though .. Live seems to keep very little songs from recent albums in favour of always keep the old faithfuls from older albums (mostly TC) in the setlist .. do people see this as an admission that they think these songs are better? Sure they are the biggest hits and the ones the casual fans want to see .. but why cater to the casual fan? I mean if I were a muso and I know a lot of other artists perform the songs they really want to play, I find it hard to believe that Live really want to play those same songs over and over from so long ago and if they do .. then like I say, is that an admission their old stuff is better?

I think its a matter of them being too lazy to switch up their setlists. They don't even remember how to play half of their songs and don't seem to want to make the effort to do so. They just aren't one of those bands that cater to their loyal fans by playing more obscure songs and by switching up their setlists from night to night in order to keep a loyal following. I think they do cater to casual fans because they keep those songs in the setlist that always get the most reaction from the majority of the crowd which I'm assuming are casual fans. They know that casual fans don't want to hear anything new that they haven't heard a million times on the radio, they want to hear the hits. I would think that would get boring for them but if it bothered them that much wouldn't they have done something about it by now? It certainly got boring for me after 26 shows.

This post has been edited by Heather: Mar 7 2007, 12:15 pm