Originally posted by treasure:Drop SBS. Cedarwood / UTEOTW / Wild horses / Intermission
Originally posted by Henderson7:The thing that I find strange is they rehearsed a few extra songs prior to the tour in ABOY, Song for Someone and Horses.
Why not at least rotate 1 of those into the set when playing back to back nights?
The work has already been done with production etc.
Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
Yeah they’ve got more than enough songs they’ve played already to rotate as many as 3 a night and that would be with a 27 song Setlist. The 3 you mentioned along with RBW, new year’s day and Gloria weren’t played last night. I feel like I/we go round in circles with these observations but I think it’s natural to do so with some of the bizarre Setlist decisions that have been made.
Originally posted by dylbagz:Obviously it's a point of contention. The band looks to be on a downward spiral, and a very fast one at that
Originally posted by Blue_Room:After actually seeing a show on this tour (last night) here are my only complaints. Lights Of Home needs to be the original from the album and not the strings version (and I like the strings version better on the album), it just needs to be more of the band playing and I think Edge’s guitar intro would start the song out better. Or just play the guitar like the original over the strings, seems like that would work. Cedarwood and Iris were kind of meh, I guess been there and seen that already feel. I said this before, this version of SBS does not work. Play it full band or don’t play it. Play the full band Best Thing also, the semi acoustic thing doesn’t work very well. I know they are making a statement with no Joshua Tree. But end the show with Streets. Would even fit the theme of it is wide open what is up next vibe.
The rest of the show I thoroughly enjoyed. Some of the warhorses like Pride actually sounded really good. Red Flag Day is just great live, they need to keep playing it. Acrobat kicks ass live (I’m not a fan of the song either), that was really surprising to me. Also, you can dislike it on the album but American Soul also kicks ass live. I thought all of the new material besides Best Thing really sounded good. Great crowd in Chicago and it was a really good performance last night. The band seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Originally posted by dylbagz:Obviously it's a point of contention. The band looks to be on a downward spiral, and a very fast one at that