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Originally Posted by BTBaboon
I should have clarified - I used 38 songs (omitting the 3 new tracks, along with Preacher, the PM tease, and PNP) as that is also what Antiramie’s post used
The purpose was to compare the tracks from the catalog to prior tour plays - omitting the new songs allows for that comparison (they did not exist in the catalog in the prior 2 tours). It doesn’t really change the key takeaways. The majority of songs played this weekend were in heavy rotation the last two tours.
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I think you have to use them in your denominator (and FYI, I love the stats breakdowns for things like this. I'm a data geek by trade, kudos for putting the #'s out there), and this answer is partially to Antiramie as well.
Its irrelevant that the new songs weren't played in 18/19, if we are talking about not wanting stale sets new songs help in that manner. If the band came out and played a 20 song set, 15 brand new songs, plus another 5 of what we on here might reasonably agree are the best 15 songs from 18/19 that werent played only once (like Ants, The Stone, Billies, BOWA, YNK, etc...) would anybody think that was a stale set? Of the 5 songs played from the previous tour, they were all played the previous tour? It makes no sense.
So including the new songs in the denominator, you have under 60% of the sets being previous tour heavy play repeats. I'm guessing there isnt a time in this band history where thats a surprising level of repeat songs from the previous couple tours, and yes I know that as the catalog gets bigger the opportunities to be more varied go up, but that isnt how this band operates. There is a big chunk of the catalog that is always in play (Ants, Crash, Crush, DDTW, WWYS, Stay, essentially all of the big radio songs. Outside of those, they seem to mix it up pretty well. And hey, no Jimi so far!