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Originally Posted by zajDmB1
Here's what's gonna happen:
1) Album is released
2) Everyone loves album
3) Tour with songs from album
4) By second year of playing songs from album to death everyone sick of new songs
5) Everyone hates album
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This is fairly accurate, although the bolded change is why. Frankly, I never had a problem with the '09 Tour because it was in support of
Big Whiskey; the songs were new and full of potential, and they were better than
Everyday's or
Stand Up's stuff.
Where they went off the rails is continuing to lean heavy on that stuff for two more years afterwards, including last year's fall tour, which was absurd when it looked like we actually would go a year without them, without growing most of them in a live setting (I've heard a few new twists and turns this summer (new intro to FTWII, etc.), but that's stuff that they could have been working on two years ago), and for the most part, the songs have stagnated in their arrangements, no different now than they were at an early '09 show like Fenway. "Alligator Pie" should not be the same 5 minutes it was when it debuted.
I agree with Zilla, too, that this all seems to come at the expense of some older gems that haven't seen much, if any, of the light of day in a very long time. At this point, the older songs are the only ones I
haven't seen--"Minarets" is still one of the 2 or 3 biggest highlights of my shows last year, along with the return of "Last Stop" and "Good Good Time" (even without the capo). All of those sat on the shelf for years, while "Cornbread" got 53 consecutive shows...