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Originally Posted by Alpine416
I actually agree completely barring two points:
1) The band shouldn't have brought up they were making new music if they had no intent of releasing it YEARS down the line. They really would be under no obligation to do anything with this album if their message was "Yeah we've been messing around in the studio, we might put something out down the line but we're focusing on touring right now". Instead they said they they had an album done and were excited to put it out soon and put their tinkering and album process/timeline botchery on full display.
2) All the more important that sets don't stagnant like they did in Fall 2022. Each tour needs to bring something unique to the table to get me excited about coming back. Fall 2022 failed miserably there, hopefully an outlier and not a new trend.
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1) Spot on. It's bad marketing for the business. Any company that hints that they are rolling out the next thing, whether that's an iPhone, shoes, car whatever.. if you tell people it's coming and then it doesn't AND it's like the 3rd or 4th time it's happened, you lose customers. They lose faith.
I have lost faith in this band to make a new album. They will of course, but it's just difficult to live up to 5 years of anticipation. It will be sub par, considering we likely know 40% of it at this point. And knowing Dave, if it comes out next year, we'll start hearing the remainder of it before the album comes out.
2) As a long time fan, sets like the fall tour are untenable. That signs me up for exactly 1 show a tour. If the beginning of next summer looks like this fall, I might be out completely. Predictable sets with songs that don't really change night after night. Sure, little 10 second things or fills might change, but that's not what DMB were about. They don't need to do 20 minute jams. That's not what I'm saying, but the creativity within the song structures themselves is severely lacking these days.