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Originally Posted by MOWJO8185
I really do think that releasing shows spanning every year, including unpopular years, is the way to go. There's value to mine from each year from a rare songs perspective. I'm not some guy who wants only 1993-2000 released.
I just think they are bad at picking shows that show the diversity of those years.
Like, 2010, we have 6 releases from. The fact that we received 6 releases from that year and yet don't have Hello Again, JTR, Kit Kat Jam, Break For It, So Right, or Sweet Up and Down, all of which were played in the very first 2 night stand of that tour, is insane.
Instead, they released Citi Field and Montage Mountain which were 2 nights apart and had 8 common songs. Both pretty solid sets as a standalone, but sort of inexcusable to release both when there's so much other 2010 material to mine.
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Totally agree. I am very disappointed in this as I assumed I would be and stated as such in these very boards. I said they'd pick a random year and show from a tour no one wants or is clamoring for at all... 2009 shouldn't be on the table at this point and this random show pre release of BW... No sense at all...
With XM getting an 03 and 04 show, both of top notch caliber performances and sets, I do not understand how they settled on this for an official release...
The band/crew must mark down shows directly after they are played in some kind of ranking... And those rankings aren't looked at in comparison to other shows. Like say for instance this show was off the hook and energetic. The band was feeling great and more or less had Big Whiskey in the bag. I could see a them going this show was amazing in the moment.
BUT when you compare it to other shows that tour, or looking at a list of these ranked shows to release, it straight up doesn't compare.
This set is blah and very typical 2009. With multiple shows already released that have extremely good performances... Spring 2009 they were still finding their way with songs like Spaceman and Why I Am...
I have to wonder if part of the criteria is how many debuts did a show have? It seems to always be a sticking point in the description.. Like this shitty set had 2 songs that hadn't been played before. Let's release it. Even if the debuts of these songs are not good.