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2018-05-11 - Las Vegas
 Tour: Experience and Innocence tour
Songs played: 28
Audio recordings: 2
  1. Honestly! If u2 treated their shows like pj I’d have tremendous FOMO and drain all my funds so I didn’t miss anything. I could only afford one of my bands doing this. Not two
  2. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]
    We’re talking hypothetically now. Ifs and buts, the reality is the band played the same city two nights in a row and if you went to night 2 all you got was a song less which makes no sense to give people less for there money. There was no different songs brought in to counter that so we can’t even look at it from a song quality point of view.


    Man if u2 managed to slightly anger Dean then we’re in trouble. No offense bud but I’ve never seen you get annoyed by anything they’ve done.
  3. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    Because they don't know or care what they did play the night before or the night after. They just enjoy the show.

    Also, some of us look at it as if they gave 1 bonus song on one night, not 1 song less on the other. It's not like they had played 25 songs one night and just 19 on the other.

    Well they should care, people are paying a lot of money to see the show and it’s not too much to expect a fair deal when compared to other shows. It can’t really be considered a bonus song when the 3 nights previously they played one extra song. It wasn’t like they deviated from the intended Setlist or anything.
  4. Originally posted by MoFoNYR15:[..]
    This is irrelevant. They should get with the times then. Shake it up a bit! Give audiences a reason to come out. When’s the last time they were curtaining off entire sections? The public can preview what they’re gonna get before hand now. And obviously some weren’t too inclined to go see this show.

    JT 2017 sold 3 million tickets, with only 31 songs played. How did PJ do?
  5. Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
    I don't understand.. u2 played 51 songs in 2 shows in Las Vegas, 26 unique titles. Yes they can do better, but it's not indefenisble as you said before.

    It’s the fact they’ve went back the way in night 2. If I said to you here’s a cd it’s the standard edition with 13 tracks on it or you can have the deluxe version for the same price with an extra 4 songs what are you going to chose?
  6. Double post by me.
  7. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]

    It’s the fact they’ve went back the way in night 2. If I said to you here’s a cd it’s the standard edition with 13 tracks on it or you can have the deluxe version for the same price with an extra 4 songs what are you going to chose?
    so, if they play 25 songs on night 1 and 26 on night 2, it's ok? but playing 26 songs on night 1 and 25 on night 2 is indefendible??
  9. Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
    so, if they play 25 songs on night 1 and 26 on night 2, it's ok? but playing 26 songs on night 1 and 25 on night 2 is indefendible??
    No if they play 26 songs on night 1 and night 2 then that would be ok.
  10. Originally posted by deanallison:[..]

    Well they should care, people are paying a lot of money to see the show and it’s not too much to expect a fair deal when compared to other shows. It can’t really be considered a bonus song when the 3 nights previously they played one extra song. It wasn’t like they deviated from the intended Setlist or anything.
    When I said "Because they don't know or care..." I was referring at the 95% of the people of the show we were talking about, not at the band.

    The people attending the show is not checking the setlist of the previous dates to see if they got 1 song more or less in their show.

    However, once said that, the band shouldn't care either.
  11. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    seriously?
    Same songs, but just dropping 5 songs one night and 6 songs another, would be better than they playing all 25 songs on both nights?
    well, I can see why we wouldn't agree...


    Unless I misunderstood the question, the alternatives were:
    Either this Vegas situation with 2 shows with the same 25 songs (2 barely count, but ok) - with one song dropped in the second show-
    OR
    Two 20 songs shows with 6 variations, for a total of 26 songs in those 2 nights. Maybe with different openers and closers.

    I really don't know why choosing the second option raises eyebrows. I would feel like I really had my money's worth on those 2 shows.

    Also, I don't know why it's controversial to critique the band for that. The show is still great, I'm not saying they should play Pop in its entirety or that they don't have balls.
    All that I'm saying is that playing the same set (or less) in 2 consecutive nights in the same city doesn't seem fair, why is that regarded as being a complainer?
  12. I am glad the Internet, Periscope, Mixlr, and setlist parties did not exist back in 1992. We would’ve all gotten over the novelty of U2 reinventing themselves and been bored with the static setlist by now. Shake it up, dammit!

    Seriously, though...I’m sure most of the people in Vegas for night 2 had a blast. I’ve already said that I do get the frustration with dropping a song instead of rotating, but it can’t be simply chalked up to laziness as the band is taking some big risks with this tour still with continuing to play new material and ignoring TJT completely.

    It would be interesting to poll the average fan who saw last night’s show and ask them if they felt ripped off. Or, judging by people singing along even to a new song like Love is Bigger, if they were perfectly happy with the show they got.

    Not saying at all that the band is beyond criticism, as I’ve been critical toward them too. Just saying can we try to keep things in perspective.
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