Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
In 5 shows the i+E tour had at least 32 songs, and those were 24-25 songs each. Here they played 27 songs the first show and they only have introduced RFD, Gloria and NYD after that, for a total of 30 songs. I don't think they can play 18 extra songs in the rest of the American leg to be in the same league as I+E.
Originally posted by bpt3:[..]
Probably right that at this rate they won’t catch I & E, but oh well. They’re playing 26 songs a night this tour compared to 23-24 in 2015 (and only 21-22 for TJT2017), 7-8 are new songs, none of them are from their most famous album, and one of them is Acrobat. Sure they could always rotate more but given what we’ve gotten so far, I’d say the band still has some balls.
I agree that there's no way we'll get 18 new songs over the next month and a half, but don't let your hopes get too low for the rest of this leg. It won't be 18, but we'll get some new ones. Sure, Las Vegas 2 was a typical U2 case of "rotation by subtraction", but that was just one show. More new songs will pop up over the next month. Stuff like The Showman or Mysterious Ways or maybe even All I Want Is You will show up soon enough.
And I wouldn't be too surprised if some Joshua Tree songs eventually make an appearance. But instead of some logical place like St Louis or somewhere like that, you just know it'll be WOWY showing up in Chicago or Boston.
That said, I strongly agree that we are getting 26 songs (sometimes 25), and one of them is indeed Acrobat, so they're definitely giving us our money's worth.
Give them some time, and I'm sure they'll come up with some new ones.
Though thinking about it, the fact that there aren't many obvious rotational slots is a bit worrying. The best option seems to be to start the encore with WGRYWH or some other random new selection, instead of opening with some One speechifying. Other than that, it's probably just mixing up some of the songs early in the show, like Gloria/NYD/ABOY/etc.
