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Experience and Innocence tour
 Legs (3): Promo tour, Leg 1: North America, Leg 2: Europe
Shows: 75
  2. Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
    Bono was mentioning in Nashville that as soon as the Atlanta gig was over he was going to be with Ali, so I think it's safe to assume all 4 of them are in different corners of the world until showtime.
    anything is possible. he could be with Ali in NY... at night. and in NY with the guys in the day.
  6. Originally posted by Bloodraven:[..]
    I'd prefer that too. I really do.

    But apparently they don't. And that's fine. They made a conscious decision, and the show is as good as if they had rotation.

    Rotation or variation is just an element, like playing piano songs, or acoustic songs:
    They could play more or less acoustic, more or less piano, but it's not really important.
    Rotation or variation is not really important, neither.


    The band know that 90% of the people who come to a show aren't going to 10 shows on the tour. All that effort to please maybe 1,800 vocal internet critics, which may also affect 18,000 people who see 1 show on the tour, may not necessarily be worth it to them. Also, every show is - to them - an important statement, and a setlist that works (and isn't just a random grab bag of 25 songs) is definitely part of that.
  7. Originally posted by markreed:[..]


    The band know that 90% of the people who come to a show aren't going to 10 shows on the tour. All that effort to please maybe 1,800 vocal internet critics, which may also affect 18,000 people who see 1 show on the tour, may not necessarily be worth it to them. Also, every show is - to them - an important statement, and a setlist that works (and isn't just a random grab bag of 25 songs) is definitely part of that.


    I said 90% also, but I'd be comfortable saying that it's even closer to 94-95%, if not even higher than that!
  8. Originally posted by blueeyedboy:They have a week off now. Adam mentioned they still would like to work The Showman and Landlady into the set. Maybe they work on them and start throwing it in by Montreal.

    I was thinking about that too, but then I quickly realized that they'll likely be taking a break from the tour, and it's going to be the opposite. Whatever rehearsal time they have before Montreal 1 will be spent getting the regular 24 songs into proper condition. Highly unlikely they'll have time to work on a new one. ABOY and RFD is probably the best they can hope for.

  9. 95 and over for most shows.

    Maybe there'll be a decent percentage of "5-10 show folks" at the Dublin shows, but that's probably it.
  10. Originally posted by cleazer:[..]

    I was thinking about that too, but then I quickly realized that they'll likely be taking a break from the tour, and it's going to be the opposite. Whatever rehearsal time they have before Montreal 1 will be spent getting the regular 24 songs into proper condition. Highly unlikely they'll have time to work on a new one. ABOY and RFD is probably the best they can hope for.
    I dunno. They'll likelyneed to work up some things for the Apollo gig, too, so I can easily see them putting in a few rehearsals...
  11. Originally posted by cleazer:[..]

    I was thinking about that too, but then I quickly realized that they'll likely be taking a break from the tour, and it's going to be the opposite. Whatever rehearsal time they have before Montreal 1 will be spent getting the regular 24 songs into proper condition. Highly unlikely they'll have time to work on a new one. ABOY and RFD is probably the best they can hope for.
    When they had a break on the Vertigo tour prior Chicago in 2005. They spent the first day in Chicago running through Zoo Station and The Fly about 10 times. So your probably correct.


  12. That was a fascinating read, thank you!

    Sigh...I'm coming to terms with their reasons for leaving out Streets. I still don't agree with it, but I respect it at least. Seems like they're pretty set on keeping things that way given how long the tour has gone without any JT so far, but I guess they haven't completely ruled them out. I also really hope they tey Landlady and Showman at some point as well.

    I feel like I'll be more able to enjoy the show for what it is now, which does look pretty darn good for the most part. I guess there's always a chance for some JT further down the line but I think I'll go fully dark on the setlist front now to hopefully forget about all my ramblings
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