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Originally Posted by BruceW
While I think that their total number of songs is misleading bc of Gorge and a few other one-offs, I think this year as a whole was still quite strong and up there with the top tours of the past 10-15 years.
I’m a big advocate for variety, but I also want less 15+ times played during the tour, and more 5ish times played during a tour, no matter the song. DMB just can’t quite do that bc of the amount of casual fans in attendance vs a band like Phish.
(I’m not trying to start a stupid DMB bs Phish debate)
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Maybe I am wrong, but I think they are becoming a bit more lazy in trying new things.
What I mean:
• they did the Huey Lewis cover after Jimi, which is cool 1 or 2 times, but then went over it for the rest of the summer.
• same with Satisfaction cover. They put some effort to arrange it one night in the memory of Charlie Watts, but then they kept on playing quite often. And I know maybe it is not that easy, but they didn’t try to put a solo or a jam in it to make it more special.
• Sweet outro is delicious but it remained basically unchanged for the whole tour. Same with Seek Up, with the long jazzy chaotic Intro. Same with the Thank You outro in So Damn Lucky: it feels like they set up these arrangements in the rehearsals before the tour, then they sticked with them, and the pure improv jam was reduced to minimum (again, my opinion, and only based on the shows I’ve listened: Bruce and other Ants who attended many shows maybe can prove me wrong).
• the Gorge weekend surprised me a lot because it was the opposite, it was a sequence of surprises, but mostly because they HAD to. It is like “if they have to do it, they still know how to do it.” Most of the song played those night have a sense of uniqueness, even Dave solo performances are gems.
I’d like to know if anyone has the same feeling