Comments on: Would you be more likely to go see a band if … http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MikeH http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/#comment-18271 MikeH Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:37:17 +0000 http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5698#comment-18271 Isn't it the spontaneity that fans have come to enjoy from their favorite bands?...Knowing the setlist only make for a predictable and somewhat boring performance.... Isn’t it the spontaneity that fans have come to enjoy from their favorite bands?…Knowing the setlist only make for a predictable and somewhat boring performance….

]]> By: shmoopatties http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/#comment-18172 shmoopatties Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:23:30 +0000 http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5698#comment-18172 Hell no. I hate knowing the setlist in advance. I go out of my way to avoid knowing what they have played lately or what they're playing this tour. It's like trying to avoid sportscenter when you have the game TIVOed. It's all about the experience and not about the specifics. For that matter I don't want to know the setlist AFTER the show, most of the time. I've seen some bands 10-12 times and couldn't name one of their songs, though I can usually sing along to 1 or 2. Utterly unimportant. Hell no. I hate knowing the setlist in advance. I go out of my way to avoid knowing what they have played lately or what they’re playing this tour. It’s like trying to avoid sportscenter when you have the game TIVOed. It’s all about the experience and not about the specifics. For that matter I don’t want to know the setlist AFTER the show, most of the time. I’ve seen some bands 10-12 times and couldn’t name one of their songs, though I can usually sing along to 1 or 2. Utterly unimportant.

]]> By: ChrisD http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/#comment-18161 ChrisD Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:43:55 +0000 http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5698#comment-18161 I don't think that I'd want to know the setlist before I went to the show. That'd be like reading the last chapter of a book first. Maybe there were some boring passages during the long slog to the finish line. But, hopefully, the payoff makes it worth it. I think if you are only going to a show to see a song or two, you should probably just save the cash. Treat yourself to dinner or something. In the case of Superchunk, one of my top 5 or so favorite bands, I highly doubt that they work from a predetermined setlist. Their catalog is immense. Between their abundant official releases and EPs, their singles/b-side collections, and their fanclub type limited releases they are rivaling the likes of Bob Pollard in the prolific department. I don't think that you can blame them for their disappointment that they didn't hone in more on the 1 album that you are most familiar with. However, I'm surprised that you were not pleases with the rest of the set, as their sound has not varied largely over the years. Even the later songs, more heavily produced on the studio albums, seem to blend well with earlier material in a live setting. I don’t think that I’d want to know the setlist before I went to the show. That’d be like reading the last chapter of a book first. Maybe there were some boring passages during the long slog to the finish line. But, hopefully, the payoff makes it worth it.

I think if you are only going to a show to see a song or two, you should probably just save the cash. Treat yourself to dinner or something.

In the case of Superchunk, one of my top 5 or so favorite bands, I highly doubt that they work from a predetermined setlist. Their catalog is immense. Between their abundant official releases and EPs, their singles/b-side collections, and their fanclub type limited releases they are rivaling the likes of Bob Pollard in the prolific department.

I don’t think that you can blame them for their disappointment that they didn’t hone in more on the 1 album that you are most familiar with. However, I’m surprised that you were not pleases with the rest of the set, as their sound has not varied largely over the years. Even the later songs, more heavily produced on the studio albums, seem to blend well with earlier material in a live setting.

]]> By: Robert Duffy http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/#comment-18160 Robert Duffy Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:23:01 +0000 http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5698#comment-18160 I think wanting to know the set lists for bands who have been around awhile and quesitonable new releases, then yeah, I want to know... Bands whose entire discographies I am a fan of, I can care less... but a band like Smashing Pumpkins, it would be good to know. Then again they'd probably just play whatever Corgan wanted that night... I think wanting to know the set lists for bands who have been around awhile and quesitonable new releases, then yeah, I want to know…

Bands whose entire discographies I am a fan of, I can care less… but a band like Smashing Pumpkins, it would be good to know. Then again they’d probably just play whatever Corgan wanted that night…

]]> By: chip http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/#comment-18152 chip Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:07:57 +0000 http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5698#comment-18152 Great. Now I DO regret having to miss the Toadies show. Great. Now I DO regret having to miss the Toadies show.

]]> By: Thomas http://www.donewaiting.com/2008/11/14/would-you-be-more-likely-to-go-see-a-band-if/#comment-18151 Thomas Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:41:57 +0000 http://www.donewaiting.com/?p=5698#comment-18151 These are the songs they played at Webster Hall in NYC. This is not the set list. I broke the songs up into the albums they where from. Yes most of the songs are from their Platinum selling album Rubberneck, but they did play a fair amount of songs from the new one. As far as I know they have been playing six(6) songs from No Deliverance, the other song being Flower. At my show they played five (5) songs. Your source is mistaken. From Rubberneck Mexican Hairless Backslider Happy Face I Burn Quitter Away Possum Kingdom Mister Love I Come From the Water Tyler From HB/SA Little Sin Sweetness Pressed Against the Sky Plane Crash Push the Hand Dollskin From No Deliverance So Long Lovey Eyes No Deliverance Song I Hate Man of Stone Hell in High Water These are the songs they played at Webster Hall in NYC. This is not the set list. I broke the songs up into the albums they where from. Yes most of the songs are from their Platinum selling album Rubberneck, but they did play a fair amount of songs from the new one. As far as I know they have been playing six(6) songs from No Deliverance, the other song being Flower. At my show they played five (5) songs. Your source is mistaken.

From Rubberneck
Mexican Hairless
Backslider
Happy Face
I Burn
Quitter
Away
Possum Kingdom
Mister Love
I Come From the Water
Tyler

From HB/SA
Little Sin
Sweetness
Pressed Against the Sky
Plane Crash
Push the Hand
Dollskin

From No Deliverance
So Long Lovey Eyes
No Deliverance
Song I Hate
Man of Stone
Hell in High Water

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