Setlist changes

[Eddie Fox]

Have you checked Guy's forum today? Maybe you should! I quite like the way Guy's been answering questions since the whole RRHOF quarrel. Apparently he's not afraid of speaking out anymore.

[holaknopfler]

Damn. That IS a change.

[dmg]

Now that I've regained consciousness...WOW!  Has someone hacked his website or is he for real?  Maybe it was that post from our Val what did it. 

I especially liked the part where he said: "Set repetition does have its disadvantages, admittedly."

[binone]

I can´t believe what I´m reading.

Will save it just in case he decides he drunk so much last night.

I´m starting to salivate

[superval99]

Now that I've regained consciousness...WOW!  Has someone hacked his website or is he for real?  Maybe it was that post from our Val what did it. 

I especially liked the part where he said: "Set repetition does have its disadvantages, admittedly."

Thanks dmg, but I think the credit for that should go to Wolfy!           Cheers, LE!   

[schmonka]

I caught up on The Doc's forum and I must say he was being unusually frank and the comments were a breath of fresh air compared to his usual "safe" responses.

Interesting to hear the guys don't tend to rehearse before a tour (largely due to the static set list) and The Doc's acknowledgement that the set list is tired and needs a massive overhaul.

"Has its disadvantages".....Yes, a bored audience and fanbase who vote with their feet and wallets and don't come to your live shows.....more and more fans just buy the album - only!

Certain songs have been long known as "need a pee/beer" tunes, so it would be great to have a set list that keeps you captured....with lots of surprises.  There is such a rich back catalogue of DS and solo material, the complacency MK shows his audience with a "same as" set list has a whiff of the R&RHOF farce....

[Jules]

I won't put any credibility on all this, specially since is MK who says what's going to be played, and not the Doc.

Guy and the band obviously rather change the set because if it's always the same it's boring to them, but the boss is the boss.

[Love Expresso]

No one asks for credibility. But it's remarkable that Guy changed his way of answering set list rants.

LE

[Love Expresso]

The answer about not rehearsing really shed a light on the way tours are seen by MK, don't you think? To me, he looked exactly like that in 2015: Unrehearsed.

LE

[dmg]

The answer about not rehearsing really shed a light on the way tours are seen by MK, don't you think? To me, he looked exactly like that in 2015: Unrehearsed.

LE

Yep.  Frankly I find it a bit of an insult that he warms-up on his fee paying fans early in the tour.

Looking to the HOF debacle (yet again), I am think perhaps this has led to Guys newly found sense of freedom.  Perhaps he is miffed with Mark and perhaps talking to Alan has led him astray with stories that old DS tunes are actually still popular to audiences.

[Love Expresso]

The band is always able to deliver quality work, and they do. I remember Dublin 2015, sitting first row, with many amiters... but at no point MK himself blew me away, it was great to see him, yes, like seeing old friends again, but I expected more... Most of his solo play had that cringe moment to it, realizing, yes indeed, he IS getting older .... the long set however was a nice touch, although with too many boring songs at the end...
Why I repeat that? Because now I realize how this could happen. Plus when in Hamburg a month later, I went with a very good guitar Player and a DS lover, no Hardcore fan, and he said exactly that after the show, he's rusty, you see that he doesn't rehearse.. I remember that our member Goldenheart96 was attacked on Facebook for stating the same opinion..

So maybe this longer than usual break leads to the need of rehearsals and therefore to a couple of new (old) songs...

LE

[Love Expresso]

I mean you shouldn't sit there and fear that he messes up Sultans ... or you wait for the mess up moment and there it is, if there is one thing he delivers, it will be that mistake again..
He is bound to this couple of songs only as he really cannot play anymore, he is able to repeat these, but has no energy to liften up his guitar skills to do other stuff. The choice of On Every Street and Your Latest Trick with featuring the Sax more than the guitar is evident to that. So it's more and more demanding to him to deliver good playing, therefore he dishes up what's safe for him. That thought about him turning to an album artist from Guy's forum has something to it the more I think about it...

LE

[Love Expresso]

To be fair, after I woke up from my short nap at that Hamburg 2015 show, he really delivered a great Brothers In Arms, really a blast from the past which almost gave me those long lost shivers. That version would be worth buying the recording alone, I remember thinking.

LE

[holaknopfler]

To be fair, after I woke up from my short nap at that Hamburg 2015 show, he really delivered a great Brothers In Arms, really a blast from the past which almost gave me those long lost shivers. That version would be worth buying the recording alone, I remember thinking.

LE

You’ve done it, LE!! Something positive!;-) I’m joking of course. I kinda agree. But he can still do it if he wants I’m sure. If only he’d rehearse more..

[superval99]

The band is always able to deliver quality work, and they do. I remember Dublin 2015, sitting first row, with many amiters... but at no point MK himself blew me away, it was great to see him, yes, like seeing old friends again, but I expected more... Most of his solo play had that cringe moment to it, realizing, yes indeed, he IS getting older .... the long set however was a nice touch, although with too many boring songs at the end...
Why I repeat that? Because now I realize how this could happen. Plus when in Hamburg a month later, I went with a very good guitar Player and a DS lover, no Hardcore fan, and he said exactly that after the show, he's rusty, you see that he doesn't rehearse.. I remember that our member Goldenheart96 was attacked on Facebook for stating the same opinion..

So maybe this longer than usual break leads to the need of rehearsals and therefore to a couple of new (old) songs...

LE

I believe you about the Dublin gig, LE, even though I wasn't there, but I was at Manchester the next night and I thought he played extremely well and, yes, it was a long set there as well, so he can play well when he puts his mind to it.