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Originally Posted by stimpee
I've seen this band at least 60 times and believe me this is far from the worst. This tour is a massive improvement on the Barking tour and the slightly modified tour that followed it. They worked hard on this and you can tell. It is a shame they chose to again not mix it up and maybe those days are over.
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I agree that the Barking tour was probably their worst one. But visually Barking had a great deal more going on than this current one. And while I also agree that so far Barbara has been a massive improvement, its still quite far behind AHDO-era ones.
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I really hope not but for me instead of seeing them on as many gigs as possible I now see them maybe twice max three times on a tour. They have dropped a few songs here and there and included others. Some people have missed the Faxed Invitation mix up for instance.
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Dropped for time constraints. My not seeing Dark Train in NYC had nothing to do with playing to the crowd or experimenting, it had everything to do with the time limit.
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If you havent seen UW for a few years then you wont know that this tour actually has more visuals than we've been used to. I loved the selfie cam of the 2005-2006 tour, and the big green laser for King of Snake. But this is a nice video screen. I'm sure they will do more stuff with it in future. It looks like they have invested a lot of money on new hardware. Keep the faith.
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This is where you lost me. I haven't seen them 60 times, thats for sure so my sample-size is considerably smaller. But in every show I've seen from 1998 - present, the visuals for Barbara are undeniably less. I'd even go so far as to say non-existent for this tour. Its a gorgeous screen, and one that went wildly unused.
I was keeping the faith, but its been 6 years and I'm starting to wonder if this is the new direction. I'm not afforded the same opportunity to see them on all their smaller half-tours. This is it for me. And for what its worth, it was a bit of a missed opportunity.