Want do you think is the best and worst decision the band has made over their career?

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  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,384
    Best:  Variety of set lists as many have said. Taking a page out of the Grateful Dead playlist has made them the greatest live band on the earth for many years IMO. 

    Worst:  Becoming the “brand” they are now. Not sure I can explain it too well but it just seems like they have become a major business now. In some ways I’m sure it’s contributed to their longevity but it seems to have lost the organic feel it used to have. 

    The cancellation of Raleigh has to be a close second. I just don’t understand what that accomplished other than pissing off a bunch of fans that just wanted to escape and see their favorite band. (I didn’t even have tickets, just felt bad for those that did)
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,849
    Abe Froman said:
    Best:  Variety of set lists as many have said. Taking a page out of the Grateful Dead playlist has made them the greatest live band on the earth for many years IMO. 

    Worst:  Becoming the “brand” they are now. Not sure I can explain it too well but it just seems like they have become a major business now. In some ways I’m sure it’s contributed to their longevity but it seems to have lost the organic feel it used to have. 

    The cancellation of Raleigh has to be a close second. I just don’t understand what that accomplished other than pissing off a bunch of fans that just wanted to escape and see their favorite band. (I didn’t even have tickets, just felt bad for those that did)
    agreed. should have played the show and donated a hefty sum to LGBTQ. 
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
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    Best career decision Sent the tape to Eddie 
    Worst career decision - Not make a videoclip for Black 
    Best Live decision  - Different setlist and  Ghost at Jacksonville 16
    Worst live decision- played live alot Just Breathe and not Fatal,All or none ,parting ways,Strangest Tribe Around the bend
    Best Merch  decision  - PJ20 Backpack
    Worst Merch  decision- Shipping methods
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  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    ed243421 said:
    Boom & arms aloft at alpine
    arms aloft was the weirdest choice ever made especially for that weekend 
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  • JimmyV
    JimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,605
    Best: Staying together all these years
    Worst: Not making the most of some of these years they stayed together
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  • jimjam1982
    jimjam1982 AZ Posts: 1,471
    Best: Random fun set lists
    Worst: The 2022 conversion to a legacy act/greatest hits band
  • apirk72
    apirk72 Posts: 506
    Best:  When they do what I want them to do (play shows I can go to, songs I want, put out just enough merch so I can get it but not enough that it doesn't hold its value)
    Worst:  When they do things I don't want them to do (tours where I can't make it to a show or get tickets to, play songs I don' want to hear, play live for an amount of time I feel is not adequate) 
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    apirk72 said:
    Best:  When they do what I want them to do (play shows I can go to, songs I want, put out just enough merch so I can get it but not enough that it doesn't hold its value)
    Worst:  When they do things I don't want them to do (tours where I can't make it to a show or get tickets to, play songs I don' want to hear, play live for an amount of time I feel is not adequate) 
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,894
    apirk72 said:
    Best:  When they do what I want them to do (play shows I can go to, songs I want, put out just enough merch so I can get it but not enough that it doesn't hold its value)
    Worst:  When they do things I don't want them to do (tours where I can't make it to a show or get tickets to, play songs I don' want to hear, play live for an amount of time I feel is not adequate) 

    :D  
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    dimitrispearljam said:
    ed243421 said:
    Boom & arms aloft at alpine
    arms aloft was the weirdest choice ever made especially for that weekend 
    Ed’s connection to Joe Strummer as part of the history perhaps he was nodding to during PJ20 doesn’t make it so strange. 
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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,005
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    dimitrispearljam said:
    ed243421 said:
    Boom & arms aloft at alpine
    arms aloft was the weirdest choice ever made especially for that weekend 
    Ed’s connection to Joe Strummer as part of the history perhaps he was nodding to during PJ20 doesn’t make it so strange. 
    It was an epic setlist fail by Ed to play that as the second song. I hear what you’re saying about Strummer and I like the cover myself. But as the second song on that night? The place was ready to explode after Release. Had they played Animal or something in that vein, the roof may have blown off the amphitheater. Hmm…actually, maybe that’s why Ed went with a song that would get absolutely no reaction whatsoever. For safety purposes. 

    And why has this never been released? It was such a fun weekend. No official audio (though I do have some soundboards from the shows that leaked) or official video? That could go on the list of bad decisions.   
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  • cp3iverson
    cp3iverson Posts: 8,702
    dimitrispearljam said:
    ed243421 said:
    Boom & arms aloft at alpine
    arms aloft was the weirdest choice ever made especially for that weekend 
    Never understood the hate.  An energetic rock song is the second song played at PJ20 and the crowd becomes dead?  That’s on the crowd.  It was already a well known PJ cover at that point


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