1997 FM Concert Reviews

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by anusha

I think many bands played more or less the same show with similar banter every night, but the main thing that I see changing was the ability of fans to share recaps almost instantaneously on the internet (and later video) made the repetition more evident to the average fan who might have read or seen prior versions of a show.

Yes. I don't know if in the 80s concerts the bands used to repeat the same speech, only those who attended several nights during a tour know. In this case we didn't have internet and social media, but there was The Dance video, so we knew they were repeating the script.

I wonder if it was the same case as in Hell Freezes Over. Did Glenn repeated "For the record, we never broke up; we just took a fourteen-year vacation" every night? Or "We didn't think getting back together was quite as legitimate unless we had some new material..." or Don about one of the new songs "The third verses are kind of multiple choice kind of thing, and I probably won't remember any of them, so..."