Anatomy of a Setlist

[elle]

very nice CAD!!

had no clue they performed GYOW on every tour since 1975, even when LB was not there.

so we have these songs with highest number of tours (not counting CM songs other than Don't Stop, and not counting tours where current 4 were not all present) -

GYOW - 7x
Landslide - 7x
Rhiannon - 7x
ISA - 7x

SHN - 6x
Don’t Stop - 6x
Dreams - 6x
The Chain - 6x

Tusk - 5x (every tour since Tusk)
NGBA - 5x
World Turning - 5x
Oh Well - 5x

Blue Letter - 4x
GDW - 4x
Gypsy - 4x (every tour since Mirage)
Sara - 4x

Big Love - 3x (every tour since the dance)
Silver Springs - 3x (every tour since the dance)

Eyes - 3x
IKINW - 3x
Monday Morning - 3x
NTF - 3x

bolded are all songs that i can give them as must do, some of them selected b/c they were late arrivals (Tusk was on every tour since Tusk and Gypsy every tour since Mirage; SS and BL really arrived with The Dance tour) and that's why their numbers are not as large. songs that are not bolded above cannot be counted as regulars in this list since they were not on every tour since they were first introduced.

i am not counting solo songs - they are not FM songs and therefore by definition they cannot be regulars.

so i guess we have 12 must-do songs. if i had my way, i'd replace Gypsy with GDW.