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RinglingRingling wrote:

BigR-KyParrothead wrote:i'm really disappointed with this years set. i thought it was great at the beginning of the tour, but he has shown very little creativity since show #1. it seems to me, that jb usually chages things up a tad...but not this year. i was so excited last year with the different acoustic encore...nothing like that this year. maybe if i didnt listen to so many shows on radiomargaritavile i would feel different......

as far as other bands setlist....

Dave Matthews Band does a completely new setlist for every show, very seldom will you get a song repeated in a week span. I think that is awesome, wish JB would steal a page from the DMB playbook.

as long as "Tripping Billies" isn't on that page.

AMEN!!!!!!

Wow I'm really surprised by all the comment to my original post!

I was there saturday at comcast and thought the show was good. Of my favorites where the ones I hadn't heard live for quite some time, but I thought the band actually sounded pretty solid. As an aside, I bought tix through ticketmaster 8 days prior to the show and got tix in Section One Row S. Def made a huge difference.

I'm a HUGE Springsteen fan and I guess wishing that JB would show the same sort of creativity as Bruce is askign too much?!? I'm tired of telling people, "no, no buffett really does have some amazing song writing skills and some great tunes." I'd just figure he must be so bored playing the same old same old each night. He's a legend, and at Great Woods he could read the bible for 2 straight nights and then put tix on sale for the following year the next day and STILL sell the place out! I guess the point is if he challenged his audience he wouldn't lose any fans, and if he did the 1,000's that get shut out every year would gladly fill those empty spots.

look he could play the entire yellow album and still have room for 14-15 other jimmy buffett songs!the covers have to go and the order of the songs for this years tour is part of the problem. he has way to many "yellow album" songs one right after the other in the first set.i think its 8 from the 2nd Great Woods show. But its also the covers that as fans some of us except as jb songs, such as stars on the water, 5 o'clock somewhere, beg, and southern cross. regardless of whether he recorded them or not, they have been absolutely played to death and its time to hear jb's other sing-alongs. if he is unwilling to do the more obscure ballad type songs that are in his catalog he could at least do more of that instead of playing cover songs. if i remember correctly didnt his own boxset sell millions of copies? then he throws in other covers like yellow submarine and rhumba man every year and it starts looking like a cover band that plays hit sing-alongs from the past 30 years!

dont get me wrong i had a really good time at the great woods show and thought it was an improvement from last years tour, but when i think back to a decade or even 5 years ago and look at those sets i cant help but wonder.and those tours were selling jus as well if not better than the current tour.

Jimmy should do what Steely Dan has done for their tour this year. On certain nights they play one of 3 entire albums, in order, for the first half of the show. The second half has their other hits.

On other nights they do an "Internet Request" show, with the playlist generated by votes from people who've bought tickets to the show.

I love both concepts, but the idea of the request show blows me away!!!

SuperTrooper wrote:Jimmy should do what Steely Dan has done for their tour this year. On certain nights they play one of 3 entire albums, in order, for the first half of the show. The second half has their other hits.

On other nights they do an "Internet Request" show, with the playlist generated by votes from people who've bought tickets to the show.

I love both concepts, but the idea of the request show blows me away!!!

a few years back he was suppossed to do an "album feature" each night and that lasted maybe 3 shows..i like the idea of having a fan vote for the top requested songs from each album and making that the setlist for the tour... the steely dan "internet request" is also a really cool way to appeal to the fans that are actually going to the show and makes going to more shows much more desirable.