All In All, It Was A Pretty Nice Day
Sadly, that's the lastest I've stayed up in quite a while (like 2:30 a.m.). I'm getting old.
So the concert was really good, but it failed to live up to Dave's Rules For Giving A Concert.
Basically, when I go to a concert, I understand that a musician generally has a new album out that they're really proud of, and want to show of some of the cool new songs from it. And that's fine.

But generally speaking, I feel that you should limit the new stuff to maybe a third to a half of the concert, and then, for the fans, many of whom may only see you once or twice in concert, play a large number of your more popular songs, which realistically are what most of these people came to see.

Probably two-thirds to three-quarters of the concert was stuff from the new album, from which I would have wanted to hear maybe three songs. She did kind of redeem herself at the end, and I got my definitely money's worth, but I'll probably just check that off my list of things to do, and move on, and likely not see her again (not that there's a lot of artists I've seen more than once... B.B. King and Rebecca St. James are the only two that come to mind).
And to give due credit, Tori did perform the one extremely unlikely song I was interested in hearing--a cover of Sweet Home Alabama, as only Tori can.

To be honest, though, this is something that happens to me a lot, I'll go to a concert expecting to hear a handful of songs I really want to hear, and then only know a fraction of what they play. Springsteen and Petty come to mind immediately as examples. In both of those cases, though, I came out of the concert liking a lot of their songs I hadn't been familiar with previously, and in Springsteen's case, became a much bigger fan.

So, feedback... when you go to a concert, are you more interested in seeing an artist perform "greatest hits" live, or are you more interested in getting something new you haven't gotten or picked up on previously?

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