RUN FOR YOUR LIVES WORLD TOUR (2025/2026)

BludBrutha said:
That’s not rotating stuff in and out, that’s deciding something doesn’t work and to try plan B. Most tours have had some minor adjustments near the start. Usually putting Wraithchild back in, unfortunately.
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I would consider that as rotating.

According to Wikipedia:
  • "Paschendale" (from Dance of Death, 2003) was played rather than "Dance of Death" in Dallas, San Antonio, Albuquerque, San Bernardino, and Auburn.
Those cities were every other night, so they were rotating those two songs for the first nine dates of the tour.
 
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Why they wanted to try to rotate two of the most complex post reunion songs is still beyond me.

Do it, I don't know, with 2 Minutes and Icarus, and not the 8+ minute epics.
 
matic22 said:
Why they wanted to try to rotate two of the most complex post reunion songs is still beyond me.

Do it, I don't know, with 2 Minutes and Icarus, and not the 8+ minute epics.
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I doubt it went honestly beyond wanting to play both, not being able to decide which they should go with and instead making the call to experiment with rotating the two. I don't really see the inherent issue, since while Paschendale at least initially had problems, it's not like only playing it every other gig somehow makes it harder as long as they've rehearsed the song enough. Which they probably hadn't, but that's on them, not the rotation.
 
My personal theory is that Dance of Death was a safe pick and Paschendale was one they maybe wanted to play more but wanted to have a backup plan because it wasn't going super well in rehearsals. Since every live version of Paschendale in 2010 was pretty rough while Dance of Death always sounded good, I'm guessing they just gave up on Paschendale and went with the song that they could pull off more consistently. I don't think it was really meant to be a rotation slot as much as it took a few showsa for them to figure out what song worked best in that slot.

I guess I assume that if Paschendale had gone better that first night they would have never swapped it out. I can't really see them keeping a rotation slot open for the entire tour.
 
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