[screw_ball]

I saw the Black Crowes a couple weeks ago and I was very disappointed. The Crowes played a 3 hour set with jam after jam after jam after jam and only played 3-4 hits.........Most of the setlist I didn't know.

I doubt you know how hard it is to make a good setlist. Sure, you want to play the hits, but what about the big fans? The ones that know all the songs and drove six hundred miles too get to the show because they just love the band so much. I hate it when a band uses the logic that, if they play only the hits, it will please the casual fan because he only knows the hits, but will still please the hardcore fan because the hardcore fan loves most (if not all) of the songs. I just don't think that's fair because, as a musician, I don't want to restrain myself from playing a song I like to play because it's not a hit, and as a fan of the band, because their best songs usually aren't just their hits. I think it takes balls from the Black Crowes to play what they want and not try and please everyone. Sure, the fans payed money to go see them, but if they want to hear only the hits, they should go out and buy their greatest hits.

Then again, maybe I'm just being selfish. Sorry for the derail.