[HIPLVR]

I take the odd gander at the set lists that have been posted and I started to notice that the number of songs seemed to average around 19 over the past leg of the summer tour.
I remembered last year seeing 21 and 22 songs at a few shows in SW Ontario and noticed the number started to dwindle down before the West Coast swing this year.
Does anyone know of a reason this may have happened? The longer the set the better, obviously, and I'm hoping for as many songs as possible down East.

I haven't gone back to previous years at this point but it seems to me they used to do 2 and 3 encore sets in the past and now have it set at 1. I haven't reviewed the song counts from those concerts but just another observation I was thinking about.
(Some of the guys at work were talking about a Neil Peart book and he had talked about Rush only doing one encore set or something like that and I wondered if it was coincidence. That's just hearsay on my part though - not sure of the details.)

[HIPLVR]

I take the odd gander at the set lists that have been posted and I started to notice that the number of songs seemed to average around 19 over the past leg of the summer tour.
I remembered last year seeing 21 and 22 songs at a few shows in SW Ontario and noticed the number started to dwindle down before the West Coast swing this year.
Does anyone know of a reason this may have happened? The longer the set the better, obviously, and I'm hoping for as many songs as possible down East.

I haven't gone back to previous years at this point but it seems to me they used to do 2 and 3 encore sets in the past and now have it set at 1. I haven't reviewed the song counts from those concerts but just another observation I was thinking about.
(Some of the guys at work were talking about a Neil Peart book and he had talked about Rush only doing one encore set or something like that and I wondered if it was coincidence. That's just hearsay on my part though - not sure of the details.)

I guess I could have went and looked before posting. Looks like the 2k4 tour, at least the later dates, had two to three encores but the song count didn't really fluctuate all that much. Maybe they've cut back to one encore for time sake or something. No idea.

Any insight is surely appreciated.