lowlight79 wrote:
All there tours since 2006 have been designed to maximize profits.
Of course they are. And I don't necessarily have a problem with how they structure their tours or why. I wish they'd play my hometown, but other than that, I totally understand playing where there's a return.
My problem with the current state of live PJ is that there seems to be very little, if any, interest in expressing their art in a professional manner. They just make their way to the venue, plug in, and whatever comes out, so be it, who cares. I miss the days where they wrote on the road, they went new places within the songs, they improv'd on a regular basis, and they genuinely cared about creating something through their live performance. Instead, they just bust through the songs the same way every time, and pull a couple of half-assed, usually poorly performed rarities to spice it up. There are exceptions to all of this, of course, but the exceptions are few and far between.