Once again, POPMart and ZooTV were more theatrical in nature. There was much more visual material that coincided with certain songs. I was under the impression that the whole point of Elevation (and to a slightly lesser extent, Vertigo) was that it was stripped down, which would enable the band to play whatever they wanted to.
Unfortunately, they are either too lazy to rehearse more songs from their back catalogue, unwilling to challenge their audience by mixing it up night to night, or a combination of both.
Hell, at the beginning of this tour I was praising them to the heavens for throwing curveballs like An Cat Dubh, The Ocean, even Electric Co, and leaving out tired material like WOWY. But here we are down the road, and some of that rare shit has fallen by the wayside, while ISHFWILF and WOWY are back in their cemented permanent spots.
The part of the quote that Chizip left out is the most important to me:
"It definitely feels like starting over," he said. "And that's what we want to do. We want to do something different. It's nine months since we started thinking about the tour, and that's a long time. We want to keep developing the show. We never allow it to become too static. We want to introduce new ideas as we go."
Does Edge realize what band he's in? Is he losing nightly arguments about changing the show up? Because it seems to me that new ideas are few and far between. It's also pointless to come up with an idea like playing a full band Original of the Species or Wild Horses, and then unceremoniously dropping it immediately, even though they was fantastic. New ideas like playing Vertigo twice on a lark, and then ending nearly every goddamned show with it, in place of something that really concludes with a special feeling, like 40, Bad, etc.
You folks can go back and forth all you want. But you can't read that quote and not scratch your head a bit, because someone's not putting their money with their mouth is (or vice versa, perhaps).
Maybe he's saving up his energy for his probable rant tonight 
and somehow seem to want to kill the thread with this - Please stop it. We're in 2005 now, in the middle of the Vertigo tour, and if we want to discuss this now, we do.
