I feel like, after reading the anger about the move last night on another board, the band is truly in a can't win. Play the same stuff every night, they are a juke box and can't mix it up. Move songs around, people who have precious little memories about that time that girl let them touch them to ASOH are mad. Replace old with new, the band are trying to be pop stars and it sucks. Replace new with old, and the band are stuck in the past. Play a show of nothing but B sides and 20,000 will be happy and the tour will lose money. Replace an AB track with an AB track and people become precious with the removed track (Ultraviolet) even though the new one with guitar work melts your face off (Mysterious Ways).
I mean, replacing ASOH with Bad was not an affront to humanity. I love ASOH, but it was not universally received at Rose Bowl 1. The people who did, like me, went nuts, but Bad is a similar era track of similar emotion, and longer, that pulls a bigger response. Yeah, we are sick of songs like Elevation, but up tempo rockers are they way they want to exit, and a lot of people know Elevation, my least favorite song of the set for sure, but people bump to it.
Of all tours, this is the one the complaining has hit absurd levels for me. We are getting a whole frickin' side of stuff we never thought we would hear, surrounded by Bad and Ultraviolet or maybe Mysterious, and I Will Follow and sometimes a new song and maybe ASOH here and there. Enough, already...they didn't pull Ultraviolet (which was not totally working, IMO) for Boots. We got Slide Mysterious Ways.