Which bands have...

Tonight, my beau and I watched an early H-Marillion DVD from the Seasons End tour, in which the band played Seasons End in its entirety (broken up and re-arranged amongst Fish-era tracks), and I got to thinking...  it's not common that an established band with several albums under its belt will play their new album in its entirety unless it's a concept album.

I'm having trouble thinking of many bands that've done that...  used the majority of their show to play their brand-new non-concept album completely.  It's a brave thing to do, no pun intended.  You risk alienating the 'hardcore' fans who are in love with the old material and don't want the set 'wasted' by new material that they aren't too familiar with.

Really, aside from this instance, the only other one that springs to mind is a recent Iron Maiden tour where they played the new album completely (and got a lot of bad reviews for it). 

Concept albums don't count.

Any examples? 

Presumably VDGG did it, considering there's a DVD of their 1975 album 'Godbluff' played in its entirety at the same concert.

Edited by salmacis - August 31 2007 at 07:26

Gilmour played the whole of "On an Island" on his tour last year. And the listing was almost identical to the album (he moved "Take a Breath" from 4th to 6th or 7th song, If I recall).

febus wrote: This is just ''business as usual''.   You have a new product, you've got to market it

Actually, it is usually the other way 'round, meaning that musicians base their marketing on their previous "products", which their "buyers" already know and feel comfortable with, in order to induce within this safe medium some of the new product, but not very much of it, in order not to create discomfort ("What is this?").

Metallica - Master of Puppets. Not prog but hey-ho.

Was there any instance of Pain of Salvation playing Be in concert just like on the DVD?

On a different note, Pink Floyd played DSOTM on PULSE, right?

salmacis wrote: ELP must have come close with 'Brain Salad Surgery'- certainly, on the triple live album 'Welcome Back...' the whole album is played except for 'Benny The Bouncer', and I'm sure that's surfaced on subsequent live releases and those 'official bootlegs'.

puma wrote: Porcupine Tree played every song from Fear of a Blank Planet on this current tour,l.

He said "no concept albums"

Which bands (apart from PT, please dont mention PT) have....

Asphalt wrote: Ah, yes, how could I forget, Cynic playd Focus entirely on their reunion concert

When was this and how did I miss it?

Man Overboard wrote: I'm having trouble thinking of many bands that've done that...  used the majority of their show to play their brand-new non-concept album completely.  It's a brave thing to do, no pun intended.  You risk alienating the 'hardcore' fans who are in love with the old material and don't want the set 'wasted' by new material that they aren't too familiar with.

Dream Theater, unless you think all of their albums are "concept" albums. And yes, for Marillion it is their regular thing to play entire new album in fan events.