An Encore is a sham. The " encore " is written on the setlist. No gig has an "encore" . It's all a charade.
The Astonishing live is well over 2 hours of music.
BOO HOO there's no "encore"
Oh grow up.
Thank You!
One of the few sane persons when it comes to the "encore" thing. I hate encores when they are planned out in advance. On the first "Flying Colors" concert BluRay, when they came back after about 5 minutes of applause to play a song they practiced - just in case... now THAT is an encore and about 0.5% of bands have that!
Well there are time limits and restraints with the venue so it's not realistic to think a band will perform a set and if, and only if, the crowd cheers loud enough then they come back. Then all of the rest of the concerts where that didint happen, those fans got screwed out of an extra song or two.
There's no doubt the "encore" is really just part of the set list. But that doesn't mean it isn't an "encore"
Another point I wanted to make regarding DT and encores...DT has had some really awesome encores in the past sometimes lasting 15-20 minutes. Some bands just do one more song, or two, nothing crazy, but DT has had some very memorable encores from my experience. "Schmedley Wilcox" is one of them, playing The Count of Tuscany, Metropolis ft. Dweezal Zappa (spelling?). They have historically done more interesting encores than other bands.