Some food for thought. Imagine this scenario: DT take a page (not literally) from Iron Maiden's 2010 first leg of their tour, where they completely discarded the majority of their classics to focus on only the reunion albums, saving the older songs for the end of the show and the encore. Now they decide it's time for a bold statement, they've given us Images and Words in full, the tour before that, not counting The Astonishing of course, had half Awake and a Scenes suite, so for now, they're gonna focus on the current era of the band.
Imagine the setlist for the new tour - there's a possibility they won't do another Evening With show and go on a normal headline tour with another band from the label as support - is shaped somehow like this:
- A lot of songs off DT14
- A suite for The Astonishing songs (Indulge myself, I know it won't happen, they even discarded it mid-I&WAB tour)
- Finally, Surrender to Reason off the self titled, and maybe Behind the Veil which was played only on a short summer tour
- Outrcy and the Mangini era classic Breaking All Illusion to close the main set
As balance, the encore is made up of older songs fans clamor to hear, let's say they open the encore with The Glass Prison, then they play, dunno, Only A Matter of Time or Panick Attack or Peruvian Skies, something that gets the crowd going, and they end the show with Home, big epic off one of their most revered albums.
Would you enjoy something like that? it doesn't have to be so literal, take the general idea - most, if not everything, of the main set is dedicated to the Mangini albums, and the older songs, especially some fan favorites, are saved for the encore or with a minimal representation in the main set. How about that?