We want MARS back.
This letter was written by the Echelon after some considerations about a lot of changes in the band and the most problematic aspects originated after the last album. It's NOT a protesting or a disapproving letter, we only wanted to give them some advice. We hope Mars could accept and take our suggestions into consideration. We LOVE Thirty Seconds to Mars and we just want the best for them.
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Dear Jared, Shannon and Tomo,
We would like to start saying that not everybody was in favour, but every single Echelon that decided to stick to this letter was pushed by the affection towards you and by a sincere worry.
We canât and we donât want to impose anything, we love you, we follow you and we support you, but we think to have the right to express our opinion about some topics.
The following points are simply constructive critiques and advice that we hope you can understand and take into consideration.
SETLIST
We would like longer setlists.
We know that this is âLove Lust Faith + Dreams World Tourâ, but if the standard Setlist consisted of 21 songs, you would have all the time to play, for example:
8 songs from Love Lust Faith + Dreams;
7 songs from This Is War;
4 songs from A Beautiful Lie (at least the three main singles: The Kill, From Yesterday and A Beautiful Lie, that they undeniably take part of the bandâs story and they are also the most wanted by the fans);
2 songs (at least) from S/T.
Substantially itâs not a big change for you, the setlist would remain centered on the last album, without exclusions, but at the same time it would include your discography and a greater approval of the audience in a better way.
Furthermore, we would like to attend to longer and various live shows, introducing in rotation songs that arenât played very often. This would guarantee better and above all different shows, to avoid that people that attend to more concerts would listen to the same tracks.
Last, but not least, all countries where you play should be treated in an equal way, guaranteeing to everybody a high quality show because, unfortunately, it happened before that setlists in smaller countries were considerably shorter. We are all Echelon and your supporter, we all deserve to have big shows.
ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
Available quantities of Adventures In Wonderland packages are excessive. A lot of people that have bought the Kings And Queens Package complained about the big crowding present at the Meet & Greet and of the consequent inadequate interaction with the band, especially during the signing and photo sessions, that sometimes brought to skip the Q+A session or to reduce it to two or three questions. We simply would like a better quality/price ratio.
OFFICIAL FANCLUB
We would like to propose the creation of an official Fan club, maybe through the opening of a website (and the reactivation of the old board), that could keep the Band and their collaborators in direct contact with those who will subscribe. It would also guarantee a point of meeting and comparison for all fans, for example as the LPU Underground for Linkin Park or as the Official SP Crew for Simple Plan. Through this website we would like the Band to assign us promotional missions and to keep a direct connection with the Fandom, maybe guaranteeing some exclusive rights to the subscribers as for example: reserved VyRTs unreleased material, discount on the merchandise, pre-sale tickets or other facilitation that would convince people to participate. We hope that this idea could be taken seriously in consideration now that youâre not bound to any record label anymore. We would be happy and honored of being part of it and of contributing to the promotion of your future works. So, it would be great if you made official the fan pages and the communities all over the world (which wonât have direct and official contacts anymore) from which we could have information to continue the bandâs promotion country by country. It would be a nice way to recognize the hard work of a lot of Echelon that share news and promote the Band unfailingly, as Avril Lavigne does with her Fanclub Avril Bandaids.
PROMOTION
As far as the promotion is concerned, we think that more continuity is necessary. Three singles have been released with related videos in six months, (Up In The Air, Do Or Die, City Of Angels) but in the last seven months there was nothing new to promote. In this way, radio stations will play more recent songs by other artists rather than yours. So it becomes difficult to have the band known with songs released the previous year. Furthermore, a release as âStayâ, as far as appreciable, doesnât help the sales of the album. Everybody was expecting a new single/video for End Of All Days after Jaredâs continuous declarations.
VyRT
We think that VyRT is an excellent platform to keep the relationship between the Band and the fans, but lately it seems like itâs not used for this purpose, but only to make easy money. At first the various VyRTs, as the Mars labs, were worth absolutely the price of the ticket, thanks to the live performances of various songs played in original way. But now the same songs are played too often in an uninvolved and careless way, sometimes incomplete, without any changes from VyRT to VyRT and alternated to a continue and exaggerated telesales of objects of the Store. Again, we would like a better quality/price ratio.
 We conclude saying, unwillingly, that lately it seems that you are more interested in making money rather than showing something to those you always called âFamilyâ. Probably these things will hurt you, but be sure that, feeling neglected and being seen only as a profit spring, hurts us more. Now you will be wondering: âWell, why are you still here?â. Weâre still here because we love you, because a lot of us wouldnât be here if it hadnât been for you and above all because we trust you and your potentialities. We want the best for this band and itâs for this that weâll continue to support you as we have always done.
 We love You.
Sincerely,
the Echelon
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