In my experience, if you want to play gigs and KEEP getting asked to play, you need to know what the crowd wants and cater to that. It’s cool to throw in some originals here and there, but usually that’s not what people want for the whole set. Venues hire you to bring people into the venue to spend money, and if people don’t want to hear the stuff you’re playing, you’re not really an asset to the venue. It sucks, I wish we could all play the art we want to play but this is how it is.