8th February, 2017 - Bon Secous Wellness Arena, Greenville, USA

I mean... if you go to ticketmaster, you will see that there is less than 100 tickets available - all at the very, very back at the venue - most behind the stage.

Also - at least for this show, I am incredibly impressed at the ticket prices. $92 USD for floor seats/ lower bowl seats? Neat.

Edit: But of course Atlanta, similar tickets are $350 :/ Nevermind.

Both NYC MSG shows sold out

Pretty sure We Don't Run will be played at every show, as it's kind of become the new anthem for the band, and rightfully so, as it rocks.

Remember too, Jon said they will definitely be opening the back catalog and playing album cuts and rarities more often this tour. Anything will be better than the static, vanilla set lists of the BWC tour...

I hope they dust off songs from Crush and Bounce, like Hook Me Up, Next 100 Years, Two Story Town, One Wild Night, Bounce, Everyday, etc. No doubt they're gonna stick with post-2000 album cuts but at least play the ones that haven't been played in years! Like One Wild Night...such a great party song, great for a show, and they've shunned it since 2001, only playing it twice in 2008.

That's what he says before every new tour.
Remember The Circle Tour and the promise to play the early stuff? Lasted a couple of shows until he fell back to old setlist habits.

Alright, today is the day!

I am wishing for something like this:

1) Livin' on a prayer
2) Have a nice day
3) You give love a bad name
4) Living in sin
5) Bed of roses
6) I Believe
7) Hey god
(You want to) make a memory?
9) Welcome to wherever you are
10) Superman tonight
11) Everyday
12) We don't run
13) This house is not for sale
14) Born again tomorrow
15) It's my life

Encore 1
16) I believe
17) Dry county
1 Always

Encore 2
19) These days
20) This ain't a love song

Encore 3
21) Something to believe in
22) Never say goodbye

But where's the "No Bobby on current leg of this tour" thread? C'mon people, he's was a member for 10 years, where's his respect??

Just kidding

Sooo, no livestream for the first show? They could make an effort dammit, it's not like it's going to cost them extra bucks, they are already recording every show right?

I'm not specially excited for this show or for the whole tour tbh, but Jon seems pretty confident in his abilites, much more confident than I feel about his showmanship right now but that's not the point. If he's ready, they are missing a chance to showcase it. Many people wrote them off after the last tour, they should be using every opportunity to prove them wrong.

As for the setlist, we know the first shows would be THINFS heavy which is a huge improvement from past tours. If it works, it's going to be a greater tour than I expected if they mix THINFS and some decent cuts from anything older than LH (not many vocally easy choices there though). If not, well, I wouldn't mind about setlists on this leg because I don't think I'll be watching many bootlegs for LH-GH tour take 3

Happy show to everybody who's going

You clearly need more coffee today. You are hallucinating

I'd take this setlist even if the rest of the show was the whole WAN album but I don't believe for a second there'll be anything from the 90s on this tour. I even feel pretty confident to say that I'd running naked in the streets if Jon sings These Days because it's not going to happen. Jon is never going to sing those songs again. Well, he could sing them, of course, but there's no need for him to show 20,000 souls how poor his voice is when he can still get away with lots of other songs without his head exploding

It's my show day!! I'm much more excited than I expected, didn't sleep much.

I'm leaving work at 4:30 and traveling the 2 hours to Greenville with a (former) Jovi diehard. We have 8th row aisle seats on the floor. We paid $162 each before fees, all the other shows were $380ish for that close.

I got an email today about the bracelets for the live download. $34.99.

I don't think we are going to see many livestreams this tour, if any. That would defeat the purpose of selling CDs/bracelets after the shows. I wouldn't expect anything more than a 30-40 minute snippet.

Some of the song selection will be based on what works for the masses rather than the die hard fan. Some of the songs we want to hear will be lost on 70% of the crowd. I think if you see that then you probably revert back to what works...