15th April 2017 - Madison Square Garden, New York, Night 2 Thread
 

Always WILL be played tonight, as will Captain Crap and Saturday Night. Probably Blood On Blood as well, and maybe I Got The Girl (no doubt about Steph being there to dance with her Dad on stage...). Personally, I'd love to see Dry County and/or These Days in the setlist, but I'm pretty sure Jon is too careful about his voice and avoids them for that very reason. If the guy would just relax a bit and not be afraid of failing, he'd probably sound pretty much the same as he did in 2012/early 2013. But I believe the confidence issue (probably caused mostly by Richie's departure) has taken its toll on JBJ and it will take quite a while for him to recover.

Here's to hope for a good show:

https://youtu.be/h30cC5rRwFM

Bloody hell, I miss 2011.

PS. And, of course, I Love This Town will make its tour debut... unfortunately. It will probably take its place early in the set (as on multiple occasions during the LH tour) - maybe it will replace Whole Lot Of Leavin' in tonight's set?

Wow, 30 songs. That has to be one of the longest shows Jovi has done?

They also have that Golf thing in August

Surprisingly I think the longest show they've ever done was at the What About Now tour in Italy. It was 3 hours and 15 minutes.

Which knocks this "new musician" bullshit people are trying to excuse Jon with. Phil X was at this show, and at that show they debuted Undivided and played a bunch of songs like This Ain't A Love Song, Never Say Goodbye, These Days etc.

I also think people underestimate Phil X. He has been in the business for decades and is clearly a very talented guitar player. I am sure he could learn new songs he has not played before. Don't blame him for Jon's inability to shake up the setlist. Just looked it up on Wikipedia and he formed his first band at 16 years old and has played as a session guitarist on many big name albums (Tommy Lee, Daughtry, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie).

Phil might be more versatile but when you throw Shanks and Bradley in the mix, things get too confusing... it's the safe route to take and for a 29 show tour, it does make sense...

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Throw Bradley into the mix? Are you kidding me? He just needs to pick up a shaker and then count to 4 and repeat. He has by far the easiest job on the stage. He's been touring with Jon since the 90s!

And then Shanks has been a part of every Bon Jovi album for the past 12 years and yet I see no cuts from Have A Nice Day or The Circle.

There has been one cut from The Circle. "Work For the Working Man" has had a few runs this tour, most recently in Cleveland.

3:07 to be exact. That includes the intro and encore break.