10 November 2000 - Philadelphia, PA, USA Concert Review |
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setlist: One Wild Night/You Give Love a Bad Name/Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars/Hey God/Just Older/ Born to be My Baby/It's My Life/Bed of Roses/Ride Cowboy Ride/Blaze of Glory/I Got the Girl/Someday I'll Be Saturday Night/Livin' on a Prayer/Lay Your Hands on Me/I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (including Rockin' All Over the World)/Bad Medicine-Shout encore: Blood on Blood/I'll Be There for You encore: I Don't Wanna Go Home/Keep the Faith/Wanted Dead or Alive
This was my first Bon Jovi concert. It was odd; since Slippery When Wet and New Jersey were the first two records I ever bought, it brought back a lot of bittersweet memories. I'm glad that this band continues to forge ahead even though I would have liked a few more new songs in the set. Unlike some of their peers in the eighties, they've transcended the pop metal genre they were normally classified under. The covers they do, as well as Jon Bon Jovi's stage raps and moves, owe more to Elvis Presley and Bruce Springsteen than Van Halen and Aerosmith. Overall, I think they are an unusual hybrid between hard rock and classic rock and roll, and their tendency to improvise (they started the second encore with a brief, unplanned rendition of "I Don't Wanna Go Home," which, if I am not mistaken, is a song that Bruce Springsteen wrote for Southside Johnny) sets them apart from many other arena rock bands. I was more than impressed.
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