7800 Fahrenheit is the ONLY Bon Jovi album.

Me too. Which got me thinking, how unlucky was I? The answer is not at all. Since the Keep the Faith tour, according to setlistfm, this is how much love the album has received in roughly 1,000 concerts performed over a 30 year period:

Only Lonely: played 4 times (all in 2010)
Tokyo Road: played 4 times (twice in Tokyo '95, Tokyo '01, and 2010)

End of list. When Jon says he hates this album, he really means it. Also, those lucky bastards who got to attend those Hawaii shows better be grateful.

This got to be the only time they played Always Run To You? Wonder why they skipped it, sounds pretty bossy and I actually like how Jon screams and struggles his way through the choruses

https://youtu.be/DH6f8o7PHtg?si=MG05o39-RvG3vcEs

Yeah, I hear you.

I guess the only even slightly realistic chance of getting to hear a song of that album live (after the SWW tour) would have been on the NJ tour. I wasn’t that lucky, even if I saw them twice on the NJ Syndicate tour.

According to my knowledge, on that tour, they played Tokyo Road a few times, at least in the US?

Tokyo Road was a setlist staple from January to June 1989 with it re-appearing quite a few times throughout the Summer and once or twice later on as well - they also went unexplainably crazy with the setlist during the final night in Birmingham '89 that resulted in Only Lonely and Silent Night being played (the latter ended up being performed in Hammersmith too).

If anyone has a tape, or means to obtain one from Birmingham 1989-12-30 I'd pay some serious money...

I would pay a lot for a time machine that would take me to Birmingham 1989.

Love 7800. Either my 4th or 5th favourite Jovi album. Love the dark hot feel of the music, Richie really lets loose on guitar and Jons vocals have that early passion and personality so imbued in the first 6 band releases.

In a way the most pure Jovi album in that there are no outside song writers (that we know of).

Silent Night remains my all time favourite Jovi ballad both on the album and live (the incredible extended version they used to do).

Hearing some of the SWW outtakes i wonder if they were heading towards a not so good 7800 part 2 at one point prior to the involvement of Desmond Child and possibly some Ghost writers to come up with some lyrically more commerical stuff than the kind of noir broken relationship type of lyrics that dominated the first two albums.