Originally Posted by Bleeding Purist

I dunno about that, there have been some great performances over the years from all kinds of artists...including the acoustic performance by our band on the MTV awards back in 89. They've actually turned out several memorable performances.

The problem is since 2000, Bon Jovi hasn't turned out a truly worthy performance on an awards show. It's always business as usual. They played It's My Life way too many times on way too many awards shows. They didn't do anything that had people talking the next day. I won't count the first teaser performance of HAND on the AMA's.

If they were appearing on this year's AMA's they would just play WSYCGH, probably with Jennifer Nettles again. They wouldn't do anything surprising...like play Novocaine or I Am.

I guarantee you if they played either one of those with some conviction, they'd get the audience attention. I Am is just too catchy without trying too hard.