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Originally Posted by semigoodlooking
Having said that, Van Halen was still seen locked into the niche of hard rock and never crossed over in Europe as Bon Jovi did. That makes the decision to open for Bon Jovi even more interesting. The band and management must have known that Bon Jovi's audience was not necessarily theirs.
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But that's the whole point of a support slot - you are there to play to someone else's audience and (hopefully) as a result win over some of their fans in the process. It's actually a great management decision to play to 80,000 people every night instead of 5-15,000 that they would have been playing on their own. The fact that VH weren't able to win over the Bon Jovi audience is on them. It sounds as it they went into this tour negatively. If they'd have gone out there every night prepared to kick some ass it might have been a different story entirely...