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Originally Posted by jbjhand
They played eve of destruction the day after the worldwide protests against the impending war on iraq. the news was wall to wall with millions of people marching in the streets oppossed to that war. he didnt really say an awful lot except that the administration scared the shit out of him and that he was moved by the amount of people that didnt want to see others die. i couldnt really hear any boo's on that bootleg, he did also say he was reluctant to talk about politics from the stage.
when the band toured europe he could have mentioned it every night and would have been guaranteed applause if thats all he wanted.
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Jon started to spread his opinion as soon as there was talk about America going to war. This all started with the ideas of the American army going to Afghanistan and Jon voiced his opinion regarding this subject very clearly when the band played at Shepherds Bush. He knew that the gig was being broadcasted by satellite, so most fans would hear what he had to say about this.
When in 2003 the talk about going to Iraq started, Jon introduced the Distance a few times by saying what he thought of going to Iraq, which obviously wasn't alike with what Bush and Blair though. And at those few times there was booing. It was not like the entire arena booed at Bon Jovi, but it was obvious that not everyone agreed with Jon.
This made Jon altering his speech to "I am not one to talk about going to Iraq or not, but this is dedicated to our folks who need to go there anyway" or something like that. However, the decision was made March 18, 2003, but Jon started playing Eve Of Destruction on February 16, and never mentioned what he had to say regarding this subject again. Would Jon have gotten a standing ovation he'd still be talking about it, but he didn't, and now he's all of a sudden the guy who "keeps his opinion to himself".
If he did that, he would have never talked about it, wouldn't have worn a shirt with some text about Kerry on it, and would've never played Eve Of Destruction anyway.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan