No, that show sold out faster than any other artist that played there that year including Green Day and Paul McCartney. Bon Jovi had not been to Des Moines since the NJ tour. Those fans were overjoyed just to have the band playing there, I'd say 95% of them didn't even notice the set list.

And yes, it was the first show, so Jon was toying around with having an acoustic type set in the middle of the show. But, 5 songs proved to be too much and brought the energy down so after the 3rd show the TLFR songs were cut down to 2 or 3 including the new Blaze arrangement.

deb