8th February, 2017 - Bon Secous Wellness Arena, Greenville, USA

No Problem! LOL

It's nice to see so much positive energy. The vibe is totally different this time. While I think that the promo shows from 2013 still had decent vocals, the performances were abysmal. It kinda foreshadowed what was coming. I'm psyched to see how happy the boys look and how well the shows are going.

It's not enough for me if I had to buy expensive tickets based on what I've seen so far, but let's give credit where credit is due. Jon is motivated and that makes one hell of a difference

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true positive energy, passion, giving your all makes a huge difference in a live performance,

With Richie Sambora leaving in the WAN Tour in 2013, did affect Bon Jovi. And Yes, Jon's vocals did affect the Tour as well.

2017, is different, though vocally Jon's voice will never improve to the heights of the 80's/90's I feel optimistic that the Band can go on and produce something of a new era as Jon likes to call it.

Can Jon go on to produce a great vocal album that fans want? It's highly unlikely, but not due to effort on Jon's part, it's his voice is shot, but I do love the new enthusiasm of the Band as evidenced on stage, and I felt on THINFS Album.

I can't work out whether it's the his tone, his backwards cap or the last ten years of sub-par albums but every time I see him take a solo I really want to punch Shanks in his smug little face.


On another note, can't wait to see a decent quality video of Always in full - Jon's clearly straining in that clip but I can take that if the rest of the song was as good as it can be...

I'd take backward cap over this any day.

Shame no ghost, born again tomorrow and New Year's Day. Maybe they will rotate them.

So who is actually lead guitar?

Definetely Phil. When it comes to solos Phil does a lot more than Shanks. Shanks does the Bad Name and Have a Nice Day solos of the old ones, and plays lead on some of the new stuff but Phil still has a bigger role when it comes to playing solos.

It's different for every song.
Shanks takes a lead guitar in:

-THINFS (except solos)
-Living with the Ghost
-Knockout
-Labor of Love
-Born Again Tomorrow (except solo)
-Roller Coaster
-Scars on This Guitar
-God Bless This Mess
-We Weren't Born to Follow
-Have a Nice Day
-You Give Love a Bad Name

And still more to come...

Any pictures of the merch stand?