December 15th, 2013 - Sydney Entertainment Centre - Sydney, Australia

This was a killer show, just listening to the bootleg. Bobby ****ed up the intro to WWWB though.

Listening to I'll Be There For You from this show, while Jon doesn't sound spectacular. The backing vocals from Phil are. Who the **** needs Richie.

I agree. I enjoyed getting to hear these Australian shows since there have been few shows recorded this tour. Phil has really come along nicely.

It's really a nice show! But besides Phil doing a good job I think the band definitely needs a break - the spark that still struck me on their Circle tour performances is gone for me. Plus the recent output is pretty much crap.

For the future - lose Bobby and take Phil in as a 2nd guitarist. Might give the band sound more edge and get Richie to up his game a little more again.

Listened to it today as well. It was a cool show, but listening to those Australian shows made it even more obvious how much worse Jon sounded at the end of 2013 than the the first half.
The Stuttgart, Milan, Cologne bootlegs sounds so much better in terms of vocals.

Wouldn't say that it's a killer show, but the performances of the songs I heard were pretty good and the changes on the setlist are welcome. They should do this kind of radical setlist changes every time they do two shows in the same city.

Aloha !

Don't really understand the fuss over this show. It's pretty much a setlist consisting of nothing but either songs no one ever cared for or songs most wish they'd retire permanently. Now that they're played at a different spot it's suddenly a great show?

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

People actually are collecting full bootlegs from this tour? :/ Why would one even do that to your ears. The WAB songs all sound weak, and all the usual setlist staples have been done better on the last tour. Phil's solos are often the highlight. Sure, you might have the occasional special moment like the epic improv on Saturday night from the Cleveland webcast, but those moments are few and far between.
That last webcast from Oz I had in the background playing over my hifi, and my mate walked in and was ''Da fuq is that trying to sing?!'' It was an awkard moment as I tried to explain it was my favourite band.

Come back 2010/11 tour, all is forgiven!


Andi

I don't think that Bon Jovi needs Phil of Bobby. They should get rid of both and get Richie back. And move Hugh back in front of the stage. There have been 5 players in the band till HAND tour and they did just fine, actually they did great! I think one reason for Jon's lack of energy is that there is now an extra guitarist /singer so Jon is able to put less effort on everything than before.

Get rid of the extras and just be Bon Jovi for once! Jon, Richie, Tico, David and Hugh!
No need for extra guitars. There never was before Bobby joined them...

True that! Wasn't Bobby and co just brought in at first to help out with some of the TLFR stuff? Then they must have realised he can cover Jon's back vocally aswell as insurance against another Sambora incident as well and so kept him on. Also, there was apparently some personal reasons I wont go in to..but they don't take away from the fact that he is not needed. Jon at one point seemed to want an E-street band style lineup I think, with Jeff, Lorenza, Bobby etc.