How would you improve the standard Bon Jovi show?

hmm.... improve the show? I don't think I am qualified enough to give them lesson on how to do their job ...BUT I would love (EVEN if it's not improvement) a little bit like Ice said - I'd like a show that don't have a patern ... if it's not by the choice of the songs at least I wish each show was original by its flow

also why not , not have always the same versions of their classics but a mix ...acoustic electric different era versions etc

to play a more varied mix of their hits if they want to play just hits for the usual audience then so be it but much more widely varied

to jam more to have more spontaneous solos etc ... all in all I wish the show was less under total control

maybe a little bit less screens routine/choregraphy around jon's moves

I would have the show open with either Prayer, I Believe, or Hey God. I don't think Hey God has ever been done as an opener, but I think it would kick ass as one. I do like BOB in the opener slot, though.

As was also said, move Bad Name down. It's been stuck at the 2 or 3 spot forever, and it needs to go more towards the end of the main set.

Prayer needs to move up, too. If it doesn't open the concert, it needs to be played around the 5 to 7 spot like on the OWN tour. I would also have the ending with the alternate melody and the "whoa oh oh"'s like was done from 1995 to 2003.

Bobby needs to return the In These Arms solo back to it's proper owner. And they should also sometimes do an acoustic version like they did on the 96 These Days tour.

Keep the Faith or Love's the Only Rule should close the main set.

Wanted should be either put as the very last song of the night, or end of the main set.

Born to Be My Baby should switch with Blaze of Glory 50/50.

Any Other Day needs to make a return to the sets with a super long kick ass Richie solo at the end. The song is in the top 3 best things they've done since 2000.

As you can see, I am chocked full of ideas. Or very needy.

Not a dream setlist, but rather using the mechanics of The Circle Tour but making the show less predictable.

1. Blood on Blood or Happy Now
2. We Weren't Born To Follow
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. *Lost Highway single or album cut*
5. *Bon Jovi or 7800* single or album cut*
6. *The Circle album cut*
7. *Wild Card*
8. *Wild Card*
9. Bad Medicine W/Doctor Doctor or Pretty Woman or Old Time Rock & Roll
10. We Got It Going On
11. Homebound Train or Lay Your Hands On Me W/Richie on Vox
12. *Jon-Centric, Richie gets a brief breather slot* (Hallelujah, (You Want To) Make a Memory, Open All Night (Bounce), Mystery Train)
13. *Monster hit ballad slot* (Bed of Roses, I'll Be There For You, Always, TAALS (one can dream), Never Say Goodbye)
14. Something For The Pain (Acoustic)
15. *Interchanging acoustic song*
16. Work For The Working Man
17. *Keep The Faith, Hey God, or Have a Nice Day*
18. It's My Life
19. Who Says You Can't Go Home
20. Love's The Only Rule

Encore:
21. Wanted, Dead or Alive
22. *The Circle album cut*
23. *Wild Card*
24. Living on a Prayer

Good one!!!

for the people saying they should not have a pattern or a set setlist.. .you have to otherwise the show wouldnt work... Everything is practised , lights sounds etc

For me I wouldnt change anything about this tours set list Tues 8th at O2 ,brillant mixed set list.

Dawn

Y'know what, apart from one show that was mediocre I've never had a bad time at a Bon Jovi show. In fact, every show I've been to other than that one, are some of the best times I've had in my life.

So bearing that in mind...much as there are things I think would be really cool to see and hear...I won't change a thing.

-play at least one song from every album. I'd love to hear a few 7800 songs.
- they MUST keep Prayer as the final song for the night. I won't hear of anything different!
- get rid of Wanted and play it earlier
- Richie should do a nice long guitar solo halfway through the set
- more interaction with the crowd - maybe invite a few people onstage to sign with them?
- ask the audience which songs they want played, and damn well play them!!

They already did in the form of Kid Rock...

Another way to improve the show - don't have a has been, no talented bogan like Kid Rock as your support act

If we're talking setlists, I'd have something like this as the standard:

1. We Weren't Born To Follow
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Happy Now
4. Just Older
5. Lost Highway
6. Tokyo Road
7. Breakout
8. When We Were Beauiful
9. The Distance
10. In These Arms
11. It's My Life
12. Bad Medicine (W/Roadhouse Blues)
13. I'll Be There For You (Richie Sambora)
14. Livin' On A Prayer
15. Who Says You Can't Go Home
16. Have A Nice Day
17. Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars
18. Born To Be My Baby
19. Raise Your Hands

20. Always
21. Blaze Of Glory
22. These Days
23. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
24. Wanted Dead Or Alive

The bolded songs can be changed. I tried hard not to turn it into just a set I'd like, which obviously worked at some places and not others.

*Also, more of a greatest hits show with some rarities. 'The Circle' has pretty much been abandoned, so why not?