Aloha !

I talked about this with Thierry a couple of days ago. Before this tour was supposed to start we were both very excited about how this tour would be fantastic because of the return of Jon's vocals, the amount of shows we planned on doing together and the fun we always have on the road.

However, as soon as ticket prices were anounced a lot of that changed. A lot of complaining was done, a lot of actions were taken by Jon (oh wait that didn't happen because he's a man who has no balls), and then nothing. We don't do any shows together, it's all way too expensive and our priorities seem to have changed. For 1 show at the O2 arena you used to be able to buy 3 concert tickets in Europe.

Now that it's roughly 3 weeks before the shows in Giants Stadium will happen, roughly 4 weeks before the series of concerts at the O2 Arena will happen, I can't help but feeling a bit let down by all of this. Don't get me wrong, I'm still looking forward to the shows, but nowadays it's merely the fun of travelling, meeting people and afterparties I'm looking forward to instead of the Bon Jovi shows. Setlists have been overly static and there's just nothing spontaneous about it anymore. Bon Jovi are getting towards that status of the Eagles. Playing everything to perfection (as far as they're capable of doing that...) yet zero emotion in it all, and when it happens it sort of feels like it's acted. I know there haven't been any negative reviews about the shows and every bootleg sounds great, yet...I don't know... The shows in Honolulu were a great start but after that Jon quickly went back to his same old behaviour of not giving anything to the fans.

When Thierry said to me how he felt strange because he wasn't excited at all, I had to agree. Are we alone in this or do more people feel the same? This board has never been so quiet during a tour as well, it feels like pretty much everyone stopped bothering with Bon Jovi, including Bon Jovi themselves? Where has the buzz gone to?

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan