November 1, 2013 - Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON

might not be in the right order but from what I remember:

That's What The Water Made Me
Raise Your Hands
You Give Love A Bad Name
Lost Highway
Whole Lot Of Leaving
It's My Life
Because We Can
What About Now
Keep The Faith
Amen
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Diamond Ring
You Want To Make A Memory
Who Says You Can't Go Home
We Weren't Born To Follow
We Got It Going On
Bad Medicine
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Born To Be My Baby
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Runaway
Have A Nice Day
Living On A Prayer


It was a good performance, the band was well rested. I felt they played with lots of energy on the first 10 songs and really never seemed to gain that energy back once the acoustic songs were over. There was only one encore and a very short set which is unusual for Toronto shows, most likely they are saving up for tomorrow. With most of the hits played today, they might put some other stuff in tomorrow. I was really happy to see Raise Your Hands, never heard it live, I hope they play it again tomorrow. Sellout crowd, pretty loud and into it, don't know about others the people sitting in my area seemed to know all the songs even the knew stuff

So similar to the last show there... cash cow

The medley of Sleep was really cool, too bad that David didn't know the lyrics to great balls of fire.

Great medley yes....specially in the end, lot of energy

I loved that!!!

I agree. I liked that jam at the end.

Found this in one of the Toronto papers this morning. Keep in mind that Ben Rayner has never been a fan of Bon Jovi.



Why Toronto built a shrine to Jon Bon Jovi

So, Toronto, got a bit of a thing for Jon Bon Jovi, do you?

The New Jersey rocker and the band that bears his name — albeit no longer co-founding guitarist Richie Sambora — arrive in town this Friday for a two-night stand at the Air Canada Centre. These will be the third and fourth shows Bon Jovi has played in Toronto this year and the 16th and 17th it has played in the ACC since the arena opened in February of 1999.

That’s the most any single act has performed at the venue, so before Saturday’s show, Bon Jovi is being honoured with a banner in the rafters and membership in something called the Air Canada Centre Hall of Fame, which appears to have been created expressly for the purpose of commemorating Bon Jovi’s many appearances in Toronto. As of yet, the Hall knows no other members. Bon Jovi is the Air Canada Centre Hall of Fame.

This is an odd choice of cornerstone for an entity that, one assumes, the Air Canada Centre hopes will eventually grow into a Toronto institution.
For one thing, Bon Jovi hails from Sayreville, N.J., not Toronto. And while, no, the ACC Hall of Fame — ill-defined as it is at present — isn’t necessarily bound by any obligations to include Canadians exclusively or Canadians at all, wouldn’t it nevertheless have been a more appropriate gesture to the city the Air Canada Centre calls home and from which it reaps untold millions of dollars annually to start the thing off with, say, a performer from Toronto? Or Ontario, at least?

What about the Tragically Hip? They opened the place, they’ve played there a bunch of times and their hometown of Kingston is just down the highway. What about Neil Young? He used to live in Toronto and he’s a freakin’ living Canadian rock ’n’ roll legend. Why not throw him a banner? Why start with Jon Bon Jovi? Show a little respect for your hometown, at least. We’re the ones buying the tickets.

Oh, right. That. The ACC has been a little loose with its math in claiming that Bon Jovi has played to 600,000 people there over the years. The ACC holds around 20,000 at maximum capacity, meaning after 17 sellouts the band would have hit 340,000 tickets sold. Indeed, even stretching every venue Bon Jovi has ever played during its 28 visits to Toronto since its first gig here at El Mocambo on March 24, 1984, to capacity, it’s hard to come up with 600,000 concertgoers — although, in all fairness, if you roll in a couple of Jon Bon Jovi solo shows at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1997 on the Destination Anywhere tour and tack on some neighbouring gigs in Niagara Falls, London and Sarnia over the years, you probably get there.

In any case, that’s a lot of concert tickets sold in and around Toronto, despite the unnecessary self-puffery on the ACC’s part. It goes to show, perhaps, that we’re not quite the world-class city of musical sophisticates we tend to think we are, especially if we feel the need to commemorate above all how many times a chap from New Jersey has visited our hockey rink in a newly created Hall of Fame.

Nope, perhaps Toronto’s tastes are rather more normal and predictable and populist. Or perhaps, as some bloggers have noted, this really is nothing more than new Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment president Tim Leiweke — who came to MLSE via concert promoter AEG Live — and Bon Jovi publicly celebrating how much money they’ve made together in Toronto.

Whatever the motivation for it, this Hall of Fame thing is kicking off on a weird note.

Medley did look like fun, and i see i missed Diamond Ring when looking over the set last night.


I wish JBJ would look at like the last 5 sets from a city and mix it up. I love Diamond Ring but they played it in TO recently. If you're gonna play an acoustic song why not change it?

And wow he's struggling

He isn't struggling he sounds like shit. Painful again.

i was being nice...lol