Seen them 3 times. I great show, 1 decent show, 1 bad show.

I actually agree with what most people have said. Playing 70+ songs is damn amazing. The band sounded pretty good, and there's now way they can ever please everyone.

However the core setlist is very bad. They do play for 2+ hours, but if they cut off the first 6-7 songs or so, nobody would tell the difference. The show only picks up with We Got It Going On or maybe In These Arms. It's dead up until then. It' almost like them saying: "right, let's get all the junk out of the way early".

Moving on, I can understand why they play songs like "It's not Right" Who Says You can't Go home, Captain Crash, Lost Highway, When We Were Beautiful, bloody stupid I Love This Town yesterday,and the like...but when I get ALL OF THEM in one show (again, yesterday), there's no way I can enjoy a concert, even if they do play Letting Go and These Days and Diamond Ring and Blaze of Glory and Bed of Roses. Purely subjective.

Their best "core"songs have really lost their edge. Keep The Faith is underperformed. Wanted just doesn't sound right. The only one that has improved, and seems to actually become the highlight of the show is Bad Medicine. That one rocks big time and Prayer works well as a closer. Other than that, they're all a bit mehh. Born To Be My Baby?? Just doesn't work. It's My Life? Was never any good live although it does the job of waking up some people in the audience. Lay Your Hands on me performed by Richie...uhh...not really.

The band:

- Jon, I just can't relate to him anymore. He's got some of the voice back and he is a great frontman, but his comments, his politics, his showing off all the time - just makes me want to throw up. Yesterday he went on about how they sold more tickets than Hard Rock Calling at Hyde Park. Those were the most unnecessary comments ever. His political nonsense rambling? I mean come on Jon... what the **** is wrong with you??? Lost your pension, took my ID??!? Those lyrics are an insult to the intelligence of the people attending a concert. Having said this, one of yesterday's highlights was NOT seeing Work for the Working Man.

-Richie, is probably the laziest person in the world (right after me). He got all the talent, the charisma, the skill to be a legend. Yet he hardly plays anything. I mean, Keep The Faith completely lost it. His solos all kind of sound the same (blame it on his stupid signature guitars)...there's nothing exciting about Richie Sambora anymore. He just does the bare minimum to make the show sound ok. Just lazy.He strikes me as one of those people who never play the instrument at home. He never practices. And you can tell by now. Sambora hasn't evolved as a musician since Undiscovered Soul. Frankly, that's a waste of talent. At least he looks like a mother****in' bad ass rock 'n' roll star.

- David, yesterday I noticed how hard he tries to be an entertainer and how he never gets the spotlight. Dressed with skinny jeans and still looking like he could rock out that keyboard. I wish he was given a bit more spotlight.

-Tico, the powerhous - thank God for him. Whenever I get bored, I just stare at him. The way he smashed those drums is incredible. And the man is almost 60. Kudos to him.

- Bobby , all I can say about Bobby is watch the In These Arms solo yesterday. Are you ****in' kiddin' me??! And someone like this is back up guitarist for one of the biggest bands in the world??? There was a busker outside the O2, he'd do a 100 times better job.

- Hugh McDonald - the definition of mehhh-ness.

Also disappointed with the effects and the stage. And going to a seated Jovi concert is not right.


Overall, I'd give these shows a 6/10. There were some damn special personal moments...Blood Money, Santa Fe, Diamond Ring, Letting Go, These Days. And some others that I wasn't lucky enough to experience like Let It Rock. However, the band lost any edge it has ever had. They are safe and predictable and if it wasn't for this gems, frankly, the shows would suck.

Was great meeting a bunch of people again, like Tom and Laura, Thierry, Emil and Vanessa. And it was nice meeting some new people, like Geoff (Com'onFeet) who, as you would have thought from the forum already, is a great guy. It definitely improved the overall experience. However, I do think that my years of being a Bon Jovi fan are approaching their end.