o2 stats

72 songs -

Bad Medicine 12
Born To Be My Baby 12
It's My Life 12
Keep The Faith 12
Livin On A Prayer 12
Wanted Dead Or Alive 12
We Got It Goin' On 12
We Werent Born To Follow 12
Who Says You Cant Go Home 12
You Give Love A Bad Name 12
Captain Crash 11
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 11
Lay Your Hands On Me 11
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night 11
Work For The Working Man 10
In These Arms 8
Lost Highway 8
When We Were Beautiful 8
Blood On Blood 7
I'll Be There For You 7
Bed Of Roses 6
Something For The Pain (Acoustic) 6
Diamond Ring 5
Pretty Woman 5
Superman Tonight 4
(You Want To) Make A Memory 3
Happy Now 3
Have A Nice Day 3
Last Man Standing 3
Loves The Only Rule 3
Raise Your Hands 3
Runaway 3
These Days 3
Whole Lot Of Leavin' 3
Always 2
Hallelujah 2
Homebound Train (Richie Sambora on lead vocals) 2
Hot Legs 2
I Love This Town 2
Let It Rock 2
Old Time Rock And Roll (with Kid Rock) 2
Open All Night 2
Roadhouse Blues 2
(It's Hard) Letting You Go 1
Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor) 1
Blaze Of Glory 1
Blood Money 1
Bullet 1
Chapel Of Love 1
Damned 1
Dry County 1
Garageland 1
Hey God 1
I Don't Like Mondays (with Sir Bob Geldof) 1
I Got The Girl 1
I'd Die For You 1
Just Older 1
Living In Sin 1
Love For Sale 1
Never Say Goodbye (acoustic) 1
Paint It Black 1
Santa Fe (acoustic) 1
Shout 1
Something To Believe In 1
Squeezebox (acoustic) 1
Story Of My Life 1
Summertime 1
Sympathy for the Devil 1
The Last Night (acoustic) 1
The Radio Saved My Life Tonight 1
Wild In The Streets 1
Wild Is The Wind 1

There's 26 songs (inc. covers) on avg. per night.

THE generic o2 setlist includes these

Bad Medicine 12
Born To Be My Baby 12
It's My Life 12
Keep The Faith 12
Livin On A Prayer 12
Wanted Dead Or Alive 12
We Got It Goin' On 12
We Werent Born To Follow 12
Who Says You Cant Go Home 12
You Give Love A Bad Name 12
Captain Crash 11
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 11
Lay Your Hands On Me 11
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night 11
Work For The Working Man 10
In These Arms 8
Lost Highway 8
When We Were Beautiful 8
Blood On Blood 7
I'll Be There For You 7
Bed Of Roses 6
Something For The Pain (Acoustic) 6
Diamond Ring 5
Pretty Woman 5
Superman Tonight 4
(You Want To) Make A Memory 3

Was TD done 3 times?

Thought it was only two.

15 *core* songs - 11 slots to change up each night.

Bad Medicine 12
Born To Be My Baby 12
It's My Life 12
Keep The Faith 12
Livin On A Prayer 12
Wanted Dead Or Alive 12
We Got It Goin' On 12
We Werent Born To Follow 12
Who Says You Cant Go Home 12
You Give Love A Bad Name 12
Captain Crash 11
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead 11
Lay Your Hands On Me 11
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night 11
Work For The Working Man 10

You want to do the job with more care, be my ****ing guest.

If I am not wrong, it was done twice acoustic and one electric, last night.

The rarest set they could have possibly played -

Hey God
Damned
Wild In The Streets
Wild Is The Wind
I Got The Girl
The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
Story Of My Life
Summertime
Something To Believe In
(It's Hard) Letting You Go
Blood Money
Blaze Of Glory
Chapel Of Love
Garageland
Just Older
Bullet
The Last Night (acoustic)
Squeezebox (acoustic)
Santa Fe (acoustic)
Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
I'd Die For You
Dry County

I Don't Like Mondays (with Sir Bob Geldof)
Living In Sin

Love For Sale
Sympathy for the Devil
Paint It Black
Never Say Goodbye (acoustic)


(There was also Shout, but without Bad Medicine, that would have been just wrong)

I don't want to encourage their greed, but honestly, if they advertised in advance they were playing a set like that (not necessarily those songs, but a whole show of songs for the hardcore), they actually could sell *every* ticket in the o2 for $1000.

I disagree. Most on here would fall over themselves or a set like that but this community probably doesn't represent even 1% of those attending the shows. The sad truth is that whilst we love to hear the likes of Hey God, Dry County, (It's Hard) Letting You Go and the others you mention the vast majority who attended the shows would be bored senseless and fidgeting waiting for the "hit", or simply wouldn't bother buying a ticket if they knew they weren't going to hear Prayer et al.

They could probably pack out a tight venue at high prices for a hitless show of raritites (which would be something to experience).

I bring this up, having spoken to people the last couple of days, whose *only* real joy in seeing Bon Jovi these days is finding the grail of something they haven't heard before.

A "hardcore" show wouldn't necessarily be about the rarest songs, just the ones with more depth than a stadium crowd would necessarily get.