October 9, 2013 - Honda Center, Anaheim, CA

Jon's voice in this tour is terrible.
Only a few good performance in 70 dates.

Wow - Sometimes I think these boards get nit picky but this SUCKS and this is my all time favorite Bon Jovi. He is struggling so bad and this is not a hard song to sing.

David's backup vocals have more words than the lead singer. He should have just let David sing it. NASTY. Glad I was not there watching him stand there with his eyes shut trying to sing this

This tour has won the prize of the worst Bon Jovi tour, even regarding Jon's vocals, something that I could not expect since we had the Bounce tour, which was mediocre when it's about vocals.

Huh?
I'm not saying it's the most difficult song ever, but it has quite a few demanding high notes, especially in the 2nd half of the song.
Also the choruses and bridge are pretty high as well. Add this to the fact that Jon is in rough vocal shape in general and it ain't pretty.

Performances like this one are the reason I rarely listen to recent performances any more. A singer's voice is supposed to sound good. Jon, in many cases, just sounds painful to my ear these days. It's come to a point where I actually find this more funny than sad. That ITA performance is hilarious. Tico pounding on and Jon desparately trying to catch up with him. At the same time it is sad to see what this band has become.

At least he is not doing Playback.

It is not as hard as many others and he used to be able to belt it out with ease running around interacting. He is acting like it is Always, standing there, eyes close ,visibly struggling hanging on to the microphone for dear life.

If your voice is that shot give it to David to sing for crying out loud.

This was horrible. Ever since they downtuned the song from E to D, Jon used to sing this with ease. Now, he is constantly out of breath, out of time and out of key.

Unless something like 2008 happens again and Jon regains some strength on his vocals, the setlists are bound to goo downhill for the next tours. Captain Crash, Sleep, Born to Follow, Lost Highway are examples of songs that are staples because they're very easy for Jon to sing.

I guess that songs like I Believe, Damned, Something to Believe In will never see the light of day again.

Aloha !

It doesn't have any demanding high notes, it's just Jon who makes it sound and look like it's demanding. A good singer should be able to cover it with ease. It's just that Jon is a below average singer nowadays.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

His vocals were not bad at all during all the Bounce tour. The promo shows and the first US leg were very good, there are some performances of Keep The Faith and Saturday Night that were mind-blowing. Everything started to go downhill halfway through the European leg, reaching a new low during the HAND tour.