Official April 30, 2011 - New Orleans Fairgrounds, New Orleans, LA, USA thread

Dry County on the setlist, Bobby Bandiera does the solo. Epic.

Sparks fly out of Bobby's head during 2nd shredding solo. His head then explodes on the final note.

Bobby is revealed to be a robot, made especially to replace Richie.

Here was the setlist from the last time Richie Sambora was absent in Puerto Rico 2007:

1. Livin' on a Prayer
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Lost Highway
4. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
5. Runaway
6. Born to Be My Baby
7. It's My Life
8. (You Want To) Make A Memory
9. I Love This Town
10. We Got It Goin' On
11. Who Says You Can't Go Home
12. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
13. Bad Medicine (With "Shout")

Encore:
14. Any Other Day
15. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
16. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
17. The Last Night
18. Wanted Dead or Alive

Here's Prayer from the show: And It's My Life:

I have a bad feeling the next month of shows will be some of the worst the band has ever played. I hope I can get a decent amount of money back for my Iowa tickets, otherwise I'm stuck.

That's probably the last time that Jon did the alternate melody thing at the end with the whoa whoa whoas, so if Richie were playing on that, it would've been awesome.

I feel sorry for those going to the next 13 shows.

I'm just praying Richie's back for the European tour. In my eyes it seems likely he will be, but until I get the cold hard evidence that he will be able, I'll just be nervous.

Jon did the "whoa-ohs" at a couple shows last month

I know, but he hasn't done the alternate melody with them, like he did from 95-03. They also did the Little Wing ending, too. After the solo, it goes...

Bridge
Chorus
Chorus
Alternate Melody
"Whoa-ohs"
Little Wing ending

same for me...all we can do is keep the faith

I'm glad I got DC when I did!