Official December 8, 2010 - Patterson Stadium, Perth AUS thread

Originally Posted by wotanight

Just got home and to be honest was blown away by tonights show. This was a show that I thought was well behind them but can now honestly say "They still got it goin on".

Jons energy and boyant mood was a highlight for me as he looked like he was really enjoying himself in away I have not seen for a while.

People can debate the set list forever, I would have liked Runaway and ITA but you won't keep everyone happy.

I re-learned tonight that they are one of the greatest Rock and Roll bands ever.

Originally Posted by Savvi

A minor let down of the night was LYHOM. One of the main reasons why I love that song so much is because of that killer guitar riff. But live you can barely hear it. It might have been a stuff up in the mixing but I expected it to be a little more powerful.

Originally Posted by Johny

You know why? Because it's Bobby who plays it Richie stops playing when he starts singin'. Him doing LYHOM is one big mistake, even bigger than These Days few years back.

Originally Posted by twinfan

I think so, too. Homebound Train and IBTFY are perfect for him. More of the first than the second, too. He should go on a little rotation between these songs.

Originally Posted by Savvi

THE SETLIST:

1. Blood On Blood
2. We Weren't Born To Follow
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Born To Be My Baby
5. Lost Highway
6. Whole Lot Of Leaving
7. When We Were Beautiful
8. It's My Life
9. No Apologies
10. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead/ Start Me Up
11. We Got It Going On
12. Bad Medicine/ Shout
13. Lay Your Hands On Me (Richie Sambora)
14. What Do You Got (Circle)
15. I'll Be There For You (Circle)
16. Something For The Pain (Circle)
17. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Circle)
18. Work For The Working Man
19. Raise Your Hands
20. Have A Nice Day
21. Who Says You Can't Go Home
22. Keep The Faith

Encore:
23. Always
24. Wanted Dead Or Alive
25. Livin' On A Prayer

Originally Posted by yomamasofat

****, ITA is nowhere in sight... this can't be good omen for Etihad.

Originally Posted by kenobi_on_a_prayer

Good show. The boys seemed pretty relaxed and the crowd (on the floor at least) was a pretty good Perth audience. I dunno, people tend to be quite reserved at all the major concerts I've been to, compared to what I've seen/heard in some parts of the world, but I assure you they did enjoy it.

I heard the band soundchecking No Apologies and Something for the Pain just before 5 and you have no idea how much it meant to me to get the latter at this show. I know it's been semi-regular this tour, but I don't exactly get to a lot of shows and a couple of years ago had given up on ever hearing anything from These Days. Really special moment for me. Saturday Night was also acoustic and I loved it, so sue me.

I think I actually howled when Always came on. So so so happy to get it.

Crowd lapped up Jon's Mick Jagger impersonation.

I don't think Richie's LYHOM got the appreciation it deserved. Wish he'd do Homebound Train again. Suits his voice better.

As Savvi alluded to, Who Says got the same reaction as it did in 2008, which is not surprising given the song didn't ****ing chart here. By this point, having got my TD song, I was in such a good mood that I even did some "s'alrights" with Jon when he was starting the song. But I stopped after copping some weird looks.

I was wondering if Jon was going to mention the 30th anniversary of Lennon's death but he didn't.

The acoustics at this ground are still ****ing shit.

Some woman was eyeballing me funny on the train home. I hope she didn't recognise me from the Prayer video (but my hair and everything was completely different so surely not). I guess I'll have to upload that to Youtube eventually, huh.

I haven't had a look at my videos yet but I think Savvi's would be better as I was a bit further back. I'll try to get mine up soon though. (BTW Sav, were you wearing a blue/white striped top and jeans? I thought I saw you when Village Kid were playing but I wasn't sure).

Originally Posted by Savvi

Im home! And man what a show! Firstly I need to say that I am sooooo happy that the setlist was 25 songs long. I heard a security guard saying that the boys needed to be out by 10:30 due to restrictions and they had about 22 songs planned. So was great that they managed to fit in another 3.

I was hoping for Always/Bed of Roses all night and when I heard that encore rip open with that drum beat I nearly died! The crowed went insane for it. Ive never yelled so loud before haha. Jon's vocals were great! Not a note out.

Richie was also great. Keep the Faith is when he is in his element best. The second solo in the outro is bloody brilliant. I loved it! The whole night was great.

Jon was in a good mood which is surprising considering he had a mini tantrum in the beginning of ISWID. Tico was playing the beat and him and Richie were about to bust into the opening guitar riff. Anyway, they started playing but Jon's guitar wasnt working. He tried for a sec to fix it but couldnt so walked back a few steps and literally threw the guitar down into the walkway where they get on to stage and threw his hands in the air while shaking his head. I thought it would ruin his mood for the night but it didnt. He went on to imitate Mick Jagger during start me up. Was quite funny.

I couldnt help but laugh when Jon introduced Who Says You Cant Go Home. There was almost no reaction from the crowed. Jon needs to learn that no one here knows that song! It may have been a hit over in the US but it didnt even reach the top 100 here! Would have much preferred ITA than that.

The inclusion of both What Do You Got (on the circle) AND No Apologies was great and unexpected. No Apologies works well live! I was fist pumping like no tomorrow . Was also great that they done FOUR songs on the circle! Particularly because I was at the barrier just outside the circle haha. Jon sang WDYG alone, then Richie joined him for IBTFY (which is always a highlight), and then Tico and Dave joined for SFTP and SIBSN.

I was really close to them at this point. I looked Tico in the eye and put my hand in the air screaming at him like a mad man, and he squinted at me and smile lmao. He has such a funny smile.

A minor let down of the night was LYHOM. One of the main reasons why I love that song so much is because of that killer guitar riff. But live you can barely hear it. It might have been a stuff up in the mixing but I expected it to be a little more powerful.

Wanted was freakin amazing. One of the best songs to sing live ever. And doing BOTH Raise Your Hands and Have a Nice Day (which was a big hit over here) was awesome! It scared me though cos I thought they were doing so many songs in the main set which would leave them with just 2 songs in the encore... but NO! They played Always and IOFASLOFJAFRIRTO it was so good.

They need to fix up the LH/WLOL part though. I LOOOOVE the song to death (its in my top 5 songs Jovi songs) but I have to admit that WLOL does nothing spectacular . They should remove it and replace it with Love's the Only Rule or ITA.

ISWID and LH were surprisingly good. Not great, but better than I expected. And even more surprising was Work for the Working Man. I really enjoyed it.

Overall, I am so happy with the setlist. It could have been better but I cant complain with 25 songs. I wish they had played ITA and LTOR though. There are a few songs they could easily replace them with.

OH!! And also! Jon saw my sign which said "I Believe". He read it during Richie's solo in IBTFY. He looked directly at it... but alas, they didnt play it. Ah well, I wasnt expecting them to play it haha.

Oh and finally, was HILARIOUS seeing you up on the big screen during Prayer Lee-Ann. What a laugh! haha. Good on you.

AMAZING NIGHT!

I have video which i'll put up eventually.