Official February 10, 2013, Verizon Center, Washington D.C thread

If you look closely at this video right at this time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...xuNrLMQ#t=212s

You can see his Les Paul has a whammy bar on it.

About that tribute band, how the **** did they play Thick as Thieves and Pictures of You? How. http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bad-me...-5bdbc7d0.html

Good question!

Said it before and ill say it again I dont think the break between the end of the circle tour and this album/tour is long enough.

I would like to have seen them come back in 2015 but I guess the 30 year thing has brought that forward.

Guys is there a good video of the whole opening merging into Bad Name? TC tour had a new opening, curious to see how this tour the shows are opened

There is a few on youtube , and its pretty awesome , but would love to see a better quality clip .

Yes. Sad but true.

It does make me laugh how the 'Yaysayers' on the board are getting so arsey with those who dare speak out against Jon and this one, the whole 'I don't understand why it's so important for you to have a front man who moves,' well, this is the strangest one yet!

For those who say the don't understand why Jon's movement is an issue; it's about interaction with the crowd.

The old (and stolen) adage that the band used to say about Jon was, he could make a stadium feel like a club, he would perform to the person at the back of the arena, on the top row.

This band is here for people who are in their teens and twenties now, playing big venues because Doc McGhee dragged them around the planet and Jon shook has ass SO much more than any other front man.

As many have stated on here, it's how he plied his trade, it won them newer and younger fans on every tour. These performances will not do that. His performances would shame support bands, this guy took younger up and coming bands to school every single night with his enthusiasm - playing every show like it was his last.

Now, the argument is that Jon is 50 - Jagger is 69. Jagger gets himself in shape for tours because he knows that people don't come to see him stand stationary at a mic for 75% of the set. Neither of them are deep and meaningful balladeers.

If Jon has a knee problem, the first thing his doctor will do is to tell him to stop jogging, f*ck stop being a front man - running (which he is so found of telling people he does every day) is the worst thing you can do to your knees. Start swimming JonBoy, give your knees a break and get back to doing what you do best.

Awesome post. And 100% true.

I think it's remarkable, considering the band popularity in 1995 and 2007, as well as illegal downloading in 1995 and 2007. It definitely is a strong case to prove Jovi is not a nostalgia band.

If only The Circle wasn't such a flop pretty much everywhere, besides Canada. And unless Because We Can becomes a biggest hit since HAND era, I don't see What About Now being bigger commercial success either.