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Originally Posted by steel_horse75
Listen people.
Bon Jovi have 11 studio albums (not inc GH, TLFR and 100M fans) and a 12th on the way.
Roughly that’s 125 (150 if you include WAN) songs to choose from. Let’s say 120 as nothing with maybe the exception of Runaway is going to come from the first two albums (that’s a crime in my eyes!) so you all aren’t gonna be happy.
Im happy with the amount of newer songs cos too many times over the years we have got a GH set list with 1 or 2 songs from the album the tour is promoting.
Everyone knows I love the first 6 albums – especially the first 4 – more than anything but as the years go by those songs will get fewer and fewer.
JBJ has always said he don’t want to be a nostalgia act so I applaud 7 songs from What About Now.
Yes its gutting that we are losing songs from the bands greatest era – (SWW & NJ) but the band have to keep it fresh for themselves as well.
The only complaint I have is too many Lost Highway songs seem to be creeping in when its widely regarded by fans as the bands midlife crisis album.
Id like to hear Any Other Day from that album and that would be enough.
Jovi are changing – Im gutted – but that’s the way it is. Get used to it.
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I am used to it but the talking point here isn't OUR comfort level with the 'new Jovi' it's Jon's acceptance that people will sit down if you bore the shit out of them.
He made reference to it in the WWWB doc, about how he can play the deep and meaningful tune ONCE a night... meaning Hallelujah... but he always has to bring it back up again afterwards. Firstly, I'd rather hear him play Blood Money, or Bed of Roses than Hallelujah - I'd be on my feet, swaying, silent and in awe of a well-delivered JOVI song of that ilk but none of the new tunes are up to it. These are not songs for big halls or stadiums; you might disagree, which is fine but Jon has to realise that people will not react to a set like this as the would to a set from even ten years ago.
I think this tour and this album will be the last for some time. The reason being, on The Circle tour he tried to do something different in the first few shows and it fell on it's arse. He had to go back to playing the staple hits. Then he finally released the greatest hits album the record company insisted on and he had to tour it... he has made a conscious effort to go the other way now and once again, it's going to fall on it's arse in the way that people will not jump up and down for these mid-tempo tunes... and the only old songs Jon can still sing are the songs it appears people are bored of hearing.
So the set will change on this tour. He'll go back to playing a few, more recognised hits and he'll hate it with a passion.
They'll be some bollocks at the end of the tour about having closed a chapter in his life, taking a break from the day job 'it's been thirty years' etc. Then he'll write some more 'worthy' stuff, put a backing band together and go out on the road to small theatres because he chooses to be close to people, 'these songs are more intimate' but he'll still have to play Wanted and Prayer.
One day, someone else will make a big, loud, brash rock album and he'll put the band back together to do the same. but they'll be 60 and Tico will be 70 and it'll just be very, very sad.
It'll take a producer who is young and hip to say 'man I love your old stuff' and Jon will go back to it. To draw comparison to the movie world, it's like the Bond series deviating off track for two movies - it was okay but the reason why Skyfall was the biggest Bond film of all time, one of the biggest movies in UK history is simple; they realised that they didn't have to walk away from their history and make 'art'; they just needed to update the formula and do what they do best. Jon needs his Sam Mendes to put him back on track.
I've said it before, I just hope to God he puts a decent set together for Isle of Wight because people will just f*ck off to the Big Top and watch Blondie or, as it's the Sunday, they'll catch the ferry home.