Official June 17, 2011 - Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland thread

Last time they were here on Lost Highway -tour June 16, 2008 with the following setlist:

1. Lost Highway
2. Born to Be My Baby
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. Summertime
5. Runaway
6. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead / Mercy / Start Me Up
7. Blaze of Glory
8. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
9. Any Other Day
10. In These Arms
11. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
12. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars
13. It's My Life
14. Keep the Faith
15. I'll Be There For You
16. Raise Your Hands
17. Have a Nice Day
18. Who Says You Can't Go Home
19. Livin' on a Prayer

20. Always
21. Wanted Dead or Alive
22. Bad Medicine / Shout

Me and everybody here are expecting much more from this visit. The concert is sold out with about 50 000 sold tickets.... 200 extra tickets came for sale last week so maybe there are still few available. I'm only thinking about their visit in 1996 when they gave us one of the most legendary shows:

1. Lay Your Hands on Me
2. Bad Medicine
3. All I Want Is Everything
4. You Give Love a Bad Name
5. Runaway
6. Diamond Ring
7. Bed of Roses
8. Rockin' All Over the World
(John Fogerty cover)
9. Damned
10. Wanted Dead or Alive
(Acoustic)
11. Crazy
(Tico Torres on vocals)
12. In These Arms
(Acoustic)
13. Something for the Pain
14. Blood on Blood
15. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead / Papa Was A Rolling Stone / Jumpin' Jack Flash
17. Keep the Faith

18. Drift Away
(Dobie Gray cover)
19. Always
20. Blaze of Glory
21. Tumbling Dice
(The Rolling Stones cover) (David Bryan on vocals)
22. These Days

23. (It's Hard) Letting You Go
24. Something to Believe In
25. Stranger In This Town
(Richie Sambora on vocals)
26. Hey God

27. Livin' on a Prayer
28. I'd Die for You

So i think we have a right to expect an awesome night!

I would like to hear all of those songs =)

19.7.1996 was the best concert I've ever been to (and These Days still my favourite album)!

One of the best moments has been Jon shouting "hello Helsinki!" in Stockholm 2001 =)

Based on what? You can't say that based on the 1996 set because:
A.) That was 15 years ago
B.) That was the last show of the tour
C.) The band played crazy awesome sets on a regular basis in 1996, so that's not extremely wild

I hope for all the good Fins that you get a great show, but don't be expecting another set like 1996.

aa no, no and no

I meant overall... For example these three first concerts in Europe now. Every night has been awesome... Look what they played in Zagreb... and they haven't been there... like ever. So it's a myth that when they go to some new place or place where they don't go that often, they will only do some vanilla set...
And Bon Jovi was in Finland on LH tour so at least there is no need to play just Greatest Hits kinda set again... It's not anymore here in Finland "once in a lifetime" opportunity to see Bon Jovi...

But of course it can be very crappy gig too, who knows... but i really think that now the chances to get a great set are bigger than on LH- or Crush tour...

I know I will be happy anyway. It is my third BJ show. I am smiling already Can´t wait!
This time i won´t be close. Last Helsinki show I was on the front of the stage. There was no dimond circle....

It would be nice to hear Dry County, These Day, Something to Believe in, Love´s the Only Rule, Some songs from Bon Jovi and 7800 Fahrenheit.

Heheh, yeah, a song from the debut (excluding Runaway, obviously, though I'm sure I will enjoy that one, too, the first BJ song I ever heard, after all) or, if the planets were perfectly aligned, Only Lonely (the song that made me fall in love with the band's music) from Fahrenheit, would make me scream like a true fangirl...! But I certainly don't expect it to happen - I voted for These Days as that seems like a fairly realistic possibility. Dry County would be, as well, I guess... And either one would be just wonderful!

But...but if they suddenly broke into It's Hard (Letting You Go) I would simply bawl my eyes out...

I Believe, on the other hand, would no doubt cause me a heart attack, I would be so exhilarated

Then again, it will be my first show ever so I expect to enjoy it no matter what they play... As long as they are into it!

I hope it's a great show for you! That 1996 set is completely wild, but that setlist from the Lost Highway tour was about as standard as possible for that point in time, Always included.

At the end of the day, I still think the band is playing great shows regardless of the song choice and these last 3 shows have been stellar. So no matter what the play, I hope you have a great time!

I have a question about those "will call" tickets. The order confirmation mail said there's going to be another mail about where i should pick my ticket but i have nothing information yet. Is this normal? I mean its 3 days away and im getting a little worried. I was thinking maybe you guys know these thing better. Any help would be great. Thank you

I believe the e-mail for Norway was sent out Yesterday so you should get yours tomorrow.

For Oslo, I got my will call ticket info e-mail yesterday. So don´t worry about it yet.

Looking forward to the Helsinki show, too. Last time in 2008 the set was very standard in here. Jon didn´t seem to be too happy. I suppose he even had a cold that day. His voice was quite shot during always. I was counting on warm weather this time but since yesterday, it´s been cold and rainy in here.