Aloha !

As much as you might think otherwise, I have been rather positive about the last world tour and pretty much the last 20 shows I have seen. I know I trash the band for plenty of things, but my reviews of the shows at East Rutherford were rather positive. The same goes for the 5 shows in Canada I've seen, and most of the European shows of the last tour. I know my reputation on here, but just because many seem to be fond of remembering me trashing night 4 at Giants doesn't mean I never posted how I enjoyed the first 3 nights. I just looked it up and out of the 18 shows I've seen I've been negative about 3 of them, all other shows have been praised by me for being solid performances.

But the difference between you and me is, I don't think I'll like the new album apart from a song or 2, thus I won't buy it. I've said it multiple times how I've declared Bon Jovi dead as a studio act, and haven't bought the Greatest Hits record exactly for those reasons. No need to get me 4 new songs I won't play. They're in my iTunes library but that's about it. I just looked it up and No Apologies has been played a total amount of 3 times ever since I put it in there. If I get a free copy of the latest record I won't throw it away, but I can't see myself buying the record either.

I enjoy sharing my opinion on a new record and will most likely post a review, because I enjoy typing one out and share my opinion with other fans. I won't however keep on going in every single topic about how much I feel it sucks. I've been rather quiet about The Circle for those same reasons. Many people seemed to enjoy it, I didn't. No need to constantly keep repeating myself, it's not going to change matters and won't add anything to the discussion. If you know you don't like something, why keep listening to it?

You on the other hand keep declaring how you're done with the band, it's been like that for quite some time now. You won't go anymore. Will never spend so much cash if they'll play in that venue again. It's an endless amount of threats and complaints yet you never follow up on it, which kind of makes your critisism hard to take seriously. You're saying "what's my excuse?" Well, I stopped going to shows once I felt the band were dead as a live act. That's the difference. I told Thierry he'd have to do a tour without me and that was it.

Why is it so hard to do the same? You're saying "What other choice did I have?" In my book that maks it sound as if someone put a gun to your head and told you you absolutely had to see 1 show, despite being fully aware that it would have a boring set, would be 2 hours long, would be overpriced and would have cringeworthy vocals from Jon.

You know all of that in advance. Yet you bought the ticket, and then still complain afterwards. I just don't get that.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan