[Miracle]

Originally Posted by Jonbonrocks

Great, great night. Didn't hurt that I had 13th row centre floor either, lol.

Oh wow! I was sitting 10th row centre floor. What seat number were you?

[Captain.Crash]

What a great show!!!

If anyone who experienced tonight can come home and say anything negative they deserve a fate worse than hearing Sleep When im Dead every night. (Which didnt appear in Toronto at all thank god).

Id Die for you was AWESOME. The highlight of my night for sure. The band was on fire, Jon was loaded with energy and Richie is on fire these days. The Band sounded INCREDIBLE both nights, but tonight had something different.

Back to back nights my Blood on Blood dream was fulfulled and where are my BOBITA Brothers????? 2 Nights, Blood on Blood, In These Arms, Id Die for you and Lay Your Hands on me. Not much else I can say than "CANT WAIT TILL MARCH!"

[Crushgen24/88]

Sounds like a good show.
Hot setlist, comparitivly anyway.

[SAMBORAGUY]

Originally Posted by Captain.Crash

What a great show!!!

If anyone who experienced tonight can come home and say anything negative they deserve a fate worse than hearing Sleep When im Dead every night. (Which didnt appear in Toronto at all thank god).

Id Die for you was AWESOME. The highlight of my night for sure. The band was on fire, Jon was loaded with energy and Richie is on fire these days. The Band sounded INCREDIBLE both nights, but tonight had something different.

Back to back nights my Blood on Blood dream was fulfulled and where are my BOBITA Brothers????? 2 Nights, Blood on Blood, In These Arms, Id Die for you and Lay Your Hands on me. Not much else I can say than "CANT WAIT TILL MARCH!"

I'm so green with envy right now! I went to 5 shows in newark hoping for them them to play I'D DIE FOR YOU and not once did it get played. Lucky bastards . Glad yall had a great time tho.

[mo_rizwan]

They played I'd Die For You?

Wow! No need to make a banner for Twickers then

[mo_rizwan]

8 December 2007
Bon Jovi's still got it going on - just ask his fans

The hard-rock huckster's vocals may lack the snarl of his youth but overall his performance can't be faulted

Bon Jovi

At the Air Canada Centre

In Toronto on Thursday

Greetings from Asbury Park, part two. The Jersey boys are getting fat on Canadian crowds, starting with fall concerts by hungry-hearted Bruce Springsteen and continuing with Jon Bon Jovi's arena-shakers, who count four Toronto dates (Thursday and last night, with two more concerts to come March 10 and 12) as part of a Canadian tour that sells seats, no sweat.

"Are you with me tonight?" the rallying beautiful singer introduced himself to the crowd, specifically meaning "me," and not "us," the band. "On your feet," he commanded, his blow-dried hair flexing, "up on your seats!"

And so it went, Bon Jovi's rooters completely locked in with the boyish man who pandered heroically. He's an overactor, a baby-kisser, a hard-rock huckster, a buns-gripping corduroy-wearer (were his jeans in the wash?), a pleaser and a master of the minor-key chorus. He's money, give him that.

Nobody went home disappointed, save for the platinum-seat platinum blonde who held up a sign asking "Can I be your Leann tonight? That was her request to pop on stage for Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore, an unplayed song from the countrified new album Lost Highway, which features a duet with hayseed honey LeAnn Rimes. That's right, country music - Daytona demographics for the carpetbagger from Sayreville, N.J.

The show began Grand Ole Opry-like, with an old-tymey trio (fiddle-gal, steel and acoustic guitar) channelling Hank Williams before the rock show proper took over with the album's title track, a banal smooth-rocking road song - "say goodbye to yesterday, hit the gas, there ain't no breaks on this lost highway" - that steals its theme and middle eight from Born to Run. Fists pumped to You Give Love a Bad Name, the first of the Bon Jovi pop-metal catalogue.

The knee-jerk reaction to the new album usually involves comparisons to Keith Urban. But I hear more Shania Twain on the new-country tracks, in a major way on the ESPN theme song We Got It Going On, a boogie number written with help from Nashville duo Big & Rich, adorned with a talk-box effect from Richie Sambora, school of rock, class of '86.

Sambora, who joined singer Bon Jovi for an intimate set on the hockey-rink boards at about the red line, was the only band member acknowledged by the white-toothed front man all night. On the sentimental These Days, he showed off a gutsier voice than the lead singer - Bon Jovi's vocals are thinner, whinier and without the snarl of his youth - but I'm not a fan of what Sambora does with his instrument. His fleet fretting is not even a showoff, and he plays no notes that haven't been test-marketed first.

Which is fine by the Bon Jovi audience, which responded unfailingly to the familiar: slow dancing and singing along when called upon, and raising their hands to Raise Your Hands, which auditioned for We Will Rock You, playing a few blocks away.

The performance overall - crafted, vigorous and sounding sharp - can't really be faulted. The heartstring-tugging I'll Be There for You said it all, with "these five words I swear to you" presumably being "See ya again tomorrow night."

The goods

Hits

There was a jukebox on stage, literally and figuratively. The hair-rock classics - You Give Love a Bad Name, It's My Life, Bad Medicine, I'll Be There for You and the finale Wanted Dead or Alive - came dependably, three for a dollar, press to play.

Misses

From such a committed grandstander - the low number on Jon Bon Jovi's Maple Leaf jersey stood for arena-band cliché No. 1 - the omission I Love This Town was surprising.

Crowd

Ladies night out, Club Shangri-La, Newark, N.J.

In short

Never has loud music been rendered so darn adorable.

Source: GlobeAndMail.Com

[UKjovi]

I'd love to have heard this
CAN'T HELP FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOU [ELVIS COVER]

[cowboy2002]

And thank heavens Richie played the solo in I'd de for you!!!

YouTube

but bobby stills plays the solo on In These Arms!!! Why?!!!?!?!

[milomom]

There are several additional songs from last night posted on YouTube by dida1209, including the end of the Can't Help Falling In Love With You cover and the beginning of IBTFY:

YouTube

[Mikey D]

Definitely the better of the 2 Toronto shows.

Then again....they could have played Kumbaya for 2 hours and closed with KTF and it would have been better. KTF is the BEST live song and should be played at every gig.....now if we could only get the jungle screams back.........or am I asking a bit much?


Great mix in this one - 7 song change-up from show 1 (more than I expected) - but I do think that 5 songs from slippery is a bit much though.

Highlighs were KTF, AOD, WLOL, Stranger, ITA, KTF & KTF!!!


On the positive, it's nice to see that they've done away with a lot of the shtick.....I could have done with out teh whole jukebox bit - I mean, is that the only reason the Jukebox is even on stage - so they can do this little bit of shtick? Crowd banter i great - the songs are great.....lose the shtick already!!


It just wouldn't be a JT thread unless I pointed out the negatives....would it?