View Single Post
 
Old 05-02-2022, 10:14 PM
liljovi93's Avatar
liljovi93 liljovi93 is offline
Senior Member
I Don't Want To Post Forever
 
Join Date: 27 Mar 2007
Location: Liverpool
Age: 31
Gender: male
Posts: 12,314
Send a message via MSN to liljovi93
Default Positives & Negatives - 2022 US Tour

Now that the tour is over, it'll be interesting to see what everyone thought was a positive and a negative. I'm sure a lot of us will have the same negatives. We've spoken more about negatives than anything else, really. However, I do think we had some positives.

Positives:

Prayer at Nashville. It was the most enjoyable video from the whole tour, for me. It was nice to see Jon in the crowd amongst fans again. People are complaining saying it shouldn't have to be the last show to do that sort of thing but he's obviously done it for covid reasons, I imagine. The 'it's okay' line was by far the best Jon has sounded.

Just Older, Radio Saved My Life Tonight and Loves The Only Rule being brought back. They may not sound great, but nothing does. So I'd take these over half the stuff we have in the setlist anyday.

Limitless with an outro guitar solo. It's what we all wanted. The song itself is still piss poor but it definitely lacked a solo so thankfully, it has one now.

Jon playing the harmonica outro on Let It Rain. I personally love the guitar on Let It Rain already, even if it is a Springsteen rip off, I don't care. I do love the harmonica outro and I hope it stays.

Acoustic set. I liked it from what I seen. Really liked 'We Don't Run'

Tico Torres. The man is just an absolute beast. I'd miss him more than anyone in the band.


Negatives:

Jon's vocals. Let's just get that one out the way. Not much more I can say that we haven't already. But yeah, he sounds horrendous.

Loves The Only Rule lasting a couple of shows. Don't get me wrong, it did sound bad, but again, I'd take it over half the stuff we have.

The setlist in general. Not enough variety. 20 songs for a band with 4 decades worth of material is poor.

Jon being like he was in 2017 for a lot of the shows. Rooted to the microphone and not much movement. He had moments but a lot of it was stuck at the microphone.

Removing the acoustic set. I quite liked it from what I seen on YouTube. It added some sort of change to the show. Whether it went down like a lead balloon at the actual shows or not, I don't know.

No Blood In The Water or Luv Can. To me, they're head and shoulders better than anything else on the 2020 album. I'd have liked them to have at least been played once. Luv Can could even be done acoustic.


I've tried to keep the positives and negatives to the same amount so it's not just constant bashing. I do think it had some positives but nothing major as you can read from above. And some of them positives didn't last long, unfortunately.

Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
__________________


Bon Jovi - Old Trafford - June 26th 2003
Bon Jovi - City Of Manchester Stadium - June 4th 2006
Bon Jovi - City Of Manchester Stadium - June 22nd 2008
Bon Jovi - Old Trafford Cricket Ground - June 24th 2011
Bon Jovi - City Of Manchester Stadium - June 8th 2013
Bon Jovi - Slane Castle - June 15th 2013
Bon Jovi - Hyde Park - July 5th 2013
Bon Jovi - London Palladium - October 10th 2016
Excuse me, has anyone got a bottle of orange juice?!


Not afraid of Burning Bridges, cause I know they're gonna light my way...
Reply With Quote