Responding to the *dead crowd* comments

Aloha !

London didn't die during I Believe, no idea who told you that.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

When I am at a concert I jump, sing etc. and love it. There's no point in going to a concert to stand around with your hands in your pockets. Besides, after standing around all day, the worst thing to do during a show is to stand still.

And on the subject of the crowd singing...it can be amazing. It's brilliant hearing the whole crowd singing along, and you can still hear the singer, so I don't see the problem.

*One of my biggest pet peeves is YouTube videos from concerts. People go to shows, take a video and sing whilst videoing. Comments are left about how they should 'shut up'. No. They went to the concert and enjoyed it. They didn't have to upload it to YouTube. If you cared that much, you would have went yourself.

In watching various boots. It looks like the floor/golden circle etc. is way up for it, which I would expect. But that most of the Stadium is just kind of there. Maybe I'm looking at it wrong.

At gigs I dance and sing, and never sit down, but I have to admit that when I saw Oasis in July I went for a piss during Lyla. However, I was positioned just outside the toilets, and I literally left during the second verse and was back in time for the guitar solo. However, it's clearly visible at a lot of gigs that people don't care much about atmosphere, standing around sipping their beer and talking, going for a piss at any time. I don't get why people like this don't want to have fun.

I'm an American and definitely love to rock out at my shows and March 9th here in Omaha will be no different!!! I go for an aisle seat whenever possible so I have a little extra room to move around. That's just the way I experience concerts. I never understood people who sit in their seats or stand without moving an inch, but to each their own.

I think the American posters are taking this personally. I have nothing against America. It's great, nice places, nice people, diverse culture etc. but sadly rock crowds are mediocre.

I can find a dozen videos where Jon and the band have said performing in Europe is the highlight of the tour.

Jungleland is right about the seats - seats don't belong to a rock show!!! I mean on the floor. Who wants to sit should buy appropriate ticekt.
When there are seats around you, you can move that much, seat is behind you, before you... terrible. And it looks terrible - people in rows and lines.

I go to a show to enjoy it. I always sing a long, I always jump and dance or whatever move it is. That's rock'n'roll is all about. To have fun. And not to stand and stare.

The best feeling from a show I got when all of the 80 000 people at Olympic Stadium sang just like a one man. It also makes the band feel better. I was at three BJ shows and at each we got extra songs that weren't planned. Never Says Goodbye in Stuttgart - Richie was even unplugged at that time and he had to wait for a guitar. Munich - we got Blood On Blood after the crows was shouting like crazy, Punchestown - we got Rocking All Over The World and These Days.

Why does the band play longer shows with better setlists and better performances in Europe???

I can't say which crowd is better because there are no better people. But as a performer, I'd prefer crowd singing along, dancing and having fun to people siting or standing and just watching the show and clapping at the end of the songs.
I'm quite patriotic but I honestly say that Czech people suck as a crowd. I have seen shows in Germany and the was completely different. People in Germany went to the show to enjoy an evening, drink some beer etc. Czech people are there arguing who stands before you so you don't see, when the act is not on the stage at the time it is at the ticket they are angry because they've payed for it etc... I can say the in Punchestown it was even better than in Germany. Irish girls are crazy Well, I love Irish people, it was a great time in Ireland - Dublin, many young people enjoying their lives

I don't take it personally honestly. I've been to shows with shitty crowds for Bon Jovi. (Saying rock crowds is too general, I've seen crazy rock crowds many times) What I get irritated by is this idea that European crowds will be up for any song/rarity and constantly feeding energy, and it's blatant from YT vids that that's not always the case.

That being said, I'd kill to follow the band around Europe.

Hahaha, looks like I wouldn't enjoy going to shows with some of the jovitalkers here.
Whoever tells me to shut up or sit down during a rock concert is going to get it him/herself.

I actually blasted a woman at a Jovi show for that.
Night 3 at the Pru, the band played Living In Sin, Right Side of Wrong, and Lay Your Hands On Me (Which to me is HUGE, considering NJ is my favorite album, and I'm one of the few who LOVES RSOW.) So I was sitting uptop, but I was losing it singing and etc, and I could tell this woman was getting pissed with me. So, during the intro to LYHOM she goes "Could you sit the **** down?", so I turn around and ask why, and she goes "Cause I can't see through your fatass." So I tell her "Then stand the **** up," and I may have flipped her off