When the wife returned back from the washrooms she said that someone in the que thought Bon Jovi were never going to top Kid Rock. One woman said “How are they going to top that? With a Richie Sambora ballad or something?” which just shows how retarded this crowd was. Obie had told someone from Backstage that the first song was going to be incredibly awesome and that there were many, many surprises in the set. It'd be a show you'd never forget. OMG! Well, the opener was Raise Your Hands, but I was pretty much underwhelmed by it. As I was during the first 5 songs. I asked the wife what she thought of it and she said it was ok. I didn't say anything but thought it was a ****ing disappointing show so far. Richie made many, many mistakes, Jon looked like he had a major hangover and it never felt like there was a band playing on that stage but just 6 individuals who hadn't seen eachother since the O2 show and were too lazy to rehearse anything. Jon was out of breath all the time, missed several vocal lines, was out of sync with the rest of the band while Richie was sweating like a pig and looked like he had a hard time keeping up with everyone. What we obviously needed was KIIIHIIID, KIIIHIIID, ROCK ROCK, ROCK ROCK!!!!! to save the show. When he came out during Bad Medicine I was disappointed that this was the first highlight of the show. The sax player and the 2 backing vocalists made the medley a lot of fun, and this was just proper fun like you hope to get at a Bon Jovi show. As soon as Kid Rock went off Jon went right back into auto pilot mode though. Open All Night was a disaster, and for the first time ever I just sat down. I couldn't be arsed anymore and neither could the wife. There was really NOTHING about this show that made me want to be there anymore. Jon sounded wank, didn't sound motivated at all and the acoustic set was just more of the same. Have A Nice Day spiced things up a bit but apparantly Richie's **** up was the final straw for him and actually the entire band. Even Tico's face said “What the **** is this now, I can't keep up with this any longer!” Jon gave him the stink eye and David looked incredibly confused, not realizing what actually happened. After Richie'd made the mistake he looked incredibly guilty and Jon pretty much gave him the stink eye for the rest of the show. This was a singer who'd been struggling to keep up with the show just as much as Richie did, but apparantly Jon thinks he's mr. perfect and needs to get upset about someone else, yet he was just as flawed. It's just that Richie's mistake was a lot more obvious, and it was then when I realized how pathetic Jon can be. And there's no way that would I be playing in a band I'd accept that behaviour from a lead singer or anyone else. If my boss gives me shit at work like that I tell him right in his face. And if a lead singer would give me shit in front of 50.000 people I'd make it clear to him right away. It became very apparent how much they're all up to Jon's arse. First we had David complaining about the situation in the documentary, but it was there that I realized what a pathetic little ****er Jon actually is. He surrounds himself with all these yes people around him just so he can boss around, yet he's far from perfect himself and as insecure as anyone can be. I know, when Jon is on fire he's a good lead singer, but this is what his personality is like, it's clear in everything he does. The world is spinning because of Jon Bon, yet it's a very small world he lives in because what he's ended up with aren't the people that tell him like it is, but the people that tell him like he would like to hear it is. Obviously it didn't stop here. Nope, Jon had to point at Richie once again while singing “make no mistake” during It's My Life, and during the break in Work he grabbed Richie's shoulder and looked him straight in the eye with that “I'm not happy with you right now look” Richie knew and I couldn't understand why a grown man would let a silly ****er like Jon walk all over him. Situations like these make it clear why Jon doesn't want a tell all book to be released. He'd come across as the biggest ****er on the planet and he'd make Axl Rose look like a nice person. And it makes sense though, if you're that careful with hiding what goes on behind the curtain you obviously have got something to hide. Still, it didn't end here though. Who Says came on, and Jon refused to look Richie in the eye when they were sharing the mic. Richie and the rest of the band were playing on auto pilot and David kept looking at Jon, and sort of looked like “I hope I'm not the one next here!”

Encore. The encore was ****ing shite. The show had been shite, Jon had been ignoring every banner so far (Don't think a bigger banner for Lie To Me would've been possible), and the encore was even worse. I told Kat that if after Wanted Prayer would be next I'd like to leave. And I've never walked out of a Bon Jovi show before. We did get the amazing I Love This Town though. Because yeah, Jon loves Rutherford and New Jersey so much. SO MUCH! Which is why he lives in New York nowadays, because he loves it so much. It's fake. Jon's a phoney, and there's no way I Love This Town was played because he loved this town, but it was played because Jon realized he could get an easy cheers from the crowd with a song like that. But it wasn't over after I Love This Town. No! We got Glad All Over, another killer song die hards and average joes love to hear. And then disaster hit him, or like we said after the show “my dad took care of business” because I am Jesus and my dad didn't accept behaviour like this from Jon anymore. Jon was in pain, and pretty much every die hard after the show I talked to thought that if someone deserved to be in pain after the show it was him. And I know it's wrong to think like that, but if you give your biggest fans 3 rare songs over 90 songs played, treat them like shit, ignore their requests and signs and go on auto pilot on the last show, you deserve some sort of punishment. And if you'd seen this show you'd think just the same. I know Jon said on Facebook that he was about to go off in an endless encore, but it's bullshit. After Glad All Over Prayer was supposed to be played, there's no way he wanted to do an endless encore, it's just him bragging like usual, because even the press release had to say when disaster struck him (at the 2 hour 40 mark blablabla Jon played such a long show blablabla).

Me and Kat decided that when Prayer started, we left. We went back to the car, and I just wanted to go to bed instead of doing another jamsession after the show. I wasn't into that at all anymore. About 1 hour later me and Kat were back in bed, and that was pretty much the only good thing about this day. We spend it with eachother, and spend it with friends. But I'd much rather have been in the city or just at home watching TV than to go to this show. This show proved that a long show doesn't mean a good show. It also meant that being in Giants doesn't give you a good show either. It meant that if Jon feels like it, he'll just don't care at all anymore, no matter where he plays.

Rating on the Supersonic’s all mattering Bon Jovi review index:
***** The ****ing bollocks!!!
**** Top show.
*** Yeah, well that was alright...
** Piss poor performance. Nnngg!!!
* Jon you cunt I hope you go bald within 1 day!


So, are the shows at Giants stadium the best shows of the tour? No. Not at all. American crowds are shit and although the first 3 shows were good, they never, ever beat a European show at all. Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Manchester, Dublin, Hamburg, Stuttgart all get much better shows, and would Kathleen, Paul and obviously Kat not be living near New Jersey there's no way I'd ever go back to see a show at Giants stadium. The trip to New Jersey and New York was fun, but it was fun because of the jam sessions, Kev and Carli holding up their requests written on the plates they were eating from, meeting many people from the other side of the world, seeing New Jersey, seeing what America is like, seeing New York. And Bon Jovi? Yeah, they were a nice bonus. So here I am, after the Canadian tour (which might get a separate review though Erik pretty much covered most of the trip), finishing my review for the Giants shows while being on the plane that takes me back to New Jersey. Back to Paul and Kathleen, who's hospitality is just insane. They made the trip even more awesome, but the best part of this trip was Kat, Kathleen's daughter, and I'm going back to her now. Right on from the moment I met her I knew: She will be my wife. Because I am in love like I've never been in love before. Everything that ever happened to me the past few years, all the shit, all the good stuff, it all made sense once I met her. This is the person to who I belong to. So yes, she will be my wife. Next year in Rome, during the European tour it'll probably happen. And everyone I met on this trip is welcome to come to the wedding. See you there?

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan