There was even a girl dancing beside me that danced like she was a ****ing pole dancer or something. A little over the top, to be honest but such a sight to see.


Just in case someone starts to moan about how I shouldn’t take pictures of women like that, this was incidentally shot when I made a picture of Thierry, but while typing this I’m sure no one believes me. Oh well.

Faith was immense. Richie just ripped the **** out of his guitar during the different guitar solo, and Jon was on fire during the chorusses. When Tico started doing the jungle drums, me and Thierry were happy, and when Jon pointed at Hugh and heard him playing the bass line for Sympathy we three did our little dance. No jungle screams were done tonight, if Jon would’ve done those it would’ve been the best version I ever heard. Still, this was Richie’s song, he just tore the song to pieces and again the playing in front of the video screens was cool as ****.

Sympathy For The Devil:
After Faith, Richie followed with I’ll Be There For You and although many of you want Richie to change it for another song, I’d rather hear him singing this than his version of These Days. The crowd loved it and we loved it too. After Richie’s song, me and Thierry knew that this was the spot for a rare song and hoped for Hey God but got Lay Your Hands On Me instead to the delight of Seem who had been wanting this song for a very long time. So yeah, at least someone was happy there. At this point we knew that Hey God would not be played tonight, and Jon and co. ****ed up the intro of Lay Your Hands On Me. It was done with the drum intro, but only for a short while before the band broke down into the electric version. When this tour started, Jon struggled with the vocals for this song, but not tonight baby, oh no. Again, the band and Jon nailed the song, and after the song we were off to Have A Nice Day, followed by Who Says You Can’t Go Home. I think it’s safe to assume that what bothers me about Crash is what bothers Thierry about Who Says. Keep in mind that he’s heard the song about 50 more times than me because he actually did do lots of shows on the HAND tour, and the look on his face was just priceless when Jon did the reprise for the first time this tour. I made a picture of it, but am not allowed to share it unless the same big titted girls I mentioned in the start of my review blow him too, so if any of you wants to see the picture you know what you need to do.

Bad Medicine followed to the delight of Seem, who hates the song, but I have to admit that Jon was on fire during the performance. Prayer followed, Jon nailed the song, well, almost and they were off. And this was the part of me and Thierry where we started to speculate what would show up. The fun about this European leg is that you actually don’t have any idea of what will show up in the encore, which is a lot, lot more fun than knowing that it’s I Love This Town and Wanted. Anyway, band came back, started Any Other Day and again Seem was happy because she had been wanting to hear the song right from the start of the tour. It was a solid performance but there’s something about the song that doesn’t work live. The crowd didn’t know the song either and I think they should’ve started the encore with a big hit. After the zillion solo’s in the end Richie started the riff of Damned right away, just 2 notes but Jon said stop. I think close to no one in the audience knew what was coming up apart from me and Thierry. Again, finally it was fun again to collect bootlegs when a band surprises it’s audience because we recognized the riff. We did our little dance again, told Seem Damned would show up, and I texted Emil while Jon was still doing his a capella intro (which could barely be heard due to the terrible acoustics) so he got the message when the song hadn’t even started. Damned was the ****ing bollocks. Yes, I didn’t get Hey God, but who cares when you get Damned instead? This song had been done live only one time this tour, and a few times on past tours but again it didn’t sound as brilliant as tonight. This one pissed all over any performance since 2000. Best version since 1996, easily. No flat vocals, no moody Jon, none of that. This was Jon the ****ing rock star who showed the audience and die hards how it’s done.

After Damned, Jon grabbed his acoustic and started strumming a few E chords of Sat. Night. He asked the crowd “what do you want to hear” and teased the audience with the intro of These Days. Again, it was fun being with Thierry, we knew what was coming up, did our little dance, and while Jon pointed to Dave to start the piano intro we three were a happy bunch because we knew it’d be Jon who’d be singing the song. During the song Jon nailed it. I’ve never heard Jon sing These Days so well since 1996. Yes, 1996 had better performances of the song but again it pissed all over any post 2000 performance. Before the guitar solo, Jon pointed at Poncho to do the guitar solo, Richie pointed at Poncho but Poncho pointed at Richie to do the guitar solo. Me and Thierry saw it happening, and, well, you guessed it, did our little dance, and Richie played a proper guitar solo. I’m absolutely positive that the encore was supposed to be Sat. Night and Wanted, so they mixed it up quite a lot.

This encore was brilliant. Wanted followed, crowd sang the first verse and the show was done. It felt like the band didn’t want to leave but had to because of their schedule. This show in Frankfurt was how it’s supposed to be done. This is the band that we three fell in love with. This was how a show was supposed to be, and how you were supposed to leave a Bon Jovi show. Soaking wet because of the sweat, a bit of a sore throat and just happy. Very happy. We also wondered what Twickenham would bring if this show would be this good. That said, they often do one of their best shows of the tour in Germany, and according to Thierry Milton Keynes 2006 weren’t the best shows of the tour either. Who cares though, this night, the band tore the ****ing roof of the place, and we were ****ing there.

When we were driving away from the venue I gave everyone a private concert out of sheer excitement which was a lot of fun to do. Thierry looked the other way though, he hung his head in shame he said, but laughed his ass off. While Jon was so in key, I was so out if that night. This was certainly the most fun I’ve ever had before, during and after a Bon Jovi show, thanks to my friends. When I woke up at Thierry’s place he told me my hair looked like Toad from Mario, just to give you an idea of what Seb looks like when he wakes up, and I think it’s safe to assume that, besides my brother, Seem and Thierry are the only 2 persons who can own Seb. (poor me).

Cheers to you 2. It was absolutely brilliant.

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!

Pictures were made by me, video's have been recorded by Semigiovi.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan