Aloha !

This was the worst Bon Jovi show I've ever been to. It beats Nijmegen performance wise because Richie kept making mistakes, and it beats Twickenham because it was just so ****ing boring. Jon wasn't singing in the same tempo as the rest of the band was, he skipped lines several times, and his voice cracked a few times as well. Richie messed up during HAND big time, the whole band didn't know what to do and after that had happened Jon refused to look at Richie until he grabbed his shoulder during WFTWM and looked him in the eye while almost killing his shoulder with his bare hands. During IML he pointed at Richie while singing "make no mistakes" and during Who Says when they shared the mike they refused to look eachother in the eye. It really was that bad that if I had been Richie I'd have grabbed Jon by the balls and would never, ever accept that, just like I don't tolerate such behaviour from my boss.

Further on; The crowd wasn't into it at all, the setlist was wrong on pretty much every level. The encore was just appaling and then during Glad All Over Jon's leg started to hurt a lot and he started to limp. He needed to hold on to the white mike stand in order to be able to stand up. There's no way more songs were going to get played anyway, he did the usual "I'm not going anywhere" lines, but Prayer was planned. I even think I Love This Town was done instead of another planned song but I'm not 100% sure about that. After having played so many different songs of which Jon knows they go over well everywhere (Let It Rock, Wild In The Streets) Jon didn't pick any of them and instead just played a very Jon orientated setlist which no one cared about.

This show never rocked and like I texted to Carli: This is why people love Bruce but like Jon. Jon is all talk and no action, while Bruce shows passion for his crowd and passion for his songs.

Pathetic.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan