The Official April 26, 2018, United Center, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. Thread

Aloha !

01. This House Is Not For Sale
02. Raise Your Hands
03. You Give Love A Bad Name
04. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
05. Lost Highway
06. When We Were Us
07. Born To Be My Baby
08. Who Says You Can't Go Home
09. It's My Life
10. We Weren't Born to Follow
11. Runaway
12. We Got It Goin' On
13. Keep The Faith
14. Amen
15. Bed Of roses
16. God Bless This Mess
17. Lay Your Hands On Me
18. Bad Medicine

Encore:
19. (You Want To) Make A Memory
20. Wanted Dead Or Alive
21. Livin' On A Prayer

The last time Bon Jovi played Chicago was just last year. The band played no rare songs. The last time Bon Jovi played anything rare was in 2013 when Diamond Ring was played. Rarest songs Chicago has ever heard is Turn The Page in 2010. Rarest Bon Jovi songs played in Chicago are What Do You Got in 2011, Damned and Turn The Page in 2010, Wild Is The Wind, Stranger In This Town and Living In Sin in 2008.

A graph indicating the representation of all records:


A graph showing the concert flow based on chart positions for every song in the Billboard Hot 100:


Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

These concerts from the summer of 2010 (except that fourth Meadowlands show) were such a fun time to be following the setlists and shows. They kept busting out performances like this. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago...

Oh man - that was a treat. And yeah - for some reason those shows and the 2011 tour also just doesn't seem that long ago. I sure miss those shows and those setlists though.

Hopefully Chicago will get a few (semi-)rarities! I'm thinking we just may get IDFY again. Or maybe they'll finally play IBTFY this year.

Please, stop - I'm getting emotional...
By the way, what an incredible version of Always they did in Chicago '10:

https://youtu.be/iSj6V5u0p3M

Bed Of Roses was also outstanding, with Jon even going for the raspy "I've got nothing to prove..." like he did in Frankfurt '08:

https://youtu.be/bwcjw0VzYHg

And who could possibly forget about this performance of HAND?

https://youtu.be/EyIPoMxOq-0

Dry County started quite shaky, but ended up as a superb version:

https://youtu.be/_74qwyTAShs

Showtime today. I’m in the area I hope I can make it to the show.

**** man that "Always" god I miss that Jon

That bad of roses, too. Unbelievable - I think (controversial opinion) I like Jon's more controlled tone here than his tone in the ktf tour. And richies playing and guitar tone - cuts like butter. So so so good. It's weird to think this was only 8 years ago.

Edit: wow that HAND performance is unbelievably vocally good. HAND is a song that I always thought sounded better in studio than live. Not in this case though.

What a contrast between that BOR performance and this one already:

https://youtu.be/uxmZjKiWnxA

I actually think he sounds better on that song now than he did in mid-'13. That said, it's not really hard to do...