The Official July 21 Piața Constituției, Bucharest, Romania Thread

OFF TOPIC: I didn’t know there was the Black Sea and Dracula’s Castle, and I only heard wonders of Greece, I think I’ll be back soon. I got the impression the Spain boys and Romania boys are BIG BIG BIG flirting.

Well I know you mean no harm and no offense, as far as I’m concerned anywhere there is a stage with Bon Jovi I try to enjoy every second of it, of course I always end up unable to speak after any concert but that’s fine.

My only struggle is that I’ve been only to 3 BJ concerts as I’m only 22 and a college student so I’m trying to save money every year to attend various major concerts that I enjoy, and in all 3 concerts, for various reasons the shows end earlier than expected, lucky me.

PS. I’ve been to Brasov yesterday, what a beautiful town. If any of you is around you should visit but you’d better use train for your transportation. Roads in Romania are terrible

Right, where do I start... it was my first Jovi show so I didn't have high expectations. I've gotta say , it was f*cking hot there, 34 C° and no wind at all. I don't know if it was just me, but from where I was standing it seemed like you couldn't properly hear Jon. The mic was high in the mix, but at times you just heard a voice but couldn't say who was singing. I can't describe it any better. I also felt that the foods and drinks in the concert area where a big rip-off. It was pretty expensive. Now to the show, as I expected beforehand, Prayer and IML got the best reactions from the crowd. From whereI was standing, it seemed like I pretty much the only one singing my ass off. I thought that the crowd never truly got going and didn't really deserve to have 2 more songs after Prayer. When the band came on stage, everyone waiting in lines for food and drinks rushed up as close to the stage as possible to hear a stunning vocal performance of This House Is Not For Sale . There was actually plenty of space at the back, i think at most 40 000/50 000 people were there.During, Amen, Jon pretty much ****ed up the long notes in the chorus. Not that i cared much during the show though, the only songs I missed for a bit to go get water were Lost Highway and WLOL. It's funny, I shit on that duo all the time but I belted them out like never before there and then. I was hoping to get BOR, but It didn't matter much, I was also hoping for both Rollercoaster and WDR, and both of them got played, so it evened out for me. At times it was a bit awkward, in Wanted/Bad Medicine/ LYHOM at times I was the only one singing and some people were looking at me like I was crazy or something. Bad Medicine actually went along well, I think. The song's not been great on Jon's part this tour, so I think this was the best performance of the song in Europe 2019. After Prayer, some people started making their way out of the venue, probably to avoid the traffic. When the band got in a circle and were discussing things after Prayer, the crowd started shouting 'Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi! " in a heavy Romanian accent. There were plenty of us Bulgarians there, a special bus full of fans came along from Sofia for the concert, myself and my mom included. The group was split together though, some had Golden Circle tickets, and some had just the normal ones. After the show, there were so many people coming out at once, and because it wasn't a stadium, the crowd wasn't going out of the venue from different exits, the majority went to the exit I was also going to, there was literally no space on the streets for cars, they were stuck there and had to wait for the crowd to clear up. The bad thing was, after the show the bus wasn't going to pick us up and get us back to the hotel, so we had to make our way back on our own. Sadly, I couldn't find others from the group who knew how to get to the hotel with the subway or even a local bus. I was pretty certain I Remembered the way we came from, it was on a big street with two malls next to each other, and after that, well sh*t. Long story short, I got lost and was lurking around still fairly confident I knew the right way, but I didn't. I even reached the stadium of Dinamo Bucharest, there were very little people on the streets, and I was getting worried. To my relief, I found a taxi who took us to the hotel. And he was legit, didn't try to get more money out of us just because we were foreigners, that's a common practise here in the Balkans. Overall, everything was very amazing, I loved every second of it, from going to the venue without having the chance to rest for a bit at the hotel, to getting lost in a huge city I didn't know and a language I didn't speak, it's definitely a few days I'll never forget!

Definitely, I was also there and felt the crowd was very sh*t and didn't deserve a second encore.

I went to 14 shows between 2008-2011. I got both ILTT and WFTFM. But I also got:

Blood on Blood
Roulette
Shot through the heart
Homebound Train
Bed of Roses
Something for the pain
Thorn in My Side
Love’s the only rule
Blood Money
Radio
Story of my life
Always
Blaze of Glory
Damned
Diamond Ring
Dry County
These Days
Just Older
No apologies
Miss Fourth of July
I get a rush
Hey God
Wild is the wind
I believe
Santa Fe
Something to Believe in
Wild in the streets
I’d die for you
Living in Sin
This Ain’t a love song
Get Ready
It’s hard letting you go
Any Other Day

Out of these 14 shows, at least 6 were truly great. 6 were pretty good. 1 was ok and one was bad. Check out some performances like Always and HAND from Chicago 2010, These days from Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires 2010, Hey God from Mannheim 2011, Blood on Blood and Saturday Night from Vienna 2011. Those were truly great performances and are examples of why the 08-11 era was the last great era for the diehards.

So yes, a lot of people talk about the 2011 shows because they were there and the shows were truly great.

Look at that list above. I was at both shows in Chicago in 2010. They were unbelievable. I play the crap out of the Hard Rock Calling recording. I know a bunch of people from here hit the 2011 European leg. My biggest band-related regret is not finding a way to make those shows.

I think those two nights in Chicago might be amongst the best shows the band has ever done in NA after 1995. Jon and Richie were on fire.

The best I've ever seen the band was in 2006 and 2011. Toronto, Rogers Stadium, the second show showed me a band that had passion from every member, high energy and playing their guts out.

The crowd was bad, no doubt. But were you bad, too? Judging from your review, you enjoyed every song, including those you don't generally like, didn't you? I jumped, clapped my hands, raised my hands, sang my guts out along to every song (yeah, I also hate WLOL/LH/Crash but I somehow enjoyed them A LOT), and really tried to give my best to make the lame people around me at least a bit excited. Some of them joined me from time to time, others behaved as if they had come to a theatrical play. They were bad.....but I was good, and you were good, and so were the diehards at the very front. Do we NOT deserve a proper show just because the majority of the crowd was lame? Why do we have to suffer because of the activity, or the lack thereof, of people we don't know? I did my best. And I totally reject the notion that we deserved less.

I'm talking about the overall crowd. 1000 of die hards enjoying the f*ck out of every song in the grand scheme is nothing when you've got 40/50 000 people just standing there. The die hards deserved it, the others did not.