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Originally Posted by robknowles1978
Can I just make a point... and I fully expect to get shot down by the ‘Jon’s finished’ brigade...
I went on Sunday to Coventry. I took my two sons, aged 13 and 11, who have pretty much waited for the last six, seven or eight years for me to take them to a Bon Jovi concert. It’s the soundtrack of their lives from before they can even remember.
I’ve seen them three or four times in the last 25 years. Was Sunday as good as in 2003? It was better... Sunday night was the best night of my sons lives.
Why does Jon still roll out and tour? There were 37,000 people in that stadium on Sunday night and, from what I saw and heard, they all had an absolute blast. You can nit pick about vocals on a YouTube video. But standing in that stadium, watching my eleven year old son with a smile as wide as a Cheshire Cat, signing Livin On A Prayer as loud as he could scream, that is worth every single penny. That is what a Bon Jovi concert is all about. It’s about seeing my 13 year old, who normally talks in grunts, singing Bad Name at the top of his voice like he’s waited his whole life to do it.
I paid £80 a ticket on Sunday. I would have paid ten times that for those moments and that could have only happened at a Bon Jovi concert.
During the sing a long of Ill Be There For You, my youngest grabbed hold of me and, with tears in his eyes, said... ‘Dad... Thank you’.
That is what Sunday’s concert was. Yeah, you can pull it apart and complain about vocals and whatever. You try telling a 13 year old and an 11 year old that it wasn’t good. I tell you now... no one will ever take the memory of Sunday night from them. That will stay with them forever.
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Great post and I am glad the experience was like this for you and your children.
For me I took my wife to Wembley, she has seen them once before in 2010. It was amazing, Jon and the band were on fire and we had an amazing time.
Coventry was me and a friend, we have seen Bon Jovi together a number of times and this one was probably the worst so it is how you compare I guess, or maybe who you go with to a degree.
Hyde Park 2013 I took my daughter who was then 8, absolutely loved it as seeing her reaction was priceless.
My main point was that it was a shorter show at the same cost as when Jon decides to pull out all the stops. If 22 songs is the new normal then ok but don't give some shows 25 and some 20.