Thoughts so far?

I wouldnt drop HAND altogether but rotate it with Bounce and Everyday, 2 simlilar songs. Hearing IML, LH and HAND every show on the last tour was overkill.

The clip on Youtube of the band singing Bed of Roses was a nice Valentine treat this weekend. I'm sorry to see he didn't dance with any fans. Maybe next time.

The more videos I see, the more impressed I am with where Jon's voice is as this tour starts. It is much better than at the start of the LH tour. EXCELLENT!

It also seems to me that the band is having a damn fine time playing the musical equivalent of their baby pictures in addition to the new material. If not, they're doing a good job of acting like it. They just LOOK like they're having fun!

I prefer for him not to dance with fans since so many of them can't control themselves and it winds up being a tacky and tasteless part of the show.

I'm impressed so far.

The songs from the first 2 albums sounded much better than I thought and it seems like Jon is having fun doing them even if he doesn't like them.

Loves The Only Rule was brilliant, I thought. At first, Jon was a bit flat, but he got into it.

I'm done bitching about Who Says You Can't Go Home. Like someone wrote it here, it's going to stay...so I'll listen to my Ipod during this very painful moment (for me)

I'm pretty happy with the songs' selection both from firsts and last albums.

I think Jon's voice sounds good, Tico and David seem to enjoy themselves specially during the songs from the firsts 2 albums. I enjoyed Richie's solos so far (from what I saw on You Tube)

I'm seeing them in Paris in June so I hope we will be treated with older songs too and songs from the 90s, as someone said, they were successful in Europe during this decade so I doubt they'll skip Keep The Faith or These Days.

I'm now pretty excited about this tour

What a twat!

The guy wasn't complaining. He was just wondering whether Bon Jovi will recognise the fact that in Europe the 90's was a successful era and therefore they may play a lot of stuff from 'Keep The Faith' and/or 'These Days'.

Dear Lord.

Before I say anything, I'd like to say it's my first post ever on this forum

I'm from a little central Europe country, called Lithuania, so I've never had a chance to see Jon & the band live, so perhaps that's the reason why my requirements for the great show are less comparing to yours. I would die happy if I saw Bon Jovi live, regardless of the songs they'd play. Even if they'd only play LH & Circle songs + It's My Life + a few hits from the 80s, that would be a "dream come true" for me. So with that being said, I obviously loved the setlist from the first night in Hawaii. They didn't play LH, instead of that they opened the tour with the perfect anthem Blood On Blood (and the fact that anyone who attended that show is yet to upload a video of this song in YouTube pisses me off), plus we got three unexpected gems from the first two albums (which I'm not a big fan of, but it sounded fresh, which means great) and off course I loved the Diamond Ring. The 2nd night wasn't so great when you compare it to the 1st one, but it also had it's highlights (I'll Be There, Saturday Night, Thorn, The Only Rule and off course - Only Lonely and Get Ready). If I had to point an area for improvement, it would be, as most of you said, reducing the LH songs and more importantly - increasing the number of songs from the 90s. I'm a fan of Bon Jovi in general, but my favorite era of them would be the 90s. I do have a feeling that they will bring more from KTF just because of it's amount of hits, but I'm afraid that once again TD is gonna be forgotten just like it has been in the 2000s. The LH tour was a pleasant surprise, they ocassionaly performed Hey God, Damned, Love Song and Lie and off course my favorite, the title track was almost a regular. And it sucks, cause it's my favorite BJ album ever, it's the first one I bought when I became a fan of this band. I just thought that Jon had heard the crowd's reaction that TD received during most of it's performances in 2008, so he'd perform songs from this album more often in 2010 and 2011, but judging from the first two shows, it doesn't look that way. I also think that Always should be a regular one, played on every show. And more ballads, cause it only was a one true ballad per each show (Bed of Roses and I'll Be There, respectively).

P.S. Pardon my english, it's not my first language.

Setlist was a big surprise; including songs from the first 2 albums is the bomb diggity. I take my hat off to Jon. He certainly showed balls by acknowledging the greatness of the first two albums.

The only major downer is the lack of BOBITA as a permanent fixture.

I think its started off really well. Both set lists were pretty different from each other so no-one saw the same show twice which is good. There were some great older songs in there and playing brokenpromiseland from the circle was a plus. I could do without WGIGO in any set.

If any of you are backstage members ( I know dirty word for you guys) but I know some of you are then there's a rehearsal audio of Hardest part of the night up there and Only Lonely

http://www.bonjovi.com/video/live-mu...t_is_the_night