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Originally Posted by bonjovi90
Very spot on. These shows in 2010/11 were the reason we all kept hanging around here and watched the pbp's of all the concerts. Nowadays there's still talking about Sydney 2010, Lisbon, Mannheim or Udine 2011 and so on, because they were that something special that made BJ differ from many other bands.
These days I couldn't tell you one outstanding thing from the whole leg they did in the USA last year because it's all just the same.
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Can't tell one outstanding thing? How about the fact that they're still on the road doing what they love and doing their best and still selling out???
On a serious note, the shows are crap and the reception from the diehard fanbase perfectly represents that.
Jon hasn't done a single creative thing to compensate for his vocal decline. You'd think he'd do stuff like time-machine intro for Runaway, cover breaks in Bad Medicine or Sleep, special breakdowns mid-songs (e.g. Saturday Night, Blood On Blood) special acoustic intros (e.g. Captain Crash acoustic intro or Can't Help Falling In Love) to some songs, or simply playing songs that are rarities, but relatively easy on the vocals. But he hasn't done any of that and these are the things he'd do when his voice was still decent. I'd Die For You was a nice first step, but it took him several shows to pull that out and then on the next show it was gone again.
If you decline in one area, but grow in another, you can talk about evolving. But this is just degeneration.