What are you expecting from the Giants/O2 shows?

Seeing that they played Roulette, Shot Through The Heart, Diamond Ring, Tokyo Road, Get Ready and Only Lonely at the so called practice shows in Hawaii I was thrilled and thought this tour must really be something; got my hopes quite up for the two O2-shows I'll be attending.

But...as many of you have said it really became boring setlist-wise after the tour had been going on for a while. Yeah yeah I know they have to play certain songs but must the songs be at the same spot every night? If they feel there's 18 out of 23 songs they have to play every night why can't they change the opener and just simply move the regular songs from their "normal" spot? This is something I don't get, it would make the setlist at least a little bit more exciting.

So what I'm expecting is a good show but I'm not expecting to hear too many songs I haven't already heard.

Realistic expectations:
For Jersey:
-This Is Our House will be played live
-A couple of the older (BJ and 7800) tracks will reappear
-The acoustic set will disappear
-There will be 2-3 other rarities scattered over the nights, though I doubt anything not yet played on tour (Though I hope I'm wrong)
-I could see a Jersey-related guest coming on at some point (Bruce, Stevie, or more realistically SSJ)

For the 02:
-There will be 1 or 2 full album shows, but only The Circle and *maybe* Slippery When Wet.
-The sets will diversify night to night, but not by much.

Bon Jovi today,will never paly live songs such as Let it rock,Social disease,Witout Love or 99 in the shade.
Stop dreamin´.Jon prefers to play i love this town or who says you can´t go home 20 times for non fans audiences than give this songs to fans.

Or as I would say - stay out of your PC and save your valuable time instead of constantly bitching about same things over and over again like some miserable asshole.
I have nothing against you as a person, but I'm sure I'm not the only one annoyed with your 600+ posts saying absolutely nothing but how Bon Jovi is terrible live these days. Don't have anything else to do in your life?

I think they will surprise a few people during their O2 run, and I do think that they will dissapoint a few diehards during the Giants shows.....


It amazing how detailed and informative I am ain't it?

true and heartbreaking

I can´t understand how so many diehard fans on this board,and on the backstagejbj one,attack the people who criticizes how it´s the band nowadays.For us it´s very hard to say it,but it´s the truth.
Before the begginin of the tour,I was hoping a big tour like the european leg of the Lost Highway tour,but with this 2 months,not just setlists,many other things threw my hope below.
Setlists very predictables,new position of Hugh on stage,the stage is too much empty on this side,Bobby Bandiera touring again with the band,and even doing BJ solos,at least he could learn the original solos,and then it´s Richie.
Since he stop playing with Marshall amplifiers in 2001 tour,he have never sounded well.
His new guitar,sounded very bad,he play Gibson and Fender guitars a few times,and never again has played Kramer guitars.
And for me,the worst thing it´s why he never play his own songs??
Why he play songs like Lay your hands,Homebound,These days or I´ll be there??
Other thing is songs are played very low of tone,like In these arms or Bad Name..
At least we have Tico

Where are people getting the idea that the tone is being dropped? Bad Name is still half a step down, In These Arms is dropped a lot more but it's not like it was just suddenly changed that way recently. It's as its been since the 90's. I see your point about Richie though. I wish he'd do his own stuff too. Sadly, the audience doesn't agree with that. I much prefer the Fender/Gibsons over the Kramers.

Richie + Gibsons = Awesome!!!!

I bet that most of 80% of audiences each night never have heard Homebound Train,so he could play something of his records instead.
And,for example,In these Arms,the last tour it was played in his original tone was Bounce tour.You can watch videos on Youtube since HAND tour and see it.
And I don´t like Kramer guitars too,but I prefer it to Sambora guitar.