My wife, my son and I drove 8+ hours each way to see Bon Jovi in the New Meadowlands Stadium and we really enjoyed it even though we were 15 rows from the top of the stadium in the worst seats any of has ever had for a show.
While we noticed sound problems (a wierd phasing panning effect now and then and what sounded like a soft protect from a current overage on PA amps several times), Jon being out of time and the enitre board except Richie cutting out for a few seconds during HAND, it was a great time and we are looking forward to seeing them again on Monday Night in Cleveland. After the show we met with new and old friends at Kathleens -place and were kind of surprised at the overwhelming negative reaction to the show.

Of course Die hards don't suck but we realized back in 2003 that being die hards and seeing 10+ shows per tour had begun to suck for us as the expectaions for each show to be the next great moment in JOvi history can almost never be met so we cut back seeing shows to just one per tour and loved theses few shows immensely.
This tour we are seeing more because the band sounds so much better than they have since 1993.
One more this tour for us and hopefully we get a ton of rarities and a true three hour show....shit there I go again, heading down the road of suckitude.

Seriously the show was great and up in the upper deck people were on thier feet dancing and singing.
I am watching the concert again on the giant screen and it looks and sounds like a great time though we are only up[ to LYHOM so far.
Can't wait to hear a few more recordings from better spots

For the record after seeing 65+ shows, I saw 4 songs performed for the first time last night so I am pretty happy setlist wise as well.
Dave