your first Jovi concert?

It's almost five years ago!!! It was on the HaND tour in Stuttgart. I was very close to the catwalk on Richie's side and I've enjoyed the show so much. As bad as the HaND tour was, this is still a standout show for me. Jon's vocals weren't the best but I loved being there with a big crowd. Hearing the 60000+ voices singing the a capella intro to Prayer was immense!!
You may say I'm biased but I've also heard tons of bootlegs and I think I'm allowed to say this show has the best I'll Be There For You by Richie:

We also got very unexpected Never Say Goodbye (someone in the pit held a banner for it during the whole show - appeared on the screens few times), we had to wait for them to find and plug Richie's acoustic!! Many people around were crying, really special moment.
Also hearing IML for the first time was so special for me. The song that got me into Bon Jovi and music generally finally live! Some of the semi rarities were Wild In The Streets and I'd Die For You (this one sucked because Jon played something which was supposed to be a solo), I also enjoyed Bells Of Freedom, my favourite track from HaND and I Want To Be Loved was also good, it had nice screen projection. The show also ended with Keep The Faith which I always thought and still think is the best closing song ever.

Setlist:
1. Last Man Standing
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
4. Born To Be My Baby
5. Story Of My Life
6. Complicated
7. I'd Die For You
8. The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
9. Bounce
10. Wild In The Streets
11. In These Arms
12. Have A Nice Day
13. Who Says You Can't Go Home
14. It's My Life
15. I'll Be There For You (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
16. Bad Medicine
17. Raise Your Hands
18. Livin' On A Prayer

Encore 1:
19. I Want To Be Loved
20. Bells Of Freedom
21. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
22. Wanted Dead Or Alive
23. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
24. Keep The Faith

Encore 2:
25. Never Say Goodbye (acoustic)

I'm Portuguese too and I clearly remember buying these days and starting to know the band in the year they played Alvalade stadium for the 2nd time, in 1995. I was 10 ! Anyways, my first gig was Rock in Rio Lisbon, 2008. Can't be bothered with the setlist though =)

Not only was the gig at Lansdowne Road in 2003 my first Jovi gig, it was my first gig EVER!....

Didnt have ticket, and had no idea that i would be going untill the night before when my cousin said he had an extra ticket and if i would like to go with a bus of people down (i was 15 at the time)....it was a great way to blow of some steam from my GCSE revision (and i was going to fail my French test anyway lol)

Bounce
You Give Love A Bad Name
Wild In the Streets
Livin' On A Prayer
Runaway
Keep the Faith (Sympathy For the Devil)
Everyday
In These Arms
It's My Life
Diamond Ring
Bed of Roses
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Just Older
I'll Be There For You (Richie Sambora)
Misunderstood
Undivided
Born To Be My Baby
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Dancin' In the Streets & Rockin' All Over the World) Raise Your Hands

Encore:
Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars
Bad Medicine (Shout)
These Days
Twist & Shout


Looking back it was a great setlist..... especially for the Bounce Tour.....and i had great company on the way up and down...excellent day!

Paris 2010
1. Blood On Blood
2. We Weren´t Born To Follow
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Raise Your Hands
5. Born To Be My Baby
6. Lost Highway
7. When We Were Beautiful
8. Captain Crash And The Beauty Queen From Mars
9. We Got It Goin´ On
10. Bad Medicine
11. Pretty Woman cover, medley
12. Lay Your Hands On Me - Richie
13. Bed Of Roses
14. I´ll Be There For You
15. Something For The Pain acoustic
16. Someday I´ll Be Saturday Night acoustic
17. I´ll Sleep When I´m Dead
18. It´s My Life
19. Work For The Working Man
20. Who Says You Can´t Go Home?
21. Keep The Faith
22. Let It Rock
23. In These Arms
24. Wanted Dead Or Alive
25. Living On A Prayer

For some people sh*t setlist but I´m very happy I´ve finally seen BJ live. And the crowd was fantastic

My first BJ show was in Hannover/Germany in Niedersachsen Stadium on June 15, 1996. Support was Milch auf Ex and H-Blockx.

Setlist was:

01 Intro - Lay Your Hands On Me
02 Bad Medicine
03 All I Want Is Everything
04 You Give Love A Bad Name
05 Runaway
06 Diamond Ring
07 Bed Of Roses
08 Rocking All Over The World
09 Blood On Blood
10 Wanted Dead Or Alive - acoustic
11 I`d Die For You - acoustic
12 In These Arms - acoustic
13 Something For The Pain
14 Someday I`ll Be Saturday Night
15 I`ll Sleep When I`m Dead
16 Keep The Faith
17 Always
18 Blaze Of Glory
19 These Days
20 My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms
21 Something To Believe In
22 Hey God
23 Because The Night
24 Damned
25 Living On A Prayer

April 14, 1993.

1. I Believe
2. Wild In The Streets
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Born To Be My Baby
5. Can't Help Falling In Love (a capella)
6. Bed Of Roses
7. Keep The Faith
8. Blood Money
9. Blaze Of Glory
10. Dry County
11. Lay Your Hands On Me
12. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
13. Blood On Blood
14. Bad Medicine
15. Shout

Encore:
16. Wanted Dead Or Alive
17. In These Arms
18. Livin' On A Prayer

They had no bad songs back then.

Ice

and my very first show was 2 days after yours Iceman on 16 April in Gothenburg. Same setlist.
Wasn't a big fan before but accompanied a friend who's been a massive fan since the start and got totally hooked. The icing on the cake was meeting the band backstage after the show (all but Jon).
Thought it was so good so we immediately bought tix for the Kiel show in August.

My first Jovi show was also my first concert ever, August 7, 2003 at Giants Stadium in a HUGE torrential rainstorm. I was 15 at the time, and damn I was so stoked for the show. At that point, I didn't give a shit what songs they played. Still remember the show opening with Bounce, the first bars of Prayer, how the sky seemed to open the **** up with the opening bars of Wanted, and didn't close all night, a picture perfect version of Bed Of Roses (including a proposal), and the highlight for me was an AWESOME version of Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (the highlight of which is me screaming "They're playing it, they're ****ing playing it!" )

1. Bounce
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Undivided
4. Everyday
5. Livin' On A Prayer
6. Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
7. Keep The Faith
8. Wanted Dead Or Alive
9. Can't Help Falling In Love (a capella)
10. Bed Of Roses
11. It's My Life
12. Runaway
13. Just Older
14. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
15. Joey
16. I'll Be There For You (Richie on lead vocals)
17. Hook Me Up
18. Born To Be My Baby
19. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
20. Raise Your Hands

Encore:
21. I Got The Girl
22. I'd Die For You
23. Bad Medicine
24. Shout

My first BJ gig was in Fargo on April 19, 2008. It was their first time visiting North Dakota, and it was great. At that point, I wasn't a big enough fan to know what to expect, or what was the "norm." Looking back now, the set was very average. But still, I had a blast. And the band sounded great.

1. Lost Highway
2. Born To Be My Baby
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Raise Your Hands
5. Runaway
6. Just Older
7. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
~ Gimme Some Lovin'
~ Start Me Up
8. Blood Money
9. Blaze Of Glory (with Daughtry)
10. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
11. Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore
12. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
13. We Got It Goin' On
14. It's My Life
15. Bad Medicine
~ Shout
16. I'll Be There For You (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
17. (You Want To) Make A Memory
18. Bed Of Roses (This Left Feels Right version)
19. Who Says You Can't Go Home
20. Have A Nice Day
21. Keep The Faith
22. Livin' On A Prayer

Encore:
23. I Love This Town
24. Wanted Dead Or Alive

My first show was in Jackson, MS. on September 17, 1989. I don't have a set list handy (even though if I looked hard enough in my scrapbooks, I probably wrote it down at the time). I remember a few highlights though. Lay Your Hands on Me started the show with a bang. Jon shooting up out of the floor was a thrilling moment. Tokyo Road rocked and I remember a red spotlight shining on Richie. I'd Die for You was a song I'd never paid much attention to before, but it made me cry. The lyrics really got to me. My best friend and I hugged each other and swayed back and forth crying while they sang Blood on Blood. (Oh the drama when you're 14!) I was a little disappointed because they played Living in Sin instead of I'll Be There for You, but it sounded very good. Jon got hit with a glass bottle during Wild in the Streets and he left the stage when that song finished, but he came back out a few minutes later and they finished the show. I believe Wanted was the last song, but I'm not sure.