Your highlights from The Circle Tour

The highlights for me where all during the concert in Paris.
- Just me and my brother
- The best atmosphere I have ever experienced at a BJ concert
- One of the best atmospheres I ever experienced
- In These Arms with David singing some lines
- Let It Rock as opener for the encore !
- The Bed of Roses I recorded with my camera for a colleague: - Blood on Blood as opener of the concert
- A proper version of Raise Your Hands !
- Acoustic Something for the Pain performed 4 meters ahead of us !
- Lay Your Hands by Richie (even though Bobby ****s up the riffs)

I salute you,
TS

5. These Days + Hard letting you go - Night 12 - 02 - TBH until this point the show had been a bit s*** really, I was horrified when they opened the encore with HAND and really annoyed with Jon when he started singing the intro to Prayer until......he goes "nah don't wanna play that yet" ....phew. First up was These Days which I would have been happy with but then we got Hard lettign you go straight after. I was that happy I even appreciated I love this town which was played before Prayer. I dont actually hate the song, I just resent it always taking up a "rare spot" Barring HAND, that encore was how it should be - 2 rarities, 2 classics and one party song for the casuals. Everyone goes home happy. Job done.

4. These Days Acoustic Night 8 - 02 - Me and Yvonne always get TD when watching a show together so it was no surprise but hearing it acoustic was pretty special

3. Bad medicine Covers, Paint it black and Pretty Women - As with SWID on the lost highway, a few changes to BM has really made me love it live again. PIB is my fave Stones song and pretty women is a nice party song, very good choices.

2. We had it goin' on Ridgewood - 3 Nights in NJ - hard to pick one highlight as it was all so good. Hearing Always at Giants (thats what it will always be to me) was special as that song meant to much to me growing up as did seeing Bon Jovi in New Jersey, so it was just perfect. Of course the company also made that week amazing and the after parties haha. Special thanks to Kathleen and Paul for being so good to us as they always are. Really great people.

1. Wild is the Wind - Night 7 - 02 - waited 14 years and 37 shows to see it, it was worth the wait. Just stood there for the first 20 seconds of the intro with my hands on my head sayign to Kev "is this really happening?!" and being close to tears. BRILLIANT

Overall a fantasic summer all round - Yes I know I'm the first to complain about Vanilla-esq shows but i'm also one to praise when they give the loyal fans something back. All it took was one or two nice WOW moments from each show to make it special, take note Jon.

Nice to read about those experiences !
I can imagine you had an awesome time at those shows !

I salute you,
TS

ooh - chills - i LOVE that as well......ooh

At the moment all I'll say one stand out moment was Thorn In My Side.... Didn't like the song, hadn't listened to it much but an epic performance at the o2 on the 17th June just wow is all I can say....

Homebound Train also on the 17th along with Love For Sale

Anyone that knows me, knows what I thought of the shows I went to, well the shows in general.

Sometimes, people who know you can discover they don't really know you at all though.

For me - the real highlight of this tour was The Circle songs. Like Terri - I was very disappointed that I heard fewer of them as the tour went along rather than more of them.

Philadelphia night 2 brought me the most Circle songs (six in all), with the long version of Love's the Only Rule the absolute highlight for me. Richie doing Homebound Train and Only Lonely made Philadelphia night 2 one of the best shows I saw - too bad it was so early on. I thought it would only get better.

The first 3 Meadowlands shows were excellent and hearing Dry County twice there was over the top.

After those 3 shows, the rest of the shows were pretty much anticlimatic. Meadowlands 4, Saratoga and Boston weren't awful (though Meadowlands night 4 came closest to awful) but I kept waiting for the setlists to improve, especially after the O2 shows, and they just didn't.

And I will steal (echo) Terri's last line to close. "It’s hard not to feel a little bitter about how Jon writes setlists for the casual fans and completely ignores the most loyal fans at the majority of U.S. shows."

I've had no highlights.

It's been probably the worst Bon Jovi tour ever, I hope they pull their fingers out for the GH tour.

What shows exactly did you go to?

Four at the O2 and The Paris show.