Is it just me or does "Walk With Me" sound awfully similar to "Whole Lot of Leavin'"?

It;s just you, I think. I Don't see the comparison at all...

Full show from Bruges 2011:

https://youtu.be/nBcw_rqwmAQ

And to think this concert was considered as "just ok" back then, and some of us even thought Jon didn't sound very good... how times have changed!

By today's standards, this show is - to quote Seb - the f***ing bollocks. The setlist, albeit quite short, is absolutely fantastic and the guys are clearly enjoying themselves.

I mean, what would you think about this set in 2017? I'd literally give my nuts - yes, both of them - for this kind of a show these days:

1. Happy Now
2. Bad Name
3. Blood On Blood
4. Born To Follow
5. Lost Highway
6. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
7. It's My Life
8. The More Things Change
9. Raise Your Hands
10. Captain Crash
11. Bad Medicine/Hot Legs/Shout (teaser)
12. Bed Of Roses
13. I'll Be There For You
14. Who Says (missing in the video above - yippee!)
15. Sleep
16. Garageland
17. Have A Nice Day
18. Keep The Faith

Encore:

19. Wild Is The Wind
20. Never Say Goodbye
21. Wanted
22. Prayer

But still... I think something was missing in 2008-11 already. I mean, just take a quick look at this show (San Jose '03):

https://youtu.be/Xon-ppkq4HA

Setlist:

1. Bounce
2. Bad Name
3. Wild In The Streets
4. Prayer
5. Everyday
6. Undivided
7. Runaway
8. Older
9. Wanted
10. The Distance
11. It's My Life
12. Misunderstood
13. Right Side Of Wrong
14. I'll Be There For You (Richie)
15. Blaze
16. Keep The Faith
17. Born To Be My Baby
18. Sleep
19. Raise Your Hands

Encore:

20. Saturday Night
21. Bad Medicine/Shout

And here's the Toronto gig - probably the best North American show of the tour, at least setlist-wise. Yes, I know Minneapolis got Something To Believe In and Alpine Valley was blessed (cursed?) with the worst version of These Days ever performed by anyone, but still... crank it up and enjoy the ride:

https://youtu.be/v_VgiBBSea0

1. Bounce
2. Bad Name
3. Wild In The Streets
4. Prayer
5. Everyday
6. Undivided
7. Runaway
8. Older
9. DAMNED/IF LOVIN' YOU IS WRONG!!!!!
10. Wanted
11. The Distance
12. It's My Life
13. Misunderstood
14. Joey
15. I'll Be There For You (Richie)
16. Hook Me Up
17. Raise Your Hands
18. Saturday Night
19. Sleep
20. Born To Be My Baby

Encore:

21. Heroes
22. Keep The Faith
23. Bad Medicine/Shout

Encore 2:

24. Rock 'n' Roll Music
25. Twist & Shout

And, to close our Bounce tour special, here's our friend Dominik aka bonjovi90's first BJ concert - Munich '03:

https://youtu.be/cIHeBUnF4Uw

The sound is a bit flat and "hollow" at times, but you'll get used to it quickly. The whole show is probably one of the band's best since 1996, and Jon's voice reached its Bounce tour peak there. Also, what an in-f***ing-credible setlist!

1. Bounce
2. Bad Name
3. Wild In The Streets
4. Prayer
5. Everyday
6. LYHOM
7. Keep The Faith
8. Wanted
9. In These Arms
10. It's My Life
11. Bed Of Roses
12. The Distance
13. Runaway
14. Diamond Ring
15. Heroes
16. Saturday Night
17. Older
18. I'll Be There For You (Richie)
19. SOMETHING TO F***ING BELIEVE IN!!!!!!!!!!
20. Undivided
21. Born To Be My Baby
22. Sleep/Rockin' All Over The World
23. Raise Your Hands

Encore:

24. Misunderstood
25. Captain Crash
26. Bad Medicine/Shout

Encore 2:

27. THESE F***ING DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
28. Twist & Shout

The point that I'm trying to make is that during the Crush, Bounce and HAND tours the guys were constantly playing with much, much, MUCH more energy and intensity than on the LH/TC/GH tours. Yes, Jon's voice was - at least in terms of consistency - a lot better in 2008-11 than it had ever been since the end of the European leg of the OWN tour, but the rest of the guys were never again able to fully reproduce the insane energy they used to maintain throughout the first three tours of the 21st century.

I'm just watching the Cleveland 2013 show, and he did a similar thing there. Probably one of the last moments of greatness?

Jon is finished vocally. Richie is a directionless mess. That's the parody for me. From God-like status to this is something very sad to behold.

Anyone still enjoying it, fair enough. That's entirely your right.


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Here's Prayer from last night's NJ show:

https://youtu.be/hEvHMDJNMIg

Finally, FINALLY he manages to sing the verses (at least mostly) in key... and that's not a huge accomplishment, as they're extremely easy. The "baby, it's okay" (or, as Jon sings it here, "it's HOOKEEEYYYEEE") still sounds god-awful, though.

PS. And yes, the "livin' on a prayer" part before the solo is still the MetLife backing track :( hey, Jonny - remember what you used to sing on Last Man Standing?

"No, this boy - he don't lip synch...".

Sad, really.

He just 'NA's his way through certain verses. Instead of "Gina dreams of running away" it's "Nina NAeams of NAnning Naway"

backtracks are not lip synch

and prayer had a backtrack before last man was even written

It's such a cop out when people act like the backing track for that song is a recent thing.

There's lipsynching because you have no vocal talent and there's lipsynching because you wrote the damn song too high. Remember in the mid 80's when Tico wore giant headphones to hear the backing track? "sad really" come on.

I don't mean to be so finger pointy with this response but sometimes the things we piss on is over the top.