Personally if I'm seeing ANY band on tour I'd really rather hear their own songs. Covers can be fun but too many in a row feel like a waste of time.

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As I may have mentioned before, BBC Four have been showing old Top Of The Pops episodes from the 80s chronologically. Now we are up to 1986, and next Friday should be Bon Jovi appearing doing Bad Name:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0brk4hs

Just in case anyone wants to record a better quality version than those on YT *cough* bonjovi90 *cough* ;) Because who doesn't want more YT comments of people rushing to shout "lip sync" and "miming". Geniuses.

Prayer was in mid-November a couple of times, so I'll give a reminder when that is up also.

I can't record the BBC program in Germany :mrgreen:

When I’ve seen an artist many times, I enjoy hearing some covers. They can be a lot of fun. There’s no universal rule for how audience members would react.

How Bon Jovi Restarted Their Career With ‘Keep the Faith’

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-keep-the-faith/

jon should read the whole article

True enough. I'm more speaking about why I wouldn't like that setlist but that's me. Other people would go nuts for that stuff.

I agree, and five of them closing the show too, what a let down that would be. Btw, if Jon pulled this now we would all be kicking off.

Problem with covers is you have to like the song they are covering. I have almost no interest in seeing the original artists sing those songs Bon Jovi covered in that setlist, so why would I be happy with Bon Jovi singing them?

Was this a standard for the Jersey tour, or was it because that Dublin show was going so wrong?

The latter. Hammersmith Odeon aside, they didn't do so many covers at all during that tour. But during that night seemingly nothing was working - from the band hearing the wrong mixes etc on their monitors (or no mixes at all) to the PA going off etc. - nothing was really working. You can see them argueing about that at the beginning of Access All Areas.
So Jon probably figured that if, in his mind, the show had gone to hell anyway, they might just play some stuff out of the norm. Which they did. Also taken into consideration that the standard Jersey tour shows only had about 15 songs, they didn't cut too much of their material that night either. Just kept on playing like a bar band in the second encore.

I literally just finished re-watching the Making of the Boxset video, which includes that, too. I think that was one of my favorite parts. Going from the fans who loved everything and thought the show was wonderful, to the band who were complaining about how everything that could go wrong did, then flipping back and forth to show the contrast was pure genius.