March 18th 2017 - Nationwide Arena, Columbus Thread
 

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2017 Setlist:

1. This House Is Not For Sale
2. Knockout
3. You Give Love A Bad Name
4. Lost Highway
5. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
6. Rollercoaster
7. We Weren't Born To Follow
8. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
9. Johnny B Goode
10. We Got It Goin' On
11. Who Say You Can't Go Home
12. It's My Life
13. We Don't Run
14. God Bless This Mess
15. Scars On This Guitar
16. The Devils In The Temple
17. Lay Your Hands On Me
18. Born To Be My Baby
19. Have A Nice Day
20. Bad Medicine
21. Keep The Faith


22. Raise Your Hands
23. Wanted Dead Or Alive
24. Livin' On A Prayer

Full Show Audio



Tonight's show comes from the Nationwide Arena in Columbus and is the first of a back to back with Cleveland on Sunday night (so don't go expecting Always!).

They last played at the Nationwide on the BWC tour on 10th March 2013 and the setlist was:

1. You Give Love A Bad Name
2. Raise Your Hands
3. Lost Highway
4. Because We Can
5. That's What The Water Made Me
6. It's My Life
7. Someday I'll Be Saturday night
8. When We Were Beautiful
9. What about now
10. We Got It Goin On
11. Runaway
12. Keep The Faith
13. Amen
14. Livin In Sin
/ Chapel Of Love
15. I'll Be There For You
16. We Weren't Born To Follow
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
/ Pretty Woman
18. Who Says You Can't Go Home
19. Bad Medicine

Encore:
20. (You Want To) Make A Memory
21. Wanted Dead Or Alive
22. Born To Be My Baby

Encore II:
23. Have A Nice Day
24. Livin' On A Prayer

Encore III:
25. Always

Although we won't get anything like that tonight, and will get the current 21/22 song copy and paste- we can but hope for something different.

2017 Setlist will be posted here after the show as ever with Youtube vids when they become available.

Have fun to all going tonight. Doors open at 6.30pm, show starts at 7.30pm with support from local band Liberty Deep Down. Looks like a decent turnout as most tickets on TM appear to re-sales.

Just adding Runaway adds a lot to the set. Not sure if it's been discussed here, but somebody asked Jon at the last Q&A about playing I'll Be There For You or Bed Of Roses. He said something about not being sure they fit with the flow of the current set.


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IBTFY, Livin In Sin, Make a Memory, Always in the same set. Today we have pretty much given up on any ballad except Scars.

My predictions about tonight's show:

There will be a tour debut... Captain Crash, where are you? We need a superhero! (I Love This Town will make its debut in Cleveland.)

JBJ will sound like a 75-year-old WOMAN during 90% of the gig.

I wouldn't be surprised if Jon gave Always a try again tonight, but I really, REALLY hope he'll save it for the last song this time - Blood On Blood, Wanted and Prayer sounded absolutely horrendous in LA as they were performed after Always.

Blood On Blood won't be played, but Saturday Night will (hopefully with ad-libs for the first time in a LOOONG time).

Bad Name and BTBMB will be played back to back again, and Knockout will be swapped for the 4th song in the set.

Jon will go for the scream during the solo on KTF for the first time since 2011, but I'm pretty sure he'll end up just coughing like hell.

Bad Medicine will be performed as a medley with Shout - or do you think the "wait a minute (weeeaaamiiineeeaaa)" part is too high for him nowadays?

The rendition of Sleep will include snippets of both Jumpin' Jack Flash and Start Me Up. Also, Jon will go for the call-and-response "oh yeah's" at the start of the song again.

Lost Highway will be done with the cool breakdown (á la 2011).

BTBMB will include the extended "deep inside" part (á la 2006).

Whole Lot Of Leavin' will be left out and replaced with Raise Your Hands.

This whole post gave a me good chuckle... Would love to see Shout brought back. Also, that little breakdown in Lost Highway is great.

Has Runaway been played on this tour? Wish they would bring that back as well!


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No, it hasn't been played yet.

Ya know, he could bring back the ballad version of Runaway from 2000, would be quite easy for him to sing. Am I one of the few people that loved that version of Runaway? Something haunting about it...but I agree, shows are getting stale, we need a different song in the set list, at this point I'd be happy to hear ol' Captain Crash!

thats crap, he can freaking start or end the show with those songs and will sound fine

Yeah I like that version too! But the electric version shouldn't be too hard for him to sing anyway


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He knows he can't sing them, that's why he comes up with these stupid answers.

How does one get into the soundcheck parties?

This show should be about to start.

Just seen a short video of 'Devils In The Temple' too. Is it early?

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They're playing Johnny B Goode right now!!

EDIT: That was their jukebox song for Sleep When I'm dead, back to Sleep now.

1. This House Is Not For Sale
???????
Sleep When I'm Dead (with Johnny B Goode snippet)
We Got It Goin On

How/what do you search on to find these Facebook live streams?


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Usually I'd look up bon jovi on facebook, then click on latest, but it looks like they've taken the latest option down now. It's much more difficult, really just scrolling until I can find something.

Nice to see - and hear.

1. This House Is Not For Sale
???????
Sleep When I'm Dead (with Johnny B Goode snippet)
We Got It Goin On
Who Says You Can't Go Home
It's My Life

EDIT: Can confirm that Whole Lot Of Leavin, Rollercoaster, We Weren't Born To Follow were all played. It's probably safe to assume that the set was like this:

1. This House Is Not For Sale
2. Knockout
3. Bad Name
4. Lost Highway
5. Whole Lot of Leavin
6. Roller Coaster
7. We Weren't Born To Follow
8. Sleep When I'm Dead (with Johnny B Goode snippet)
9. We Got It Goin On
10. Who Says
11. It's My Life

I use Facebook Live Map and look at the city they are playing in. In this case Columbus, Ohio

https://www.facebook.com/livemap#@40...3.056988005,8z

Or use Periscope Live Map

http://www.periscopemap.live/?ll=35....3085937&zoom=6

Thanks Kathleen!


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Yay a Johnny Be Goode snippet that they will edit out of this recording...

Raise Your Hands opened the encore

It's something. Better than Because We Can or right into Wanted and Prayer.


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Final set list
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Same old same old

Tour to tour, same old, show to show adding Raise your hands is a nice touch. Sad that adding RYH in 2017 is a silver lining :(

Back when Raise Your Hands appeared towards the end of the OWN tour, I couldn't have been happier. Now, after it's been played at 9/10's of every show on every tour leading up to this tour, YES, it is indeed a sad thing that it's the silver lining. IMO the silver lining was the JBG snippet and that's equally as sad, but it's nice to think the Sleep covers section has a chance of being back for good.

For those who are blaming stagnant sets on America's ADHD problem, stop. The US crowd doesn't like or respond better to LH or WLOL any more this tour than we have on previous tours. They weren't hits. The crowd doesn't know or want them but we power through, just like we would if Jon would choose to play something else.... anything else. Yes, the US hasn't got the diversity that Europe has received and maybe we don't deserve it, but this is beyond ridiculous. In the history of Bon Jovi, I dare to say the sets have never been this stagnant. Jon has a professional rock band up there. There are plenty of other songs in their catalog he is still capable of singing. They CAN throw the diehards 1 bone per show but besides Always they have only played 1 surprise this tour... and it was "I Got the Girl"... and it was because his daughter was there. What is going on?

Couldn't agree more. Was at Atlanta and Greenville and had travel plans to see them in Denver and plans to drive to this show in Columbus. Glad I didn't for the same set. And at this point glad I didn't rebook a trip to see them next month in Denver.

I miss the days when going to multiple shows meant hearing 5-6 different songs, that was always one of the greatest things about seeing this band live was the spontaneity of the show.

I can't confirm this, but I think that the band actually played Johnny B Goode all the way through during Sleep, not just a snippet.

If he's sticking to these same songs because he's not fully confident in his voice, then it's strange he's gone for Always twice. If he can get through that, why not try Runaway or Superman Tonight or dozens of other songs which aren't nearly as difficult as Always?

Oh well, he has back to back shows coming up in Toronto and New York. If he's ever going to mix it up this leg, it might be there.


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Oh, dear Lord! Does anybody else see the irony of playing JBG as a tribute to Chuck Berry tonite, and playing it during ISWID???

:rofl:

Man... that just crossed my mind lol... RIP


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Thank you for saying this! I thought I was the only one who felt this way and I don't go to enough shows to intelligently debate the point. But I instinctively could not accept that American audiences as a whole were as unsophisticated and ignorant as ppl here seem to imply in these discussions. Not unless there's just a relatively small group of ppl who consistently go to the BJ shows and nowhere else. Because most of the ppl I've come into contact with are more discerning than that. And I've been living here a LONG time. :D

It's obvious with this tour jon is hanging on to dear life with his voice and the sets are proof of it. He puts on the act in interviews but it's obvious to people like us.

The reality is that this has been progressing for years post the bounce and HAND tours and now it's at the point where casuals don't know any better and unless people stop coming there's no reason to stop marching out there.

I'm also starting to think the reason there are no video screens this go round is to hide his voice struggles from the casuals. Let's be honest... The majority outside of this board don't notice.

I would usually agree with what you're saying, but then I saw the video of JBG cover he did. He seemed more confident singing that than any of his own songs.

It's a sad day when the positive (?) thing we see in a concert is Jon not hanging to the mic whilst playing a cover.


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Surely a tribute to Chuck Berry

Yeah but I feel like anybody can hear when someone is struggling to sing...


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One would think so, yes.

But when you have a few long-time fans on this board who go to shows and claim that Jon sounds fine, you can imagine the (lack of) performance expertise by an average concert attendees.