#12 Moody Center, Austin, Texas, April 23rd 2022
 

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Setlist:
01. Limitless
02. The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
03. You Give Love A Bad Name
04. We Weren't Born To Follow
05. It's My Life
06. Born To Be My Baby
07. This House Is Not For Sale
08. Beautiful Drug
09. Just Older
10. Let It Rain
11. Keep The Faith
12. American Reckoning
13. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
14. Do What You Can
15. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
16. Lost Highway
17. Roller Coaster
18. Have A Nice Day
19. Livin' On A Prayer

Encore I:
20. Wanted Dead Or Alive
21. Who Says You Can't Go Home
22. Bad Medicine

Encore II:
23. I'll Be There For You




Round 12 out of 15. Last show had Jon made an impromptu exit where he was visibly emotional at the end of I'll Be There For You. Other than that, the setlists seem to have stagnated for the most parts, so I'd be highly surprised if another song premiered in the last four concerts on this leg.

Last time the band played in Austin was on April 10th 2013:

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Setlist:
01. That's what the Water made me
02. You give Love a bad Name
03. Born to be my Baby
04. Raise your Hands
05. Runaway
06. Lost Highway
07. Whole lot of leavin
08. It's my Life
09. Because we can
10. What about now
11. We got it going on
12. Keep the Faith
13. Make a Memory
14. Bed of Roses
15. I'll be there for you
16. We weren't born to follow
17. Blood on Blood
18. Who says you can't go Home
19. I'll sleep when I'm dead w/ Start me up & Dancing in the Streets
20. Bad Medicine

Encore:
21. Someday I'll be Saturday Night (acoustic)
22. Wanted Dead or Alive
23. Have a nice Day
24. Livin on a Prayer
25. I love this Town
26. Twist and Shout

We've been critical of the set list, and rightly so, but that one listed above isn't that much better, in my opinion.

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Agreed. There was just too much middle-of-the-road country/pop stuff in there at the time that neither casuals nor diehards cared about.
I'd even go as far as argueing that the Bounce tour was the last time they had setlist that were consistently quite well-paced.
HAND had the lull of the three TLFR-styled ballads, but at least they were mostly restricted to US arenas.
The 2008-11 era had a lot of rarities that outweighed a lot of the other stuff and make us forget that a lot of US shows still had LH, WLOL, Who Says, ILTT, Captain Crash, WGIGO etc. in them.

I'll be there tonight.. I don't expect much different but am hopeful for one tour debut.. just one surprise would be awesome. Maybe Blood In the Water.

Any change would be great... but Lower The Flag comes to mind.

Good Luck. Have fun.

I have arrived in Texas and am looking forward to the show. I wish they’d bring back the acoustic set

Me too! I was looking forward to We don't Run and Sat. Night. Probably zero chance.

The new tour photographer posted a pic of Phill's setlist... If it's the one for tonight then there'll be acoustic set... And In These Arms.

Those new songs with harmonica... Jon is not really playing...

Someone asked in the comments if this is tonight's setlist and he replied no, that he thinks it was the NC show.

1. Limitless
2. Radio
3. Bad Name
4. Born To Follow
5. It's My Life

6. BTBMB
7. This House
8. Beautiful Drug
9. Just Older
10. Let It Rain
11. KTF

12. American Reckoning
13. Whole Lotta Leavin
14. Do What You Can
15. Sleep When I'm Dead
16. Lost Highway

17. Roller coaster!! Nice performance.
18. HaND
19. Prayer

Encore
20. Wanted
21. Who Says
22. Bad Medicine

Finished with I'll Be There For You just like in St. Louis except this time Phil X not confused.

Haha I hope you had fun

I did but probably my last show to go to. JBJ has blown a gasket.. not sure it can be repaired.

Just heard IBTFY and HAND with band turned down and Jon’s vocals turned up….yikes.


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12. American Reckoning
13. Whole Lotta Leavin
14. Do What You Can

This part is horrible.

American Reckoning is a crowd snoozer, WLL has been overplayed tour after tour and DWYC sucks.

Why couldn't it be?

12. I'd Die For You - Acoustic
13. Superman Tonight - Acoustic
14. Wanted Dead or Alive - Acoustic

Then replace Wanted in the encore with something different each night.. Next 100 Years, Last Man Standing, The Distance, Love's The Only Rule etc...

Well, I think this is an honest opinion. On touring withdrawal, I think most of us would agree, except if it means we won't be able to get new music in the future.

Could Jon make a new album and not tour? I know that some artists have done it that way, but in the case of Bon Jovi I'm not sure if this happens, since the tour and the album always came together.

Another thing, I have friends who are crazy to see Guns N Roses again, they already saw it 4 years ago, they know Axl's problems and they don't care. They simply wants to revive the party, as if it were a Rolling Stones show, since they are a kind of extinct dinosaur.

And I wonder, any chance that Jon can do this kind of stadium tours next year? I know it's going to be horrible, but Guns N Roses is doing and with successfully. Axl barely has a voice and when he sings he has this horrible Mickey Mouse tone.

Of course I wouldn't go see them, it doesn't work with me just like I'm not watching Guns N Roses either, it's just a thought.

Whatever happens, I hope Jon finds a way to keep making albums, they don't have to be Bon Jovi. Jon might come back to do a solo album, and do some live performances. I think that path would be ideal for me, ending Bon Jovi in 2023-24?. Then go back to making solo albums (maybe with restricted live performances)... like when Bruce Springsteen releases more intimate albums.

I am intrigued by what will happen after April. I hope Jon doesn't announce a serious illness like the case of Bruce Willis or something.

Why not play I will drive you home?
That must be easier than most Jovi songs to sing.

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Pure Energy!

If it wasn't Everett's reaction, I wouldn't believe that!

Really.. something we don't know is going on with Jon. While watching some videos I have a feeling that his voice is still there, but he just don't know how to pull it out anymore.

It sounds slightly different every time he playing


Let It Rain

St Louis

Raleigh

Savannah


American Reckoning


Charlotte

Omaha

Savannah

and after that part you also get two amazing songs Lost Highway+Who Says You Can't Go Home

stop it, it's just too exciting...

Hi did the scream on Keep The Faith: Nice jacket.

Actually I think he was just leaving to get out of the way of Phil and his guitar! I saw other YouTubes from other places where he left at the same time.

3:20 mark? Nice to hear it. It was always my fav live song, so much energy and the jungle screams, and he'd get possessed sometimes and just go crazy (Anaheim 2003). Ohh I miss those days.

Nice to see him attempt it at least. Obviously not as strong but still good to see.

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Fail.


Jon play the Harmonica, no sample. The real thing.

Ouch! That was hard to both hear and see.

Well, my experience with harmonicas is very poor, so I can't tell...

I think him throwing the harmonica away was a sure sign that he was trying to play it and just couldn't do it on that night although he had done it on other nights.

I for the most part enjoyed the show.
The venue is brand new and the seats are very comfy.
The set list needed changing, to many songs that make it easier to sit down in the comfy seats. When in Europe I always stand in the gold circle so it takes me time to understand that some people just want to sit, watch, singalong and relax without getting sore feet.

Jon’s voice is gone for now, it’s not always noticeable. The band is very solid and at times the energy was class but the set list let it down( 4 changes would improve it greatly for me)
He had a meltdown with the harmonica at one stage and threw it away like a Diva but I enjoyed his playing. 23 songs and was about 2hrs 15 minutes

I'm glad you enjoyed the show. I have read so many comments in YouTube that fans are still enjoying the shows even with Jon's weak vocals.

thanks, if you can forget the weak vocals a good time can be had, the band are solid. Now I do wonder if they changed up the set would the band be as solid.