Bon Jovi Tour Archive
 

Hey everybody,

I guess most of us know Seb's bonjovi-archive with lots of information about all the different albums and especially tours.
When I became a fan 16 years ago, once I discovered his website it quickly became my website-to-go where I pretty much sucked up all the information I could get and what became the basis for all the knowledge I would gain about the band the years to come.

I think it was a server crash or something that destroyed parts of the database a couple of years ago and threw him back right after Richie's Undiscovered Soul run in 1998.

So I thought there needs to be a new site that contains information about the tours post 1998 as well.
In 2015 bonjovi90 and I started our own Bon Jovi touring website. Since Seb's website still is an awesome collection of information from the early tours onwards we decided to go the other way round. We started with the latest tours and make our way back to the beginnings.
Our signature here has the link already for a couple of months. But I guess now it's about time for a bigger shoutout.
Yesterday we put the Have A Nice Day tour online, so the timeframe from 2005 - 2019 is covered. This should be a lot of information for a first visit ;- )
And we're not gonna stop now - the rest will be added continuously (but it's a lot of work, so don't expect daily updates ;- )).

So for all of you who like to go back in time and to refresh some lovely memories, check out our website: https://bjtours.jimdo.com/

Feedback is always welcome - here, in our guestbook or via direct message. No matter if its critic, correction, additional information or just some kind words.

We hope you enjoy and have fun with this website - we surely have!

Rock on!

Sounds like a really cool idea, I'm assuming you're going to add in future tours too? Even if there's not much variation these days in the sets.

Yep, that won't be too hard to do. Adding current tours mostly is copy/paste in terms of setlist, so it's not that much work for us :)

Cool, it will be nice not relying on setlist.fm anymore

Aloha !

No, I did a site overhaul but then I graduated, started travelling a lot and the site was no longer a priority of mine. There's other finished parts that just aren't online though, the Crush section is 50% finished and I do still work on it every now and then. It'll take me a long, long time before I'm up to date though. Oddly enough setlist.fm is what motivates me most to finish it eventually as that site is just full of errors.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Ahh, alright. Too bad you never found the motivation to bring it all back again.
But I hear you, it's an awful lot of work if you want to get it right (and not end like setlist.fm).

Aloha !

The setlists aren't the biggest issue as I've still got that information on my hard drive. It's the discography that's a bitch. There's just so many different editions of Crush it's insane. One has a bonus disc, the other has a bonus disc but has 14 tracks, then there's the re-releases from Japan, weird packaging in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia etc. The list is endless. And that's just the album, I've still got to do all the singles.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

That’s a lot of work; I took a quick look and Yep, I also consider We Don’t Run from Burning Bridges. Congratulations!!

And I agree About setlist.fm whatever, nothing beats the people who actually went to the concerts and have the setlists on excel and all that stuff... Ha!.

The Bounce section with lots of interesting trivia has just been added:
https://bjtours.jimdo.com/the-albums/2002-bounce/

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How cool, thank you! I've visited the site quite often in the last few months, especially after the tour. And I found myself reminiscing about the good old times quite a lot ... always puts a smile on my face....

"Jon had died his hair in a strange blonde way for the shoot and fans still claim that it was his way of rebelling against the record company’s decision of forcing the song onto the album and ultimately even making it a single."

Had no idea people were saying that, neat!

"Many B-sides and outtakes from that era indicate that the band wanted to go for an overall harder sound with the Bounce record, however, rumours have it that the record company rejected an early version of the album and demanded more ballads to be put on it. This can be backed up by the tracklist of the later-on released promo EP “Target” which featured a lot of different and partly harder sounding tracks than the album."

Don't know if I agree with this theory. Of that EP, Breathe, Lucky and We can dance are some of the poppier side of the band. No Regrets and Standing I do agree with it. Had the album been Undivided, Everyday, The Distance, Another Reason to Believe, Standing, Bounce, No Regrets, Hook Me Up and Alive with less mid tempo songs I wonder if it would have been received better.

It is odd how Jon has totally forgotten this album even exists.
Didn't realise that not one song from this album made GH2.

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Agreed. It was nice when Open All Night almost became a regular (but I'm one of the 10 that adore the song).

I'm still not a 100% sure why that was the case. I mean yeah, it wasn't the big success they had hoped for, but neither was The Circle and two or three songs from that album went onto the GH. So it might be due to Jon having been quite unhappy with the way the final record had turned out to be.
Also remember Richie's words after having left Bon Jovi:
"Bounce wasn't so much fun, but we still shoved it down everyone's throat."

Every day should’ve made GH2.



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I think it's timing. Everyday made TLFR, Greatest hits with a twist because it was released directly after. I can't see them putting out a greatest hits and completely omitting the prior album's lead single, it makes it look like a total failure. Why it's still getting played, who knows.

If you don't know how to spend you time at home right now, we just added the One Wild Night Tour to our website: https://bjtours.jimdofree.com/let-s-...ne-wild-night/

Enjoy and stay safe!

You guys really do a tremendous job with the site! Thanks for keeping it up for us all :)

The These Days tour has been added to our website:
https://bjtours.jimdofree.com/let-s-...96-these-days/

Including in-depth tour summary, quite a few details per show after me listening to ear-bleeding-quality TD bootlegs for at least a week (was still fun though) and nice statistics. Once you're done with that section, you'll be an expert for that era ;)

So after lots of research the last couple of months we finally added the 1995 tour to our homepage: https://bjtours.jimdofree.com/tours/1995-crossroad/

It's been an awesome run. The first tour with Hugh on bass, Bon Jovi in their prime, the band playing tight like never before, great setlists, visiting all 6 continents for the first time...a lot of stories to be told.
So have fun digging deep into the glory days!

Just wanted to add my thanks for this, some shows I had forgotten I'd been to

We're currently adding the New Jersey tour to the site:
https://bjtours.jimdofree.com/the-to...90-new-jersey/

Check the final Japanese shows to find out how an emperor's death collided with the band's schedule and have a look at the US arena leg to see how Bon Jovi concerts at that time had all from Rock'N'Roll to gunfire in the parking lot. A lot of hours researching old newspapers were spent and the rest of the tour also promises some interesting information.
Maybe you need to be a little nerdy for stuff like that though :D

Bon Jovi Tour Archive
 

Thank you. This is very cool. Awesome job!!! Brought back a lot of memories… The first time I saw them was on the first leg of the NJ tour.

I didn’t know there was actually an audio recording of RCR in Helsinki on the 28th November. Cool indeed. I can even remember the little speech Jon gave before the song, almost word by word!

It was magic.

On your archive there was some speculation whether IBTFY was actually played in Helsinki. I can confirm this as a 100% fact, they played it indeed. I remember watching Jon fly over the audience and sing the song on the small platform at the far end of the hall.

The set list for Helsinki is 100% correct.

And one other thing: On the statistics it was said that Love For Sale wasn’t played at all on the tour. But I obviously misunderstood it. I realized that the second European leg isn’t yet included on the site, right? (They sure played it in Helsinki the next year, 1989, on the second leg.)

Thanks a lot for your kind words and also for the confirmation about Helsinki! There is a partial recording which only includes the songs from Get Ready onwards.
And you're right about Love For Sale - we update the statistics with every leg that's added. Love For Sale was first documented at the Niagara Falls show in early July 1989 ;)

Thanks again, your site is fantastic !


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great work man!!! bravo