I'll be there in a couple hours. :)

In how many hours will this trainwreck of a show start?

In a little over three.

I wouldn't be shocked if Phil X is there tonight. Hopefully Richie won't miss too much time, and will be back by Sunday (or the Sunday after that). His last tweet sounded promising.

No point hoping for some new songs like thieves, pictures, I'm with you or beautiful world!!

Actually when Richie is not there, Jon goes all out and works his ass off. He carries the whole show.

While that is true, however, no matter how into Jon was in 2011, the sets of the Phil X shows were still horribly static, even by US standarts and Jon himself sounds obviously worse with no Richie's backing vocals.

Is seeing Bon Jovi without Richie still more fun than staying home? Yes. Is it worth hundreds of dollars? No. I highly doubt that any "epic" shows will come without Richie. My expectations for my upcoming shows are lower than ever.

I was very surprised they played Dry County with Phil X

From PhilX's twitter page:

julie ‏@UKwench 6h
@TheRealPhilX Will you be in Edmonton tonight?

Phil X ‏@TheRealPhilX 22m
@UKwench since this question is immediate & I'll only say this once but yes.

Someone who knows how to post pictures, please do!

Link to a picture of Jon with PhilX

Welcome back Phil X

We welcome Phil X back to the tour.

http://www.bonjovi.com/en/news/47069...x#.UVzYhZNvAQ1