Official April 3, 2013, Rexall Place, Edmonton thread
 

Aloha !

Predictions, disappointments, reviews and rants about this show go in this topic.

1. You Give Love A Bad Name
2. Raise Your Hands
3. Runaway
4. Lost Highway
5. Because We Can
6. That's What The Water Made Me
7. It's My Life
8. Whole Lot of Leaving
9. What About Now
10. We Got It Goin On
11. Keep The Faith
12. (You Want To) Make a Memory
13. Bed of Roses
14. I'll Be There For You
15. We Weren't Born to Follow
16. Born to Be My Baby
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead w/ Dancing In the Streets & Jumpin Jack Flash
18. Who Says You Can't Go Home
19. Bad Medicine

Encore 1:
20. When We Were Beautiful
21. Wanted Dead or Alive
22. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
23. Livin' on a Prayer

Encore 2:
24. I Love This Town

The last time Bon Jovi played Edmonton was July 15, 2010. The setlist contained one surprise; Always opened the encore. Another unexpected move was Jon dropping Work For The Working Man. Time for it to return! Just kidding. :p

A graph showcasing the order of album and single tracks. A peak indicates the chart position in the Billboard Hot 100, thus a crowd possibly knowing such a song. The more peaks, the more familiar a crowd is with the entire set. In case no peak is noted the song either didn't chart or wasn't released as a single.

http://www.bonjovi-archives.com/19_T...h_20100715.jpg

Songs played per album:
http://www.bonjovi-archives.com/19_T...h_20100715.jpg

I've been to the last show in Edmonton which was rather good but halfway through the show the flow was a bit off. The lack of songs from The Circle certainly improved the set, though Crash near the end of the main set was seriously once of the biggest downers in a flow I've ever experienced at a Bon Jovi show. That said, I've got good memories of this show.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Mediocrity looms.

Phil X. Phil X!!!

We got you by now :p :D

Really glad I didn't end up buying tickets for this show. Also really glad that both Calgary and Winnipeg I ended up sticking with nosebleed seats that I bought for $50.

David to play Lunar Eclipse in full while dressed as Willy Wonka. You heard it here first.

Admittedly, I would pay to see that.

I wonder if our homeless are getting a cheque tonight too...

Shouldn't you be at this show?

Now that I'd pay $300 for.

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

Yes!! :lol: I feel guilty about this but, the idea of Phil X playing with Bon Jovi makes me happy! :D The guy is class and an amazing guitarist with a hell of an enviable resume. God bless him!!

I hope he tells JBJ he wants to play Dry County and Hey God!

He hasn't exactly had much time to learn the new songs.....

It's like Phil X is the vice-lead guitarist, and in a state of emergency he must be only a phone call away from becoming the most important man in the world, no matter what he's doing. :p

Hopefully President Richie heals soon.

Ok, I'm done being a nerd. :lol:

Phil X: "Hey Jon, how about if we play some Bounce songs tonight?"

Later in the show: We're sorry to announce that Phil X won't be playing with us any time soon.

He'd be fine reading the chords on the prompter while he hears the songs for the first time during the show. No practice necessary when you're that talented.

The new songs are so simple he doesn't need that much time to learn them. A listen and a run-through in his dressing room should be enough.

Is Panda tweeting tonight?

He's not there.

Show should be starting soon.

So nobody PBPing? :(

Pleased to hear about Phil X. I went back and listened to IBTFY from the Nassau show that I went to with Phil X instead of Richie. It's one of the best performances of that song ever - an 8 minute version.

I was not unhappy with the shows without Richie, though certainly Jon stepped up and kept the spotlight on himself.

1. You Give Love a Bad Name

The image illustrates this quite well, actually:
http://media.tumblr.com/e418c96baaca...Jkk1qz4rgp.jpg

It seems like Phil X is saying "Are we seriously doing the same setlist that in 2011?!" or "You're ****ing with me, this can't be the solo for Because We Can".

1. You Give Love A Bad Name
2. Raise Your Hands
3. Runaway

Jon is wearing his Captain America jacket.

Is that pic from tonight?

Yes, it is.

http://www.bonjovi.com/en/news/47069...D#.UVzjkZOLBmy

It's from the website, labeled as "Welcome back, Phil X!"

Ladies and gentlemen, your new Bon Jovi guitarist.

Have to admit, I'm stumped. I don't get this at all.

1. You Give Love A Bad Name
2. Raise Your Hands
3. Runaway
4. Lost Highway

Glad Phil X has been welcomed back warmly by most. Although it makes me miss Richie more.

That must make Richie feel good.