Official April 17, 2013, Energy Solutions Arena, Salt Lake City thread
 

Aloha !

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

1. That's What The Water Made Me
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Raise Your Hands
4. Lost Highway
5. Whole Lot Of Leavin'
6. It's My Life
7. Because We Can
8. What About Now
9. Born To Be My Baby
10. Keep The Faith
11. (You Want To) Make A Memory
12. Bed Of Roses
13. Runaway
14. We Weren't Born To Follow
15. Who Says You Can't Go Home
16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
/ Start Me Up
17. Bad Medicine

Encore:
18. I'll Be There For You
19. Wanted Dead Or Alive
20. Have A Nice Day
21. Livin' On A Prayer

The last time Bon Jovi played Salt Lake City was March 22, 2011. The setlist contained one surprise; Blaze Of Glory was played again after its tour premiere in Las Vegas the night before.

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/20_G...h_20110322.jpghttp://www.bonjovi-archives.com/22_W...h_20130317.jpg

Songs played per album:
http://www.bonjovi-archives.com/20_G...h_20110322.jpghttp://www.bonjovi-archives.com/22_W...h_20130317.jpg

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

As a former Utah resident, I hope it's a good one.

They're always pretty safe sets, but Dry County has the potential to remain in the encore. JBJ seemed to be pretty into the song from the Denver video.

Half an hour to show time... anyone out there?

Any PBP?

I made the road trip from Denver to SLC in 2011. It wasn't a bad show, unfortunately compared to the Denver show a year prior, it was not anything too special setlist-wise and the crowd did not seem overly into it. That had been the first time Bon Jovi had played Salt Lake in many years.

I would have probably made the trip to Salt Lake City (or perhaps Omaha or Kansas City) if they weren't all so close to each other. I was hoping that one of those cities would be spread out to the fall leg (or next year). Pending the circumstances with Richie, and now the pretty bad weather that would plague any sort of road trip from Denver to SLC, I'm glad I chose to not attend this show.

But I hope everyone in SLC has a great time! Setlist wise, I honestly don't expect that Dry County will get played again, and the show will end with Prayer (no extra encore). I'm probably saying those things because I don't want it to be a better show than the one I actually went to! Haha.

At least someone else is interested!

Should have just started.

Show has started at 8:10-8:20 everywhere. Isn't it 7:24 in Utah?

8:28 according to this;

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

https://twitter.com/DesertDemonWY/st...188544/photo/1

Tickets were apparently going for $10.

That's a seriously empty looking arena

That's exactly how the arena looked last night in Denver around 7:20, 10 minutes before the "scheduled showtime". By 8:00 though, the arena had filled in quite a bit, and within the next 15 minutes before the band hit the stage, every seat was full.

There were tons of ticket specials in the weeks leading up, and tons on the resale market (I originally had $50 tickets behind the stage that I resold for only $15 a piece, however I purchased tickets that were $199 face value for $75 a piece yesterday morning prior to the show)

That's because it's not showtime yet... far from it.

they've been on stage for 45 minutes.


Here is what it looks like now - http://instagram.com/p/YOskjnBlW7/

It's not showtime in that picture.

https://twitter.com/DerekPeters3n/st...520001/photo/1

https://twitter.com/Weswarr11/status...463744/photo/1

Bed of Roses is currently being played.... but that's all i know setlist wise so far

Prayer was 20 minutes ago.... the lack of information is pretty bad.

Possibly Always now.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...2&l=39ab5b1654

Still seems way too early for either Always or Prayer... they haven't even been on stage 2 hours yet.

Yeah, I'm probably misreading tweets. I hardly ever use Twitter. Probably people tweeting "OMG classic Bon Jovi now #LivinOnAPrayer" when they were just hearing it in a bar or at home.

Probably getting pretty close to the end... Jeez this place is desolate!

Setlist:

That's What the Water Made Me
You Give Love a Bad Name
Born to Be My Baby
Raise Your Hands
Lost Highway
Whole Lot of Leavin'
It's My Life
Because We Can
What About Now
Keep the Faith
(You Want to) Make a Memory
Bed of Roses
Runaway
We Weren't Born to Follow
Born to Be My Baby
Who Says You Can't Go Home
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Bad Medicine

Encore:
I'll Be There for You
Wanted Dead or Alive
Have a Nice Day
Livin' on a Prayer

22 songs...eek... especially being that they played BTBMB twice ;) Any word if any covers were thrown in? Or Performance? Interesting placements if BTBMB (both times) and IBTFY.

Stole this setlist from setlist.fm no clue if it is genuine.

On twitter I see someone talking about army of one and quoting the lyrics with hash tags from salt lake. So I doubt the setlist above is right. Who knows though.

If the setlist is true, it is one the worst setlists ever! HAND to be the only song I would be glad to hear....

any ideas why they play such short setlists on certain gigs ? could it be because the crowd isn't that good and not really keeping them going ? I'm sure they're not contractually obliged to play for more than 2 hours or something.

Really? Stop trolling and looking for a reaction. So in your confused head you would be ''glad'' not to hear all of the following songs at a Bon Jovi show then? hmm...

Keep the Faith
Runaway
Bad Medicine
I'll Be There for You
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer
Born to Be My Baby
Raise Your Hands

It is of course a very average setlist compared to others yes, but lets not get carried away. There are a still a bunch of good classic songs in there that make it a Bon Jovi show, that fact doesn't change even if the setlist as a whole is lacking.

Andi

Don't get me started. Pisses me off beyond belief.

I looked for a set list on backstage and nothing. I'd wait for that before jumping all over it being the worst set list. Edited now..I see the set list Thierry posted on a backstage thread, sans, BTBMB twice, lol! Was very short. But, I know it was a late start for everything, crew was still loading in at 3 p.m.

So now you are telling me what song i want to hear... Oh jesus. What a clown

Nope, maybe it was just lost in translation due to your poor grasp of English. Or maybe you are just trolling and looking for a reaction, I know how you clowns operate :) So, I won't give you any more attention than I already have :)

Oh...tough one....:rolleyes:

Concert review: Bon Jovi in Salt Lake City

The Salt Lake Tribune

Published: April 17, 2013 11:45PM
Updated: April 18, 2013 07:48AM

Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune Jon Bon Jovi leads the way as Bon Jovi performed in concert at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City on Wednesday April 17, 2013. You don't normally think of Shakespeare when it comes to Bon Jovi, but at the risk of sounding pedantic, I kept thinking of a line from "MacBeth" as I watched and listened to the New Jersey rock band perform Wednesday at EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City:
"It is a tale ... full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
As it nears its 30th anniversary, Bon Jovi has built a reputation as a successful live band, and the stage production at the crowded (but not sold out) arena was second-to-none, with a phalanx of spinning and pivoting lights and lasers and a gargantuan video monitor behind that band that was truly spectacular, with what is billed as potentially being the largest projection screen in the history of the world. With 1,428 flat panels used on the hexagon projection wall, the 4.5 million pixels helped to create a constantly changing sea of eye-popping visuals. On top of this were scores of speakers that will leave the audience's ears ringing throughout Thursday.
But what I saw on those screens was much more interesting than what I heard from the band Wednesday, as it further devolves from a reasonably entertaining hard-pop-rock band in the 1980s and early 1990s into a tedious and downright boring adult-contemporary band. No one, save for Rod Stewart, has produced such middling results from so much apparent talent.
Despite having released three straight No. 1-charting albums in a row, out of those albums the only song that I believe will be in future set lists will be the lead single from Bon Jovi's latest album — an unoffensive anthem called "Because We Can" that claims to make a stand but in the end makes no attempt to do so. But at least it is catchy, and fans can pump their fists in the air to yet another catchy chorus that Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora have crafted. (More about Sambora later.)
The band launched its 130-minute, 20-song concert with the tepid "That's What the Water Made Me," yet another song that sounds straight out of a pep rally from a junior high school. The sound of the band at the outset was awful, but fortunately, the sound of the band improved as the concert went on. Some songs have aged better than others — "Born to Be My Baby" holds up, while "I'll Be There For You" is yawn-inducing and somnambulant —and the band seemed genuinely responsive to the fans' energy, which was most rapturous during the predictable encore songs "Wanted Dead or Alive" and "Livin' on a Prayer."
What I realized was that "Livin' on a Prayer" actually tries to tell some sort of a story, while many of Bon Jovi's more recent songs are filled with platitudes that fail to connect with any humanity left inside of my unfeeling carcass. Even some of the song titles are clichés: "Have Nice Day." "Who Says You Can't Go Home." "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." "It's My Life." Also unforgivable was the lack of "Blaze of Glory" (although it is admittedly a Jon Bon Jovi solo song) and the criminal absence of "Lay Your Hands On Me."
On the bright side, Jon was amiable and chatty, and despite playing six songs fewer than he did at the previous night in Denver, seemed worn out at the end of the show, evidence that he left a lot of himself on the stage. And, he has great teeth.
The elephant on the stage was the absence of founding member and the Keith to Jon's Mick, Richie Sambora. I can't fault the band for not having him there, as all reports suggest it was Sambora who left the band mid-tour, rather than them showing him the door. Canadian session guitarist Phil X, Sambora's replacement, did a serviceable job on the guitar and the voicebox, but I got the feeling that he was holding himself back and not allowed to spread his wings too far. And Sambora is one of the most under-rated backing vocalists out there, and the depth and soulful harmonies that he adds to songs such as "Wanted Dead or Alive" were notable. David Bryan, on keys, Tico Torres on drums, and Hugh McDonald on bass, were solid but unremarkable.
To Jon's credit, he did dedicate a spirited "It's My Life" to a special-needs class in the Alpine School District that is using the song as its theme song this year.
But by the end of the night, after realizing I didn't have any more Shakespeare to ruminate on, I turned my thoughts to how Jon Bon Jovi's birth name was John Bongiovi, but changed to Bon Jovi in part because it is more pronounceable. The same thing happened to Chef Boyardee, whose birth name was Ettore Boiardi, and who reportedly was a great cook back before his namesake canned pasta included a concoction called Beef-a-Roni. Both names were sanitized for general consumption, and the same can be said of the legacies of both men.
To see a photo gallery of the show, go to http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/enterta...a-bon.html.csp

The setlist is posted on bonjovi.com ... It's horrible how Denver gets such a nice show compared to Utah. Probably because Utah is on a back to back night, but still pretty bad. Jon must hate Mormons.

Very well put. I'm pretty sure the guy's a (ex-)fan.

Ice

Well, that was a little harsh.

This hits right on the spot, and it's what I think of every song since the Lost Highway record. Well, every single song but Pictures of You that certainly has some soul.

Aloha !

I think so too. There's too many details in that review a casual reviewer doesn't notice or doesn't check. And as harsh as it may be, it's not as if it's anything different from what many, many people have said on Jovitalk by now.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

The fact that he stuck (but not sold out), honestly takes away any credibility that review has. Sounds like a whiney little 10 year old.

Aloha !

Shut it, dipshit.

I think so too. There's too many details in that review a casual reviewer doesn't notice or doesn't check. And as harsh as it may be, it's not as if it's anything different from what many, many people have said on Jovitalk by now.

Don't be daft, Pictures Of You is just as bland as the other dull stuff the reviewer is talking about. I don't agree on all points but Pictures Of You has zero soul.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan