Official April 20, 2013, MGM Grand Arena, Las Vegas 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. Born to Be My Baby
4. Raise Your Hands
5. Lost Highway
6. Superman Tonight
7. It's My Life
8. Because We Can
9. What About Now
10. I Love This Town
11. Keep The Faith
12. Amen
13. Bed Of Roses
14. Last Man Standing
15. We Weren't Born To Follo
16. Who Says You Can't Go Home
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
18. Bad Medicine

Encore:
19. When We Were Beautiful
20. Wanted Dead Or Alive
21. Livin' On A Prayer

The last time Bon Jovi played Las Vegas was March 19, 2011. The setlist contained three surprises; Blaze Of Glory made its tour premiere, Love For Sale was played in the acoustic set and Dry County opened the encore. Other rare songs were Richie's rendition of Lay Your Hands On Me with the jam session and the acoustic rendition of Someday I'll Be Saturday Night. Other things worth mentioning was the band opening with Prayer, no Lost Highway, only 1 song of The Circle and ending with In These Arms, which was an audible for that night. Yes, excluding I Love This Town, this was a pretty good setlist and all was good in die hard land that night.

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_20110319.jpg

Songs played per album:
http://www.bonjovi-archives.com/20_G...h_20110319.jpg

Considering how These Days was supposed to be played last night and Hey God being an audible it wouldn't surprise me if one of the songs would show up tonight. After all, they'll be in the continent of the high and mighty fans in Europe soon so better run through them before they present them in their full glory to us. :p

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I was at the show in Vegas on the Lost Highway tour, and I thought it was the one time (out of nearly 30 shows) that Jon kind of just went through the motions. It was a still a good show, and I got In These Arms (which I love), but Jon didn't seem to really give anything extra.

The set list on The Circle Tour and the show above were much better, and considering the set list and audibles last night (plus I think there is fan club trip for this show), I expect tonight to be great show.

I see the time machine is back. ;)

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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. Lost Highway
06. Superman Tonight
07. It's My Life
08. Because We Can
09. What About Now
10. I Love This Town
11. We Got It Going On
12. Keep The Faith

Strange.

I hope they play Hey God. Phil will kick asses.

Aloha !

Well well, Superman Tonight replaced Whole Lot Of Leavin', and Work For The Working Man was replaced by another cringeworthy song. It's either going to be a first half for Jon second half for the crowd kind of set, or just a mediocre show anyway.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

It will interesting anyway...

2011, eh Seb? ;)

For the record, I'd much rather hear Superman over Whole Lot of Leavin and I Love This Town over Work for the Working Man.

Aloha !

Yeah, like Northern Cowboy said; the time machine is back. I already tried editing this but it doesn't show in the topic title, it's some weird setting in this board.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

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. Lost Highway
06. Superman Tonight
07. It's My Life
08. Because We Can
09. What About Now
10. I Love This Town
11. We Got It Going On
12. Keep The Faith
13. Amen

I Love This Town being played so early is an interesting choice.

Better now then later.

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. Lost Highway
06. Superman Tonight
07. It's My Life
08. Because We Can
09. What About Now
10. I Love This Town
11. We Got It Going On
12. Keep The Faith
13. Amen
14. Bed Of Roses
15. Last Man Standing
16. We Weren't Born To Follow

So Amen turns into Bed of Roses? That's a good tradeoff.

Hallelujah, i mean Amen, is back. I'd Still take it over memory though.

Last Man Standing...
We Weren't Born To Follow...

Who Says.......................

I'll let you take over, ok? I'm getting tired.

haha, no probs :)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Thanks :)

I have a hunch Hey God or These Days makes a premier tonight. Once they hit Europe I'm confident that the shows will be awesome on a night to night basis again.

Some songs in different places. I'll Be There For You must be in the encore?

Bad Medicine

You and me both... live anyway. On the desert island scenario, I'd pick MAM, but live it has never been what it should be. Amen, on the other hand was kind of nice when I saw it.

Encore:


When We Were Beautiful

What an anti climax

Ah another song that isn't what it should be live... but (I know I'm alone here) I'd take it over LH, WLOL, MAM, and ST.

Wanted.....

Must have finished Wanted by now?

Prayer.....

And thats your lot!

Meh. Roll on South Africa.

Thanks for posting!

you are welcome :cool:

Oh sod off Jon

Weakest set list on this whole tour?

First Jovi show...was it worth it? Yes. Would I do multiple shows? No, I don't want to see the same show over and over and start nit picking about set lists and performances. :-) But if Richie returns, I'd love to see a true Bon Jovi show. It was short by Jovi standards but after a 3-hour LA show, I didn't think we would get a long show with any rarities. Maybe the next (and last) show of this leg will.

The show started at 8:40 although my ticket said 8:00 and my reminder email said to be there by 7:30. Full house but not a sell out. I did see people of all ages from teens to people in their 60s so they aren't lying about attracting all ages/multiple generations. Only 22 songs with one encore set but I and the crowd enjoyed it. The visual production and lighting were impressive. i do wish there were more screens and that said screens wouldn't focus on Jon 99.9% of the time. Phil did great as a leading guitarist, bless him for filling in. Jon did fine. A couple of more comments:
Because We Can - may not have any staying power with the Jovi catalog but it worked well live with the crowd.
I love This Town - I almost laughed when it started playing and immediately thought, "at least we won't get it as an encore" which opened up the possibility of a different song in the encore.
Amen - don't like the recording but it was quite beautiful live and was warmly received by the audience.
Last Man Standing - another song that I don't like as a recording but it is great live and I can see how it would work well as an opener.
When We Were Beautiful - yep, sucked the energy right out of the venue. However, Jon obviously loves the song and he worked hard to deliver it. I'll let him have this song as an artist's right.
Bad Medicine - for me, it has gotten kind of old but it serves it's purpose.
The crowd loved the Lost Highway songs so they are here to stay at least in the US.

Finally, I loved Tico's playing (and I don't understand drums at all), David was superb on keys (I wish he was given more intros and outros), I didn't mind Bobby and I didn't notice Hugh's playing or presence at all except to notice that he was on stage.

How long did the set last for?

It ain't a true Bon Jovi show without Alec! ;)

Show started at 8:40 and ended at 10:59