Official July 20, 2013 -> Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA, USA thread
 

2013 SET:

1. That's What the Water Made Me
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Raise Your Hands
4. Born to Be My Baby
5. Lost Highway
6. It's My Life
7. Because We Can
8. What About Now
9. We Got it Going On
10. Keep the Faith
11. (You Want to) Make a Memory
12. Bed of Roses
13. Runaway
14. Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars
15. We Weren't Born to Follow
16. Who Says You Can't Go Home
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead / Start Me Up (Rolling Stones cover)
18. Bad Medicine

Encore:
19. Wanted Dead or Alive
20. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
21. Have a Nice Day
22. Livin' on a Prayer

Encore 2:
23. Always
24. Old Time Rock 'n Roll (Bob Seger cover)
25. I love This Town


The last time the band played Boston was on March 1, 2011. The setlist was this.

1. LAST MAN STANDING
2. YOU GIVE LOVE A BAD NAME
3. BORN TO BE MY BABY
4. WE WEREN'T BORN TO FOLLOW
5. LOST HIGHWAY
6. LOVE'S THE ONLY RULE
7. WORK FOR THE WORKING MAN
8. IT'S MY LIFE
9. RUNAWAY
10. JUST OLDER
11. WE GOT IT GOIN' ON
12. BAD MEDICINE ~ Pretty Woman ~ Shout
13. LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
14. HALLELUJAH
15. I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU
16. BED OF ROSES
17. WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T GO HOME
18. I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD ~ Start Me Up
19. HAVE A NICE DAY
20. KEEP THE FAITH

Encore
21. DRY COUTNY
22. WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
23. I LOVE THIS TOWN
24. LIVIN' ON A PRAYER

That's a fairly decent setlist from 2011.

I'll be there tonight, and I'll try to post a review tonight and a more in depth review tomorrow, very excited for this show!

It's been a while that they played Just Older. Would be nice to see it again.

I was thinking the same thing... I haven't seen it seen the Bounce tour. Granted, I'd be happy with just about anything from Crush (with the exception of IML and CC for the 100th time).

I hope the weather cooperates for those of you who are going. I saw that there is a severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00 PM.

Lots of interest here I see...

01. That's What the Water Made Me
02. You Give Love A Bad Name
03. Raise Your hands
04. Born To Be My Baby
05. Lost Highway
06. It's My Life
07. Because We Can
08. What About Now?
09. We Got it Going On
10. Keep The Faith
11. Make A Memory
12. Bed Of Roses
Ctrl C+Ctrl P from Detoit so far.

What does Ctrl+P even do?!

Oh yeah. I meant ctrl+v.

He copied the setlist from Detroit, printed it off, and then pasted it to the stage. Make sense now? lol.

Ctrl+P prints. So I suppose that would still make sense.

01. That's What the Water Made Me
02. You Give Love A Bad Name
03. Raise Your hands
04. Born To Be My Baby
05. Lost Highway
06. It's My Life
07. Because We Can
08. What About Now?
09. We Got it Going On
10. Keep The Faith
11. Make A Memory
12. Bed Of Roses
13. Runaway
14. Captain Crash

If someone else wants to take over feel free. Hopefully they get something in the encore.

Main set is normal, encore is wanted, sat night, hand, prayer... Audibles are these days, loves the only rule, old time r&r, always and I love this town. Twitter pic had a pic of the set

They'll get Always, and maybe I Love This Town. I'd hope for Love's The Only Rule or These Days.

Just got back to the car, 25 song set, JBJ was on fire, the band sounded great and Jon was not just fake smiles tonight, he truly enjoyed this show. I'll post a longer review tomorrow

Some other quick notes... Jon forgot the words in BWC but he laughed and just said he forgot the words, right as the song was going on. Second encore was Always, OTR&R and I love this town.

Jon was good as was the band but the set was a bore. One show on this tour is enough for me.

Jon was awesome tonight. He worked his ass off in the heat. Wonderful show. Well worth the trip from Maryland.

I have never, ever seen this much disinterest in PBP's.

The end is near.

Good show, but just good. The energy was high and Jon was in a good mood. The setlist was pretty boring and there were some definite lulls. The sound seemed off to me in some spots and Lost Highway sounded really strange to me. It was nice to see Jon go out on the circle for a couple songs. I had a great spot right at the ramp but security were being dicks and the guys bushy hair blocked pretty much my whole view. Always seemed to be better than usual, but Jon still looks pained when he sings it. Seemed like Tico was really struggling and he was taking hits off of an oxygen mask. I watched him a lot tonight and he really works his ass off. As hot as it was in the stadium, I can only imagine how hot it must
have been up there. Glad I went but also glad.I don't have anymore stadium shows.

Looks like something was wrong with the sound at the very beginning of Water...

Maybe people have better things to do with their time on a sat night than report what songs jovi have played.
I personally have no interest in what songs they play at a gig I'm not going to but I'm interested in if they were played well.
Everyone who went enjoyed it from what we've heard.


I think the end is nigh for your time as a fan of band.
Go and find another band - plenty out there!!

I guess American gigs are just boring so no one bothers with pbp's . Shame ... Even the Americans dont bother to update us cause they are boring too .

Yea i can see the scene now, few years time Jon gets all the band together, sits them round a table and says " i want to do another album, followed by another tour, we all in?"

Tico looks up and says "Jon...Jon my boy did you not see the lack of PBP on Jovi talk? it's time to call it a day my friend"

The rest all nod in agreement!


sound likely? hell no! that's how stupid that comment was!

The lack of PBP on this tour shows pretty well the lack of fans interest

This is a much more important situation than what is merely discussed here ...
The pride of a few fans discussing (when not insulting each others) behind their computer screen is <cute> but it is not really showing something healthy, strong, solid about the band BIGGEST money maker = their fans

It's funny, because some people's only comments are those foreseeing a doomy future for Bon Jovi because people don't post.

Probably not much interest because the sets are so static. There's no chance of any massive surprise like there was on the last few tours.

Having said that, I still don't know the full set so this is one shit PBP

Reading comments on Facebook from those I know that went to the show said it was a really good show but vanilla in terms of set list. I don't think the level of interest in a PBP is any indication of the bands popularity or demise as everyone knows that those posting on a message board is a tiny, albeit vocal, minority.

01. That's what the Water made me
02. You give Love a bad Name
03. Raise your Hands
04. Born to be my Baby
05. Lost Highway
06. It's my Life
07. Because we can
08. What about now
09. We got it going on
10. Keep the Faith
11. Make a Memory (JBJ on the circle)
12. Bed of Roses (JBJ on the circle)
13. Runaway
14. Captn Crash and the Beauty-queen from Mars
15. We weren't born to follow
16. Who says you can't go Home
17. I'll sleep when I'm dead/Start me up
18. Bad Medicine
Encore
19. Wanted Dead or Alive
20. Someday I'll be Saturday Night
21. Have a nice Day
22. Livin on a Prayer
23. Always
24. Old Time Rock 'n Roll
25. I love this Town

During the US tour you can pretty much copy and paste the set list from the night before.
A PBP is pretty pointless.

I was there last night and although there wasn't any real rarities, the set was fine, no complaints from me. It was a solid length with 2 encores and Jon was on fire. I think there was a screw up at the start of Water, watch the video and see for yourself. The band sounded great and what a job done by Phil X. Bad Name, RYH, BTBMB, and Lost Highway all sounded pretty good and Jon was really moving around the stage and was very much into this show. It's My Life got one of the biggest reactions of the night, then BWC followed it and Jon forgot the words for a line and I thought this would ruin his mood but it seemed to make his mood better, he admitted he screwed up and smiled and kept going. What About Now didn't seem to go over that well with the crowd, who by the way was pretty good. WGIGO and KTF were rockin' like usual but Phil X outshines Bobby badly on the guitar duel. JBJ used the circle for Memory and Bed of Roses, during Roses someone threw him a Patriot hat and he wore it for part of the song. Runaway sounded good, Captain Crash got a mixed reaction and WWBTF went over decently, but Bobby's solo made my ears bleed, that was awful. We got Start Me Up in the middle of Sleep. Bad Medicine had a Shout teaser but i think Bad Medicine created one of the most sentimental moments of the concert. Someone threw a "Boston Strong" shirt onstage and instantly Jon put it on to a roar from the crowd. This was nice to see after all Boston had been threw with the Marathon bombings. When Wanted started the encore I was a bit disappointed because I then thought we'll get HAND and Prayer and be done, but I knew Jon was having too much fun tonight for a short show. After Wanted was Saturday Night which got a good reaction. HAND followed which was a highlight for me since I love the production used for this song, and then how can you not love Prayer at a Bon Jovi concert? After Prayer, I knew they weren't done, and they huddled and decided on Always, and I thought Jon sang it very well, his vocals were in top form last night. After Always we got OTRNR, I wish we got In These Arms or I'm With You, but OTRNR went over alright and Dave had a nice solo. I knew we would get I Love This Town, since Jon made it clear throughout the show that he loves the Krafts, the Patriots, and playing Gillette. After ILTT, I thought we might get one more, but that was it, you could see from the final bows that Jon loved it. David sounded excellent like always, and I think Tico deserves a lot more recognition and credit that he gets, what a performer he is. Phil X was a good fill in, Bobby served his purpose, and Hugh was solid, even though you can barely see him hidden in the back. Overall, this was the best concert performance wise I have been to, but set wise Mohegan 2011 had many more rarities. I don't think the YouTube videos will do it justice, but I think this was one of the better North American shows this year.

Pretty much.

Said it before and I'll say it again (and this doesn't just pertain to Bon Jovi). If you're in a rock band and have a huge catalog of music, shame on you for not mixing things up more, and why the hell wouldn't you want to? Make things more interesting. No reason the following couldn't have been scratched for some rarities or some new songs:

Lost Highway
We Got It Going On
Captain Crash
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
I Love This Town

Get rid of those 5, play 3 more new songs, 2 rarities and you've got a decent set.

Always:

No offense guys but this board isn't the only Bon Jovi board on the internet. :D I found info and pictures on other sites. Friends who went had a great time and that's what's important.

Yeah 50,000+ people were there, but the end is near because 5 message board nerds didn't like the setlist.

Thank you for the thorough review. I enjoyed reading it... felt like I was there.

Other than Sleep When I'm Dead I would be happy to never hear any of those songs again - live or on record. Is it just me or does Sleep seem to pick up the atmosphere at a show? Captain Crash is bloody terrible. I can't get my head around the fact that this has been a staple song for 13 years.

To me it seems that this tour has been on near enough complete auto-pilot. Lack of new material and a lack of originality. I can't say that it's been a bad tour, they're clearly still hitting the right figures even tough it seems that many shows have 'under-sold'.

It's time for the band to have a break, reassess and come back in a few years time. I would be incredibly worried if they continue on this non-stop recording/touring run that they've been on for the past few years.

My first out loud laugh of the day. :D

Where did it say there were 50,000 people there? There were lots of empty seats throughout the stadium.

Great review! Thanks for that,
Also people on twitter are posting that they had a blast.

We all miss RS, but is good to see the band still rockin it out