CONCERT THREAD - October 15, 2013, San Antonio - AT&T Center
 

Setlist can be found here - http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/bon-jo...-5bc717c8.html

This show starts in a little over three hours.


last time the band played here was in March 2011 and the unexciting setlist was as follows;

Lost Highway
You Give Love a Bad Name
Born to Be My Baby
We Weren't Born to Follow
Thorn in My Side
It's My Life
Runaway
The More Things Change
We Got It Goin' On
Bad Medicine
(with Pretty Woman)
Lay Your Hands on Me
(Richie Vox)
(You Want to) Make a Memory
What Do You Got?
I'll Be There for You
Who Says You Can't Go Home
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Work for the Working Man
Have a Nice Day
Keep the Faith

Encore:
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer

Thorn in My Side. I miss it.

What was it?

Only the 2nd best live song out of The circle.

Any excuse to re-post this:

Entire song, people deserve it (?)

Is it me or Richie sounded like shit during the intro? And Jon sounds really flat and powerless during the song. I didn't remember the performance this way.

I was making a joke.

GabrielC said "Thorn in my Side. I miss it." as if he had a specific thorn in his side that he's missing.

Not so funny when you have to explain it.

I'm well aware of the actual song - should have been the Circle's lead single.

I can confirm that You Give Love A Bad Name, It's My Life and We Got It Goin' On have been played!! How exciting!!!

Lost Highway was played !! OMG !!

We were so happy during The Circle Tour. The vanilla sets from that tour were a masterpiece compared to most sets of the BWC tour ...

Agreed, however if I had the choice I think id take the set from LA from the other day over the set from San Antonio on the Circle Tour.

You Give Love A Bad Name
It's My Life
We Got It Goin On
Lost Highway

** order of set may not be right

Add Start Me Up and Pretty Woman to the list

Final setlist!!

1. Water
2. Bad Name
3. Raise Your Hands
4. Lost Highway
5. Whole Lot Of Leaving
6. It's My Life
7. Because We Can
8. What About Now
9. We Got It Going On
10. Keep The Faith
11. Amen (on the circle)
12. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (with David, Tico and Bobby also on the circle)
13. Diamond Ring (on the circle)
14. Make A Memory (on the circle)
15. Born To Be My Baby
16. We Weren't Born To Follow
17. Who Says You Can't Go Home
18. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead with Start Me Up and Jumpin' Jack Flash
19. Bad Medicine with Shout

Encore:
20. In These Arms
21. Runaway
22. Wanted Dead Or Alive
23. Have A Nice Day
24. Livin' On A Prayer

Diamond Ring without Richie? Man...

They've already done Diamond Ring once this tour without Richie.

Really? I don't remember that. When?

In Switzerland.

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Jon has that face again. I do not like, is all arrogance.

LOL he's a rockstar. Sometimes people get a little too carried away with the Jon hate. And this is coming from ME.

I went to the SA show, some quick notes.

Overall, I say it was a better show than what we got two years ago. The show in 2011 seemed like just another stop on the tour with the exception of Thorn In My Side. The Dallas show blew the SA show away that year.

Anyways, back to this show. It was weird seeing the band without Richie (my first time) and then I just wondered how Tico and David felt about the situation too. Even if the feud is with Jon, they are band mates as well and I wonder what there input is.

The show was very standard with the previous setlists and Jon did not talk much throughout the show...but he didn't seem in a bad mood, just not super excited like he usually is in Dallas.

Hearing Diamond Ring was a nice surprise but even more, was the huge reaction it received...more so that What About Now or Make a Memory. I know those are crap songs to compare to but for a song that is rarely played and wasn't even a single, that says something. Amen got a really good reaction too and I didn't mind it. SIBSN acoustic lacks everything that make the electric one so awesome. I could barely hear the lyrics and it just seemed rushed.

Although I have heard Sleep and Medicine over and over again, the combination of the two really gets the crowd going with the addition of the cover songs. After the reaction Diamond Ring got, I was hoping for These Days in the encore but I realized we are not in Europe so that wasn't going to happen.

Like I said, overall, a better show than 2011 however if a second encore of These Days and Love is the Only Rule was added...probably could have been on of the better US shows of the tour. I always liked the way Love is the Only Rule closes out the show, its a great way for the band to leave gracefully, plus Jon appears like he likes it....anyways...

It's just that smirk Jon's had for decades. :) Bobby looks more like a fan-boy ogling his idols than a member of the working band.

I think if you stood on a stage with 20 thousand people cheering you, you would look pleased with yourself too!

OK. Enough now. We get it.

This is what I think about that!

Say what you want about Bobby, but that man has some amazing tastes in guitars. Phil's Les Paul looks awesome as well....

Can someone explain how a 5'9" man now looks as tall or taller than his 6' plus bandmates (Richie and David) in pictures, both promo and onstage? Did he have his legs lengthened, in addition to hair transplants and obvious facial & dental work? Remember he used to have a prominent mole under his right eye???

His little man complex started after the success of Crush it seems when he decided to become the CEO. Prior to that period, he seemed to have no problem being flanked by Richie and David and looking significantly shorter than them.

I've said the exact same thing several times. PRS's, Jaguars, Firebirds... he picks the guitars I'd pick.

Haha it's just perspective. He's not standing beside Jon and David.

Hair transplants? really? When did that happen? I don't recall any time period in which his hair was thinning to require such a procedure.

diamond ring
I imagined, this song lost a lot of romanticism without Richie. David and Bobby do what they can, but not is enough.

Search it up, we had a whole thread about this :D

thanks for the link! i thought that was really good!! :)

Won't say I didn't miss Richie's vocals, but nice performance. Would take this song at one of my shows any day.

I had actually written a similar statement and then thought "Jon haters gonna hate regardless" so I didn't bother to post it. :D But I'm glad someone did. As for the hair plugs, why would Jon waste his money if he wasn't going to get them in front, where his hairline is receding big time?

I am not among Jon haters. Not at all. It always struck me as odd that post Crush he suddenly started appearing to be the same height as Richie and David in the band promo pictures and now even onstage pics. Do a quick google search and you will find out what I mean. From 1984 till These Days, Jon is noticably shorter than his taller bandmates. Starting from Bounce era, he suddenly gained 4-5 inches. Find a promo pic post Crush where he doesn't look the same height as Richie and David. It is a hard job I tell you.

Jon has undeniable, immense talent. But as we have seen, he is not immune to human weaknesses. His sense of self-importance, insincere and fake mannerisms have been very evident for the past 10 years.

Aloha !

Because he got them when it wasn't receding as much over there. Once you've been close in the pit it becomes obvious during rainy shows, and you start to see how he's trying to cover it up by pasting his hair over his bald spot. :D

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

It was very obvious during the Crush Tour too when he started wearing bandanas and hats onstage after his hair became a sweaty mess. I think one can see this in the Crush Tour DVD. In the Destination Anywhere video / movie, you can see his receded hairline during the beach scenes. Compare it with the Bounce or HAND era and you will see a miraculous difference.

Hair transplants are done in a way so that they appear to be natural. That is why the "receding" hairline is not touched up to make it look like an 18 years old kid's. So when Jon and Gene Simmons say that "it's all mine", technically speaking, they are not lying. Hair transplants use one's own hair.

Guess I was lumping you in with the "Jon is an evil dictator" gang. I think Tico is the only one he was ever truly taller than, (and now Bobby?) so he's probably doing the lifts in the shoes thing.