But many people will say it's great just because of the whole live experience. Concerts are fun. Seeing a band perform live is fun. Jon is great at engaging those with close enough seats to make eye contact. If he touches their hand, it's THE BEST SHOW EVER!!! But these shows are nowhere good enough or varied enough to see more than once this tour. I suspect anyone who says they are, are the ones who get the winks and hand slaps. They go back for more.

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But there are songs that are played at just about every show that weren't even released as singles. We Got It Going On, Captain Crash and I Love This Town are perfect examples. Casuals don't know these songs but Jon keeps playing them. Lost Highway and Whole Lot of Leaving didn't even chart, so casuals probably don't know these songs either. There's five songs right there that he could exchange for songs die hards would rather hear. The "they've got to play to the casuals" excuse doesn't really fly when unknown songs like these have become staples. Jon could sell the hell out of something more rare just as well as he's sold the hell out of We Got It Going On, but he doesn't bother.

I believe that Going on, Crash and Love this town are specially catered towards the casuals. They are easy to digest wave your hands songs. Jon knows what songs the diehards want, you can tell that by looking at the "good mood jon" gigs, where he plays the real stuff.

I think that Bon Jovi has reached a setlist that caters almost entirely to casuals, because during Bounce tour or before, you had the hits for the casuals but in order to complete the entire setlist you had to have some great songs that we want to hear. Later on easy to sing "party" songs like the ones you mentioned came along and Jon can skip the other songs altogether (I'm talking about LYHOM, WITS, BOG, etc).

On the other hand, I believe that Jon plays the lost highway crap because he likes it, and THAT I can respect.

I can respect that too but not on my dime!!