to the question: no it's not because they don't like it, and it's not too bad to be played- the reason is that there are too many guitars on the album and you can't play the song with only 2 guitars cause you'd aways have to swich the e-guitar and the acoustic one- playing it with an acoustic sound from the effectboard would just suck and moreover jon would have to swich the sounds and i haven't seen him with an effectboard yet...

Uhmm......this is a whole other topic, but.......first off...Love Me Back To Life simply isn't played live, or hasn't been yet..but not because of the technical issues listed above.

Jon rarely plays guitar and only one? Ok, going by Shepherds Bush, which is the most recent reference I have on video.....Jon plays guitar on 9 of the 18 songs played....half of the show. So depending on your defination of rarely plays guitar live.....

Then you say he uses only one guitar......without re-watching it and noting the exact make and models, he played at least 3 different guitars. Finally, he's not exactly playing his electric guitars "clean." So that would wash out the "no effectsboard" theory. It may not be a rack but there sure as hell is one.

Finally, Love Me Back To Life can be quite ably played and sound good live as I just heard it done 3 weeks ago by the tribute band, Slippery When Wet. No one in the club knew it, but whatever. It sounded good. If they can do it, I'm quite sure the original can.

Bon Jovi isn't a band that doesn't play one of their own songs live because they lack the ability. You are thinking of KISS with their penchant for rehiring drummers and guitarists that can't play for sh**.

They may still play the song yet....the tour is still fairly fresh and surprises come up every now and then in the show.

i deleted the thing with the 1 guitar- i meant sth. completely different but my english skills are not high enough to express what i want to say :-)

despite of that i have never said that they don't play it cause they lack of guitar skills- they only can play two guitars and you need 3 to play it properly... the only way is to change the sounds.
another thing is that jon would have to play with the talk box which would be a hell lot of fun- i think i'd collapse of laughing :lol: :lol: or he has to play the solo- i heard jon playing soli in 98 on the da tour- and he just laughed about his soli as much as the audience did- it was good for entertaining but it was after the motto "laugh about the things you can't cry about" (translated from german in martin2000 english- hope you know what i wanna say :lol: :lol: )
so now i'm arguing about their skills :-)

Joey is one of the most embarassing songs i've heard of BJ

why is that? :?

read the lyrics!!!

i like them :oops:
must be my german thinking :lol:

:lol: it must be...

i can't stand them... hey.... joey - just the way they say that makes me cringe

and the way richie repeats the 'tell me who you're gonna be' line - as if it was a worthy lyric to be repeated by his great voice...

I like the "tell me all the sights you're gonna see, tell me who you're gonna be " part :P :lol:

warghhh... compare it to the lyrics to it's hard letting you go...