Interview with David & Tico March 5th.
https://www.nationalrockreview.com/g...orres-bon-jovi
Q: All right. I also was just wondering, just given the popularity of the band as such that you could put out a five-disc compilation of B sides and outtakes and still have it sell like crazy. What are some of your favorite songs from the catalog to play and is there anything that you think should get more attention than what it has?
David Bryan: You love to play the old songs and the new ones and we mix it up and that’s what keeps it fresh. We have so many to choose from so we change up the sets every night and swap out a couple of songs. You always got to play the ones that we have to and want to and our fans expect and we expect. Yeah, and we get a lot of variety now with every record there’s another 12 songs to play. It’s good on the memory too. It’s fun.
Q: How many songs do you have to choose from when you make the set list?
Tico Torres: Jesus, about 100. More, yeah, we’re up to a lot of songs.
Interview with Mike Rew March 14th
http://www.westword.com/music/bon-jo...enver-10084042
"We rehearsed a lot of songs we haven’t played in a long time,” Rew says. “Hopefully people will be happy with the song selection.”
In addition to some of the band’s biggest hits, Rew says there are eight songs the band interchanges in the setlist every night. Bon Jovi can change the list on the fly using what Rew calls an “audible,” where he’ll tell the crew, into a microphone in front of the drum set what song he wants to play.
“We get a little bit of warning,” Rew says. “Sometimes we don’t.”