You can find part 1 Here
So This is our House starts playing.
I'm thinking, are they going to open again with BOB (Blood on Blood).
They didn't.
They opened with WSYCGH (Who Says You Can't Go Home), which happens to be my least favorite Bon Jovi tune EVER, it's my sit down or go to the bathroom song. I swear to Jeebus if this song were a living person Jon Bon Jovi would wine it, dine it, 69 it, and then have hot, dirty, sweaty sex with it (*fans self thinking about JBJ having hot, dirty, sweaty sex with ANYTHING*), he would declare his undying love for this song, then divorce his wife, be damned the consequences (financial or otherwise), and marry this fucking song. He LOVES this song. Most fans that I speak to, and others as well, don't. This song is the reason I will not buy the HAND Special Edition, it has THREE VERSIONS!!!! THREE!!! (The non JN version, the JN version, and a live version if they put the Keith Urban version on there....) It's like Jeebus Jon, you're killing me.
Anyway they play who says, and he really limited the "It's Alrights..." and when he would have everyone put there hands up, I would give him the Jersey salute (right album [HAND] wrong song maybe?), so who says you can't go home indeed.
So Already this was turning out to be a great show getting my LEAST favorite song out of the way right away.
From there it went into the typical Circle set list, WWBTF (We Weren't Born to Follow) and YGLABN or BN (You Give Love a Bad Name). Then surprise #2 ITA (In These Arms)
ITA is one of my favorite songs, and really shows how KTF after almost 18 years is one of Bon Jovi's strongest albums, its held up really well.
Next was BTBMB (Born to be My Baby) which has such great crowd energy, I love how Jon Always bounces during this song. Ok I love it when Jon Bounces (especially when his back is turned to the audience, while this may seem rude... Um... yeah, Jon's Butt.... sigh).
Then Just Older off Crush, I LOVE this song. It's great live, I think so much of the audience appreciates it because we've all gotten older along with Bon Jovi.
We got it goin on was next, and I think this was better in the area with the video monitor stairs.
Raise Your Hands, I LOVE THIS SONG It's always fun live, I have no idea why they don't play it for months, it wasn't a single off Slipper but everyone knows it, and everyone knows to "RAISE YOUR HANDS" during the chorus.
So great, Richie was pretty damn awesome too.
WWWB was next, many people left and got beer, or bathroom, it's a beautiful song, and the lightning during the song is good. Jon loses points for too much theatrics.
Superman Tonight - See above Great song though (I still don't see why they put the girl who donated her hair for cancer victims in the same category as the guy who gave his kidney to a stranger, I mean so many people donate to Locks of Love and the like but how many people give their kidneys away, legally, and not after a drunken night where they wake up in a bath tub full of ice with the words call 9-1-1 on the mirror... you know the Urban Legend).
Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars. I love this song, it's such fun live and its so different from many Bon Jovi songs, and the whole hand waving thing at the end....
this went right into another favorite of mine, BAD MEDICINE
I wonder if this will be the last tour for the Bad medicine strippers in the background?
This concludes part 2 I'll do Part 3 in a bit
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My Memorial Day weekend, Featuring Bon Jovi Part 1
About a month ago I earned some OT and decided that since I had only seen Bon Jovi once so far this tour, I needed to see them again.
In many ways I felt the Bon Jovi magic was fading, the last couple of shows I went to were Vanilla, and not Haggen Daas Vanilla but Imitation Vanilla out of one of those cups with the wood spoon.
I still love the band don't get me wrong, but did I want to spend $150 on tickets and be like, Meh, when I left.
So I decided I would go to NJ on Friday the 28th, and see the show on the 29th. I was able to procure a ticket from Jen (aka Big Apple Jovi), then I had to make arrangements to stay with some family up there and everything was set.
I flew up on Friday a day in advance, my flight was SUPPOSED to leave at 8:30 AM, we didn't get off the ground until noon (Long story short the FAA requires 8 hours of sleep between flights the plane arrived at 3:30 AM, do the math). I arrived in Newark at 3:30 headed to the Avis counter (home of the world's slowest rental car employees, average speed 30 minutes per person). Around 4:45 I emerged from Newark in my bright red Chevy HHR (dubbed the CougarPussyFish wagon, that's a story for another time) and headed up the Parkway towards my aunts house in Paramus (the mall capitol of the world).
Saturday morning I headed up to visit my cousin who lives in Orange County, NY, or just East of Bing Bang north of Bum Fuck Egypt. I got back to my Aunt's house after a brief stop at Best Buy & Harmon to jump in the shower before Andrea (aka @antihobag on twitter) and herfriend co-worker Debbie arrived.
Around 2:30 we headed out, after a stop at Stop N Shop on Rt 17 for supplies (i.e. Margaritas, another bottle of wine, some Grey Goose, cranberry juice, batteries, chips) we headed back down Rt 17 towards Patterson Plank Rd & the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
Did I mention cups? Yeah I didn't, let's stop at Taco Bell and get some cups. (classy, but at least I wasn't drinking coors light out of a bottle with a straw)
We finally arrive at the stadium Parking lot after taking the scenic tour of East Rutherford, which if you didn't know is a city of trees. We drive around looking for our fellow Jovi addicts Maria (aka @filipinagal) and Lucy (aka @lucylovesjovi). With the new stadium the parking lot people aren't sure which lots are open, and while they were very helpful I was afraid we would end up parking near my cousin's house in Orange County.
We pulled our chairs up and started talking Jovi, it was around 3:30, we had 5 hours of :
Giants Meadowlands Stadium, there were more women then men going in so we stood in line to get our bags searched and patted down. You are allowed to bring a 20 oz bottle of water into the stadium, they remove the cap. My cap didn't get removed. Let's just say I was plotting to toss at the first sound of, "Now If I was to say, IT'S ALRIGHT...." More on that in another post. Oh security also didn't check the inside of my bag. So we head inside..... We're all on the floor so we head to the West Gate with the intention of meeting after the show under one of the Met Life signs to walk back to our cars together.
The stage is MAMMOTH. It may not be as huge as U2's 360 stage but for being in the end zone it just is this giant shell.
*Architectural Critique* The stadium itself is very modern. The steel bands on the outside, and the minimalist signage inside. Everything is shades of silver and gray. Whereas the old stadium was Blue & Red, this is gray. I'm guessing because two teams play there they didn't want to make it all one color. So I'm sure on the Sunday's that the Giant's are in residence the Stadium will be more blue, and when the Jets are home Gang green.
I found my seat and decided that maybe the restroom lines had dissipated (yeah right), OK but they moved quickly. I was back at my sit within 10 minutes.
Then This is Our House starts playing.... and it's time for a new post.
In many ways I felt the Bon Jovi magic was fading, the last couple of shows I went to were Vanilla, and not Haggen Daas Vanilla but Imitation Vanilla out of one of those cups with the wood spoon.
I still love the band don't get me wrong, but did I want to spend $150 on tickets and be like, Meh, when I left.
So I decided I would go to NJ on Friday the 28th, and see the show on the 29th. I was able to procure a ticket from Jen (aka Big Apple Jovi), then I had to make arrangements to stay with some family up there and everything was set.
I flew up on Friday a day in advance, my flight was SUPPOSED to leave at 8:30 AM, we didn't get off the ground until noon (Long story short the FAA requires 8 hours of sleep between flights the plane arrived at 3:30 AM, do the math). I arrived in Newark at 3:30 headed to the Avis counter (home of the world's slowest rental car employees, average speed 30 minutes per person). Around 4:45 I emerged from Newark in my bright red Chevy HHR (dubbed the CougarPussyFish wagon, that's a story for another time) and headed up the Parkway towards my aunts house in Paramus (the mall capitol of the world).
Saturday morning I headed up to visit my cousin who lives in Orange County, NY, or just East of Bing Bang north of Bum Fuck Egypt. I got back to my Aunt's house after a brief stop at Best Buy & Harmon to jump in the shower before Andrea (aka @antihobag on twitter) and her
Around 2:30 we headed out, after a stop at Stop N Shop on Rt 17 for supplies (i.e. Margaritas, another bottle of wine, some Grey Goose, cranberry juice, batteries, chips) we headed back down Rt 17 towards Patterson Plank Rd & the Meadowlands Sports Complex.
Did I mention cups? Yeah I didn't, let's stop at Taco Bell and get some cups. (classy, but at least I wasn't drinking coors light out of a bottle with a straw)
We finally arrive at the stadium Parking lot after taking the scenic tour of East Rutherford, which if you didn't know is a city of trees. We drive around looking for our fellow Jovi addicts Maria (aka @filipinagal) and Lucy (aka @lucylovesjovi). With the new stadium the parking lot people aren't sure which lots are open, and while they were very helpful I was afraid we would end up parking near my cousin's house in Orange County.
We pulled our chairs up and started talking Jovi, it was around 3:30, we had 5 hours of :
- Jon
- Richie
- another glass of wine
- more Jon
- More Richie
- MMM cheese
- Andrea met Richie and he wouldn't sit down by her but he would stare at the Cher look a like.
- Random drunk chicks
- Margaritas anyone?
- Debbie (not me) flashing one of the girls to show her her 'enhanced' boobs
- Debbie (not me) and the girl who she showed her boobs to flashing Rt 3
- Random Drunk chicks smoking pot (really??? it's Bon Jovi not Pink Floyd or Rush)
- Port-a-Potty Graffiti
- Picking up tickets from the Fan Club tent
- Leigh & Stacy arriving
- Random drunk chicks having there picture taken with us
- Random drunk chicks so drunk/wasted they may not have been able to go to the show
- Debbie (not me) making out with some Random Guy who she met at the port-a-potty and grabbed his crotch (my Taco Bell cup is now classy)
- Multiple New Jersey State Police Fly Overs
- Waving and then Pointing at Debbie (not me) when they would fly over
The stage is MAMMOTH. It may not be as huge as U2's 360 stage but for being in the end zone it just is this giant shell.
*Architectural Critique* The stadium itself is very modern. The steel bands on the outside, and the minimalist signage inside. Everything is shades of silver and gray. Whereas the old stadium was Blue & Red, this is gray. I'm guessing because two teams play there they didn't want to make it all one color. So I'm sure on the Sunday's that the Giant's are in residence the Stadium will be more blue, and when the Jets are home Gang green.
I found my seat and decided that maybe the restroom lines had dissipated (yeah right), OK but they moved quickly. I was back at my sit within 10 minutes.
Then This is Our House starts playing.... and it's time for a new post.
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