Bon Jovi: Montreal Review

The original Article is 'en Francais', my French is worse than my English (which is my native tongue... I know I'm shocked too).  So the fine folk at Google have translated.

BON JOVI CENTRAL BELL

Some notes and the crowd rises

Maxime Demers

04-05-2011 | 10:05 p.m.

MONTREAL - Even without its star guitarist Richie Sambora, Bon Jovi knows how to lift a crowd. And even more so when the crowd is Montreal.

The band Bon Jovi does not have to worry about his popularity in Montreal. The figures speak for themselves: five shows in Montreal in 14 months, more than 200,000 fans at the Bell Centre last 10 years.

But it is first and foremost on stage that the group of New Jersey can measure the magnitude of the phenomenon. We still had evidence Wednesday night, when more than 20,000 people crowded into the theater to applaud the Montreal show that the group presented the same place two nights ago for less than three months.

Same show? Not quite. In fact, there was a big difference and she was on stage, to the right of Jon Bon Jovi.

In rehab since last week, guitarist Richie Sambora had left his place to Phil Xenidis, who has also replaced in Triumph and has already worked with Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie. In short, not really a beginner, and he proved it a few times during this concert marked by the great success of the group ( Bad Medicine , Dead or Alive , I'll Sleep When I'm Dead , Livin on a Prayer ...) .

The show began around 20 pm to thunderous applause and screams. After a short introduction video, the group started the first chords of Lost Highway , immediately after linking with We Were not Born to Follow .

The party withdrew from the third song. Let the fun begin! launched Jon Bon Jovi before embarking You Give Love a Bad Name . The room erupted with a bound and was not stale by the end of the next title, the inevitable "Born to Be My Baby .

While Bon Jovi has lost quite a showman in Richie Sambora, the band owes much of its effectiveness on stage magnetism and energy of Jon Bon Jovi. At 49, the singer is still quite a showman who has nothing to envy the young pop stars (the Justin Bieber and others) which he mocked gently in The More Things Change .

While We Got It Going On , the rocker has even abandoned his guitar to go and dance to a platform above the stage. And when, in the middle of the show, he took off his leather jacket to let them discover his black jacket, women in the room uttered loud screeching.

In the coming weeks, the group of New Jersey will perform in a dozen U.S. cities, before continuing his tour of Europe.