Videos from Dublin 2

As promised... videos from Bon Jovi's second night in Dublin (June 30, 2011). It's probably fairly obvious from a diehard's perspective why I've picked the songs I've picked to showcase, so I'll let the videos speak for themselves. Your comments, of course, are always welcome.

(My video post for the first Dublin show is here.)

Bounce


Happy Now


Hey God


Damned


Never Say Goodbye


Love for Sale


Bad Medicine medley (partial): Roadhouse Blues and Vertigo


More killer videos at Hath's Circle Tour Blog. Not long now 'til Istanbul!

Videos: Reclaiming The Circle in Sydney

As you may have already heard/read, Bon Jovi's three-night stand in Sydney was out of this world from a diehard's perspective, especially the second and third nights. I've been falling over myself trying to figure out what to showcase and how to split the posts up. And given Bon Jovi finally realised that this is The Circle tour, I thought some songs from that album that haven't been played that often might be a good place to start.

Happy Now (Night #3: December 19, 2010)- One of the best songs from The Circle (IMHO of course). I loved it when they used to open shows with this but I think it still works later in the set.


Thorn In My Side (Night #3: December 19, 2010) - Not one of my favourites on the album, but I've always liked it live, especially the twin jam session between JBJ and Richie Sambora at the end... although you can tell which one is the truly comfortable guitarist, haha.


Love's the Only Rule (Night #2: December 18, 2010) - Of all The Circle tracks, this is the one that "grows" the most live. Should have been a single.


I'd Die For You (partial) + Superman Tonight (Night #2: December 18, 2010) - I still think "Superman" could have done better with smarter promotion, but I guess it's a dead horse now.


More videos to come. Also check out Hath's Circle Tour blog for vids.

More London O2 videos: June 11

Some more videos from Bon Jovi's fourth night at The O2.

LET IT ROCK - I know I posted a couple of vids of this already in my previous post but given this hasn't been played since 1991 (not 1987 as Jon claims, but still a very long time) I think it's worth it. Plus, this video was taken right up the front and includes Jon's introduction. I like that "Let It Rock" seems to have been done as a "keyboard tribute" to David Bryan, who'll miss tonight's show due to the Tony Awards, but hopefully it'll be played at other shows too.


OPEN ALL NIGHT - I think this is an underrated track... but it's a song that fans seem to either love or hate, and one that Jon apparently shies away from singing for fear of a poor reception.


RADIO SAVED MY LIFE TONIGHT - The live version lacks a lot of the power of the studio recording because Jon sings the chorus an octave lower, but I still love the song and love it when Bon Jovi plays it.


HAPPY NOW / WE WEREN'T BORN TO FOLLOW - No disrespect to "Blood on Blood" which is a fantastic song, but I really really really like "Happy Now" as an opener. It also makes sense because this is The Circle Tour. Besides, I don't see any reason why you couldn't play both "Happy Now" AND "Blood on Blood" at the same gig.

Videos from Philadelphia Soul WMMR show

This video was from Bon Jovi's short Philly Soul gig before the March 24 concert.

ALWAYS - All I've got is... wow. Jon sounds incredible.


Pro shot from the show:


Set list as follows:

Happy Now
We Weren't Born To Follow
Lost Highway
Superman Tonight
It's My Life
Always
When We Were Beautiful
Work For The Working Man
Squeeze Box [The Who cover]
I Love This Town

You can listen to the show on the WMMR website.

Audio recording available here.

More videos from Montreal

Some more sweet videos from Bon Jovi's March 20 show in Montreal.

HAPPY NOW - An impassioned performance of this made it a surprisingly good opener. Besides, I love this song.


CAPTAIN CRASH & THE BEAUTY QUEEN FROM MARS


BED OF ROSES - Jon goes for the actual notes (and literally sweeps an audience member off her feet) for the first time this tour as he serenades Montreal with one of my personal favourites.

Seems like Jon's voice is starting to really pick up...

Happy Now in Fargo

Here's a pro shot video from Bon Jovi's March 13 show in Fargo: the live debut of "Happy Now"!

Jon talks about new songs in BURRN Magazine

Thanks to TokyoRockChick for the tweets and e-mail. The article is in Japanese so she has translated Jon's words into English. Great effort... yokuyatta! :D

Superman Tonight
This would be the most Boy-Girl song.
There was a girl, I watched her from far away, but I was powerless.
She's like a pinball machine in a way, rolled over many guys.
She's very beautiful & smart, however, she thought that it would be much more happy if she could have a little more confidence.
This song is a kind of observation diary. And Im a fly on a wall.

Broken Promise Land
I sing about the state that the personal world collapses. There is a guy I know who has no luck badly.
Everything does not go well, the stock, business, buying and selling of the house, kid's school... He is late 40s.
He works but its not profitable and he does not even enjoy it.
He wants to find his way again (rediscover himself) soon but its not easy.
Its difficult to give up everything you got now and start over again from zero (a brand-new life).
People like him are the chief characters of the story. But its the reality Ive seen.
He left NY and started his new life which was sober in an unknown land.
But he had lived in the era of dreams and hopes in 20s-30s, so it makes him wonder why he is here now.
They are divided into "successful man" and "No successful man" in late 40s.
And they notice the severe reality, that the life he had is much longer than the life he will have ahead.
"What have I really achieved?" I know lots of people who think like that.
Its not too late, but this is a sort of test if we can stay who we are, when we look at ourselves in the mirror.

Happy Now
I wrote this lyrics on the next day of the presidential election.
Are we going to be happy at last? Can we take a break?
"What would you say if I talk about my dream? You might say just sleep again? Look at my tired eyes, but at last my life is back.
Maybe I can change something. Hope runs through my vein. I wont back to pain." - the lyrics is like that.
"Pain" means 8 years till then. "Are we going to be happy at last?" I wrote this kind of lyrics right after the new President was born.
Its just one year ago. Tell the truth, I was concerned if we really needed to find an answer "Yes" or "No".
But its not timely. Now its time to be judged if the promises were real thing.

Fast Cars
This is also about me. I took a holiday with Richie in spring. Desmond Child was also there,
We're on the beach in Saint Barts island & talked about similar subject like now, "What is the legend?　Is it to let go? Or is it to make?"
The story is there're drivers who always follow taillights, on the other hand, there're ppl who drive at their pace & go their own way.
I mean, lets go on our own roads forever! In this album, there are lots of similar themes as I hate to follow someone.
I at last got a position to be able to say like that, but so many people are stuck in the same trap, they are scared of change.

Thorn In My Side
This is the song that I wrote with Richie in the beginning. I wrote it almost before I met him.
I want something worthwhile after I wake up every morning. I got here with such a long career, still Im not satisfied,
I want to be bigger and work more. I want to complain to guys who complain.
I just live my life in the way I am everyday, though. I sometimes have to accept the reality, such as wrinkles around my eyes. LOL!
The thorn is a kind of motivation.

Obviously the two languages don't directly correlate but you can get the gist of it. Just think... in roughly a month's time, we'll have this record in our hot little hands.