Bon Jovi in Memphis 16/03/17

Bon Jovi were back on the road again after a week-long break in their This House Is Not For Sale Tour. Here's what was played in Memphis:

Set list: Memphis, TN, USA - FedExForum - 16 March 2017

1. This House Is Not For Sale
2. Knockout
3. You Give Love a  Bad Name
4. Lost Highway
5. Whole Lot of Leavin'
6. Roller Coaster
7. We Weren't Born to Follow
8. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
9. We Got It Goin' On
10. Who Says You Can't Go Home
11. It's My Life
12. We Don't Run
13. God Bless This Mess
14. Scars on this Guitar
15. The Devil's in the Temple
16. Lay Your Hands on Me
17. Born to Be My Baby
18. Have a Nice Day
19. Bad Medicine
20. Keep the Faith
    
    Encore:
21. Wanted Dead or Alive
22. Livin' on a Prayer

It was a short show with no surprises. The audibles were "Always", "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night", "Raise Your Hands", and "Blood on Blood" (as they've been all tour) but none of them were played.

Would've been cool if David Bryan had done "Memphis Lives in Me" like he did at the same venue in 2011:

 

Videos from Memphis in 2017

"Born To Be My Baby":

 

"Wanted Dead or Alive":

If you want to share any videos from Memphis, feel free to link to them in the comments. 🙂

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Bon Jovi founder invites ‘mishpachah’ to his play

Nice article about David Bryan and Memphis in the Canadian Jewish News. Dave talks about how he drew on his experiences of antisemitism when writing the music for the musical. A few quotes:

“The show is entertainment with a meaning,” Bryan said in a phone interview from his New Jersey home studio last week. “While I’m a white Jewish kid from New Jersey, where there wasn’t a lot of us, there was hate. And I know what that feels like, how ugly that is and how wrong it is.”
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“People would say they hated me because I’m a Jew, to which I responded: ‘You have to get to know me to hate me first.’ I just saw how much this affected me and how much I didn’t like it.

“I had a rabbi who told me no one walks ahead or behind anyone else. And I take that message to heart.”

Memphis debuts at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on December 6. Read the full article here.

Memphis Lives in Me and Bed of Roses videos

Here's the moment many of us have been waiting for... David Bryan performing Memphis Lives in Me from Memphis: The Musical at Bon Jovi's May 19 concert.


EDIT: Hockadoo! Here's another video of Dave's performance. Man, I love this song.


I also posted Bed of Roses from the Memphis show because I know some people have been complaining about Bobby Bandiera's solos on it. Well, Phil X is playing the solo here (You can't see him, because the camera is on Jon the whole time, but you can hear it). Bob played an acoustic guitar.

Memphis set list

Bon Jovi hit Memphis, where David Bryan's Tony-award winning Broadway musical is set... and Dave got the opportunity to sing Memphis Lives in Me in the biggest surprise of this current leg.

Memphis, Tennessee, USA - FedExForum - May 19, 2011
Lost Highway
We Weren't Born to Follow
You Give Love a Bad Name
Born to Be My Baby
Superman Tonight
The More Things Change
It's My Life
Runaway
We Got It Goin' On
Bad Medicine / Oh, Pretty Woman [Roy Orbison cover] / Shout! [Isley Brothers cover]
Lay Your Hands On Me
Memphis Lives In Me [David Bryan on lead vocals]
(You Want To) Make A Memory
Bed of Roses
I'll Be There For You
Who Says You Can't Go Home
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Have a Nice Day
Keep the Faith

Encore:
Whole Lot of Leavin'
Wanted Dead or Alive
Blood on Blood
Livin' on a Prayer

Check out Hath's Circle Tour Blog for all the videos and other goodies as they become available.