And we're back! And by we, I mean Bon Jovi, but I've been MIA for a long time as well. I haven't decided how I want to approach the tour at Blame It On The Love this time around, but we'll figure it out over the course of this leg, I guess. 😀
After two years on the sidelines, Bon Jovi finally began their tour in support of the 2020 album -- on April Fool's Day of all days. Kelli McDonald, Hugh's wife, made Jon's American flag leather jacket. And this is what the band played:
Omaha, Nebraska, USA - April 1, 2022
CHI Health Center Omaha
- Limitless
- The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
- You Give Love a Bad Name
- We Weren't Born to Follow
- It's My Life
- Just Older
- Born to Be My Baby
- Beautiful Drug
- Let It Rain
- Keep the Faith
- American Reckoning - acoustic
- We Don't Run - acoustic
- Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - acoustic
- Who Says You Can't Go Home
- Lost Highway
- Wanted Dead or Alive
- Do What You Can
- This House Is Not For Sale
- Have a Nice Day
- Livin' on a Prayer
encore: - Love's the Only Rule
- Bad Medicine
Some nice inclusions there, including:
- "The Radio Saved My Life Tonight" for the first time since 2015;
- "Just Older" for the first time since 2011, and
- "Love's the Only Rule" (aka The Circle song they should be playing all the time) for the first time since 2013.
Cheers to Bon Jovi Updates for the heads-up on how long it'd been since those songs were played, 'cause I'm so not keeping track of that stuff.
Selected videos from Omaha
"Beautiful Drug". I like this song a lot and I'm bummed we haven't gotten that single and music video for it:
"We Don't Run". The This Left Feels Right-style acoustic version was dedicated to the people of Ukraine. I'm in two minds about the arrangement but I like Jon in acoustic mode:
"American Reckoning". I alternate between thinking this song is too ham-fisted and thinking it's beautifully sad. But anyway, here it is, with a bit of Bruce Springsteen's "The Promised Land" as a harmonica intro/outro:
"Livin' on a Prayer". This has been transposed to a noticeably lower key but I'm honestly fine with that:
"Love's the Only Rule". Won't lie, this is a bit of a vocal mess. But I still maintain that every time Jon goes to put "Born to Follow" in the set, he should take it out and put this in instead. Or maybe "Superman Tonight". I know he doesn't really rate The Circle anymore, but it's got some good tracks on it:
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