Bon Jovi in Philadelphia 3/05/18

Bon Jovi headed to Philadelphia to celebrate radio station WMMR's 50th birthday. Ahead of the show, Jon was talking up his connection to Philly and hinting that the next Soul Kitchen would be located there.

Anyway, here's what the band played:

Philadelphia, PA, USA - Wells Fargo Center - May 3, 2018

1. This House Is Not For Sale 
2. Raise Your Hands
3. You Give Love a Bad Name
4. Whole Lot of Leavin'
5. Lost Highway
6. Roller Coaster
7. Born to Be My Baby
8. Who Says You Can't Go Home
9. It's My Life
10. We Weren't Born to Follow
11. We Got It Goin' On
12. Keep the Faith
13. Amen
14. Bed of Roses
15. Lay Your Hands on Me
16. Runaway
17. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
18. Bad Medicine
    
    Encore:
19. I'll Be There For You
20. Wanted Dead or Alive
21. Livin' on a Prayer

"I'll Be There For You" made its second appearance of the year.

Videos from Philadelphia

"I'll Be There For You":

"Roller Coaster":

If you'd like to share any videos from Philly, feel free to link to them in the comments.

Bon Jovi in Philadelphia 31/03/17

Bon Jovi headed to Philly on their This House Is Not For Sale Tour, and here's what was played:

Set list: Philadelphia, PA, USA - Wells Fargo Center - 31 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. Runaway
10. We Got It Goin' On
11. Who Says You Can't Go Home
12. It's My Life
13. We Don't Run
14. God Bless This Mess
15. Scars On This Guitar
16. New Year's Day
17. Lay Your Hands On Me
18. Born To Be My Baby
19. Have a Nice Day
20. Bad Medicine
21. Keep the Faith
    
    Encore:
22. Raise Your Hands
23. The Fighter [acoustic]
24. Wanted Dead or Alive
25. Livin' on a Prayer

An acoustic snippet of "The Fighter" was the big surprise of the night, making its tour debut. And "Runaway" was played for the second concert in a row, despite not being on the printed set list.

Videos from Philadelphia

Here's "The Fighter" and "Wanted Dead or Alive":

"New Year's Day":

"I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" and "Runaway" (including the "time machine" intro):

"This House Is Not For Sale", shot from about a 45-degree angle from the stage as the curtain goes up:

"Bad Medicine", in which Jon gets up close and personal with the crowd:

If you'd like to share any videos from Philly, feel free to link to them in the comments.

Were you at this show?

Bon Jovi Philadelphia set list 5/11/13

While Richie Sambora was presumably enjoying the coffee and fashion in Melbourne, Bon Jovi hit the stage in Philly. Were you at the show?

Philadelphia, PA, USA - Wells Fargo Center - November 5, 2013

1. That's What the Water Made Me
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Raise Your Hands
4. Lost Highway
5. Whole Lot of Leavin'
6. It's My Life
7. Because We Can
8. What About Now
9. We Got It Going On
10. Keep the Faith
11. Amen
12. Someday I'll Be Saturday Night - acoustic
13. Diamond Ring
14. (You Want To) Make A Memory
15. Born To Be My Baby
16. We Weren't Born To Follow
17. Who Says You Can't Go Home
18. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
    / Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones cover
    / Takin' Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive cover
    / Start Me Up - Rolling Stones cover
19. Bad Medicine
    / Shout! - Isley Brothers cover

encore:
20. In These Arms - David Bryan vox
21. Runaway
22. Have A Nice Day
23. Livin' On A Prayer
24. Blood On Blood
25. Always

Richie Sambora October shows cancelled

Richie Sambora has cancelled his remaining October concerts (New York City, Philadelphia and Toronto) due to laryngitis. The following statement was posted on his website:

NYC, Philly, and Toronto Shows Cancelled
October 17, 2012

At doctor’s orders, Richie’s shows in New York City, Philadelphia and Toronto over the next week are currently cancelled. All tickets can be refunded at point of purchase.

Richie unfortunately had to cancel these performances due to direction from his doctors that he go on full vocal rest, as he is suffering from a case of laryngitis following a couple months of promotion for his recently released solo album Aftermath of the Lowdown, which included a run of sold-out shows in Europe. He is incredibly disappointed to not be able to perform for his fans this month.

“I was really looking forward to getting out there and playing my new record for people.” Sambora said. “Unfortunately, things come up in life that you cannot control. I hope my fans will understand. I’ll definitely make it up to them and look forward to seeing them soon.”

Keep checking back in for updates on rescheduled shows.

Not sure at this stage whether or not the shows in California in November will go ahead.

It was a peculiar morning for me... I'd had an inexplicably sleepless night before getting up an hour earlier than I needed to with a sudden urge to check my social networks... which is when I found out about this.

Hope Richie gets well soon (I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming he is sick; however, there has been speculation that poor ticket sales are the real reason and that the Sambora camp is trying to save face). I'm pretty bummed for his fans too, many of whom were travelling to these gigs. There have been reports that the shows will be rescheduled for early 2013, but with a new Bon Jovi album and tour due then, I have my doubts. Even Bon Jovi had to cancel their Perth show in 1995 and didn't make it back again until 2008. But... fingers crossed.

Philly & NYC added to Sambora tour

The first US dates of Richie Sambora's Aftermath of the Lowdown tour have been announced:

Philadelphia & NYC shows announced! Tickets on sale this Friday at vsb.li/VZOb0l

— Richie Sambora (@TheRealSambora) September 11, 2012

The Philadelphia show will be at Electric Factory on October 18, while Best Buy Theatre will be graced with Richie's music in New York City on October 23.

Other gigs in Amsterdam, Munich, Berlin, and London were announced earlier.

Who's going? :)

Richie Cam: Bad Medicine / Hot Legs

Not the best sound, but this is a pretty entertaining Sambora-centric video from Bon Jovi's Philadelphia concert on Jon's birthday. Richie's usually fun to watch and much to the dual delight and envy of many women in that audience, even gets a kiss from Jon. ;)



Oh, and I love Huey McDonald's skull and roses shirt... Who says bassists have no style? ;)

Philadelphia set list

A pretty long set for Philly in Jon Bon Jovi's birthday show. Nice to see stuff like "Just Older" getting a few runs... and Linn from Connecticut would dearly love to finally experience it in New York this Saturday. So make it happen, Jon/anyone from the Jovi camp who might happen to stumble on my blog this week. ;)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Wells Fargo Center - March 2, 2011
Just Older
You Give Love A Bad Name
Born To Be My Baby
We Weren't Born To Follow
Lost Highway
When We Were Beautiful
It's My Life
Runaway
The More Things Change
We Got It Goin' On
Bad Medicine / Hot Legs [Rod Stewart cover]
Lay Your Hands On Me [Richie Sambora on lead vocals]
What Do You Got?
Diamond Ring
I'll Be There For You
Love For Sale
Squeeze Box (The Who cover; acoustic)
Who Says You Can't Go Home
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
No Apologies
Have A Nice Day
Keep The Faith

ENCORE #1:
In These Arms
Wanted Dead Or Alive
I Love This Town
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Livin' On A Prayer

ENCORE #2:
Blood On Blood

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.

Review of Philadelphia + JBJ's request request

Here's a review of Bon Jovi at the Wachovia Center by Sam Adams (great name, BTW) for the Philadelphia Inquirer:

At the height of his hair-metal fame, you'd hardly have pegged Jon Bon Jovi as the type to get nostalgic for simpler times. But age - his and, more to the point, his audience's - has a way of shifting perspective.

Read the full review here.

Jon Bon Jovi has also made a plea to fans via Facebook and Twitter:

need a favor folks... call your radio stations and ask them to play superman . they just aren't committed to it either way. if they don't play it no one else will hear it. if you don't like it they should stop all together. we can move onto the next track...jbj

Videos from Philadelphia

Here are some awesome videos from Bon Jovi's March 24 show in Philadelphia.

LOVE FOR SALE


KEEP THE FAITH


ONLY LONELY


And from the previous night, March 23, same city and venue...

LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME - Richie Sambora vocals. I do prefer him doing "Homebound Train" but the King of Swing still rocks the church here.

Philadelphia 2nd night set list

Bon Jovi's second show in Philly, which came after their WMMR/Philadelphia Soul show earlier in the evening, was a definite improvement from last night, set list wise, from a diehard perspective... for starters, "Only Lonely" and "Love for Sale" got another run!

Thanks to everyone who provided the PBP, even though I couldn't follow it because I was in class.

PHILADELPHIA, USA - WACHOVIA CENTER - MARCH 24, 2010
Happy Now
We Weren't Born To Follow
You Give Love a Bad Name
Thorn In My Side
Born To Be My Baby
Lost Highway
Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
When We Were Beautiful
Superman Tonight
We Got It Goin' On
Bad Medicine w/ Bad Case Of Loving You [Robert Palmer cover] / Shout [The Isley Brothers cover]
It's My Life
Homebound Train [Richie Sambora on lead vocals]
(You Want To) Make A Memory
Bed Of Roses
Love For Sale
Something For The Pain [acoustic]
Keep The Faith
Work For The Working Man
Who Says You Cant Go Home
Love's The Only Rule

ENCORE:
Only Lonely
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Livin' On A Prayer

Philadelphia 1st night set list

I guess Philly was always going to have a lot to live up to, especially after Montreal. But Bon Jovi is playing Philadelphia again tomorrow night and hopefully there'll be a bone or two for those attending both shows.

Thanks to bigapplejovi and DanielaZavolta for the PBP.

PHILADELPHIA, USA - WACHOVIA CENTER - MARCH 23, 2010
Blood on Blood
We Weren't Born to Follow
You Give Love a Bad Name
Whole Lot of Leavin'
Born to be my Baby
Lost Highway
When We Were Beautiful
Superman Tonight
We Got It Going On
Bad Medicine w/ Roadhouse Blues [The Doors cover]
It's My Life
Lay Your Hands on Me [Richie Sambora on lead vocals]
Hallelujah [Leonard Cohen cover]
I'll Be There For You
Something for the Pain [acoustic]
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night [acoustic]
Keep the Faith
Work for the Working Man
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Love's the Only Rule

ENCORE:
Runaway
I Love This Town
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer