It appears to be the performance from Omaha, but they could potentially have used some of the St. Paul footage or audio, since I think everyone was dressed and set up the same for both nights.
You can find out more about the Stand Up For Ukraine campaign and donate to crisis relief efforts via the Global Citizen website.
Okay, that title came across snarkier than I intended. (But it's a reference to "The More Things Change", which was probably my favourite previously-unreleased track from the Greatest Hits album that came out in 2010.)
I know I'm running behind already but given the second show of Bon Jovi's 2022 Tour featured the exact same set list as the first, it's not like I made y'all miss much! (Also, this blog isn't really a "breaking news" kind of space -- there are other fan sites and social media pages covering that sort of thing.)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA - April 3, 2022
Xcel Energy Center
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
Selected videos from St. Paul
"We Don't Run". Sharing this one again because I said I wasn't sure about the arrangement after Show #1 but it's growing on me. And because I kind of think an acoustic/unplugged tour might be the best way to go after April, but that's another post for another time:
"Keep the Faith". Look, I don't think there's any point pretending that was an outstanding vocal performance, but I always love the band on this song:
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. 😀
"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:
Got other videos from the show you want to share or highlight? Add a link in the comments.
Bon Jovi's Atlanta show brought with it a couple of changes. "In These Arms" and "New Year's Day" were played for the first time this year, the latter replacing "God Bless This Mess". "We Don't Run" stayed in the spot that "Knockout" had occupied for most of the tour (which is fine by me, since I've said a few times that "Knockout" is my least favourite song on This House Is Not For Sale).
Here's the full set list:
Atlanta, GA, USA - Philips Arena - April 20, 2018
This House Is Not For Sale
We Don't Run
You Give Love a Bad Name
Whole Lot of Leavin'
Lost Highway
Born to Be My Baby
Who Says You Can't Go Home
It's My Life
We Weren't Born to Follow
Runaway
We Got It Going On
Keep the Faith
Amen
Bed of Roses
Lay Your Hands on Me
New Year's Day
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Bad Medicine
Encore:
In These Arms
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer
Videos from Atlanta
"In These Arms". In the same way that I don't really understand why Bobby Bandiera used to play the solo for this song when you had Richie Sambora in the band, I don't know why John Shanks is playing it now when Phil X is there... No disrespect intended to Bob or Shanks. As for Jon's voice, it is what it is; I remain hopeful he can turn it around like he did in 2008, but accept that may not be the case. It's still nice to see "In These Arms" in the set:
Set list: Nashville, TN, USA - Bridgestone Arena - 18 February 2017
This House Is Not For Sale
Knockout
You Give Love a Bad Name
Lost Highway
Whole Lot of Leavin'
Roller Coaster
Work for the Working Man
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
We Got It Going On
Who Says You Can't Go Home
It's My Life
We Don't Run
God Bless This Mess
Scars on This Guitar
The Devil's in the Temple
Lay Your Hands On Me
Born To Be My Baby
Have a Nice Day
Bad Medicine
Keep the Faith Encore:
Blood on Blood
Because We Can
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer
I was kind of expecting "I Love This Town" given the song is supposed to be about Nashville, although I'm not exactly crying that it wasn't played. I was, however, hoping for "Always" or "Bed of Roses", both of which were played in Nashville on the Because We Can Tour.
Here's Jon talking about the stories behind the album and some of their other songs, before performing "God Bless This Mess":
This is "Whole Lot of Leavin'" from Nashville:
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UPDATE 20/2/17:
"We Don't Run" from the Nashville show (with a decent view of the messages on the big screens):
And here's a photo of Bon Jovi with the Jake Johnson Band (on Jake's Instagram, originally posted Bon Jovi's Facebook).
The next official stop on the This House Is Not For Sale Tour was Sunrise, Florida. But between the last show and this one, Bon Jovi did a Runaway Tours gig in Fort Lauderdale. During the Q&A in Fort Lauderdale, it was revealed that we can expect tour dates in Canada later this year, and other countries in 2018. (Extra time to save money, folks. 😉)
Here's what was played in Sunrise:
Set list: Sunrise, FL, USA - BB&T Center - 12 February 2017
This House is Not For Sale
Knockout
You Give Love a Bad Name
Born To Be My Baby
We Weren't Born To Follow
Lost Highway
Work for the Working Man
Roller Coaster
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
We Got it Goin' On
Who Says You Can't Go Home
It's My Life
We Don't Run
God Bless This Mess
Scars on this Guitar
New Year's Day
Lay Your Hands On Me
Blood on Blood
Have a Nice Day
Bad Medicine
Keep the Faith Encore:
Someday I'll be Saturday Night
Wanted Dead or Alive
Livin' on a Prayer
After previously being touted as a possible show opener, "New Year's Day" made its tour debut. Also, Jon really really really likes "Working Man". (I actually don't mind it, despite the hate it gets from most fans, but as I've said in the past, I would much prefer to hear "Love's the Only Rule" from that album.)
Here's a video featuring part of "We Don't Run", all of "God Bless This Mess", and part of "Scars on this Guitar", as well as Jon talking about the album:
"You Give Love a Bad Name":
"It's My Life":
UPDATE 14/2/17: The tour debut of "New Year's Day" is also on YouTube now:
I'm playing a bit of catch-up on three videos that have been released this month.
Love Song to the Earth is a track featuring vocals by Jon Bon Jovi, Paul McCartney, Sheryl Crow, Fergie, Colbie Caillat, Natasha Bedingfield, Sean Paul, Leona Lewis, Johnny Rzeznik from the Goo Goo Dolls, Krewella, Angelique Kidjo, Nicole Scherzinger, Kelsea Ballerini, Christina Grimmie, Victoria Justice, and Q'orianka Kilcher. All the royalties from this song go to Friends of the Earth and the UN Foundation's efforts to reduce carbon emissions and encourage action on climate change.
We Don't Run was one of the new songs written for Burning Bridges, and Bon Jovi has a released a live video from the current Asian tour. While reports were that they were shooting this video during the Bangkok show, much of the footage appears to be from the opening night in Jakarta.
And finally, Billy Falcon, who co-wrote four tracks on Burning Bridges (A Teardrop to the Sea, Fingerprints, Who Would You Die For, Life is Beautiful), has released his own acoustic version of A Teardrop to the Sea.
Lyric videos for "We Don't Run" and "Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning" -- the two songs we've heard from Bon Jovi's upcoming release Burning Bridges -- have been uploaded to the band's VEVO channel on YouTube. Check out how close or how wrong we were about the words. :)
The other new song that Billboard mentioned, We Don't Run, just dropped. And it's different. Listen to it here.
What do you think? Not sure when this song was written, but it reminds me a little of Unbreakable (bonus track from Have a Nice Day), Undivided (Bounce), and something else.
Here is my attempt to transcribe the lyrics. Feel free to correct me. There's one line in the chorus that is certainly way off, and probably other bits too.
Take a look around you, yeah the sky is falling
Sinners say your prayers, this train is off the tracks
Nothing is forever when tomorrow's calling
Dancing with the devil to get one day back
Not afraid of burning bridges
'Cause I know they're gonna light my way
Like a phoenix from the ashes
Welcome to the future, it's a new day
We don't run, I'm standing my ground
We don't run and we don't back down
There's fire in the sky, there's thunder on the mountain
Blessed each tear and this dirt I was born in
Run, we don't run, we don't run
Take me to the banks of your muddy water
Where the flesh and blood and the spirit meet
Only takes your touch for me to find salvation
You're the only reason that I still believe
Not afraid of burning bridges
'Cause I know they're gonna light my way
Like a phoenix from the ashes
Welcome to the future, it's a new day
We don't run, I'm standing my ground
We don't run and we don't back down
There's fire in the sky, there's thunder on the mountain
Bless each tear and this dirt I was born in
Run, we don't run, we don't run
(Fire in the sky, there's thunder on the mountain)
(Fire in the sky, there's thunder on the mountain)
We don't run, I'm standing my ground
We don't run and we don't back down
There's fire in the sky, there's thunder on the mountain
Bless each tear and this dirt I was born in
Run, we don't run, we don't run
We don't run
We don't...
(Fire in the sky, there's thunder on the mountain)
