1. Last Man Standing
2. You Give Love A Bad Name
3. Born To Be My Baby
4. We Weren't Born To Follow
5. Lost Highway
6. Love's The Only Rule
7. Work For The Working Man
8. It's My Life
9. Runaway
10. Just Older
11. We Got It Goin' On
12. Bad Medicine- Pretty Woman- Shout
13. Lay Your Hands On Me (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
14. Hallelujah
15. I'll Be There For You
16. Bed Of Roses
17. Who Says You Can't Go Home
18. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead- Start Me Up
19. Have A Nice Day
20. Keep The Faith

Encore:
21. Dry County
22. Wanted Dead Or Alive
23. I Love This Town
24. Livin' On A Prayer

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[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image] Someone had to say it, and Jon Bon Jovi decided he would be the first to do so. BON JOVI At: TD Garden, last night “I’m like Viagra for women out here,’’ he boasted last night at TD Garden, drawing deafening applause and approval from the ladies, many of whom had been pawing at him on the eve of his 49th birthday. That joke — no doubt recycled night to night — came toward the end of Bon Jovi’s sold-out show at the Garden, but it wrongly implied the band’s appeal lies solely in its swaggering frontman. It doesn’t. Judging from the solid and hard-driving performance the Jersey rockers delivered over 2 1/2 hours, it was clear this band works hard to stay on top. Theirs is a tough balancing act between arena-ready nostalgia and the fact that they are still commercially viable. For every monster ’80s hit (“You Give Love a Bad Name,’’ “Bad Medicine’’), there were newer ones lurking in the set list (“Lost Highway,’’ “I Love This Town’’), and they all jelled surprisingly well. If the songs had a common thread, it was the band’s conviction to play them all at full throttle. It is not a slight to say bombast is Bon Jovi’s stock-in-trade, from Richie Sambora’s spiraling guitar riffs to the video screens that needlessly projected fireworks during a song already over the top (“Keep the Faith’’). The band members were good sports, too. When their soundboard short-circuited and temporarily rendered the band completely inaudible, Jon hammed it up with a little tap dance and sulked on the lip of the stage. Any notion of an acoustic set was ruled out 10 minutes later. Louder and faster, in fact, were actually preferable to the more solemn attempts at reverence. When Jon turned introspective on a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,’’ he seemed ill at ease with the song’s soft-spoken charm. (And the poor guy’s heartfelt faces were, unbeknownst to him, nearly upstaged by the mugging women behind him grasping at his derriere.) Other times, the comfort and camaraderie of a band that has been together so long were palpable. Fist-bumps aside, it was genuinely moving to see Jon and Sambora soak up the adulation after “Wanted Dead or Alive.’’ And in case you could not tell they were having as much fun as the audience, there was mutual catharsis to be had in the wide-open call-and-response of “Livin’ on a Prayer.’’

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Bon Jovi rocks just hard enough for Hub By Lauren Carter Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - Updated 6 hours ago Persistence pays off, and Bon Jovi is proof. The New Jersey rock outfit’s success is largely due to dogged perseverance, a reliable collection of mega-hits and middle-of-the-road rock that offends absolutely no one. Even if you don’t particularly like Bon Jovi, it’s hard to hate them. Love, on the other hand, is something the band gets plenty of, mostly from middle-aged women reliving their teenage years and suburban men who find the unobtrusive, marginally tough rock appealing. Yes, there are bands with better songs and more stunning live delivery. But those bands don’t sell out arenas on their umpteenth tour almost 30 years into their career, as Bon Jovi did at TD Garden last night. It didn’t matter that the band’s main soundboard blew out 30 minutes into the show rendering them nearly inaudible (though wildly energetic frontman and Bill Belichick BFF Jon Bon Jovi hardly noticed). Ten minutes after Bon Jovi went mute, the band hooked up to an auxiliary board and 17,000-plus fans returned to screaming and intermittently pawing and clawing at Jon. Let’s not kid ourselves and say that Jon still looks 25 — he looks like a 49-year-old rocker who has aged extremely well and still possesses a killer smile that guarantees entry into the heartthrob club. His frontman work is part lead vocals — distinctive and serviceable, but not stunning — and part calorie-burning repertoire of one-legged hops, fist pumps, hip thrusts and one-armed windmill moves that had him sweat-drenched an hour into the show. During “Keep The Faith,” he appeared to do an onstage Tae Bo workout. The two-and-a-half-hour show’s highlights came almost uniformly from early material: “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Bad Medicine” and a stellar “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Lead guitarist Richie Sambora’s husky vocals handled “Lay Your Hands On Me,” his talk box work dotted the explosive show-closer “Livin’ On a Prayer” and his muscular guitar solos immediately called up the Bon Jovi of yore. But the band’s post-“New Jersey” material — such as “Last Man Standing,” “Have A Nice Day” and “Love’s The Only Rule” — felt nondescript, a sort of tame version of what the band used to be. A retooled, reheated take on the glory days? Yes, and just maybe, that’s exactly what fans wanted.