Bon Jovi keeps fists pumping at Palace (Detroit 1st show)

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Bon Jovi keeps fists pumping at Palace
Adam Graham / Detroit News Pop Music Writer

Jon Bon Jovi once sang that he's seen a million faces and he's rocked them all. He can now add another 20,000 to that list, as he and his band rocked a sold-out Palace of Auburn Hills Wednesday night. The concert marked the working class New Jersey rockers' 10th sellout of a Palace-owned venue, and the occasion was marked with a banner hung high in the Palace rafters. A tickled and especially poofy-haired Jon Bon Jovi pointed out the banner early in the show, during a moment of reflection where he reminisced about the band's extensive Detroit history. He mentioned a visit to Hitsville, U.S.A. in the early '80s and talked about getting airplay at Detroit rock stations WRIF-FM and the now defunct WLLZ-FM, but didn't go too far down memory lane. "I'll stop talkin'," he said. "I've got a lot of singin' to do tonight."

That "singin'" included songs from throughout Bon Jovi's 25-year career, from early hits such as "Runaway" and "You Give Love a Bad Name" to country-flavored offerings from the band's latest, 2007's "Lost Highway." The golden oldies -- including a pounding "Born to Be My Baby" and a joyously fun-as-ever "Bad Medicine," which was mixed with pieces of the Isley Brothers' wedding favorite "Shout!" -- sounded like they hadn't aged a day. The fist-pumping anthems are still worthy of cranking up on your car stereo, and Bon Jovi -- with a hearty assist from Richie Sambora's squealing guitars -- delivered them with verve, inspiring more arm-raising than an aerobics class. (There was at least one misfire, however, and "Blaze of Glory" was a bit ho-hum, lacking the gut punch of other Jovi classics.)

In singing his lyrics, Bon Jovi has taken a cue from another one of rock's elder statesman, and in his lack of articulation -- he hinted around certain phrases -- he sometimes resembled Bob Dylan. Of the new material, most of which was delivered with the assistance of a female violinist, "Whole Lot of Leavin'" worked best, while "Summertime" was so Kenny Chesney that the beach bum might have cause to file a lawsuit. Meanwhile, "Who Says You Can't Go Home," from 2005's "Have a Nice Day," has taken its rightful place in the Bon Jovi canon.

Bon Jovi's staying power can be attributed to the band's stringent focus on its working class roots. The band has never gotten arty or wrapped up in politics or any of the trappings that tend to sink bands.

During Wednesday's encore, Jon Bon Jovi talked about running into Bob Seger at the Pistons game Tuesday night, and introduced his road anthem "Wanted Dead or Alive" by saying it was inspired by Seger's "Turn the Page." The band rounded out the 135-minute show with the "Lost Highway" track "I Love This Town," backed by footage of Detroit on four video screens.

The show was opened by Daughtry, fronted by "American Idol" alum Chris Daughtry. The songs were mostly murky, unremarkable 3 Doors Down clones, but Daughtry's TV-honed performance skills lifted them and his band above tedium.

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