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[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]Bon Jovi, Daughtry offer an ode to the '80sBy Scott Tady/Times Entertainment EditorPublished: Thursday, March 6, 2008 11:15 AM EST
PITTSBURGH– “Let’s go back to the ’80s,” opening act Chris Daughtry said
Wednesday to a Mellon Arena crowd that would have done so instantly if
it could.
Ah, the ’80s; a time when arena-rock reigned, beers
didn’t cost $8.25, and Bon Jovi thrived more on musical relevance than
nostalgia.
Sure, the Jersey rockers have enjoyed recent success
on the country and adult contemporary charts, but the fact is virtually
every spectator in the sold-out Igloo had showed up to hear the band
pull from its string of 1980s hits.
And in that regard, Bon Jovi
satisfied, waiting until just their second song to rip into “You Give
Love a Bad Name,” with “Runaway” soon to follow.
In the next two
hours, cherished Bon Jovi classics like “Bad Medicine,” “Livin’ on a
Prayer,” “I’ll Be There For You” and encore selection “Wanted Dead or
Alive” would enrapture a crowd of between 13,000 and 15,000 (the band’s
management refused to yield an official tally).
It was a night devoid of major surprises.
To
set up “Runaway,” singer Jon Bon Jovi recited his backwards count
through time to 1982, just as he did when the band played Heinz Field a
few summers ago.
And as guitarist Richie Sambora finished
singing the ballad “I’ll Be There for You,” the house lights went dark
momentarily, before a spotlight flicked on to reveal JonBon standing
amid fans halfway back of the arena floor, a stunt he previously pulled
off in the arena in 2005. Or was that the 2003 show?
It was a
nifty move, nevertheless, as he slowly danced with one ecstatic female
fan, and touched hands with several others while tenderly crooning “Bed
of Roses.” By that time, Jon was wearing a bright red shirt, a welcome
splash of color from the leather jacket and dark denim he wore for most
of the show.
Sambora also favored black, including his trademark
floppy cowboy hat. He made Frampton come alive on “We Got It Goin’
On,” creating that do-you-feel-like-we-do vocal effect that also showed
up briefly on the opening to “Livin’ on a Prayer.”
Sambora had a few flashy moments, especially “Raise Your Hands” where his strumming was reminiscent of Queen’s Brian May.
Drummer
Tico Torres displayed exhilarating power on “Have a Nice Day,” while
keyboardist David Bryan earned his stripes with those familiar but
ever-so-cool solos on “Runaway.”
A pretty female fiddle
player joined the band throughout the night, though she wasn’t given
much room to roam until 18 songs in, when her sawing could be heard
prominently on Bon Jovi's country crossover tune “Who Says You Can’t Go
Home.”
For an extra kick on several songs, the band slipped in
verses from the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” the “Animal
House” staple “Shout,” and a snippet of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
that was more Guns ‘n’ Roses than Bob Dylan.
A cameraman from
CBS’s “60 Minutes” jumped onto the stage for “Livin’ on a Prayer,”
shooting crowd footage for a Bon Jovi segment to be filed by Steve
Kroft, who watched the action standing flush with the stage.
Beforehand,
TV cameras also caught a glimpse of the backstage action, as the Bon
Jovi bandmates posed for photos with their very own Pittsburgh Penguins
jerseys personally presented by the team’s general manager, Ray Shero.
Sure enough, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl made sure he got into the
photo.
The concert began with former “American Idol” star
Daughtry and his same-named band. A year ago, Daughtry played for about
600 people at the South Side club Diesel, and while he went on to sell
a million albums since, he didn’t diverge from his tried-and-true
formula of post-grunge, in the vein of Nickelback or Creed.
He’s
got charisma, though, or maybe that’s sex appeal. And he came up with a
clever and soon-to-be-often-imitated trick where he got the crowd to
simultaneously snap photos with their cell phone cameras. He made fans
wait precisely until the count of three, remarking, “Don’t be
premature, because nobody likes that.”
Like Bon Jovi, Daughtry
slipped in a few vintage mini-covers, including Motley Crue’s “Home
Sweet Home” and Guns ‘n’ Roses’ “Paradise City,” the song that prompted
him to say, “Let’s go back to the ’80s.”
Naturally, Daughtry’s
guitarist didn’t match the speed of G’n’R’s Slash, but hey, that’s how
it goes when you’re stuck in the ‘00s.
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