San Jose "Bon Jovi delivers bland rock show"

Un peu ironique tt ça et pas franchement super scratch

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Review: Bon Jovi, Daughtry deliver bland rock show in San Jose
By Jim Harrington

STAFF WRITER
Article Launched: 04/03/2008 06:46:40 AM PDT

Bon Jovi has, maybe, a half dozen terrific songs. The rest of its songbook -- to a greater extent than that belonging to any other longtime arena act -- ranges from bland to boring.

The band's saving grace, and the No. 1 reason why its managed to remain so popular for 20-plus years, is that it's usually able to rise above its material on the live stage. Credit for that goes mainly to front man Jon Bon Jovi, a consummate showman who is willing to shake his butt, play the clown or do whatever it takes to sell a song.

The enthusiastic near-capacity crowd that greeted the band on Wednesday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose was definitely buying what the band had to offer. On a purely artistic level, however, Bon Jovi's show left plenty to be desired and didn't live up to the band's past Bay Area outings. (The group will return, again with popular rock act Daughtry in tow, to perform Tuesday at HP.)

Bon Jovi currently finds itself in the very awkward position of trying to be too many things to too many people. It's definitely trying to woo the "American Idol" crowd and charm the "new country" cats. The group wants to keep its classic-rock fan base happy, but at times Jon Bon Jovi seems to be auditioning for a Broadway play. The result in San Jose was a jumbled mess of material that the group really had no chance in rising above.

The opening act on the bill was Daughtry. Now for the eight of you who don't know, Daughtry is a man and it's a band. The lead singer is Chris Daughtry, the former "American Idol" contestant, and the ability to name any other band member will someday win a person a lot of Trivial Pursuit games.

Daughtry, the band, did a passable job revisiting the tunes on its eponymous debut CD, which was one of the top-selling discs of last year. Yet, there was still something very contrived and oh-so very "American Idol" about the whole package, as if the band had been created by a team of scientists working in a Top 40 pop-rock lab. In all, Daughtry, the singer, didn't give us any reason to believe that he won't soon follow "American Idol" pal Taylor Hicks onto the pages of yesterday's news.

Things didn't improve once Bon Jovi took the stage and opened with "Lost Highway," the first of several country-light offerings that all sounded like bad John Mellencamp. The group then changed directions and delivered an enjoyable pair of classic rockers, "Born to be My Baby" (from 1988's "New Jersey") and "You Give Love a Bad Name" (1986's "Slippery When Wet"), before heading off to the land of pop mediocrity with such tunes as "Complicated" and "Last Man Standing" (both from 2005's "Have a Nice Day").

For every highlight, like the fine version of "Blaze of Glory" performed with Daughtry, there were three or four songs that should really be locked up in a closet and never again see the light of day. The country-tinged numbers, which hail from the Nashville-meets-Jersey mistake "Lost Highway," continually brought the whole show down. The absolute worst moment was "We Got It Going On," a disco-Western hybrid that has no place in either genre.

The oddest move the band made, however, was in skipping its best song, "Lay Your Hands On Me." One would think the band could've found room for that anthem during the 2-hour-plus concert. Then again, things do tend to get lost in such a jumbled mess.

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Singalong hits delight Bon Jovi fans
And great sound, video complement strong singing
By Shay Quillen
Mercury News
Article Launched: 04/03/2008 12:16:46 PM PDT

It's called the "Lost Highway" tour, but Bon Jovi is one high-performance machine that sticks to the main roads.

The veteran New Jersey band, which returns to HP arena April 8, doesn't venture far from the tried and true. If you want to see Jon Bon Jovi break into a million-dollar grin as 19,000 faces belt out the chorus to "Livin' on a Prayer," you'll get what you came for.

Wednesday at the arena, Bon Jovi delivered two hours of singalong hits with movie-star charisma, first-rate musicianship and impeccable production values. If you want a little substance with all that, come back April 5 for Springsteen.

After a competent but unmemorable opening set by "American Idol" alum Chris Daughtry's band, Daughtry, the headliners took the stage shortly after 8:30. Founding members - singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres - were joined by bassist Hugh McDonald, an extra guitarist and, on a handful of tunes and female violinist Lorenza Ponce (she didn't have sufficient grit or drive in her playing to earn the title "fiddler").

The set kicked off with the "Lost Highway" title track from what's ostensibly the band's "Nashville" album, but none of the five new songs stood out from the more typical Bon Jovi fare. Whether a pop-metal anthem from 1983 ("Runaway") or a minor country hit from last year ("Make a Memory"), it all sounded like Bon Jovi.

Not that that's always a good thing. From the
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time of the band's big breakthrough with "You Give Love a Bad Name," it has exhibited a propensity for crassly commercial dreck. For every adorably cornball "I'll Be There for You" or genuinely uplifting "It's My Life" there's a boneheaded "Bad Medicine" or a Century 21 commercial like "Who Says You Can't Go Home."

The show was aided immensely by first-rate sound and a masterful video display that continues to spin out new wrinkles as the show progresses. Not only do the screens provide crystal-clear close-ups of the band members (excepting Torres, who apparently prefers to sneak his cigarettes off camera), but they also slice, dice and julienne into fresh configurations with practically every song. Best of all, they even do impressions. (Two words: Venetian blinds.)

Predictable images flashed across the screens during each song - a gritty street scene for "Runaway," western tableaux for "Blaze of Glory." During the new "I Love This Town," a collage of hometown images from across the country ended with stock ones of San Francisco, which failed to excite the crowd, and a San Jose Sharks logo, which did. (Suggestion: How about adding a real hometown image - say a shot of Hangar One or Falafel Drive-In - for Tuesday's show?)

Jon Bon Jovi's voice remained strong throughout, but he wasn't the only quality singer on stage. He stepped aside to let his right-hand man Sambora take the lead on "I'll Be There for You." That number, with keyboardist Bryan on backing vocals, a song that clearly revealed one of the band's underappreciated qualities: the depth of its vocal talent. And Bon Jovi graciously shared the spotlight with Chris Daughtry on a powerful duet on Jon's 1990 solo hit "Blaze of Glory" (on which Daughtry frankly outsang its writer). It was one of the show's high points.

Instrumentally, the band isn't flashy, but it replicates the records with evident skill, whether it's an acoustic ballad or a bluesy rocker. And a detour into the Isley Brothers' "Shout" during "Bad Medicine" revealed that there's still a razor-sharp Jersey bar band under all the arena glitz.

The band closed the set with its most beloved rocker, "Living on a Prayer," before returning for an encore that ended with "Wanted Dead or Alive." Would you have expected anything else?

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My Chemical Romance était en concert le même soir à San Jose !!!
Il n'y avait pas bcp de monde au concert dû à celui de Bon Jovi selon le chanteur de MCR ...
Jon lui a qd même envoyé une bouteille de Dom Perignon avec un billet “Welcome to San Jose.” lol

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Review: Bon Jovi, Daughtry deliver bland rock show in San Jose
By Jim Harrington

STAFF WRITER
Article Launched: 04/03/2008 06:46:40 AM PDT

Bon Jovi has, maybe, a half dozen terrific songs. The rest of its songbook -- to a greater extent than that belonging to any other longtime arena act -- ranges from bland to boring.

The band's saving grace, and the No. 1 reason why its managed to remain so popular for 20-plus years, is that it's usually able to rise above its material on the live stage. Credit for that goes mainly to front man Jon Bon Jovi, a consummate showman who is willing to shake his butt, play the clown or do whatever it takes to sell a song.

The enthusiastic near-capacity crowd that greeted the band on Wednesday night at the HP Pavilion in San Jose was definitely buying what the band had to offer. On a purely artistic level, however, Bon Jovi's show left plenty to be desired and didn't live up to the band's past Bay Area outings. (The group will return, again with popular rock act Daughtry in tow, to perform Tuesday at HP.)

Bon Jovi currently finds itself in the very awkward position of trying to be too many things to too many people. It's definitely trying to woo the "American Idol" crowd and charm the "new country" cats. The group wants to keep its classic-rock fan base happy, but at times Jon Bon Jovi seems to be auditioning for a Broadway play. The result in San Jose was a jumbled mess of material that the group really had no chance in rising above.

The opening act on the bill was Daughtry. Now for the eight of you who don't know, Daughtry is a man and it's a band. The lead singer is Chris Daughtry, the former "American Idol" contestant, and the ability to name any other band member will someday win a person a lot of Trivial Pursuit games.

Daughtry, the band, did a passable job revisiting the tunes on its eponymous debut CD, which was one of the top-selling discs of last year. Yet, there was still something very contrived and oh-so very "American Idol" about the whole package, as if the band had been created by a team of scientists working in a Top 40 pop-rock lab. In all, Daughtry, the singer, didn't give us any reason to believe that he won't soon follow "American Idol" pal Taylor Hicks onto the pages of yesterday's news.

Things didn't improve once Bon Jovi took the stage and opened with "Lost Highway," the first of several country-light offerings that all sounded like bad John Mellencamp. The group then changed directions and delivered an enjoyable pair of classic rockers, "Born to be My Baby" (from 1988's "New Jersey") and "You Give Love a Bad Name" (1986's "Slippery When Wet"), before heading off to the land of pop mediocrity with such tunes as "Complicated" and "Last Man Standing" (both from 2005's "Have a Nice Day").

For every highlight, like the fine version of "Blaze of Glory" performed with Daughtry, there were three or four songs that should really be locked up in a closet and never again see the light of day. The country-tinged numbers, which hail from the Nashville-meets-Jersey mistake "Lost Highway," continually brought the whole show down. The absolute worst moment was "We Got It Going On," a disco-Western hybrid that has no place in either genre.

The oddest move the band made, however, was in skipping its best song, "Lay Your Hands On Me." One would think the band could've found room for that anthem during the 2-hour-plus concert. Then again, things do tend to get lost in such a jumbled mess.

vraiment c´est pas trop sympa...