First BJ song you heard live?
 

For me it Lay Your Hands On Me with the marching band introduction at Manchester in 1996. To date still one of the best concerts I've ever been to, as well as being one of the best opening tracks.


What were yours?

Raise your hands, Athens, July 2011


Jon's voice wasn't the best but it was a great concert! The temperature was about 36C!

One Wild Night, Milton Keynes 2001

Bounce, Munich 2003

Wembley 2000, although the first song played was London Calling, so the first Bon Jovi song was Livin' On A Prayer.

Both missing from the YT link sadly:

Fever - Count Basie Red Bank 1991 or 1992

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I Believe. Stockholm, April 17th, 1993.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/O3NwmJ5bCEw

You call yourself the world's most knowledgeable blah blah...and you don't know if Fever opened the show in 1991 or 1992?

Let me tell you: It was 1991 ;)

Mine was Last Man Standing in Düsseldorf, Germany 2006. Awesome show with Dry County for the first time in 10 years.

Livin on a prayer 13-06-1995 Barcelona

Blood On Blood live in Sydney 17/12/10 - loved the concert and Blood On Blood was a strong opener.

Sorry for not memorizing the entire set list of each of the 75 shows I attended starting 25 years ago... I guess collecting illegal bootlegs does have its advantages after all

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In person--Lay Your Hands on Me, September 17, 1989, Jackson, MS. It was phenomenal.

However, I heard Bad Name "live" on the radio prior to that and it was AWFUL and I was left with the impression that the band might not be very good live. It was from the SWW tour so Jon's voice was shot, but not only that, the music didn't measure up to the studio version either. I've had an aversion to Bad Name live ever since.

I Believe - Meadowlands 1993-02-20 Tried to find it on Youtube but that particular song is missing. :(

Only the second half of the song was recorded, unfortunately.

Maybe that is why I couldn't find it. I think that is the video bootleg I have from Living After Midnight. It sure was a super way to start my live love affair with this band. I was a fan in the late 80s with New Jersey but I was pregnant with my daughter for the June Giants 89 show. I was being cautious and stayed home - mostly because of the heat that day. So this was the next opportunity I got to see them live.

One of my long time yardsticks for a new band is how they sound live. I don't really care how they sound in the studio with all the special effects. If they sound good live - I'm in :D

I guess it was one of my yardsticks for musicians before I even knew I had yardsticks for musicians. I was only 12 or 13 when I heard that recording on the radio! There are two bands that opened for Bon Jovi that put on such bad live shows that I change the station to this day if they come on the radio.

I'll never forget the experience...

My seats were lower level in this small theater that packs about 1,500 people and some guy with this deep voice doing soundcheck kept saying "two two two" (He stuck around for a while - I've seen him at other shows)... Every time he'd pause, I thought the band was on stage. I was young and didn't know how it all worked yet..

Once he cleared the stage, the pre-opening music started... I'm thinking it was either Queen or AC/DC... Those 10 minutes felt like 2 hours... All of a sudden the lights go down and the screams stared. Not like the screams you hear today but piecing screams that could break glass... The curtain slowly raises and Jon is standing there with his Blaze Of Glory hair style wearing a t-shirt with rolled up sleeves that said 'love sees no color'... He's doing the snapping thing as he's singing "Fever''. I remember thinking it was a Madonna song. I had no clue back then... But honestly, that was my generations Elvis standing there right in front of me... I couldn't believe I was in the same room as this band.

It was one of the greatest nights of my youth... To top it all off, once the afternoon show was over, there were a bunch of radio station vans out front and we won tickets to the evening show. We got free t-shirts, bumper stickers, post cards, etc.

It was a once in a lifetime experience that I've never experienced again since and will never experience again ever...

Mine was Bounce, Feb of 2003 in Toronto.

Blood on Blood, São Paulo, 2010.
Just a great opener.

Livin' On A Prayer, Bremen, Germany, 05/27/1995. Would've loved to see them on the KTF tour, as that was when I got into the band, but I was too late, was all sold out, and I didn't know that you could get tickets in front of the venue back then (don't even know if any where being sold though, probably not). Was my first concert ever, and first BJ concert too. What a blast! :-)

I didn't go, but the bootleg of that show is one of my all time favourites. Can't tell you how many times I've listened to it!

"Bounce" from Hyde Park, London on June 28th 2003.


Nearly 13 years ago!

Same here. Awesome show!

Bounce from Vienna 2003.....what a show, my first one. Will never forget it....:cool:

Mine is Livin' On A Prayer, Nijmegen 1995 :).

Oh man, it was Norman, OK, July 24, 1985 and they opened for Ratt we weren't in our seats on time but the first song I heard from them that night was Breakout. Dang, that was almost 31 years ago!!!

I was born on that Year! :D

Ha ha...way to make me feel old!!!

Sorry [emoji102] [emoji39] [emoji15]

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Okay, we have our winner :p

Mine was Livin' On A Prayer....23rd August 2000 - Britania Stadium, Stoke On Trent. I had waited 6 years to see the band live. Still gutted that I never got to see them on the TD Tour :(

Me too, Wembley 95 came a bit too soon for me, wish I had gone. Same with Jon's solo show in 97, had my gcse English exam the next day so spent the night annotating my Lord of the flies book instead :(

Lost Highway, Rio de Janeiro, 2010. ¬¬

Oh, you totally should've gone. The 97 shows were really intimate and cool, and the 98 arena shows were pretty cool, too. I'm glad I went :-) Can understand the reasons why though...

Last Man Standing, Stuttgart, May 27, 2006
It's been ten years!

I Believe
Birmingham NEC - May 1993
Clearly remember Richie stepping on to the stage in a blue light right in front of me and then kicking off the song!!

Brighton 1984......Breakout. Good times, saw seven shows on that tour. Found a really cool photo from outside the venue not long ago. Doc even has real hair.:)

BOUNCE
Madrid May 22 2003

Last Man Standing :D