#69 - 1989/03/15 - Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, USA
Location: Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Capacity: 20.000
Attendance: 20.000
Support Act: Skid Row
Setlist:
01. Lay Your Hands On Me
02. I'd Die For You
03. Wild In The Streets
04. You Give Love A Bad Name
05. Tokyo Road
06. Born To Be My Baby
07. Let It Rock
08. I'll Be There For You
09. Blood On Blood
10. Runaway
11. Livin’ On A Prayer
Encore I:
12. Living In Sin
13. Travelin' Band (w/ Max Weinberg and Steven van Zandt)
Encore II:
14. Ride Cowboy Ride
15. Wanted Dead Or Alive
16. Bad Medicine w/ Shout
Encore II:
17. Never Say Goodbye (acoustic)
Notes:
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Setlist comparisons are to the last documented concert in Worcester on March 12th.
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Bon Jovi’s first proper “homecoming” show of the tour and it became obvious that setlists were to be extended for these kind of occasions.
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The main set remains unaltered.
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Living In Sin is added and opens the first encore.
- Max Weinberg and Steven van Zandt attended the show and joined the band for Travelin' Band, which is added to the first encore.
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A third encore with a spine-chilling rendition of Never Say Goodbye is added where the audience partly overpowered Jon and Richie. Right before the song, Jon unveiled that the band was to play Giants Stadium in the summer of that year.
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A big party rounded out this gig with the band being given “keys to the city” and plaques by the governor, having hired fire-eaters, clowns and jugulars and having joked about literally every person they barely knew asking them for a ticket to the show.
Some recording from that night (not mine):