#31 - 1996/07/19 - Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland

 

Location: Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland

Capacity: 42.000

Attendance: n.a.

Revenue: n.a.

Support Act: Lemonator, Babylon Zoo

 

Setlist:

01. Lay Your Hands On Me

02. Bad Medicine

03. All I Want Is Everything

04. You Give Love A Bad Name

05. Runaway

06. Diamond Ring (acapella)

07. Bed Of Roses

08. Rockin’ All Over The World

09. Blood On Blood

10. Damned

11. Wanted Dead Or Alive (acoustic)

12. Crazy (acoustic) (Tico Torres on lead vocals)

13. In These Arms (acoustic)

14. Something For The Pain

15. Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night

16. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead w/ Papa Was A Rolling Stone & Jumpin’ Jack Flash

17. Keep The Faith

 

Encore I:

18. Drift Away

19. Always

20. Blaze Of Glory

21. Tumblin’ Dice (David Bryan on lead vocals)

22. These Days

 

Encore II:

23. (It’s Hard) Letting You Go

24. Something To Believe In

25. Hey God

 

Encore III:

26. Stranger In This Town (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)

27. Livin’ On A Prayer

 

Encore IV:

28. I'd Die For You (acoustic)

 

 

 NOTE:

  • The final show of the These Days tour and the band were set to pull out all stops!
  • All I Want Is Everything returns to its usual spot.
  • Diamond Ring introduces Bed Of Roses this time around which replace Wild Is The Wind and Lie To Me.
  • Crazy replaces Never Say Goodbye and is sung by Tico Torres! To this day, it’s been the only occasion where he sang a song at a regular tour concert!
  • I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead and Keep The Faith switch places again.
  • Tumblin’ Dice with David Bryan on lead vocals is added to the first encore!
  • These Days moves down from the main set to round up the first encore.
  • (It's Hard) Hard Letting You Go moves up the setlist and replaces My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms.
  • Rockin’ In The Free World and Blood Money are dropped.
  • Richie sings Stranger In This Town again!
  • Much like in Nuremberg three days prior, Bon Jovi had absolutely perfected the emotional goodbye. Leading up to These Days, Jon’s emotional speech had already been very intense and in the end, the band returned to play an absolutely spine-chilling acoustic rendition of I’d Die For You which probably caused a lump in the throat of just about everyone attending.

 

 

Some vids from that night (not mine):