#36 - 2010/05/26 - New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA

 

Location: New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA

Capacity: 51.525

Attendance: 51.525

Revenue: $ 5.346.609

Support Act: Train

 

Setlist:

01. Blood on Blood

02. We Weren’t born to Follow

03. You Give Love a Bad Name

04. Whole lot of Leavin’

05. Born to be my Baby

06. Lost Highway

07. Raise Your Hands

08. Runaway

09. When We Were Beautiful

10. Superman Tonight

11. We Got It Going On

12. Bad Medicine w/ Roadhouse Blues

13. It's My Life

14. Love's the Only Rule

15. Lay Your Hands on Me (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)

16. Hallelujah

17. I'll be There for You

18. Something for the Pain (acoustic)

19. Someday I'll be Saturday Night (acoustic)

20. Have a Nice Day

21. Work for the Working Man

22. Who Says you Can't Go Home

23. Keep the Faith

 

Encore:

24. Dry County

25. Wanted Dead or Alive

26. Livin on a Prayer

 

Notes:

  • The opening night at the NMS stadium! After Bruce had played the last concert at the old Giants Stadium, it was Bon Jovi’s honor to open the new venue with three consecutive shows.
  • Raise Your Hands made its tour premiere!
  • Runaway was moved up the setlist and midway through the song the PA blew out! While the sound was gone the band kept playing on since their In-Ear-Monitors were still working and they didn’t even notice the problem. The crowd partied along until over a minute later the issue was fixed and the sound came back on.
  • Roadhouse Blues is played again in Bad Medicine.
  • Hallelujah replaces Make A Memory.
  • Saturday Night returns and is done in the acoustic set on the circle.
  • Have A Nice Day is added to the main set.
  • Keep The Faith had a huge amount of pyro fire up around the stadium! This had not been done since the end of the One Wild Night tour and many fans felt that this was just the way how a main set had to be ended.
  • Dry County is played for the first time this tour and opens the encore! It was only the third time this song was done in the USA since 1995!
  • Jon seemed somewhat nervous during the first part of the show, maybe due to the pressure of opening this precious venue. His voice still didn’t seem back to the standards he had reached at the end of the arena leg, but the energy and passion of the show was great!
  • One day earlier FC members had been invited to attend the soundcheck, during which the band played Dry County with Jon almost completely altering the lyrics in the verses due to a recent giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Fans kept wondering whether the reworked lyrics would show up at a concert, however, the band sticked to the recorded version and the alternate lyrics never showed up again.
  • This was the setlist of the soundcheck:

- We Weren’t Born To Follow
- Raise Your Hands
- Have A Nice Day
- Superman Tonight
- Dry County (alternate lyrics)
- Something For The Pain (acoustic)
- Love For Sale
- Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night (acoustic)

 

Some vids from that night (not mine):

 

 

Soundcheck