Bon Jovi Concert

So we went to the Bon Jovi concert last night. I haven’t really listened to them since the 80s, but they were one of my favorites back then. As a result I don’t know any of their newer stuff. The start of the concert was awesome. They were mixing old song with some better new songs that weren’t too bad. In the middle it got pretty lame though. They had a pretty long stretch of some crappy Christian sounding songs. For a while there it felt like were were in church. They ended much better, but not without a few of my pet peeves. They did two encores. I can’t stand encores. They are just a waste of time that they could fit in another song or two. More and more bands are not doing encores, but sadly most still do. Another thing that bugs me is when a band saves their biggest hit for last. I know you want to go out with a bang, but saving “Livin’ on a Prayer” for the last song annoyed me for some reason.

Dashboard Confessional were the opening band, and they were good as usual, but it kinda sucked because we were so far away. They didn’t have any cameras on them so it was really hard to see anything, and they didn’t even play “Screaming Infidelities”. WTF!? They need to come back to Fargo and play at The Venue.

All in all is was a pretty good concert. Not the best, but what do you expect in that large of venue. I have never been a fan of large stadium concerts. The smaller the venue the better in my book.