Yes, it’s taken me a while to get around to catching up with the start of the tour for The Circle-I’ve been playing more games on the Xbox again, and I think updating the router has finally fixed the odd glitch that caused me to occasionally not be able to connect to YouTube, the BBC and about fifty other sites of varying degrees of importance to my day-to-day life. (Kenobi already collected the good fan videos from Honolulu over at Blame it on the Love, so if you want to see them, just head over there.)
I did get to check out a bunch of fan videos, now that I’m having less problems with YouTube. Personally, I found the videos of the older songs to be the best ones–Jon seemed to be in fine voice. On some of them, it could have been 1986–the band was that spot on. I thought that it was so great that they were picking songs from the full depth and breadth of their catalog for once. 7800° Fahrenheit might not have been the critics’ darling, but I like it, and so do a lot of other people.
Speaking as a relatively new fan of the band, it’s great that I’ll be getting to hear older songs like Only Lonely and Shot Through the Heart live on this tour, since I never had a chance before. In some ways, a lot of these songs are as fresh as the songs from The Circle–think about it, I can’t possibly be the only fan to have come on board in the last ten years who is familiar with the band’s full catalog but has never gotten to hear it performed live. Yes, the old songs are a treat for the old-timers, but they’re even better for those of us who have never gotten to hear them live at all.
I have to say, after this I am totally looking forward to the shows that I have tickets for on this tour, and now I’m thinking about going to more shows.
Related posts:
- Review of Sunday’s live webcast
- A few regrets…
- Five songs I’d like to hear on the next tour
- When We Were Beautiful Video Review
- ‘Dry County’ live
Tags: Bon Jovi, The Circle, The Circle Tour
Actually, people who got on board in the 90s wouldn’t have heard stuff like Only Lonely or Shot Through the Heart live either… and Hugh was performing those songs live for the first time ever. Exciting times.
I heard that they did Blood on Blood, Something for the Pain and Richie did Homebound Train in Tacoma, all of which I’d love to hear myself. Exciting times indeed.