When I went to the Bon Jovi show at the Wachovia Center back in March, they had ads up for the Carole King/James Taylor tour that was going to be coming through later that summer. Now, personally, I like them both well enough, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to see them. My mother, on the other hand, is far more attached to their work.
I tried to convince her that it might be worth the ticket price to go see them, but she wasn’t really interested in paying that much and was worried about what she’d get for the money. A couple of weeks after she passed and the show sold out, PBS aired a special filmed at one of the King/Taylor show, which was, of course, pretty much excellent.
There are some performers who are naturals when it comes to doing live shows–where what you get is so much more than just a rehash of the album. And you never really know who’s going to deliver that experience unless you go and see for yourself, though that’s changing these days.
That’s one really good thing about having the internet–as a new fan, or a returning old one, you can get reviews from normal people like yourself before you buy the tickets. That was how I knew, as a new Bon Jovi fan, that seeing them live was going to be a good show. The critics in the newspapers might not be kind, but if other fans like myself were enthusiastic, it had to be pretty good.
And as it turned out, it was that live performance that really cemented Bon Jovi’s position as my favorite band. Sure, I liked the music on the albums a lot, and Jon certainly was hot. But when I went to see them at the Prudential Center back in 2007, that was when I really started to appreciate just how great they are.
Related posts:
- Review of Sunday’s live webcast
- Review: ‘What Do You Got’ Live
- ‘Dry County’ Live – Part 2
- Live concert stream on Sunday 4/11/10
- Review: Live ‘Love for Sale’
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