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From The Front Page:

"...Insiders say that the band is considering making fan's dreams come true with a dual format tour in select cities in the USA and possibly internationally on the upcoming Have a Nice Day Tour 05-06.
In larger cities as scheduling allows the band is investigating playing two shows instead of the traditional arena/amphitheater tour.
One show would be the standard for locale new CD/greatest hits package that fans the world over sell out each and every tour.
The second show would be played either the night before or the night after the traditional gig in a smaller more intimate setting. A theater venue with seating in the mid range of 700 seats would host a "deeper cuts" show of around 100 minutes of mostly lesser known hits, cover tunes by favorite artists, acoustic songs, and tracks from the recently released box set 100 Million Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong.
tickets for the intimate shows will be priced at the upper end of the theater market...They also mention the likelihood of 26 US dates and 19 International dates."

Thats not very many dates....

Lynchy wrote:Thats not very many dates....

I think it is for an experimental leg of the tour like this. I am sure the band will be playing MANY dates on this tour.

Why not do "An Evening With Bon Jovi" as an three hour set with no opening act? With the music they have recorded and performed over the years, I think the fans will go more out of the show. Just my opinion.

Maybe they have seen what has happened with the Journey Tour? Of course Bon Jovi have not gone through severe musical style and personel changes like Journey has. But I think they understand that there are 'die-hard' fans that want to see rarities, early material, new material, etc. And there are casual fans who only want to hear the hits, a maybe a few new songs. It is very difficult to satisfy those casual fans when playing the material that satisfies the die-hards. THAT is what Journey has found out.

Yeah, so it was nice to see this idea pan out.