| Concert Review of Bon Jovi at Pepsi Center on Mon Mar 31, 2008 |
| Event Date |
| Mon Mar 31, 2008 |
| Source |
| Denver Post |
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| Bon Jovi's "Lost" in all the headlines By John Wenzel The Denver Post Article Last Updated: 04/01/2008 01:12:56 AM MDT Much has been made of Bon Jovi's recent dip into country-rock on its 10th and latest disc, "Lost Highway." Perhaps too much. Every writer likes a hook, so it makes sense that we would want to scribble about the band's stylistic detours. It makes good fodder for articles, and when an act still sells as many albums as Bon Jovi, it's legitimate news ("Lost Highway" was the group's third No. 1 album in the U.S.) But at a sold-out Pepsi Center show Monday, the members of the New Jersey group sounded like their old arena rock selves, taking the stage with a fistful of worn pop-metal hits from the '80s and '90s before digging into "Lost Highway" material. Even on those new songs, guitarist Richie Sambora shredded solos in his usual purse-lipped way, and Jon Bon Jovi struck characteristic poses that fell somewhere between Elvis and David Lee Roth. A couple extra guitarists and, appropriately, a fiddle player joined longtime members Tico Torres (drums) and David Bryan (keyboards). The band may have opened with the title track from "Lost Highway," but it took them another five songs to revisit that album. On the way, they stopped through "You Give Love a Bad Name," "Runaway," "Raise Your Hands" and "Born to Be My Baby" — that last track sending the crowd into an absolute frenzy. . |
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| High energy and had the audience captured and in a frenzy all night. |
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