Bon Jovi Concert Memories
Friday November 10, 2000- First Union Center, Philadelphia,
PA
I was very excited about going to my first Bon Jovi concert.
We weren’t able to get tickets for their show at the Continental Airlines Arena
in the Meadowlands, NJ so Matt got us these. It was such a good show. We rented
binoculars. He bought me the souvenir book.
A couple of people
in front of me were standing during a few songs which I didn’t feel like doing
but now sort of wish that I had. I had to look around them which was annoying.
“Livin’ on a Prayer” was one of the songs. I didn’t really look at the screen
much which I’m also regretting.
Tuesday July 24, 2001- Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ
Mom had one of her bad hallucination episodes from overdoing
it on her meds and had to be hospitalized before this. I didn’t use the
binoculars at all. I probably wasn’t thinking straight because I was worrying
about her and was mad that she did this.
There were pretty
lights in the background on the stage during “I’ll Be There for You”. A
beautiful girl danced with Jon during part of” Bed of Roses”. Another girl
touched him on the butt at one point during the show which was very
inappropriate.
I was feeling so
ugly and also was ashamed that I was going a bit gaga over Jon, thinking that
he is so damn cute. I definitely wanted to go to their Giants Stadium show
after seeing this fantastic one. This was in 4 days but I was afraid that Matt
would be mad at me if I got us tickets for it.
Saturday July 28, 2001- Giants Stadium, Meadowlands, NJ
I was afraid that Matt was mad at me for getting these
tickets. He did seem a little annoyed and I was upset that he picked me up late
and that he told me that his friends who he had been hanging out with actually
had to remind him that he was supposed to be taking me to this concert that
night.
We picked the
tickets up at the will call (?) window at the box office. I missed part of
Sugar Ray’s performance thanks to his lateness. We were in seats nearly in the
top row of the stadium.
A girl did the
inappropriate touching of Jon’s butt at this show too. Matt and I were joking
about this. They performed “Never Say Goodbye”, my senior prom song. During
this I was afraid that Matt would get mad at me if I told him to stop touching
my back which was feeling a bit sore from standing so much.
I really got into
“Bad Medicine” and “It’s My Life” which is semi embarrassing. There were
fireworks at the end of the concert. It was being taped for a special on VH1
which we did watch. It looks like they might’ve filmed the 2 shows at this
venue and used footage from both.
Was part of the
reason that I wanted to see them again so soon because I was mad at myself for
not using the binoculars and looking at the screen during the Camden show? Perhaps,
but mostly I wanted to have yet another enjoyable Bon Jovi experience. They put
on such an excellent show.
Friday August 8, 2003- Giants Stadium
I worried that it might rain during this concert. Mike
bought me the book. I had cigarette burn anxiety again because of the girl
smoking next to me. The smoke was annoying too. She was moving her arms around
a lot.
Cell phone users
were very distracting as was my brother a bit because he was asking some
questions during part of the show. I was beating myself up, wondering if maybe
I should have used the binoculars more and focused them better.
Richie sang” I’ll
Be There for You”. There were fireworks at the end of the concert. Jason Mraz
and another guy were the opening acts.
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