Bon Jovi (5th time)
BMO Harris Bradley Center
May 21, 2011
Age 28
Are you sick of hearing my Bon Jovi stories yet? I feel you and get it, rest assured, this is my last Bon Jovi concert (but won't rule out concerts in the future!).
Overall this concert was the same as all the other Bon Jovi concerts I have been to. Great songs, great crowd participation, and great dancing by Jon Bon Jovi himself. The only downer of the show was that Richie Sambora was in rehab at that time. JBJ dedicated a song to him that night and had the crowd wishing Sambora well in unison together in hopes he could hear us wherever he was. Eventually Sambora would part from Bon Jovi and man do I think that just sucks. JBJ and Sambora make such a great pairing together and balance each other out. I hope one day to see them again together in concert.
What really is the story though about this concert is how we got the tickets and the lesson I learned - only let those you trust by the tickets!!! I almost always do buy the tickets to the shows I go to or they are gifts. This time I was just not in the mood to by the tickets and Claudia decided to buy the tickets (this show was her, me, and our friend Shannon). Well the tickets went on pre-sale and I checked in to see if she bought them and I got the answer back "No, they don't sell good tickets in the pre-sale". Um, what?!? Nowadays its so hard to get up front tickets with the devil that is Ticketmaster, but I usually can get pretty decent tickets for the side of the Bradley Center's seating. Which is actually pretty nice because it's elevated. We had already decided we were paying the lowest ticket price since we had seen them so many times, but you (me at least) still want the best seat for the price point your buying. Well Claudia waited until the general sale of the tickets and sadly we ended up in the way back of the house. Ugh! Lesson learned, if you want something done right you got to do it yourself!
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