These Days Tour was

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's concert tour during 1995-96.

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opened as a special guest for Bon Jovi on twenty of the European stadium dates during the second leg promoting their album ''

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''. The last of the three

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gigs was filmed for the DVD '' Live From London''. The band played 131 shows in 35 countries all across the world. The tour was the first with current bassist Hugh McDonald.

Personnel

Jon Bon Jovi John Francis Bongiovi Jr. (born March 2, 1962), known professionally as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He is best known as the founder and Lead vocalist, frontman of the rock band Bon Jovi, which was fo ...

- lead vocals, guitar, maracas for Keep the Faith, tambourine for Hey God *

Richie Sambora Richard Stephen Sambora (born July 11, 1959) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013. He and lead singer Jon Bon Jovi formed the main songwriting unit for the ...

- lead guitar, backing vocals, talkbox, lead vocals for Stranger In This Town * Hugh McDonald - bass guitar, backing vocals * Tico Torres - drums, percussion, lead vocals for Crazy *

David Bryan David Bryan Rashbaum (born February 7, 1962) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the keyboard player for the rock band Bon Jovi, in which he also co-wrote songs and performed backing vocals. In 2018, he was inducted into the ...

- keyboards, backing vocals, tambourine for Something to Believe In

Set list

The set list varied on a nightly basis on this tour, but usually featured several songs from the '' These Days'' album, such as "Hey God", "Something for the Pain", and "This Ain't a Love Song". It also included many of their hits from the 1980s such as "

Livin' on a Prayer "Livin' on a Prayer" is a song by the American rock band Bon Jovi from their third studio album, '' Slippery When Wet''. Written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Desmond Child, the single, released in late 1986, performed strongly on both ...

", " You Give Love a Bad Name", and " Bad Medicine". # " Rockin' in the Free World" # "

" # " You Give Love a Bad Name" # " Hey God" # " Keep the Faith" # " These Days" # "

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" # " Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" # " Something for the Pain" # "

Because the Night "Because the Night" is a rock song from 1977 written by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith which appears on the 1978 Patti Smith Group album ''Easter''. On March 2, 1978, the song was released as a single, and was commercially successful, reach ...

"(cover) # "Damned" # " Blaze of Glory" # " Lay Your Hands on Me" # " I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" (with snippets of "

Jumpin' Jack Flash "Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released as a non-album single in 1968. Called "supernatural Delta blues by way of Swinging London" by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, the song was seen as the band's retu ...

" and "

Papa Was a Rollin' Stone "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a song originally performed by Motown recording act the Undisputed Truth in 1972, though it became much better known after a Grammy-award winning cover by the Temptations was issued later the same year. This la ...

") # " Bad Medicine" / " Shout" ;Encore: #

" Always" # " Wanted Dead or Alive" # "Blood on Blood" ;Encore 2: #

" Runaway" # " This Ain't a Love Song"

Tour dates

Box office score data

The total attendance of the 3 South African shows was 182,000.

Cancelled dates

References

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