Less than 5 months since their last Chicago appearance, Bon Jovi returned to the area, this time at the World Music Theatre in beautiful Tinley Park. This time they had Extreme on board as their opening act. If I had to guess, I would say the guest list for this show included my sister, Scott, Tracie, Courtney, and, probably, Mike. It was either this show or the next one where Mike managed to fall asleep between the openers and the main performers, while a Metallica song was blasting over the speakers.
Extreme opened up the show with a 12 song set, apparently, which were 10 more songs than anyone was looking to hear. The strange thing was that they didn’t close out their set with their two hits, but rather wrapped them around a bunch of other songs nobody cares about to this day. Eventually, the boys from New Jersey came out and, according to the Interwebs, played mostly the same set as their March appearance, although with 2 fewer songs, despite the additional $.25 in the ticket price.
Nothing particularly interesting sticks out about the show, other than the possible sleeping incident. After seeing Bon Jovi twice in under 5 months, I haven’t seen them again in the 20 years since.
