These Days Tour was Bon Jovi's concert tour during 1995-96. Van Halen and Bon Jovi's Mercury Records labelmate Ugly Kid Joe opened as a special guest for Bon Jovi on twenty of the European stadium dates during the second leg promoting their album Balance and Menace To Sobriety respectively. The last of the three Wembley Stadium 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 - lead vocals, guitar, maracas for Keep the Faith, tambourine for Hey God Richie Sambora - lead guitar, backing vocals, talkbox, lead vocals for Stranger In This Town David Bryan - keyboards, backing vocals, tambourine for Something to Believe In Hugh McDonald - bass guitar, backing vocals Tico Torres - drums, percussion, lead vocals for Crazy
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", "You Give Love a Bad Name", and "Bad Medicine". "Rockin' in the Free World" "Livin' on a Prayer" "You Give Love a Bad Name" "Hey God" "Keep the Faith" "These Days" "Lie To Me" "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" "Something for the Pain" "Because the Night"(cover) "Damned" "Blaze of Glory" "Lay Your Hands on Me" "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" (with snippets of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone") "Bad Medicine" / "Shout" Encore "Always" "Wanted Dead or Alive" "Blood on Blood" Encore 2 "Runaway" "This Ain't a Love Song"
Tour dates +List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue Date City Country VenueAsiaApril 26, 1995MumbaiIndiaAndheri Sports ComplexApril 28, 1995TaipeiTaiwanTaipei Municipal StadiumApril 30, 1995Quezon CityPhilippinesAraneta ColiseumMay 2, 1995BangkokThailandRoyal Thai Army StadiumMay 4, 1995Kuala LumpurMalaysiaStadium NegaraMay 6, 1995JakartaIndonesiaTaman Impian Jaya AncolMay 8, 1995SingaporeSingapore Indoor StadiumMay 10, 1995SeoulSouth KoreaOlympic StadiumMay 13, 1995FukuokaJapanFukuoka DomeMay 16, 1995NishinomiyaHankyu Nishinomiya StadiumMay 18, 1995TokyoTokyo Dome EuropeMay 23, 1995MilanItalyExpo Arena Milano ConcertiMay 26, 1995BremenGermanyWeserstadionMay 27, 1995May 28, 1995NijmegenNetherlandsGoffertparkMay 30, 1995EssenGermanyGeorg-Melches-StadionJune 1, 1995ChemnitzSportforumJune 3, 1995MunichOlympiastadion June 4, 1995 Adenau Nürburgring June 6, 1995BerlinWaldbühne June 7, 1995 June 10, 1995 Basel Switzerland St. Jakob Stadium June 11, 1995 Spielberg Austria Österreichring June 13, 1995 Barcelona Spain Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc June 15, 1995 Lisbon Portugal Estádio José Alvalade June 17, 1995 Werchter Belgium Werchter festival ground June 18, 1995 Lahr Germany Flughafen Lahr June 21, 1995 Cardiff Wales Cardiff Arms Park June 23, 1995LondonEnglandWembley Stadium June 24, 1995 June 25, 1995 June 27, 1995 Gateshead Gateshead International Stadium June 28, 1995 Sheffield Don Valley Stadium June 30, 1995ParisFranceHippodrome de Longchamp July 1, 1995 July 2, 1995 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena July 4, 1995 Stockholm Sweden Sjöhistoriska Museet July 6, 1995 Rotterdam Netherlands Stadion Feijenoord July 7, 1995 Odense Denmark Dyrskuepladsen July 8, 1995 Turku Finland Ruissalo North America July 21, 1995WantaghUnited StatesJones Beach Amphitheatre July 22, 1995 July 23, 1995 July 25, 1995 Camden Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Centre July 27, 1995 Burgettstown Coca-Cola Star Lake Amphitheatre July 30, 1995 Mansfield Great Woods Center August 1, 1995 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Performing Arts Center August 2, 1995MontrealCanadaMontreal Forum August 3, 1995 August 5, 1995 Grand Falls-Windsor Centennial Park August 7, 1995 Halifax Garrison Grounds At Citadel Hill August 9, 1995 ColumbiaUnited States Merriweather Post Pavilion August 11, 1995 Milwaukee Marcus Amphitheater August 12, 1995 Tinley Park New World Music Theatre August 15, 1995 Minneapolis Target Center August 16, 1995 Bonner Springs Sandstone Amphitheater August 18, 1995 Morrison Red Rocks Amphitheater August 20, 1995 Park City Wolf Mountain Amphitheatre August 23, 1995 Maryland Heights Riverport Amphitheatre August 24, 1995 Noblesville Deer Creek Music Center August 26, 1995 Clarkston Pine Knob Music Theatre August 27, 1995 Cincinnati Riverbend Music Center August 29, 1995 Scranton Montage Mountain Amphitheater August 30, 1995 Cuyahoga Falls Blossom Music Center September 1, 1995 Syracuse New York State Fair September 3, 1995 Toronto Canada Molson Canadian Amphitheatre September 4, 1995 HartfordUnited States The Meadows Music Theatre September 10, 1995 Tampa USF Sun Dome September 12, 1995CharlotteBlockbuster Pavilion September 13, 1995 September 15, 1995 Raleigh Hardee's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre September 16, 1995 Atlanta Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre September 19, 1995 Chattanooga UTC Arena September 20, 1995 Nashville Starwood Amphitheatre September 23, 1995 The Woodlands Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion September 24, 1995 Dallas Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre September 26, 1995 Phoenix Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion September 29, 1995 Inglewood Great Western Forum September 30, 1995 Concord Concord Pavilion October 3, 1995 VancouverCanada General Motors Place October 4, 1995EdmontonNorthlands Coliseum October 5, 1995 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Place October 7, 1995 Winnipeg Winnipeg Arena Latin America October 22, 1995 Mexico City Mexico Palacio de los Deportes October 24, 1995 Caracas Venezuela Estadio Independencia De La Rinconada October 27, 1995 Rio de JaneiroBrazil Praça da Apoteose October 28, 1995 São Paulo Pista de Atletismo Ibirapuera October 29, 1995 Curitiba Pedreira Paulo Leminski October 31, 1995 Quito Ecuador Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa November 2, 1995 Bogotá Colombia Estadio El Campín November 4, 1995 Buenos Aires Argentina Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti Oceania November 8, 1995 Auckland New Zealand Ericsson Stadium November 10, 1995MelbourneAustraliaOlympic Park Stadium November 11, 1995 November 12, 1995 Adelaide Adelaide Street Circuit November 17, 1995 Brisbane Brisbane Stadium November 18, 1995 Sydney Eastern Creek International Raceway Africa November 28, 1995 Cape TownSouth Africa Green Point Stadium November 30, 1995JohannesburgJohannesburg Stadium December 1, 1995 December 3, 1995 Durban Kings Park Stadium Asia May 14, 1996 FukuokaJapan Fukuoka Dome May 16, 1996 Osaka Hankyu Nishinomiya Sutajiamu May 18, 1996YokohamaYokohama Stadium May 19, 1996 May 20, 1996 Europe June 1, 1996 MadridSpain Estadio Vicente Calderón June 4, 1996 Gijón Estadio El Molinón June 5, 1996 Pamplona Estadio El Sadar June 8, 1996 LandgraafNetherlands Megaland June 9, 1996 Enschede Het Rutbeek June 11, 1996 Bettembourg Luxembourg Krakelshaff June 13, 1996 ErfurtGermany Steigerwaldstadion June 15, 1996 Hannover Niedersachsenstadion June 16, 1996 Stuttgart Cannstatter Wasen June 18, 1996 Budapest Hungary Óbudai-sziget June 20, 1996 Wiener NeustadtAustria Flugplatz Wiener Neustadt June 21, 1996 Wels Wels Air Base June 23, 1996 Zürich Switzerland Letzigrund June 28, 1996CologneGermanyMüngersdorfer Stadion June 29, 1996 June 30, 1996 Frankfurt Waldstadion July 2, 1996 Ostend Belgium Wellingtonrenbaan July 3, 1996 Paris France Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy July 6, 1996Milton KeynesEnglandNational Bowl July 7, 1996 July 9, 1996 Manchester Maine Road July 11, 1996 Glasgow Scotland Ibrox Stadium July 13, 1996 Dublin Ireland RDS Arena July 14, 1996 WolfsburgGermany Volkswagen Festival Site July 16, 1996 Nuremberg Frankenstadion July 19, 1996 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Box office score data Venue City Tickets Sold / Available Gross RevenueJones Beach TheatreWantagh32,586 / 32,586$1,140,510Montreal ForumMontreal31,251 / 31,984$856,612Palacio de los DeportesMexico City41,996 / 41,996$1,161,203RDSDublin30,000 / 30,000$1,075,000 The total attendance of the 3 South African shows was 182,000.
Cancelled dates + List of cancelled concerts showing date, city, country, venue, and reason for cancellation Date City Country Venue Reason November 14, 1995 Perth (cancelled)https://bjtours.jimdofree.com/tours/1995-crossroads/1995-11-14-burswood-dome-perth-australia/ Australia Burswood DomeUnknown
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