#29 - 1996/07/14 - Volkswagen Festival Site , Wolfsburg, Germany

 

Location: Volkswagen Festival Site, Wolfsburg, Germany

Capacity: n.a.

Attendance: 30.000

Revenue: n.a.

Support Act: H-Blockx, Milch auf Ex, Joan Osbourne

 

Setlist:

01. Lay Your Hands On Me

02. Bad Medicine

03. All I Want Is Everything

04. You Give Love A Bad Name

05. Runaway

06. Wild Is The Wind

07. Rockin’ All Over The World

08. Blood On Blood

09. Wanted Dead Or Alive (acoustic)

10. Lie To Me (acoustic)

11. In These Arms (acoustic)

12. Something For The Pain

13. Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night

14. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead w/ Papa Was A Rolling Stone & Brown Sugar

15. Keep The Faith

 

Encore I:

16. Always

17. Blaze Of Glory

18. These Days

 

Encore II:

19. Hey God

20. Stranger In This Town (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)

21. Livin’ On A Prayer

 

 

                Notes:

  • The German car manufacturer VW sponsored the band’s European tour by releasing a series of the Golf model with the name of Bon Jovi printed on them. Similar things had already been done with Genesis, Europe, Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones.

  • This sponsoring contract included the band playing one concert at the sponsor’s own festival site (which actually is a huge parking lot). Whereas the Rolling Stones’ show had attracted 100,000 people in 1995, this time around Bon Jovi “only” drew in 30,000 attendees.

  • Wild Is The Wind is played for only the second time this tour.

  • Lie To Me gets played for the first time in an acoustic way on tour. It replaces I’ll Be There For You.

  • After a long time, Brown Sugar returns and replaces Jumpin’ Jack Flash in the I'll Sleep When I'm Dead medley.

  • Diamond Ring, Bed Of Roses and Damned are dropped from the main set.

  • Even with this show being a lot shorter than the previous one, there were some treats such as Richie singing Stranger In This Town or the appearance of Wild Is The Wind.

  • (It's Hard) Hard Letting You Go, Something To Believe In, My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms, Rockin’ In The Free World and This Ain’t A Love Song are dropped.

 

 Some recording from that night (not mine).