Lost Highway Tour

Lost Highway Tour
World tour by Bon Jovi
Location	North America, Asia, Oceania, Europe
Associated album	Lost Highway
Start date	October 25, 2007
End date	July 15, 2008
Legs	7
No. of shows	99 in Total
Box office	US $210.7 million ($298.17 in 2023 dollars)
Bon Jovi concert chronology
	; Have a Nice Day Tour ; (2005–2006); ; Lost Highway Tour ; (2007–2008); ; The Circle Tour ; (2010);

The Lost Highway Tour was a worldwide concert tour by American rock band Bon Jovi in support of their 10th studio album, Lost Highway. It took place from October 2007 to July 2008. Originally planned as a 2008 greatest hits tour, the tour was changed to promote Lost Highway after the album's worldwide success, reaching No. 1 in several countries when released in June 2007.

Immediately after the album's release, the band performed a string of promotional summer concerts in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom and Japan. The tour began proper in October 2007 with ten concerts that would mark the opening of New Jersey's Prudential Center, before doing a tour of Canada and then tours of Japan, Australasia, the United States and Europe in 2008.^[2] Bon Jovi also played their first concert in New Zealand in 12 years as part of the tour.^[3]

The Lost Highway Tour is a finalist for the Billboard 2008 Touring Awards for Top Tour, Top Draw, and Top Manager.^[4]

Background

During the opening concert in Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey on October 25, 2007, Jon Bon Jovi announced that the band was starting a world tour with 10 shows in Prudential Center. The next day, record company Island confirmed through official press release on their web site Jon's statement and also announcing that band will visit Canada, United States, Japan, New Zealand, England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, among other countries. Label also announced dates for Canadian, Japanese and United States concerts on same day. Jon's world tour announcement, interview and concert footage was available for free to the media to download at 12:01 AM EST on Friday, October 26, 2007, through Bon Jovi's profile on The NewsMarket's official website.^[5] To mark the launch of the world tour, video album Lost Highway: The Concert (2007) was screened in over 100 movie theaters for one night only on November 6, 2007.^[6] MaxMouth has partnered with AEG Live to produce the premier Web TV series "On the Road with Bon Jovi" and filmed all Bon Jovi concerts in Prudential Center in Newark from October 25 to November 11, 2007. They released five webisodes that premiered independently on several biggest web portals, including maxmouth.com. "On the Road with Bon Jovi" also included exclusive interviews and performances by My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Daughtry and All American Rejects, who appeared as supporting acts during 10 night stands. Once each webisode premiered, it was reverted to Bon Jovi's official website and remained inside custom co-branded MaxMouth & Bon Jovi video player.^[7]

Bon Jovi also performed for the first time in Australia since 1995. Tickets for Australian concerts went on sale in morning of November 15, 2007, and tickets for Sydney and Melbourne were sold in couple of minutes. Due to the overwhelming demand, second and final show was added at Sydney's Acer Arena on January 22, 2008.^[8] Since three concerts at Air Canada Centre on December 6, 2007, December 7, 2007, and March 10, 2008, quickly sold out, Bon Jovi also added a fourth concert for March 12, 2008 and fifth for March 13, 2008, making them the first act to ever play five concerts on the same tour at Air Canada Centre.^[9]^[10]

Tour highlights

The Lost Highway Tour has seen the band perform songs rarely heard live since the These Days Tour, for example "Hey God", "I Believe", "Lie to Me", "This Ain't a Love Song" and "Always" in its original version. At several of the band's summer stadium shows, the band was known to play extremely long setlists, some of them running nearly three hours, totaling approximately 26 songs, including encores that sometimes had as much as seven songs.

The band also spontaneously played "Stick to Your Guns", from the New Jersey album for the first time in twenty years at the Amsterdam gig, after Jon Bon Jovi noticed seventeen banners held up in the front row with the lyrics to the song printed on them.^[11] The band played at Rock in Rio in Lisbon on May 31, 2008, making it their first concert in Portugal since 1995. The band played a free concert in Central Park, New York City, to 60,000 fans in conjunction with Major League Baseball and Bank of America, as part of MLB All Star Game week.

Lead guitarist Richie Sambora took the lead for one song at most shows with either "I'll Be There for You", "These Days" and occasionally "Stranger in This Town". Keyboardist David Bryan also sang solo very rarely with "In These Arms", on which rhythm guitarist Bobby Bandiera also took the lead guitar solo.

Bon Jovi have also performed "Dry County" frequently.

It has also been announced both during concert and on the official band website that a live DVD from the last two nights of the tour at Madison Square Garden will be released.

Before the band was set to perform at the Bank Atlantic Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, there was a bomb threat at the stadium. The band finally took the stage at about 9:00 p.m.^[12]

A fan jumped on top of Jon at the concert at Punchestown in Ireland just before the bridge of "In These Arms", and it took four security guards to take her off.^[13]

Set list

Lost Highway
Born to Be My Baby
You Give Love a Bad Name
Summertime
Raise Your Hands
Runaway
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead/Jumpin' Jack Flash
Whole Lot of Leavin'
In These Arms
Any Other Day
We Got It Going On
It's My Life
Keep the Faith
I'll Be There for You (Richie Sambora on lead vocals)
(You Want To) Make a Memory
Someday I'll Be Saturday Night
Blaze of Glory
Who Says You Can't Go Home
Have a Nice Day
Bad Medicine/Shout
Livin' on a Prayer

Encore:

Personnel

Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, maracas, tambourine
Richie Sambora – lead guitar, talk box, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "I'll Be There for You"
David Bryan – keyboards, backing vocals
Tico Torres – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Hugh McDonald – bass, backing vocals
Bobby Bandiera – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Lorenza Ponce – violin, viola, tambourine, backing vocals
Kurt Johnston – pedal steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro, backing vocals

Tour grossings

The first 22 shows grossed 41.4 million dollars, placing their tour at No. 11 on the list for top-grossing tours of 2007. The band's second North American leg of 38 shows grossed $56.3 million in ticket sales according to Pollstar making it the number one concert draw in North America for the first half of 2008. Bon Jovi's 10-night run to open the new Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey was the No. 1 Grossing event in 2007 and the No. 6 Grossing event "of all time" in North America. The band's 5-night stand at Toronto's Air Canada Centre set the record for the most number of shows in one tour at that venue, beating the previous record of 4 held by the band, as well as U2, The Spice Girls, and The Police. The third leg of the tour the band played to over 966,000 fans. On the fourth leg of Europe they played to over 1 million concert goers in 22 shows. The combined gross of the tour's first, second and third legs was $129 million, with $16.4 million from the Newark shows and $112.4 million from the remaining shows placing them first on Billboards midyear touring chart.

The tour was the highest-grossing tour of 2008 in Billboard's rankings. The tour grossed $210,650,974 and sold 2,157,675 tickets in total.^[14] In Pollstar's calculus for North America, the Lost Highway Tour had the fifth-highest gross for 2008 at $70.4 million.^[15]

Supporting acts

For the run at the Prudential Center in New Jersey, the support acts were My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson, Daughtry, and The All-American Rejects, with each support act playing two of the ten dates. Hedley opened for Bon Jovi during the Canadian leg of the tour, forcing them to postpone their headlining Canadian tour until early 2008. Daughtry opened for Bon Jovi during the second North American leg of the tour. The Feeling supported Bon Jovi at four of the summer dates in the United Kingdom, with Biffy Clyro supporting on the first night at Twickenham. Kid Rock and Razorlight opened for Bon Jovi at Punchestown, Ireland, with local Irish band DC Tempest. Switchblade opened for Bon Jovi in Bristol, UK. In Australia, local bands Front Counter (Melbourne), OohLaLa (Sydney), and The Violet Flames (Perth) won the support slot through a radio contest. New Zealand band The Valves were the support act in Christchurch

Tour dates

Date	City	Country	Venue	Attendance	Revenue
North America
October 25, 2007	Newark	United States	Prudential Center	138,322 / 140,000	$16,379,070
October 26, 2007
October 28, 2007
October 30, 2007
November 1, 2007
November 3, 2007
November 4, 2007
November 7, 2007
November 9, 2007
November 10, 2007
November 14, 2007	Montreal	Canada	Bell Centre	31,525 / 31,525	$3,246,160
November 15, 2007	Montreal		Bell Centre	31,525 / 31,525	$3,246,160
November 17, 2007	Ottawa		Scotiabank Place	—	—
November 19, 2007	London		John Labatt Centre	9,762 / 9,762	$1,173,749
December 6, 2007	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	—	—
December 7, 2007	Toronto		Air Canada Centre	—	—
December 9, 2007	Winnipeg		MTS Centre	—	—
December 10, 2007	Saskatoon		Credit Union Centre	—	—
December 12, 2007	Edmonton		Rexall Place	—	—
December 13, 2007	Calgary		Pengrowth Saddledome	—	—
December 15, 2007	Vancouver		General Motors Place	31,143 / 31,143	$2,963,969
December 16, 2007	Vancouver		General Motors Place	31,143 / 31,143	$2,963,969
Japan
January 11, 2008	Nagoya	Japan	Nagoya Dome	12,113 / 12,113	$1,061,623
January 13, 2008	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome	60,549 / 60,549	$5,272,912
January 14, 2008	Tokyo		Tokyo Dome	60,549 / 60,549	$5,272,912
January 16, 2008	Osaka		Osaka Dome	23,426 / 23,426	$2,052,026
Oceania
January 19, 2008	Melbourne	Australia	Sidney Myer Music Bowl	13,147 / 13,147	$1,829,807
January 21, 2008	Sydney		Acer Arena	35,632 / 35,632	$4,162,237
January 22, 2008	Sydney		Acer Arena	35,632 / 35,632	$4,162,237
January 25, 2008	Perth		Subiaco Oval	28,790 / 28,790	$3,300,500
January 27, 2008	Christchurch	New Zealand	AMI Stadium	29,526 / 33,271	$3,465,730
North America
February 18, 2008	Omaha	United States	Qwest Center	16,977 / 16,977	$1,271,660
February 20, 2008	Auburn Hills		The Palace of Auburn Hills	19,743/ 19,743	$1,661,602
February 21, 2008	Milwaukee		Bradley Center	17,076 / 17,076	$1,352,436
February 23, 2008	Chicago		United Center	54,818 / 54,818	$4,893,109
February 24, 2008
February 26, 2008
February 28, 2008	Washington, D.C.		Verizon Center	18,255 / 18,255	$1,674,063
March 2, 2008	Philadelphia		Wachovia Center	37,440 / 37,440	$3,253,717
March 3, 2008	Philadelphia		Wachovia Center	37,440 / 37,440	$3,253,717
March 5, 2008	Pittsburgh		Mellon Arena	30,475 / 30,475	$2,295,530
March 7, 2008	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena	18,791 / 18,791	$2,349,195
March 8, 2008	Uncasville		Mohegan Sun Arena	18,791 / 18,791	$2,349,195
March 10, 2008	Toronto	Canada	Air Canada Centre	56,011 / 56,011	$5,614,674
March 12, 2008
March 13, 2008
March 15, 2008	Pittsburgh	United States	Mellon Arena	(look above)	(look above)
March 16, 2008	Greensboro		Greensboro Coliseum	22,115 / 22,115	$1,295,963
March 18, 2008	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	32,733 / 32,733	$2,987,235
March 19, 2008	Saint Paul		Xcel Energy Center	32,733 / 32,733	$2,987,235
March 31, 2008	Denver		Pepsi Center	16,738 / 16,738	$1,386,228
April 2, 2008	San Jose		HP Pavilion at San Jose	28,343 / 28,343	$2,358,420
April 4, 2008	Anaheim		Honda Center	32,131 / 32,131	$2,456,470
April 5, 2008	Anaheim		Honda Center	32,131 / 32,131	$2,456,470
April 8, 2008	San Jose		HP Pavilion at San Jose	(look above)	(look above)
April 9, 2008	Los Angeles		Staples Center	16,205 / 16,205	$1,515,282
April 11, 2008	Glendale		Jobing.com Arena	16,852 / 16,852	$1,478,803
April 12, 2008	Las Vegas		MGM Grand Garden Arena	15,063 / 15,063	$2,230,573
April 14, 2008	Dallas		American Airlines Center	17,076 / 17,076	$1,537,464
April 15, 2008	Oklahoma City		Ford Center	15,811 / 15,811	$1,152,442
April 17, 2008	Kansas City		Sprint Center	32,131 / 32,131	$2,456,470
April 19, 2008	Fargo		Fargodome	25,065 / 25,065	$1,575,979
April 20, 2008	Des Moines		Wells Fargo Arena	15,277 / 15,277	$1,173,472
April 22, 2008	Kansas City		Sprint Center	(look above)	(look above)
April 24, 2008	Nashville		Sommet Center	16,420 / 16,420	$1,502,217
April 26, 2008	Sunrise		BankAtlantic Center	18,307 / 18,307	$1,554,550
April 27, 2008	Tampa		St. Pete Times Forum	18,061 / 18,061	$1,501,956
April 30, 2008	Atlanta		Philips Arena	32,964 / 32,964	$2,851,856
May 1, 2008	Atlanta		Philips Arena	32,964 / 32,964	$2,851,856
UAE / Europe
May 20, 2008	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	Emirates Palace	15,291 / 15,291	$1,714,313
May 22, 2008	Gelsenkirchen	Germany	Veltins-Arena	38,918 / 38,918	$3,350,126
May 24, 2008	Munich		Olympiastadion	70,473 / 70,473	$6,089,353
May 25, 2008	Leipzig		Zentralstadion	34,084 / 34,084	$2,837,203
May 28, 2008	Hamburg		HSH Nordbank Arena	28,947 / 28,947	$2,392,643
May 29, 2008	Stuttgart		Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion	36,768 / 36,768	$2,952,905
May 31, 2008	Lisbon	Portugal	Rock in Rio Lisboa	48,831 / 48,831	$3,993,759
June 1, 2008	Barcelona	Spain	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys	46,255 / 46,255	$4,046,421
June 3, 2008	Frankfurt	Germany	Commerzbank-Arena	37,187 / 37,187	$2,985,360
June 4, 2008	Ebreichsdorf	Austria	Magna Racino	47,598 / 47,598	$4,397,906
June 7, 2008	Kildare	Ireland	Punchestown Racecourse	46,171 / 46,171	$4,729,571
June 11, 2008	Southampton	England	St. Mary's Stadium	30,284 / 30,284	$2,669,609
June 13, 2008	Amsterdam	Netherlands	Amsterdam Arena	34,512 / 34,512	$2,817,625
June 14, 2008	Brussels	Belgium	King Baudouin Stadium	31,041 / 31,041	$2,517,796
June 16, 2008	Helsinki	Finland	Olympiastadion	44,376 / 44,376	$4,594,027
June 18, 2008	Oslo	Norway	Ullevaal Stadion	30,612 / 30,612	$3,399,884
June 19, 2008	Auning	Denmark	Gammel Estrup	28,657 / 28,657	$3,023,070
June 21, 2008	Glasgow	Scotland	Hampden Park	39,756 / 39,756	$3,564,277
June 22, 2008	Manchester	England	City of Manchester Stadium	57,235 / 57,235	$4,607,410
June 24, 2008	Coventry		Ricoh Arena	31,295 / 31,295	$2,874,196
June 25, 2008	Bristol		Ashton Gate	23,431 / 23,431	$2,567,812
June 27, 2008	London		Twickenham Stadium	92,852 / 92,852	$8,916,065
June 28, 2008	London		Twickenham Stadium	92,852 / 92,852	$8,916,065
North America
July 6, 2008	Sarnia	Canada	Sarnia Bayfest	15,443 / 15,443	$1,369,622
July 7, 2008	Auburn Hills	United States	The Palace of Auburn Hills	16,036 / 16,036	$1,314,545
July 9, 2008	Boston		TD Banknorth Garden	30,141 / 30,141	$2,585,289
July 10, 2008	Boston		TD Banknorth Garden	30,141 / 30,141	$2,585,289
July 12, 2008^[B]	New York City		Central Park	n/a	n/a
July 14, 2008			Madison Square Garden	36,536 / 36,536	$4,079,017
July 15, 2008			Madison Square Garden	36,536 / 36,536	$4,079,017