Oh Come All Ye Faithful

*sigh* again...



~ Hath

Cantique de Noel

*sigh*

~ Hath

I Wish Every Day Could Be Like Christmas

~ Hath

Please Come Home For Christmas

Hope you're enjoying your holiday!

~ Hath

Merry Christmas!

Even if you don't celebrate the holiday, I wish you a peaceful week and a happy, healthy 2011.

And, I have a couple gifties for (some of ) you.  If you don't have them already, here are a couple Christmastime shows from days past :)

Enjoy!

~ Hath

December 21, 1995 - Red Bank
01 - Rockin' All Over The World
02 - Something For The Pain
03 - Damned
04 - Blood On Blood
05 - Tumbling Dice
06 - (It's Hard) Letting You Go
07 - Lie To Me
08 - Someday Day I'll Be Saturday Night
09 - Crazy
10 - Bon Jovi - These Days
11 - Heaven Help Us All
12 - Wanted Dead Or Alive
13 - Walking The Dog
14 - Sleep When I'm Dead
15 - Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine + Gloria
16 - Always
17 - Livin' On A Prayer (Acoustic)
18 - House Of The Rising Sun
19 - You Give Love A Bad Name
20 - Keep The Faith
21 - This Time
22 - I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas
23 - Run Rudolph Run

December 12, 2005 - Albany
01. Last Man Standing
02. You Give Love A Bad Name
03. Complicated
04. The Radio Saved My Life Tonight
05. Story of My Life
06. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
07. Runaway
08. Bounce
09. Novocaine
10. I Won't Back Down (Tom Petty cover)
11. Have A Nice Day
12. Who Says You Can't Go Home
13. It's My Life
14. I'll Be There For You (acoustic)
15. Blaze Of Glory (acoustic)
16. Bed Of Roses (acoustic)
17. Captain Crash & the Beauty Queen From Mars
18. Bad Medicine
19. Raise Your Hands
20. Livin' On A Prayer
21. Welcome To Wherever You Are
22. Born To Be My Baby
23. Treat Her Right
24. Run Run, Rudolph
25. Blood On Blood
26. Wanted Dead Or Alive

Santa Claus/Rudolph

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town / Run, Run Rudolph (from 1997)



~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivator: Definitely

Oh Renee, he's probably at the TOP of the list ;)

Happy Holidays everyone!

~ Hath

Blue Christmas

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivator: Naughty

Tsk, tsk, tsk Catte.... And so close to Christmas, too...

~ Hath

Resplendent Randomness ~ 1985 Interview

Interview with Mick Wall. Jon and Richie talk about their tour, the '7800 degrees Fahrenheit' album and how they hated the video for then-current single 'Only Lonely'!

And note the ink-free Jonny arms :)

*sigh* I loved the puppy days...



~ Hath

On Vacation

Yep, it's that time again.  Time for the many Christmases our family celebrates.  We're packing up the car and heading out to the Hamptons for a week-long stay with the in-laws, followed by several days at home wtih Mr. Hath and the Hathlet. 

So, while I have a few things pre-loaded for posting -- Mid-Day motivators, a Fan Fic update, and a couple other random goodies -- for the most part, it'll be a

around here.  Never fear, I'll be back in 2011.  I also may find time to post some things, but don't count on it.

For those who celebrate, have a Merry Christmas.

For everyone else, Happy New Year!!

~ Hath

David Bryan: Character Approved

Robert Diamond is the founder and editor-in-chief of BroadwayWorld.com, the largest theatre site on the net. He put together ten things he considers to be Character Approved from this year. Coming in at number 5? Our own David Bryan!

Green Day isn't the only rock act on Broadway this season. Bryan, Bon Jovi's keyboard player, brought his lifetime of experience touring the country and the world (and taking in lots of local music as well) by writing the music and lyrics by the 2010 Tony winning best musical Memphis. Along with lyricist Joe DiPietro, Bryan put his heart and soul into the show, and even missed touring appearances with Bon Jovi for the first time ever to work on it.

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Thanks, Wills, for dropping this in my inbox :)

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivator: Success

Too true, Queenie, too true...

~ hath

Resplendent Randomness ~ Let It Rain

One of my favorite collaborations ever.



~ Hath

Resplendent Randomness ~ Hallelujah

Jon couldn't have scripted the rainfall any better if he tried.
Truly a beautiful performance.



~ Hath

Resplendent Randomness ~ Great Balls of Fire

Goodness, gracious... what a fun little romp :)



~ Hath

Bon Jovi in Glastonbury?

Um, okay, so now you all know where to hang out when the boys hit London :)

Bon Jovi have revealed that they are "toying" with the idea of performing at Glastonbury next year.

The group, who were recently declared the highest grossing tour act of 2010, said they would consider performing at the three-day event if they were invited by organiser Michael Eavis.

"I've always toyed with the idea of playing there," Jovi told the Daily Star.

"If they don’t have another old-timer like me, I’d love to go out and see it and perhaps do a set, sure."

The 'Living On A Prayer' rockers, who are due to play London's Hard Rock Calling festival next year, also revealed that they were persuaded to play the event over a concert at Wembley Stadium because of the gig's location.

Jovi explained: "We could have sold out Wembley Stadium no problem but Hyde Park is right out the back door of the hotel I stay at in London.

"The traffic of getting to Wemb­ley from central London I’ve done enough times. I like to walk across the park - it’s that simple."

~ Hath

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Wanted Wednesday: Sydney, December 18, 2010

Please rise, for the singing of our national anthem...

Yes, it's a recent one. Very recent. Ripped from jovigirlfm's YouTube posting. Thank you, JGFM for posting this. One of the most beautiful versions I've heard in a while.

The audience sings the first verse, then right around 1:58 Jon looks at Richie and says (what looks like) "you wanna go up?" and Richie takes the mic.

Let me say that again.

Richie takes the mic.

That hasn't happened in AGES! Of course, this show was one for the record books. The story from Backstage (shared with me by someone who'll remain anonymous unless she comes forward) is that a FAN'S setlist was passed to Jon during the Q&A. He spent some time with it, made some adjustments and boom! Well, read for yourself. As a note, I apologize in advance if this irks any Backstagers -- but this is a great story, and should be heard by the rest of the fandom, especially those of us -- myself front and center and loud and proud -- who bitch about the set lists.

Hi all. Let me tell you the story about the wish set list that got turned into tonights awesome set list.

Last week after the Etihad show, flutes, Helly, Helly's other half CJ and myself were drinking at Crown Casino. We were feeling a bit deflated after a vanilla show at Etihad following the amazing show we had the night before at Rod Laver. We were a little drunk (just a little) and decided to compile our dream, wish, but realistic set list. This process started on post it notes at about 1:30am Sunday morning and was completed later that afternoon - after more drinking. I decided to type it up nicely and try and make it look as close as possible to a real set list. I printed several copies and flutes bought some duct tape, so if we got the opportunity to present it to Jon during the Q&A, we could say "we have enough copies for the band and here is some duct tape for the stage as well".

And boy, did we get a chance to present it to Jon during the Q&A. I can't remember excactly what flutes said - I'm sure many videos will follow - but the gist was "You've been known to change the set list up, we'd like you to do that tonight, and here is our suggestions."

He came over and took the list from flutes and then spent a couple of minutes studying it and commenting on it. Side note: CJ renamed "No Apologies" to "No Wasabi Peas" for some reason, I'm sure it had nothing to do with the drinking at the time. ;-)

Back to the wish set list, Jon asked "Is this in order?" and we said "Yes". He said there are a couple of songs they don't do, but as he examined the list further you could see him thinking about it. He then asked for a pen to "work on it".

But that's not the end of it. Towards the end of the Q&A someone requested a song so he picked our wish list back up, pen in hand and started going through it. He asked the room for our pick of ballad - we selected "Living in Sin" - and you could see him making a lot of notes on it.

After the Q&A and before the concert, we had feedback that the real show set list had been changed considerably to cater for the wish set list songs....so you can imagine our excitement to hear how just how many and what ones.

In the end? 12 out of our songs were played, six of them were what we considered "special" requests.

Uh, wow. Jon, this was wonderful. Should be precedent-setting, actually. Just sayin'.

Well, enough yammerin.

Let's Ride!









You can download the mp3 here.

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivator: Peek-a-Boo

*gasp* Catte!  lol

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivator: Munchies

Mmm, Catte, I sure wouldn't mind taking a bite.  Thanks for this one :)

~ Hath

Last Call: New Post

The next chapter has been posted.  Click here to see if Richie decided to take Aimee up on her invitation :)

~ Hath

BJCT Post: Sydney (Night 3)

Bon Jovi was in Sydney last night!

Check out the BJCT for setlist, photos, and videos/audio (as we find it).

Have anything you want to share? Drop a line to the BJCT Blog Team

~ Hath

How I Spent My Saturday

I've created my own platoon.

Fabricated one out of mint and glue and plastic googley eyes and pompoms and chenille sticks and tacky craft glue.

An honest-to-goodness platoon

Of candy-cane reindeer.

Yep, fearsome candy-cane reindeer.

This involved a trip to the local mall, which was freaking INSANE just one week before Christmas.  Honestly, people, if you don't have your shopping done by now, I have five words for you: Internet Shopping, Next Day Delivery.

Just sayin'.

But, I digress.

I had to venture into the third circle of Hell -- we were out of eyes.

Can't have a platoon without eyes.

Hathlet thought we were making an army, but frankly 60,000 soldiers was JUST a bit outside my patience zone.

So we have two platoons, actually.  The first one is on desk duty, and will accompany me via train transport on Wednesday.  Once on location, the soldiers will split off into maneuver teams and fulfill their peacekeeping mission.  This is a covert affair, so no photographs of this platoon have been taken.

The second is on school duty, and will deploy this coming Thursday.  The platoon needed transport, so we built a man-mover (cane-carrier?) that will help the platoon take the school.  As this is a tactical maneuver, and not covert in any way, the platoon, under the leadership of First Lieutenant Brady Brown-nose, posed with their transport prior to being released on liberty.

Did I put way too much thought into this?

Yep.

Insomnia's a bitch.

~ Hath