Poison Ivy was honored to be a part of what Bon Joviis calling “the biggest crowd [the Today Show] has ever had in the Plaza!”
Talk about a birthday present!!!
(Today is our 24th. 🙂
Bon Jovi visited NBC’s Today Show early Wednesday morning to perform four songs for the die-hard crowd, many of whom waited overnight in the cold: “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Work for the Working Man,” and new single “Superman Tonight.”
We’d never come home without a goody bag, so check out a clip we got from the never-televised soundcheck of “Working Man,” below.
“This is very foreign to us,” Jon Bon Jovi said to a crowd of some 900 fans who gathered at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall Monday night.
“It’s usually 65,000 people,” he elaborated, “or just us.”
The intimate event, sponsored by American Express with ticket sales benefiting New York hunger foundation City Harvest, featured a two-hour Q&A moderated by When We Were Beautifuldirector Phil Griffin and a handful of unplugged songs by Bon Jovi and a four-piece backing band.
Fans from the tri-state area flocked to NYC to attend the 25-year-old-band’s rare appearance, which was announced and sold to American Express cardmembers exclusively via Twitter.
Highlight performances of the night included “Livin’ On a Prayer,” “Superman,” “Whole Lot of Leaving,” (dedicated to guitarist Richie Sambora), a cover of Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah,” and new single “We Weren’t Born to Follow,” off the band’s latest record The Circle.
“We’ve tried to see the glass half-full,” Bon Jovi said, of his overwhelmingly positive songs. “From ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ to ‘Born to Follow,’ there’s been this theme of responsible optimism.”
Though the night focused on the meanings behind the music, Bon Jovi got jovial with the crowd at times, at one point asking them to “Be honest. Everyone here, when we said we were doing a country record, [thought]: ‘You motherf***er’.”
Following the performance and Q&A, audience members had an opportunity to ask questions, the most poignant being, “50 years from now, which song would [Bon Jovi] choose to be remembered by?”
“‘Prayer’ would probably be high on that list,” Jovi answered, after a moment of thinking.
He then looked down as if to say he changed his mind.
“I don’t know,” he added. “I’m not writing my epitaph yet.”
Check out a video of that response, along with some snapshots of the night, below.
Bon Jovihave announced dates for a two-year world tour that will kick off Feb. 19, 2010 in Seattle and support their forthcoming record The Circle, due Nov. 12.
“It’s a big world and we still make house calls,” Jon Bon Jovi said during a parking lot press conference/concert outside of Meadowlands stadium Thursday.
The tour will feature 135 shows in 30 countries, and mark the first time a band will play New Jersey’s new Meadowlands football stadium – May 26 and 27, 2010.
Poison Ivy was honored to be a part of what Bon Jovi is calling “the biggest crowd [the Today Show] has ever had in the Plaza!”
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