New Jersey Syndicate Tour

The Jersey Syndicate Tour (also known as The Brotherhood on Tour and New Jersey: The Tour) was the fourth concert tour by American band Bon Jovi, that ran from 1988 to 1990. The massive, highly successful world tour was put on in support of the band's fourth studio album New Jersey (1988).

Jersey Syndicate Tour
Tour by Bon Jovi
Cover of tour programme
Associated albumNew Jersey
Start dateOctober 31, 1988 (1988-10-31)
End dateFebruary 17, 1990 (1990-02-17)
Legs8
No. of shows61 in Europe
7 in Asia
151 in North America
10 in Australasia
9 in South America
238 total
Bon Jovi concert chronology

Background

The tour was the band's first major world tour taking them to new continents of Australia and Europe. Bon Jovi also made history in becoming one of the first North American bands to play Russia, with two performances there at the Moscow Music Peace Festival on August 12–13, 1989.[1]

The tour was very grueling and exhausting and led to the band's hiatus at the tour's conclusion. Bon Jovi had toured heavily since 1984 and the tour put pressures on the band's relationships with each other and their families, on their health, and their emotions. The tour was often noted for its extended musical performances of songs, which would often run twice the length of the album track as well as raw emotional vocal performances by Jon Bon Jovi. Jon had to enlist the help of a vocal coach to help sustain his voice and lead guitarist Richie Sambora would often help out more on the high notes. The band would also perform some of their songs in acoustic format, signaling a change in musical style and maturation of the band.

The concert performances on the tour featured vivid pyrotechnics, a catwalk elevated above the crowd, and Jon entering the stage through a hole in the stage. Prior to the band taking the stage Emerson Lake & Palmer's Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part Two was played at full volume over the PA. The concerts also required extensive security due to the band's iconic status as major rock stars of the time.

In addition, Bon Jovi shot the music videos for "Lay Your Hands on Me", "I'll Be There for You", and "Blood on Blood" during performances on the tour, and recorded footage for their video releases Access All Areas and New Jersey: The Videos on this tour.

This was the last tour by the band to feature a notable amount of material from their first two albums. After the band hit it big with the album Slippery When Wet, they began to phase their pre-stardom material out of their live sets because according to interviews it did not match the standards set by the material on their later releases. Even on this tour only "Runaway" and "Get Ready" from Bon Jovi and "Tokyo Road" from 7800° Fahrenheit were performed except for one performance of "Silent Night" at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1990.[2]

With the exception of "Runaway", which is still played regularly to this day, virtually nothing from those albums has been performed since the tour's conclusion (though a notable exception is on "The Circle Tour" in 2010 in which Get Ready, Shot Through the Heart, Tokyo Road, Roulette and Only Lonely were played).

Opening acts

Setlist

The following setlist was obtained from the concert held on March 15, 1989, at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour.

  1. "Lay Your Hands on Me"
  2. "I'd Die for You"
  3. "Wild in the Streets"
  4. "You Give Love a Bad Name"
  5. "Tokyo Road"
  6. "Born to Be My Baby"
  7. "Let It Rock"
  8. "I'll Be There for You"
  9. "Blood on Blood"
  10. "Runaway"
  11. "Livin' on a Prayer"
  12. "Living in Sin"
  13. "Travelin' Band"
  14. "Ride Cowboy Ride"
  15. "Wanted Dead or Alive"
  16. "Bad Medicine"
  17. "Shout"
  18. "Never Say Goodbye"

Tour dates
List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
Date City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
Europe[6]
October 31, 1988 Dublin Ireland RDS Simmonscourt — —
November 1, 1988
November 4, 1988 Stuttgart West Germany Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
November 6, 1988 Frankfurt Festhalle Frankfurt
November 7, 1988 Saarbrücken Saarlandhalle
November 10, 1988 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion
November 11, 1988
November 13, 1988 Florence Italy Palasport
November 14, 1988 Rome Palazzo dello Sport
November 16, 1988 Milan Palatrussardi
November 17, 1988
November 20, 1988 Paris France Zénith de Paris
November 21, 1988 Rotterdam Netherlands Sportpaleis von Ahoy
November 24, 1988 Drammen Norway Drammenshallen
November 25, 1988 Gothenburg Sweden Scandinavium
November 26, 1988 Stockholm Johanneshovs Isstadion
November 28, 1988 Helsinki Finland Helsingin Jäähalli
December 2, 1988 Glasgow Scotland SECC Concert Hall 4
December 3, 1988
December 5, 1988 Birmingham England NEC Arena
December 6, 1988
December 8, 1988 London Wembley Arena
December 9, 1988
December 11, 1988 Birmingham NEC Arena
December 12, 1988 London Wembley Arena
December 13, 1988
December 15, 1988 Brussels Belgium Forest National
December 16, 1988 Dortmund West Germany Westfalenhallen
December 17, 1988 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
December 19, 1988 Munich Olympiahalle
Asia
December 31, 1988[A] Tokyo Japan Tokyo Dome — —
January 1, 1989[A]
January 5, 1989 Osaka Osaka-Jo Hall
January 6, 1989
January 7, 1989
January 9, 1989 Nagoya Nagoya Rainbow Hall
January 10, 1989
North America[7][8]
January 13, 1989 Honolulu United States Blaisdell Arena — —
January 14, 1989
January 15, 1989
January 26, 1989 Dallas Reunion Arena 16,761 / 19,000 $311,351
January 27, 1989 San Antonio San Antonio Convention Center 13,659 / 13,659 $195,930
January 29, 1989 Houston The Summit 16,223 / 16,509 $278,285
January 30, 1989 Austin Frank Erwin Center 15,277 / 15,277 $217,309
February 1, 1989 Biloxi Mississippi Coast Coliseum 13,100 / 13,100 $224,613
February 2, 1989 Baton Rouge LSU Assembly Center 11,772 / 11,772 $199,877
February 4, 1989 Pensacola Pensacola Civic Center 12,010 / 12,010 $209,178
February 5, 1989 Tallahassee Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center 11,420 / 11,420 $196,123
February 7, 1989 Jacksonville Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Coliseum 11,676 / 11,676 $200,288
February 9, 1989 Miami Miami Arena 15,741 / 15,741 $291,209
February 10, 1989 Orlando Orlando Arena 14,749 / 14,749 $258,108
February 11, 1989 San Juan Puerto Rico Estadio Hiram Bithorn — —
February 14, 1989 Birmingham United States BJCC Coliseum 15,500 / 15,500 $267,545
February 15, 1989 Atlanta Omni Coliseum 15,816 / 15,816 $292,596
February 17, 1989 Charlotte Charlotte Coliseum — —
February 19, 1989 Chapel Hill Dean Smith Center 19,376 / 19,376 $329,360
February 20, 1989 Murfreesboro Murphy Athletic Center 11,314 / 11,314 $192,338
February 22, 1989 Memphis Mid-South Coliseum 11,122 / 11,122 $190,740
February 23, 1989 Knoxville Thompson–Boling Arena 13,600 / 14,672 $238,000
February 26, 1989 Lexington Rupp Arena 14,635 / 18,000 $270,748
February 28, 1989 Hampton Hampton Coliseum — —
March 2, 1989 Providence Providence Civic Center 14,029 / 14,029 $259,537
March 3, 1989 Syracuse Carrier Dome — —
March 6, 1989 Hartford Hartford Civic Center
March 7, 1989 Landover Capital Centre
March 8, 1989 Philadelphia Spectrum 18,263 / 18,263 $308,805
March 10, 1989 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 17,165 / 17,165 $341,728
March 12, 1989 Worcester The Centrum in Worcester 25,003 / 25,003 $462,556
March 13, 1989
March 15, 1989 East Rutherford Brendan Byrne Arena — —
March 21, 1989 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 19,812 / 19,812 $396,240
March 22, 1989 Evansville Roberts Municipal Stadium 10,353 / 10,353 $182,423
March 24, 1989 Rosemont Rosemont Horizon 17,122 / 17,122 $342,440
March 25, 1989 Richfield Township The Coliseum at Richfield 18,160 / 18,160 $326,880
March 26, 1989 Indianapolis Market Square Arena 16,632 / 16,632 $291,060
March 28, 1989 Iowa City Carver–Hawkeye Arena 11,570 / 11,570 $200,596
March 29, 1989 Champaign Assembly Hall — —
April 1, 1989 Milwaukee Bradley Center 17,994 / 17,994 $334,685
April 2, 1989 Ames Hilton Coliseum 11,957 / 11,957 $203,269
April 4, 1989 Bloomington Metropolitan Sports Center 16,071 / 16,071 $296,574
April 5, 1989 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium 12,000 / 12,000 $201,076
April 7, 1989 St. Louis St. Louis Arena 16,776 / 16,776 $293,832
April 8, 1989 Carbondale SIU Arena 9,780 / 9,780 $166,260
April 10, 1989 Park City Britt Brown Arena 12,000 / 12,000 $210,000
April 11, 1989 Oklahoma City Myriad Convention Center 14,348 / 14,348 $245,490
April 13, 1989 Kansas City Kemper Arena — —
April 15, 1989 Lubbock Lubbock Municipal Coliseum 10,600 / 10,600 $169,406
April 16, 1989 Las Cruces Pan American Center 10,963 / 12,547 $186,025
April 18, 1989 Albuquerque Tingley Coliseum 10,656 / 10,656 $184,345
April 20, 1989 Chandler Compton Terrace 16,000 / 16,000 $257,153
April 21, 1989 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 12,603 / 13,781 $210,735
April 22, 1989 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 15,000 / 15,000 $306,880
April 24, 1989 Las Vegas Thomas & Mack Center 10,145 / 10,145 $177,537
April 25, 1989 Inglewood Great Western Forum 31,580 / 31,580 $528,101
April 26, 1989
April 29, 1989 Mountain View Shoreline Amphitheatre 35,284 / 37,878 $648,770
April 30, 1989
May 2, 1989 Salt Lake City Salt Palace — —
May 3, 1989
May 5, 1989 Boise BSU Pavilion 9,566 / 12,428 $132,876
May 7, 1989 Pullman Beasley Coliseum 9,493 / 12,520 $170,663
May 8, 1989 Portland Memorial Coliseum 21,492 / 21,492 $354,849
May 9, 1989
May 10, 1989 Tacoma Tacoma Dome 23,141 / 28,855 $430,920
May 11, 1989 Vancouver Canada BC Place — —
May 13, 1989 Anchorage United States Sullivan Arena
May 14, 1989
May 15, 1989
May 27, 1989 Mears Val Du Lakes Amphitheatre
May 28, 1989 Detroit Joe Louis Arena 17,877 / 19,868 $357,540
May 29, 1989 Peoria Peoria Civic Center 8,305 / 8,305 $153,643
May 31, 1989 Charleston Charleston Civic Center 10,899 / 11,000 $190,733
June 2, 1989 Toronto Canada CNE Grandstand 21,312 / 21,312 $431,883
June 3, 1989 Montreal Montreal Forum 15,207 / 15,207 $272,459
June 4, 1989 Quebec City Colisée de Québec 13,873 / 14,320 $248,558
June 7, 1989 Providence United States Providence Civic Center 13,816 / 13,816 $255,596
June 8, 1989 Plains Township Pocono Downs — —
June 9, 1989 Hershey Hersheypark Stadium 20,041 / 20,041 $370,760
June 11, 1989 East Rutherford Giants Stadium 72,641 / 72,641 $1,474,788
June 13, 1989 Pittsburgh Civic Arena 30,828 / 30,828 $592,209
June 14, 1989
June 16, 1989 Johnstown Point Stadium 12,653 / 14,000 $225,506
June 19, 1989 Philadelphia Spectrum 29,083 / 29,083 $516,557
June 20, 1989
June 22, 1989 Old Orchard Beach Seashore Performing Arts Center — —
June 23, 1989 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 30,101 / 30,101 $544,515
June 24, 1989
June 25, 1989 Saratoga Springs Saratoga Speedway — —
June 28, 1989 Mansfield Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts
June 29, 1989
June 30, 1989
July 2, 1989 Thornville Buckeye Lake Music Center
July 3, 1989 Akron Rubber Bowl
July 5, 1989 Rochester Silver Stadium 16,367 / 30,000 $319,156
July 6, 1989 Niagara Falls Niagara Falls Civic Center — —
July 8, 1989 Manchester Riverfront Park
July 9, 1989 Middletown Orange County Fair Speedway
July 11, 1989 Landover Capital Centre 14,808 / 15,000 $273,948
July 12, 1989 Richmond Richmond Coliseum 10,352 / 12,500 $170,808
July 14, 1989 Chattanooga UTC Arena 11,852 / 11,852 $202,440
July 15, 1989 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum 12,123 / 12,123 $224,276
July 16, 1989 Columbia Carolina Coliseum 11,983 / 11,983 $210,345
July 18, 1989 Noblesville Deer Creek Music Center — —
July 19, 1989 Nashville Starwood Amphitheatre
July 20, 1989 Atlanta Lakewood Amphitheatre
July 22, 1989 Lafayette Cajundome 10,200 / 10,200 $182,503
July 23, 1989 New Orleans UNO Lakefront Arena 10,601 / 10,601 $193,362
July 25, 1989 Dallas Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre 14,887 / 20,000 $268,022
July 28, 1989 Greenwood Village Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre — —
July 29, 1989
July 30, 1989 Topeka Landon Arena 9,864 / 9,864 $162,755
July 31, 1989 Omaha Omaha Civic Auditorium 12,000 / 12,000 $206,376
August 1, 1989 Bloomington Metropolitan Sports Center 17,325 / 17,325 $301,643
August 2, 1989 Cedar Rapids Five Seasons Center 10,000 / 10,000 $170,110
August 4, 1989 East Troy Alpine Valley Music Theatre 30,353 / 40,000 $579,956
Europe[9]
August 12, 1989[B] Soviet Union Russia Central Lenin Stadium — —
August 13, 1989[B]
August 19, 1989[C] Milton Keynes England Milton Keynes Bowl
North America[10]
August 23, 1989 Charlevoix United States Castle Farms Music Theatre — —
August 25, 1989 Winnipeg Canada Winnipeg Arena
August 26, 1989 Regina Regina Agridome
August 28, 1989 Calgary Olympic Saddledome 14,445 / 15,000 $288,560
August 29, 1989 Edmonton Northlands Coliseum — —
August 30, 1989 Saskatoon Saskatchewan Place 10,454 / 10,454 $218,498
September 1, 1989 Casper United States Casper Events Center — —
September 2, 1989 Rapid City Rushmore Plaza Civic Center 11,000 / 11,000 $199,930
September 3, 1989 Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Arena — —
September 7, 1989 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 30,000 / 30,000 $632,773
September 8, 1989 Sacramento Cal Expo Amphitheatre 28,000 / 28,000 $551,485
September 9, 1989
September 10, 1989 Irvine Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre — —
September 12, 1989 Phoenix Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum 14,000 / 14,000 $251,636
September 14, 1989 Tulsa Tulsa Convention Center — —
September 15, 1989 Shreveport Hirsch Memorial Coliseum
September 16, 1989 Little Rock Barton Coliseum
September 17, 1989 Jackson Mississippi Coliseum
September 19, 1989 Huntsville Von Braun Civic Center
September 20, 1989 Augusta Augusta-Richmond County Civic Center 9,000 / 9,000 $161,857
September 21, 1989 Albany Albany Civic Center 11,347 / 12,300 $207,290
September 23, 1989 Miami Miami Arena 15,649 / 15,649 $277,680
September 24, 1989 Lakeland Jenkins Arena 19,516 / 19,516 $351,288
September 25, 1989
September 27, 1989 Mobile Mobile Civic Center 15,000 / 15,000 $262,500
September 28, 1989 Lake Charles Lake Charles Civic Center — —
September 29, 1989 Houston The Summit 14,966 / 16,000 $263,336
September 30, 1989 Abilene Taylor County Coliseum — —
October 1, 1989 Bonner Springs Sandstone Center for the Performing Arts
October 2, 1989 Columbia Hearnes Center 8,209 / 8,209 $134,345
October 3, 1989 Louisville Freedom Hall 14,712 / 14,712 $257,460
October 4, 1989 Cincinnati Riverfront Coliseum 15,372 / 15,372 $275,946
Oceania
October 31, 1989 Brisbane Australia Brisbane Entertainment Centre — —
November 1, 1989
November 2, 1989 Sydney Sydney Entertainment Centre
November 3, 1989
November 4, 1989
November 8, 1989 Perth Perth Entertainment Centre
November 11, 1989 Adelaide Memorial Drive Park
November 13, 1989 Melbourne Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre
November 14, 1989
November 18, 1989 Auckland New Zealand Western Springs Stadium
Europe
November 29, 1989 Cascais Portugal Pavilhão Dramático de Cascais — —
December 1, 1989 Madrid Spain Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid
December 2, 1989 Barcelona Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
December 3, 1989 San Sebastián Velódromo de Anoeta
December 5, 1989 Paris France Le Grande Nef
December 6, 1989 Rotterdam Netherlands Sportpaleis von Ahoy
December 7, 1989 Cologne West Germany Kölner Sporthalle
December 9, 1989 Oldenburg Weser-Ems Halle
December 10, 1989 Hamburg Alsterdorfer Sporthalle
December 11, 1989 Copenhagen Denmark Valby-Hallen
December 13, 1989 Helsinki Finland Helsingin Jäähalli
December 15, 1989 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Globe Arena
December 16, 1989 Gothenburg Scandinavium
December 18, 1989 Drammen Norway Drammenshallen
December 21, 1989 Munich West Germany Olympiahalle
December 22, 1989 Zurich Switzerland Hallenstadion
December 23, 1989[D] Frankfurt West Germany Festhalle Frankfurt
December 27, 1989 Birmingham England NEC Areana
December 28, 1989
December 29, 1989
December 30, 1989
January 2, 1990 London Wembley Arena
January 3, 1990
January 4, 1990
January 6, 1990 Belfast Northern Ireland King's Hall
January 8, 1990 Dublin Ireland Point Theatre
January 9, 1990
January 10, 1990[E] London England Hammersmith Apollo
Latin America[11]
January 19, 1990[F] São Paulo Brazil Estádio do Morumbi — —
January 26, 1990[F] Rio de Janeiro Praça da Apoteose
January 28, 1990 Bogotá Colombia Estadio El Campín
February 1, 1990[G] Buenos Aires Argentina Estadio José Amalfitani
February 6, 1990 Santiago Chile Estadio Nacional
February 9, 1990 Monterrey Mexico Estadio Tecnológico — —
February 10, 1990
February 16, 1990 Guadalajara Estadio Tecnológico
February 17, 1990
Festivals and other miscellaneous performances
A This concert was a part of "Heat Beat Live"[12]
B This concert was a part of the "Moscow Music Peace Festival"[13]
C This concert was a part of the "Milton Keynes Festival"[14]
D This concert was a part of the "Christmas Rock Festival"
E This concert was a part of a charity benefit for "Nordoff–Robbins music therapy"
F This concert was a part of "Hollywood Rock"
G This concert was a part of the "Derby Rocks Festival"
Cancellations and rescheduled shows
January 7, 1989 Osaka, Japan Osaka-jō Hall Cancelled
February 25, 1989 Cincinnati, Ohio Riverfront Coliseum Cancelled
March 21, 1989 Auburn Hills, Michigan The Palace of Auburn Hills Moved to the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan
March 22, 1989 Notre Dame, Indiana Joyce Center Cancelled
March 28, 1989 Rosemont, Illinois Rosemont Horizon Cancelled
May 6, 1989 Spokane, Washington Spokane Coliseum Rescheduled to May 7, 1989, and moved to the Beasley Coliseum in Pullman, Washington
May 31, 1989 Ottawa, Canada Ottawa Civic Centre Cancelled
June 1, 1989 Niagara Falls, New York Niagara Falls Civic Center Rescheduled to July 6, 1989
June 6, 1989 Old Orchard Beach, Maine Seashore Performing Arts Center Rescheduled to June 22, 1989
February 10, 1990 Querétaro City, Mexico Estadio Corregidora Cancelled
February 11, 1990 Querétaro City, Mexico Estadio Corregidora Cancelled
February 13, 1990 Mexico City, Mexico Estadio Azulgrana Cancelled

References
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  2. "Bon Jovi January 10, 1990 Hammersmith Apollo London, U.K." Bon Jovi Archives. January 2020. Archived from the original on January 28, 2020. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  3. "New Jersey (1988-1990)". Bon Jovi Museum Collection. November 2001. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  4. Wilker, Deborah (June 11, 1990). "2 LIVE CREW NOT FIRST TO FACE ARREST". Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  5. Daniels, Neil (May 6, 2014). Let It Rock: The Story of Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet. Bedford, England: Soundcheck Books LLP. ISBN 978-0957144286.
  6. Source for tour dates in Italy (November 1988):
  7. Sources for tour dates in Orlando, Inglewood, Oklahoma City and Saratoga Springs:
  8. Sources for North American box score data (January-August 1989):
  9. Source for tour dates in Russia:
  10. Sources for North American box score data (August-October 1989):
  11. Molina, Gilberto (September 28, 2013). "Bon Jovi, ¿vivo o muerto?" [Bon Jovi, dead or alive?]. El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  12. "BON JOVI他 Sanyo Heat Beat Live '89 フライヤー" [BON JOVI and others Sanyo Heat Beat Live '89 Flyer]. Mercari (in Japanese). November 4, 2014. Archived from the original on January 1, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2022.
  13. Wilker, Deborah (August 11, 1989). "METAL BANDS TO VISIT MOSCOW POORLY REPRESENT U.S. MUSIC". Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on December 21, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2017.
  14. "Heart Break" (PDF). Record Mirror. London, England: United Newspapers: 5. August 19, 1989. ISSN 0144-5804. Retrieved December 22, 2021.
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