The Have a Nice Day Tour was a worldwide

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by American rock band

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. It took place between November 2005 and July 2006. The tour supported their ninth studio album '' Have a Nice Day''. The tour was a significant commercial successthe group played to about 2 million fans and the tour grossed a total of $132 million. It was the third-highest-grossing tour of 2006, just behind

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' A Bigger Bang World Tour and

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's Confessions Tour.

The show

The

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s greatly varied between concerts, so after each show its set list was posted on the official website. Most concerts began with the song "Last Man Standing" from the ''Have a Nice Day'' record, with the show beginning as

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suddenly appeared on a small platform in the middle of the audience at the far end from the stage, followed by " You Give Love a Bad Name". "

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" was almost always played as the finalé before any encores. For the early North American and United Kingdom dates, each city had a local band open for Bon Jovi; the band had decided this for a chance to promote local talent. Canadian band

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, who had great success with their latest release ('' All The Right Reasons'') supported Bon Jovi on the European dates of the tour, as well as on the band's summer stadium tour in North America.

Opening act

(since European leg except in Hollywood)

Setlist

Typical setlist: # "Last Man Standing" # " You Give Love a Bad Name" # "Complicated" # " Born to Be My Baby" # "Story of My Life" # " I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" # " Runaway" # "The Radio Saved My Life Tonight" # "Novocaine" # "

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" (

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cover) # " Have a Nice Day" # "

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?" # " It's My Life" # " I'll Be There for You" # " Blaze of Glory" (cover) # "

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" # " Bad Medicine" # "Raise Your Hands" # "

" Encore: #

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" #

"In These Arms" #

" Everyday" #

" Wanted Dead or Alive" #

" Someday I'll Be Saturday Night"

Tour dates

: These performances were originally scheduled at the new

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in London (the band were due to be the first band to play at the new stadium, having closed the old stadium with their Crush Tour in August 2000), however they were moved when the completion of the stadium was delayed until 2007.

Personnel

Bon Jovi *

– lead vocals, acoustic guitar,

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s for Keep the Faith *

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– lead guitar,

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, backing vocals *

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– keyboards, backing vocals * Tico Torres – drums, percussion Additional musicians * Hugh McDonald – bass, backing vocals * Bobby Bandiera – rhythm guitar, backing vocals * Jeff Kazee – keyboards,

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, backing vocals

Notes

References

External links

Official tour website
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