I posted a gallery of photos from the Bon Jovi concert at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, the band's second of two shows in New York this week.

Some notes:

• First, it was fun as hell. I've been to a few Bon Jovi shows, and the crowd just goes nuts for them. Mix that energy with a bunch of beers, eye candy and catchy arena rock that everyone knows the words to, and you've got a pretty good weeknight.

• The crowd was frighteningly homogenous. Looked like a damn KKK rally, but that's concerts for ya. Perhaps the most self-segregated part of American society.

• The arena was jammed, despite a flood of tickets available on eBay and Craig's List the day of the show. Lots of pairs everywhere, and we were lucky enough to pay $230 total for four tickets in Section 222 that each carried a face value of $115 after "convenience" fees and equally maddening facility charges. The moral is this: unless it's a gotta-have-it show, and unless you need a lot of tickets together, wait it out on the secondary market, which can't bear today's ridiculously high concert fees. And knowing that Ticketfast technology has attracted out-of-state brokers, e-mailable tickets on eBay is a great day-of option when some dude in North Carolina is stuck and, obviously, can't tap into his local client base.

• Concert-goers said Tuesday's show was exactly the same as Monday's, which is the definition of a Bon Jovi show. Maybe a little too polished, a little too calculated. They could play the world's most famous arena or a war memorial in a generic town, and they won't waver an inch. But that's how they survived the '80s with nary a scratch, by sticking with a proven formula. Bruce Springsteen would have none of that, as his shows can vary by several songs from night to night.

• I don't think I've ever met a woman who wasn't in love with Jon Bon Jovi. Try to find a gal who wouldn't fuck him in a pool of vomit while her parents watched. It's impossible. Of course, he got married long ago, which is still one of the great mysteries of all time. If I were Bon Jovi's fifth cousin, I wouldn't get married, let alone being the guy himself.

• Take your pick on super gay moment of the night: 1) A guy in a bar wearing a photo shirt you buy at a mall stand, showing him having met Bon Jovi. The shirt read: "MIKE AND BON JOVI. YOU KNOW IT!" Again, this was a dude. 2) JBJ and Richie Sambora sharing a microphone for all of "I'll Be There for You." Eyes closed, sweating, lips about an inch apart, Richie's own mic standing unused many feet away so girls can wet themselves over this contrived crap on the big screen. Piss break!