These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.

I also write reviews about these concerts, on social media. 
On Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram .

Those reviews offer interesting stories about the concerts and come with customized art work.

Meanwhile I’ll be making my way back to my yoga mat, since this site is called #dailybonjoviyoga, and I DO crave doing yoga and to one day start combining yoga with Bon Jovi, as I always intended this site to be about.

And yoga and Bon Jovi, as I once upon a time, not so long ago, also intended my YouTube channel to be about.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.

It is the week of 

Everyone, everywhere, getting back to where it all began all at once

👩🏼‍💻 the story 10 june

.
Today it is exactly one year ago I started the Bon Jovi Soundtrack of the Day . The series didn’t have the shape it has today, but it didn’t come out of the blue first of its kind either. 

The roots of this series go back to 2020 when I started a series on YouTube reviewing Bon Jovi concerts from 1995.
I made a playlist of this series, something I failed to do at the time, but here it is:

{ unfinished 2020 project } Video Bon Jovi Concert Reviews 1995-1996

The concert reviews were meant to start with the concerts from the first leg of the tour new YouTuber SantiJovi most accurately labels in the description box of his upload of Basel 10 June 1995 as the:
“Crossroad”, “Here, There and Everywhere” or “whatever you want to call it” tour.
My videos were going to be about that tour, also known as the These Days Tour 1995.
In 1995 it could not be called that These Days Tour because the album would not be released until late June 1995.

I have ultimately chosen to name both the 1995 and the 1996 tour the These Days Tour, and just change the year.
So my 2020-2021 video series was meant to cover THAT tour, starting April 1995 in Asia.
And then make reviews about these concerts all the way up to over one year later, and end with June 9, 1996 in Enschede.

This Enschede concert has now become the final concert in this current series, the Soundtrack of the day.
Enschede was the final concert in last week’s post, where I close my first year of doing this series here.
So today, June 10 2023, I am starting afresh.

It is year 2, day 1, of the Bon Jovi Soundtrack of the day series.

And I’m still making reviews, just like the YouTube series in 2020. But it’s in writing (I wrote this blog daily, in June 2022!) and on social media, and I no longer make a review series on YouTube.
Maybe one day I’ll pick this YouTube series back up.

I know I liked seeing those videos. They came up when I searched for the  YouTube uploads from the concerts for this week. 
I saw my own 2020 videos, of Basel (10 June 1995), Barcelona (13 June 1995), and Spielberg Switzerland (11 June 1995) which was also labeled Zeltweg.
And I remembered that in 2020 I had actually studied this so deeply, I had understood how the Spielberg/ Zeltweg mix-up had occurred.

In the videos I still have shorter hair, I am 5 Covid kilos lighter, and I look so alive! And young, as if a lot longer has passed than just 3 years. In a way it made me sad, watching it. The years have not been kind, so to speak. As they have not been kind to the majority of us, in all fairness so let’s not stay on the self-pity train for too long.

But there has been one cause of me being less alive, less young, less vibrant than 3 years ago that is more personal, and less generic than a Covid-loneliness-quitting yoga studio-starting again, story.
Because the Bon Jovi spark that was lit in 2019 at a Bon Jovi concert, or in preparation thereof, really came to fruition doing those 2020 video reviews!
After a year of having been back on the Bon Jovi wagon, I was clearly ready to level up, and start playing around with something new.
In 2019 I had already started writing about Bon Jovi, and playing around with combining yoga with Bon Jovi, which I called Rock Star Yoga.
But doing concert reviews was totally new.

What I could not foresee is that ultimately, making reviews on one side and developing Rock Star Yoga or even writing about Bon Jovi on the other, required vastly different things.
In fact so different, that they could not be developed at the same time.

In a way starting the review series in 2020, on my YouTube, signed the death of both my Rock Star yoga, or any yoga.
And also of my Rock Star Writer website and any and every writing, even my writing under a totally unrelated alter-ego has absolutely plumeted.

Although the video series would strand and I never quite got the hang of it, it marked the ending of being a natural writer. Or at least of writing about anything else than concerts!

In retrospect there was nothing playful about it.
When in June 2022 I started inserting concerts together with a yoga practice, here on this blog you are now reading;
The story telling and the concerts took over.
And the yoga was only there in theory, because writing about the concerts had taken over my life!

So the reason I look back at my 2020 video reviews and see a blushing woman  is very simple. I was still was a yoga practitioner then.
And I was still a prolific and versatile writer, back then.
Even though I definitely did not see my mat as often as I liked, I had still been teaching yoga at the time.
Something I have only just started picking up; Both teaching and practicing.
I love both, but in particular in the practicing of yoga, I can feel how much I  have lost in a very short time.

So one year ago, I started this series with the goal to develop a system for Bon Jovi yoga. Combining the yoga or suggested practice for the day with a concert of the day, was just a little gimmick.
But the stories I wrote for this blog became longer, and longer. I wrote every day. 

I also developed THREE Rock Star Yoga systems:
– a booklet Bon Jovi Yoga
https://dailybonjoviyoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bon-jovi-yoga-set-list-2.0-yoga-framework-incl-sticky-men-schedules.pdf
– a system to practice yoga based on Tours and cds from before 1997. For example on Wednesday you’d practice with the cd Blaze of Glory. Available  through page Practice materials and schedules
– and I made a playlist 369 Catacombe– a YouTube home study course, visiting the most famous or legendary yoga teachers and different types of yoga, in 369 days.

The spark which was supposed to turn me into a Rock Star Yogi, turned me into a Writer About Concerts-person.
Not into a yoga practitioner!
And all my other writing marginalized…..

I have been a writer since 2006, but always in combination with being a yoga teacher. I think that the first thing that happened was that when I lost my yoga teaching hours during Covid, it tipped me over to The Dark Side, into deep creativity . So in 2020 I was already out of balance.

I knew I wanted more yoga, more physicality, in my life.
But the series that was supposed to do that, this blog and developing all these yoga related Bon Jovi inspired things-
did not do what it was supposed to do.
Instead it pulled me in even deeper into writing, and now a very monomaniac one. And it increased the distance to my yoga mat.
In June 2022 I found myself having four hour blogposts that were cannibalizing every spare minute of my time. 

The past year has been almost exclusively “dedicated” (it’s not that I chose this, it just took over) to writing for this blog, making the two playlists that together cover one entire year of concerts on this day-
and it has been dedicated to making the Bon Jovi reviews for my social media.

I have good hopes that the second round will be less time intensive, also because I have my notes and I have these playlists I created last year.

I only need to update them, it is a deepening. I don’t need to start from scratch  anymore, to list the soundtracks.

And I know what’s for me in store, yoga wise!
I will be teaching yoga on my Dutch channel, and will also start again on my international YouTube channel.
And I have a Dutch yoga company, which I started in May.

Since late last year things have been moving up for me in many ways but seeing those 2020 review videos of the Whatever You Wanna Call It 1995 Bon Jovi Tour?
Boy, that hit me right in the head.

So it’s a mixed bag for me, this year 2, week 1!
The first week of our second year in this series, the Soundtrack of the Day.
We’re starting again, but a little wiser than last year.

Below you find the concerts we have every day, ending on Friday the 16th of June with a recording from 1984.

On 16 June 1984, Bon Jovi were on their first tour;
Opening for The Scorpions in North America.
It’s been a while since we had a recording this old, from this tour. So it feels special to have their beginning, overlap with our beginning this week.

There are also a lot of concerts from 1996, this week.

1996 Shows are according to many, their best performances!

So this week the Soundtracks of the day, always concerts from before 1997, really cover the whole spectrum from their first year 1984 to their final touring year in the 20th century, 1996.
Their best year.

I welcome you again, my friend.
Welcome, to the Bon Jovi Soundtrack of the Day!
Year two.

Or in the words of Jon Bon Jovi, when they played the same venue multiple nights in a row:
“Welcome to round two!”

These are the soundtracks for the upcoming week.

Saturday 10 June
first soundtrack of the year

Bon Jovi
10 June 1993
second night
Osaka, Japan🇯🇵
audio & video
🏟️ Keep The Faith Tour

I hope I actually have time to listen to it, and post a review. There is by design always at least one out of the 7 soundtracks that does not get a review on  my social media, and that is the one played at the day I make this post.
Which means Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
But I’ll give it my best shot to make Osaka 1993 second night the exception!

I have it on speaker now, and dropped in at unbelievable adlibs in I’ll Be There For You + it’s our only concert that has a video this entire week.
So if not this one, then when?
Let’s do everything all at once 😉 

Also played this day:

Bon Jovi
10 June 1995
Basel, Switzerland🇨🇭 
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

My video review for Basel from 2020.
I did not watch any of these videos, other than that I made an appointment at the hairdresser, to cut my hair to the way it was then! 😉 

.
Sunday 11 June

Bon Jovi
11 June, 1989
East Rutherford, New Jersey 🇺🇸
first time they played at the Giants Stadium
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

June 11, 2023: I see this recording does have video too!
“East Rutherford, New Jersey 🇺🇸
-> audio + video <-
first time they played at the Giants Stadium”
So it’s not just Osaka 1993 this week, but the show at the Giant’s Stadium has video as well.

And the absolute best you can have, because I also discovered there is a special edit from hAnD90, including voice-overs from interviews they gave at the time.
Bon Jovi | Legendary First Concert at Giants Stadium | 30th Anniversary | New Jersey 1989
This edit is ten minutes shorter than the “official” Joey Keys edit above, but I have no doubt it will make up for it in many ways.
(I don’t know which part was cut)

Also played this day 1

Bon Jovi
11 June 1995
Speilberg/Zeltweg, Switzerland🇨🇭 
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

My video review for Zeltweg from 2020

Also played this day 2

Bon Jovi
11 June 1996
Bettembourg, Luxembourg🇱🇺
🏟️ These Days Tour 1996

My written review for Bettembourg in the daily Bon Jovi Yoga post from one year ago

Also played on this day 3

Bon Jovi 
11 June, 1987
Kansas, Missouri 🇺🇸
one song you Give Love a Bad Name + incl famous “Fight” speech!
🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour

note 12 June, 2023
Last night, the full Kansas show was uploaded to YouTube, for the first time ever!
Bon Jovi | Live at Kemper Arena | June Concert | Kansas City 1987
Definitely worth reading the description box for the backstory of this rare recording.

.
Monday 12 June

On the 13th of June three concerts were played;
They will be spread out over 12, 13, and 14 June.

Bon Jovi
13 Jun 1996
Erfurt, Germany🇩🇪
🏟️ These Days Tour 1996

.
Tuesday 13 June

On the 13th of June three concerts were played;
They will be spread out over 12, 13, and 14 June.

Bon Jovi
13 Jun 1993
Nagoya, Japan 🇯🇵
🏟️ Keep The Faith Tour

.
Wednesday 14 June

On the 13th of June three concerts were played;
They will be spread out over 12, 13, and 14 June.

Bon Jovi
13 June 1995
Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

My Barcelona video review is spread over 2 videos, in the playlist.

Also played this day:

Bon Jovi
14 June, 1995
streets of
Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Cardiff and London 🇬🇧
audio & video full performance Glasgow Tower Records🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
MTV item with footage London🇬🇧
🏟️ promotion during These Days Tour 1995

Tower Records video review 2020

My 2022 written review about the promotional gigs + secret shows 1985 no one knows about ->
What “days off”? | secret shows 1985 + Bon Jovi June 14 1995 United Kingdom

Thursday 15 June

Bon Jovi
15 June 1996
Hannover, Germany 🇩🇪
🏟️ These Days Tour 1996

My 2022 written review about June 15th, trying to date a promotional video, and review about the concert in Hannover.

Also played on this day:

Bon Jovi
15 June, 1995
Lisbon, Portugal🇵🇹
45 minutes, new (was not available yet in 2022)
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

Friday 16 June

Bon Jovi
16 June 1984
Allentown, Pennsylvania 🇺🇸
🏟️ Opening for The Scorpions

Oh my God! Now I see it!
This is the concert where I wrote a review that had a title that would pop into my head from time to time, the past year.
Because there was something…. I don’t know, but I guess something profound about it.
About the lessons to be learned from June 16, 1984.

This is the review about Allentown 16 June 1984.
Not everything will age well | Bon Jovi live, 16 June 1984 Allentown Fairgrounds, Pennsylvania
To be revisited as the soundtrack of the day, this year as well.

I can’t help but noticing that one year ago I wrote a post called “Not everything will age well”, meaning that symbolic.
Yet, those were the exact same words I used to describe my own aging, after noticing I was still looking so happy and blushing in the video reviews from 2020.
Well, just proves it true then! 😉 

---

That was it for today.

All shows have been added to the playlist
“Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June and up (before 1997)”
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT
on 10 -16  June.

Subscribe to this blog and we’ll see each other next week!

For another year, another week, another
Bon Jovi Soundtrack of the day.

.
 ~Suzanne
You can support the “Soundtrack of the day” via
🇳🇱 Tikkie 
☕️ Buy me a coffee
🌎 Paypal