These are the Bon Jovi <1997  performances played on this day, for Saturday June 17 to Friday 23rd of June.

My metas (stories) about these or other <1997 concerts, will be posted on Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram.
But they will also go out on this blog!

Yesterday I wrote the first of these “blogged” reviews:
Stop! Stop! Stop! | 11 June 1987 | Bon Jovi, Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri
The concert had been a brand new upload on YouTube, and had therefor not been included in my week overview.

Which brings me to the new style of this blog:
I will continue to line up the actual concerts on the actual day, and keep the playlist on YouTube updated.
But for my reviews/stories/ an actual pick of the Soundtrack of the day, I will meander a bit more, and choose an upload that is new, or speaks to me.

I will also be doing yoga with the concert, sometimes multiple times, before I  will be having a chance to put pen to paper, in the future.
So picking a concert as a soundtrack, doing yoga, researching and studying it and writing a review, will in most cases be spread out over several days.
Another reason why having soundtracks mapped out in advance, which would have to be published within a 24 hour time-frame, is no longer realistic.

But the problem to choose and let go, is definitely not exclusive to this project.
This year I started two companies

Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

+ My new Dutch company

de Club
yoga voor generatie X

And I am finding out the hard way that the majority of the work I have picked up over the past couple of years, work of all kinds both in-person and online, and both creative as productive;
It simply needs to go.

These companies need to be built in a way they will last for decades to come. Which should have been my priority months ago.
And with that priority, finding 3-5 hours to write a review- yes it takes that long- will become more rare.

But returning here weekly, with a freshly updated list of concerts?
That I can do!

In fact, I look forward to it 🤗

So these are the recordings from shows played this week, before 1997.

Saturday June 17

Bon Jovi
17 June 1993
Yokohama, Japan🇯🇵
🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour

Final concert in Japan, for the Keep the Faith Tour which will now head to the USA for their open air tour.

Link above chosen from the new Santi Jovi channel, but an old recording from Joey Keys will stay on the playlist as well, because it provides unique information about this concert, in the description box.

Bon Jovi
17 June 1995 
Werchter, Belgium 🇧🇪
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

2023 Upload by the new Bon Jovi YouTube channel Santi Jovi. Who writes in the description box:
“In my opinion one of the best audience recordings of Bon Jovi’s 1995 tour”

.
Sunday 18 June

Bon Jovi
18 June 1995
Lahr, Germany 🇩🇪
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

The upload is 7 years old and This Ain’t A Love Song, the final song, is missing. 
One other upload is available, that is longer, but the final song has been edited in from a different concert, so the Lahr concert above from BJ Austria is still my favorite.

.
Monday 19 June

No concert recordings available.

.
Tuesday 20 June

Bon Jovi
20 June 1987
Irvine, California 🇺🇸
🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour

A 2022 remaster on the hAnD90 channel, from the 45 minutes of recording that survived the 35 years it has been since this concert took place!
Description box is a must-read, capturing the energy of that night.  

Bon Jovi
20 June 1996
Wiener Neustadt, Austria 🇦🇹
audio & video
🏟️ These Days Tour 1996

New upload, and this is the first time we hear the full concert.
Courtesy of hAnD90, and published January 2023, so really new.
This full concert is all original material, no faux recordings were used.
He recreated the missing last bit from the concert, by editing in another source, that takes over halfway through “Something To Believe”, to the end.

Again I kept the older Joey Keys recording on in the playlist, because of his personal notes in the description box, giving a better picture of the era.

.
Wednesday 21 June

Bon Jovi
21 June 1995
Cardiff, Wales 🇬🇧
 audio & video
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

Yesterday I read a tweet “How big were Bon Jovi in 1995? They had Van Halen opening for them, that’s how big!”
And for Cardiff, the show from Van Halen opening for Bon Jovi is also available. 

For 20 years Van Halen, was the biggest touring band of America. Tagging along for the opening slot allowed them to return to America quicker.

Source Van Halen Show: BJ tours page on this concert.

Thursday 22 June

Bon Jovi
22 June 1985
Detroit, Michigan 🇺🇸
one song av. 🙏🏼channel Fighter BJ
🏟️ one-off headliner show, more info in description box 

Bon Jovi
22 June 1995
Top of the Pops, London 🇬🇧
audio & video
intro
2:55 These Days, recording 1
3:16 These days, recording 2
🏟️ television show

Friday 23 June

Bon Jovi
23 June 1995
Wembley, London 🇬🇧
first night
audio & video
🏟️ These Days Tour 1995

A hAnD90 2019 rebuilding/ restoration of a concert night, that would have had you bleeding out of your ears until recently!
If you want to know what both persistence and genius looks like, I advise you to read the description box.

Bon Jovi
23 June 1996
Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
🏟️ These Days Tour 1996

from the description box:
“It had been raining all day and the band didn’t seem to expect much, but the crowd was in an insanely great party mood and fueled the band and vice versa!”
In 2000 Bon Jovi would choose Zurich to film their dvd The Crush Tour, because they had had such a good time here.

—-
So that was it for me, making this schedule as a stand-alone project, in the nooks and crannies of my time.
Much like Wednesday’s rare 1985 headliner show in Detroit (one song), where Bon Jovi made the best of it before they would be occupied the rest of the year, touring with RATT.

So just think that, whenever you miss the more frequent posts, okay?
“Suzanne is touring with RATT”

And just like with Bon Jovi, our paths will cross in and for, decades to come.

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 17-23 June.

See you next week!

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