Fast Lane, Asbury Park, New Jersey, first promo concert Keep the Faith | Bon Jovi 1992 10 12 | New remaster on YouTube

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New remaster  Bon Jovi 12 October 1992 Fast Lane, Asbury Park New Jersey 🇺🇸 🏟️ first promo concert Keep the Faith 🎛️🎶🎧-> https://youtu.be/7YJGODS4Qm8?si=B4U3LjQoocqkwD0c On 3 September 2023, the hAnD90 channel uploaded a remastered audio of  Bon Jovi in a small venue called “Fast Lane”, 1992. The venue is one of many music venues at the New Jersey shore line, where Jon Bon Jovi played in the late 70s and early 80s, in a variety of bands including performing together with Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny. from the description box: “To get into the groove for their Keep The Faith world tour, Bon Jovi embarked on a club tour with seemingly randomly chosen venues, ranging from Tempe in Arizona to Toronto in Canada and, of course, the Jersey shoreline. For that night’s concert, the venue’s marquee only read “Jon Bongiovi and The Wild Ones”, a nod to the numerous times Jon had played that venue with his bands back in the late 70’s and early 80’s.” In 2022, I wrote a small story about the significance of this homecoming concert. I will repost it, here below.

NB: live premiere of Keep the Faith songs?

Note that I do not know why (in 2022) I was certain this had been the first performance. The 1992 promotional concerts are not well documented, and my printed tour schedules have two dates: 11 October 1992, just saying “Asbury Park” And 12 October: “Fast Lane Asbury Park”, so that is the show we do today. But if 11 October really happened it was not the first show, obviously. I am sure that in 2022, I knew what I was doing! But now, reposting the story to celebrate the new remaster, I no longer have the full backup story. This is the backstory, of the homecoming concert in the Fast Lane in New Jersey:  

Not sure what to play

👩🏼‍💻 the story 12 October 2022

At 12:00 and 12:50 you can hear someone yell”Welcome home!”
If it had not been for the continuous female screaming during the opener “With a little help from my friends”, one may indeed have mistaken Bon Jovi’s debut performance to promote their Keep the Faith album, for a run-of-the-New-Jersey-mill bar band. As several newspapers implied. But as much as that might have been true, musically speaking, there was one aspect to Bon Jovi playing there, at the Fast Lane venue in Asbury Park, New Jersey’s holy ground for anyone who is anything in the New Jersey music scene, an aspect that was the theme of the whole night, and that aspect was; They had been away. Unlike local bands, Bon Jovi had been from New Jersey, not in New Jersey. The audience to this under-cover club gig, consisted largely of family, friends, people from the music industry, and then there were the few lucky fans who managed to get a ticket. None of them knew what to expect. The upcoming album Keep the Faith, had not been released yet. And what Bon Jovi knew, was that they had a big acoustic production in the wings, coming up in two weeks time; An Evening With Bon Jovi for MTV. Bon Jovi needed to get their head around their set, including the 60s covers they intended to blend in. But they didn’t want to lose the connection with the audience either. To make matters one could say “worse”; The band were not just transitioning into a new musical style, but they were out of practice and even out of touch, of playing together live. When in the first months of 1990, touring had finally come to a stop – Bon Jovi needed to clean house. For a while they were literally out of touch, and did not even speak to each other. Many, including the band, did not know if there was a future for Bon Jovi. In October 1992, that was all put behind them and the band had been on the west coast and in Canada for over half a year, recording Keep the Faith, before they came back to New Jersey and played Asbury Park. What do you play when after all that time, you are finally home?

. Read more?

Although I listened to the recording of the Fast Lane concert for days in a row, I have resisted the temptation to write a review or new article about it. One of the reasons is because we already have an excellent, detailed review, written by someone who was actually there that night: https://www.newspapers.com/article/4800485/jon-bon-jovi-at-the-fast-lane-oct-14/ And there is an introductory one, probably the first page of the same newspaper: https://www.newspapers.com/article/4800718/bon_jovi_at_the_fast_lane_oct_13_1992/ So there is no way I can top that now. But I will say that if you don’t listen to anything – listen at least to an acoustic cover of Midnight Rider (time stamped link). Which may be my favorite part of the whole show, which is spectacular in its bare bones production style. Midnight Rider functions as the introduction to an also acoustic version of Wanted; Dead or Alive.  

Newly added

Bon Jovi in the Fast Lane in 1992, has been added to: New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997 And also, replacing an older recording, I have added this show to the playlist: “Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 December (before 1997)” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT at 12 October
 

ABOUT THIS SERIES

In 2022 -2023 I started the “concerts on this day” series; Resulting in many blogposts and two full fledged playlists. Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 December (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT And: Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec-9 June (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScbVI_oPZcf77OtrO_935JD My current fan work is to keep those two playlists up to date, and I will be writing about new uploads. Which is how Bon Jovi in the Fast Lane, New Jersey 1992, came about. . ~Suzanne 🇳🇱 Tikkie ☕️ Buy me a coffee 🌎 Paypal You can follow all content on: Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram.

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