New remaster  Bon Jovi 4 June 1993 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 2nd night 🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour 🎛️🎶🎧-> https://youtu.be/Y5N9WRvAHko?si=-sL7RecDeWlbUjmO One week ago, on 17 September 2023, the hAnD90 channel uploaded a remastered audio of  Bon Jovi’s second concert of the Japanese leg of the tour. from the description box:

“Jon was clearly on an absolute high after having become a father since he was pushing all songs to new heights and did so on multiple occasions during that Japanese leg!”

And the show comes with four encores, AND the accolade of being his “tour favorite”!  So even though Tokyo June 4, 1993 is not a previously unheard show, but “merely” a remaster of a concert which has already been available on the channel “Just Dominic” – a beautiful “boutique” Bon Jovi channel which, along with a few others, I intend to have a look at for any undiscovered gems, but with the hAnD90 channel being so prolific this will probably be in the new decade!😅 –  there was just something about this remaster that called:

“Write.Me.”

So here we go!

Fathers love daughters

👩🏼‍💻 the story 24 september 2023

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When Jon Bon Jovi entered the stage for their concerts in Japan, he had just become a first-time father to a girl who would remain his only daughter; Stephanie Rose. And it was as if she immediately brought out the best in him, because those concerts were among the most inspired ones of his career. In 2000 Bon Jovi would record a song “I Got the Girl” for the Crush album, which was about her. And in 2017 she joined her father on stage, dancing together to I got the Girl. Jon Bon Jovi had introduced the song as:

“I wrote this song for that little baby, who’s now not such a little baby anymore.”

But in 1993, few words seemed appropriate to describe his overwhelming happiness. And if he had already found them, in those first days of her life, they would remain hidden until the new millennium. However her presence did spark a crispness, a freshness to his performance and to the interpretation of the songs, the band had been used to playing together for eons! Jon starts visiting the higher registers, in the second half of Born to be my Baby, and finishes the song with some beautifully sung adlibs (extra lyrics); An acapella “I Can’t Help Falling In Love”(!) is back to introduce Bed of Roses, replacing a cover called Alison. As if Jon cannot phantom singing another woman’s name, at this stage. The cover With A Little Help From My Friends is dropped. Not the best time to think your friends helped out here😅 Richie Sambora subtly chips in, playing a snippet to Ballad of Youth in his guitar song, the prelude to Wanted: Dead or Alive. But with Love for Sale and Tokyo Road making their tour debut, both featuring let’s say “more mature” themes, let’s not overdo looking for analogies that aren’t there 😉 Although all 2 hours and 15 minutes of the recording are worth listening to, these are my personal recommendations; Born to be my Baby, adlibs 18:25 including the phrase “I held you in my arms” Keep the Faith improvisation 32:55 Pure showmanship whipping the crowd into a frenzy at 1:19:45‘s Bad Medicine. Mandatory listening to Richie Sambora’s entire acoustic guitar song. Bring tissues. Ballad of Youth, where he draws inspiration from, is from his 1991 solo album Stranger in this Town, and can be listened to here. And lastly, the band coming back and playing a fourth encore, 2:04:12, an acoustic set where they surely saved the best for last! Richie Sambora’s guitar, Jon’s spoken word, Richie’s backing vocals, and the band’s harmonies;  All bringing Love for Sale to life!  And an acoustic I’ll Be There For You (2:08:41 ) bringing it where this whole story started; Home.

“Fathers love daughters like mothers love sons
They’ve been writing our story before there was one
From the day you arrive, ’til you walk, ’til you run
There is nothing but pride, there is nothing but love”

The Story of Love (2020) Bon Jovi

27 Years later the special bond with his daughter Stephanie Rose, would still be on Jon’s mind. Somewhere in the front.

Newly added

Bon Jovi 4 June 1993, Nippon Budokan, 2nd night, has been added to: New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997 And I have added this show to the playlist: “Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec-9 June (before 1997)” https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT at June 4