New remaster Bon Jovi 2 September 1995 Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame opening Cleveland 🇺🇸 pro-shot video 🏟️ off-tour 1995  🎛️🎶🎧-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP6DclEnwYU Uploaded by hAnD90 on 3 November 2023 This blog: 1. The music of a generation. And the next. (review) 2. New Remaster (added to playlists) 3. The foe of video (personal post about Rock Star Yoga, doing yoga and making reviews, or lack thereof) .

The music of a generation. And the next.

👩🏼‍💻 the story 18 November 2023

. The performance consisted of 3 songs. 1. With A Little Help From My Friends [0:00] 2. It’s My Life / We Gotta Got Out Of This Place  [7:23] with Eric Burdon from The Animals 3. Imagine / Give Peace A Chance  [14:13] acoustic Richie and Jon On the 2nd of September 1995, Bon Jovi played at an all-star concert organized to celebrate the opening of the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Bon Jovi squeezed this show in between a concert in Syracuse on September 1st, and Toronto September 3rd, of Bon Jovi’s Crossroad/These Days Tour; An era that a majority of the fans would consider to be Bon Jovi’s prime. 1995’s These Days album had brought the band critical acclaim, and in particular in Europe their fanbase had solidified bringing in music lovers who had previously ignored the band, mainly due to its popularity with girls and women. But in 1995, even the harshest of critics had noticed that not only had Bon Jovi survived the hair metal era of the 80s; They were now thriving in a 90s grunge landscape. That Bon Jovi never looked sharper, than this tour where they stuck to all-black outfits, did not hurt their case. With the train of their worldwide tour rolling full steam ahead, Bon Jovi were at their peak, the moment they stepped on a circle shaped platter the size of the stage, that would rotate four of the five bandmembers of Bon Jovi, plus guitarists G.E. Smith (Hall & Oates) and Steve Cropper and drummer Jim Keltner, in front of the 82.000 big crowd that had gathered in Municipal Stadium in Cleveland. A questionable and lukewarm choice to make an entry, in an industry that has never shunned away from live fireworks on stage. The entry reminded me of a Dutch/Asian inspired buffet called “a rice table”, where we have rotating platters on the middle of the table, to provide easy access to the dishes. The musicians being brought in on a rice platter was worsened by the fact that Jon Bon Jovi did not have to be on the rice platter. Apparently, there was a level where you no longer had to agree to being brought in on a rice platter, just that the others didn’t make the cut. However, judging from the video, no one seemed to be too bothered with it, and the three songs show us Bon Jovi at their absolute peak. Their performance is proof why this year’s concerts would go down as their best. And may even find you reconsidering the option of sticking to a full-black wardrobe. However, the viewpoint that 95/96 had Bon Jovi at their peak, is not an undisputed one! Many fans will always prefer the rawness of 80s Bon Jovi, or point out the perfect mix of raw versus professionalism, of their 1993 tour and 1992’s An Evening With Bon Jovi. At the Rock n Hall Fall of Fame concert in 1995, all performers played only coversongs, and Bon Jovi’s choice fell back on 1992’s An Evening With Bon Jovi where they had thoroughly investigated, studied and rehearsed a whole series of cover songs, which would be woven into the evening which was a show on MTV, to promote their album Keep the Faith. But what the Evening with Bon Jovi performance had really done, was that it had been the first time, and perhaps the only time, where they had successfully crossed the line from pop or rock music, to art. An Evening With Bon Jovi, and the seriousness they had approached this project with including endless rehearsals, had in many ways cracked open the restrictive mold where 80s rock n’roll had kept them stuck in. After that; They were free. Both With a Little Help From My Friends as well as The Animal song It’s My Life/Got to get out of this place, are being played on both occasions: An evening with Bon Jovi October 1992, as well as this performance in Cleveland, in 1995. And for this occasion, Eric Burdon from the Animals joins Jon Bon Jovi on stage. They close their small set of covers with an acoustic version of Imagine/ Give Peace a Chance, Richie and Jon side by side with acoustic guitars, in the spirit of their legendary 1989 acoustic performance of Livin’on a Prayer and Wanted Dead or Alive (the one that sparked MTV’s Unplugged series). Jon dedicates the song to his musical influences and remembers how his mother would tell him to investigate the musicians who influenced the musicians you admire. Pointing him to the fact that music is legacy that is being handed down from one generation to the next. In 1995 Eric Burton was the older generation, at 54 years old. Younger than Jon Bon Jovi is today. But the cover songs that were chosen that day, as well as the ones Bon Jovi played in An Evening With Bon Jovi, remain relevant as ever. And over time, Bon Jovi songs have become those Rock n’Roll songs you would now choose, if a to be opened Hall of Fame would ask you to cover songs that changed the course of rock n’roll history. Bon Jovi became the legend behind the legends of today. The influence behind the influence. Many young people, tracing back the musical roots of their idols, will stumble upon Bon Jovi. Even in 2023, music is still handed down, from one generation to the next. Just like that one night in 1995, in Cleveland Ohio.  

New Remaster

Bon Jovi 2 September 1995 Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame opening Cleveland 🇺🇸 pro-shot video 🏟️ off-tour 1995  has been added to: New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997 And to the playlist: “Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 December (before 1997) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT” at September 2. .

The foe of video

🧘🏼‍♀️ the (lack of) #dailybonjoviyoga to rock n’roll hall of Fame, 2 sept 1995

. The blog you’re reading right now, has had multiple course corrects over the past year. And its most recent iteration “is” or more accurately “should be”, (1) to listen to a new upload on the hAnD90 channel of a before 1997 Bon Jovi recording, while (2) doing yoga/ developing what will ultimately become Rock Star Yoga and then (3) to write a blogpost about both this new recording, like a review to a concert, and mention the yoga that was done to it. So reviews like the one you just read above, would be written after listening to the concert while doing yoga. Another time-consuming-and-often-not-done-activity, just like listening to Bon Jovi concerts Combining listening to the new uploads with doing yoga, would be the proverbial killing of two birds with one stone. “Why would anyone in their right mind want to kill two birds?” a question on top of anyone’s mind hearing this saying, but let’s not get into that. I could already see a glorious future for myself, both as a Bon Jovi connaisseur, where every recording would initiate me into deeper levels of knowledge! As well as forecast both a physical transformation and a rise in my professional status of Rock Star Yoga Teacher. This was about the megalomaniac point where reality stepped in. And it wasn’t even an unforeseen jolt of divine intervention, nor did the struggle come at some point far along the road, where things had gotten incredibly complex. No, it was an old foe, rearing its head, and throwing my super efficient plan straight into the trash bin!

-> THE VIDEO RECORDING <-

On a related matter, I also have a series waiting for me to be picked up, on my YouTube channel, that was brought to a halt two years ago. It are reviews about Bon Jovi 1995-1996 concerts. And although I have claimed I will be picking it up, the reason I still haven’t done that and my courage just sinks every time I realize which video I want to start at, and I don’t even start… Instead I get completely discouraged. The concert I want to start and reboot that series with, is Wembley 1995 first night, a 3 hour video registration. This was the final concert I reviewed 2 years ago, and I want to reboot the series, starting with another review of that. The double reviews would mark the two year hiatus in the series. Which maybe would have worked, if it had not been for the fact this review was to cover a video, not just an audio, of a concert. And videos have been my Achilles heel right from the moment I started that series! It is just very difficult to fit in hours of video watching. Where concert audios can be listened to while cleaning the house or doing yoga; Videos demand that you stay present. So unless I learn how to “deal” with videos, neither this current blog series of reviews of new uploads (that you’re reading right now), nor my video series on YouTube about 1995-1996 concerts, will be going anywhere! Which does not mean that the audio listening and its writing review process is flawless; Far from. This blog actually contains TWO drafts (unpublished posts), two concerts to which I already listened, made a Canva illustration for, setup the blogpost, included all the links, wrote out my yoga session, wrote a blogpost or at least a partial one- And then abandoned it. So obviously, I still have a lot to learn if I ever want the combined review/yoga series on this blog to roll, instead of to perish away in the graveyard that is my draft folder. But with audio I know that ultimately, I will find a way to hack it. I just listen to it again, while doing my finances or something, and finish the blogpost. But with video? I’m nowhere! And when I dived into the hAnD90 channel to see which upload would be the first to do yoga to, and write a review about, I saw it was this 20 minute video. So I couldn’t do yoga with it. I watched it without doing yoga, just with a notebook present. For someone (me) who has had a 3 hour Wembley 1995 video hanging over her head as a big “should do” for half a year now, doing one video of Bon Jovi on the Rock n Roll hall of fame music hall opening concert, for 20 minutes straight, was extremely doable. And what I learned watching this gorgeous recording of 1995 Bon Jovi! Was something that brought me closer to solving the puzzle of how in the world I am ever going to turn into a consistent Bon Jovi blogger, if I get delayed by video registrations. Delayed for weeks to years even, considering my meager video production. And this lesson was: Do it for the beauty. Be grateful these gorgeous video registrations exist! 20th century Bon Jovi on video is by far, the most interesting, breathtaking, profound work of art I personally know. And although few will agree: None have to. It is MY preferred art form. It is what I, value most. Which is the reason I chose this work of reviewing them. So despite still not knowing how I will find the time to watch concerts that have a video registration, I will never call them a foe, or curse them again for not being able to fit into a multi-task schedule. From now on, when I stumble upon a 20th century Bon Jovi on video, next up for a review, it is no longer a curse. It is a blessing of the highest kind.