With still 2.5 months to go, and 13 months of touring under their belt; Bon Jovi was still going strong. But not without tear!
This recent upload by the hAnD90 channel, illustrates why there are those who will take any beat, piercing, 80s Bon Jovi audio, over what everyone would call the more professional, and stronger later tours. This passion, this all-in-ness, this hellbent attitude of pushing through no matter what; It still inspires the f* out of you, 36 years later!
Recording was unknown, until a few years ago it came in possession of hAnD90. Just like crimes are sometimes not solved, until newer forensic techniques are developed, big breakthroughs in audio tech have lead to him being able to work on material which previously would have been impossible to clean up. With the introduction of AI, we have seen many new uploads on the channel, which stayed in the drawer before.
But it’s still a rough one! From the description box: “Be aware that this combines the downsides of the era: really poor acoustics, combined with Beatle-mania screaming from the audience and constantly changing sounds.”
So there’s your disclaimer. But if you like your Bon Jovi rough and raw, you are going to love this one!
Although I would never dare to compare my work to either one of you, engaging with the Bon Jovi material is part of me, just as it is part of you. I know that now.
For many of us, it is so welcome to see you two so consistently carrying that flame all year around.
Thank you!
ABOUT THIS SERIES
From May 2023 and up, there have been many new uploads on the hAnD90 channel; Multiple of which were previously unavailable, which I will highlight here.
Which is how “Madison Square Garden 1987 3rd night” resurfaced after 36 years.
After creating an overview of all concerts 1983-1996, I have not yet committed to a new project. My current fan work is to keep those two playlists up to date:
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A playlist that will be needing an updated title! Because I am going to pick it up where I left off, and at a rate of doing one review per week, let it run through 2025. At least one concert from April-June 1995, but perhaps more concerts, has become available, so that one too will be included in the new reviews.
I abandoned the project in 2021, because it took me about three hours to research a concert, make a video review, and then 90 minutes to upload, make a thumbnail, write the description box and post it. And that’s not counting the number of times I had to listen or watch the concert, if there was video as well, before I could make a video about it.
But NOW? After months of writing reviews/ metas for a Bon Jovi Soundtrack of the Day and making a visual to go with it (4 hours per post + listening to the concert);
Or posting the slimmed down version of it which is a Bon Jovi concert with the context readily available to me (still about 2 hours);
And NOW, when I had originally planned to make this my about sixth-ish weekly list of concerts + context, which take me about 8 hours (!) to adjust the playlist to having the current week on top, check all concerts if there are any new uploads available, and list out the 7 dates and their concerts for this blog;
Now? I realize that the 4.5 hours to create a real video review, had been an absolute bargain!
And in particular now that I need to start having a very serious look at all my projects, because I have a business to run.
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Ideally, I should cull my computer work to 2 hours a day. So now, making one video review a week, about a concert from the mighty 1995 These Days tour, sounds like absolute, and heavenly, music to my ears!
And my next steps are not to keep an eye out on the Bon Jovi concerts of the day, but to start implementing all the new uploads that have become available on the hAnD90 channel, the Santi Jovi channel, check the Fighter BJ channel if I got everything in there; And many other channels which have been recommended to me, but which I never took the time to check out and structurally implement into our lists.
Another plan is to bundle dates at the same venue, so for example list the 3 nights in Wembley in one go. F.e. “23+24+25 Jun 95 Wembley” This is essential to create room in the description box, which is at its 5000 character capacity. Recently hAnD90 has uploaded new shows, which were never before available on YouTube. I need to find ways to cut characters, in order to be able to add them. By bundling consecutive nights, I can.
The lists will therefor remain active and alive, and will only get better over time.
The other good news is that I started sharing the 369 Catacombe program: 369 Days Catacombe Rock Star Yoga These are 369 yoga videos, in the correct order to create a program taking you from beginner to master of the yoga mat! In 369 days.
And the bad news? Well, that is of course that I will no longer be posting “Soundtrack of the day posts”, and will no longer be sending out these weekly lists of concerts.
Not because I don’t want to, but because like many of us, my normal job of being a yoga teacher and a coach, and doing the marketing for that business, will take 40 hours a week or more.
But we’ll soon be seeing each other on my YouTube, for the first new video review. Which will be a revisit of Wembley first night, one of my last concert reviews in 2021 (video # 21 of the playlist).
Let’s see if I review “Wembley first night”, if I actually got any better at this reviewing thing after listening and writing about a hundred shows since then! Subscribe to my YouTube or to this blog, and I’ll send it out to you when it’s done.
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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!
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
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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 anold recording from Joey Keyswill stay on the playlist as well, because it provides unique information about this concert, in the description box.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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It wasn’t their first show in Kansas that year, but it would quickly become their most memorable one!
In the second song, I’d Die For You, the power shuts off, and Jon Bon Jovi – struggling with serious voice-issues on the tour- finishes the song acapella. “You guys were so excited you blew out the electricity tonight, huh?” he welcomes the crowd. Adding that it will take a little bit more than that to blow his fuse! And a little bit more, he certainly gets.
Referring to the Kansas concert they had given earlier that year, he asks if they have been keeping up with the newspapers, and the then brand new organization PMRC and others who claim rock n’ roll is devil’s music. Jon ensures them they’re just aiming for a little bit of a smile, a big sweat and a good time.
The next song is You Give Love A Bad Name, which is halted by Jon when he sees a fight has broken out: “Stop! Stop! Stop!” Which stops the music, and I expect also the fans.
Jon addresses this is exactly the type of behavior why people say rock n’ roll is no good. “How can we have a good time when you guys are hitting each other?” He brings a victim on stage and asks “are you okay?”, before continuing the song.
The next song is Wild in the Streets, and after that Jon ascends flying over the crowd, playing a rare acoustic version of Twist and Shout, and Never Say Goodbye from a stage high up, in the back of the venue.
Mid Livin’ on a Prayer, the show is halted again as Jon tells the crowd that he’ll come back to sing in 15 minutes, unless they continue hurting themselves.
And back he comes!
With a nice apology, and a proposal to start over. Get Ready kicks in, and the show steams through like nothing ever happened, including a FULL encore, ending with another apology, the cover Drift Away acapella and closing with Travelin’ Band together with the band Cinderella.
And whatever the devil had planned that night? It had not come past Jon Bon Jovi.
I loved doing it, but in the 24 hours after, on Sunday, my life seemed to unfold in diabolical ways! So whatever forces unleashed the chaos at the Kemper Arena? They are still alive today.
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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:
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.
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 😉
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)
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.
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! 😉
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If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com. Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
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.
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It’s the anniversary week of this series! One year ago, I started posting concerts of the day on this blog as part of a yoga system, to do daily Bon Jovi yoga. Within days I was writing little stories with them. The stories got big, and soon I was writing four hours a day!
I still want to extract those stories, and repost them (without the yoga schedules) to my Rock Star Writer blog. And now that we’re full circle, there will be more room to do this. I will automatically be visiting last year’s blog posts from the same week, to see what information I had collected. Reposting the stories to a different blog, is then a logical step.
Meanwhile, what I had almost forgotten, is that this is not the first time I am making reviews of old concerts. It started in 2020 when I was going to review all 1995-1996 concerts for my YouTube channel. I was reminded about that time today, when two other fans responded to a tweet of me; I had said something about a professional recording for Munich 1995, and they both responded that there was no such thing. And that I had Munich 1995 probably confused with Nürburg. Diving into the matter I saw that this had indeed been the case, because Nurnberg (with the professional video recording) is called Rock Am Ring, and Munich 1995 is called Rock Im Park. I vividly remember struggling to keep the two apart in 2020 already!
So it’s three years since I dipped my toes in the water, making Bon Jovi reviews on YouTube (link to channel – I didn’t create a playlist unfortunately). And it’s been one year since I started selecting a concert of this day, which means my two playlists, part 1 and 2, are now complete:
Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec- 9 June (before 1997) This is the list I completed today, adding the final concert 9 June, in Enschede The Netherlands! Which is also the place where I was born, and the area where I lived most of the time, until I was 13 years old. My starting date (10 June) didn’t have anything to do with this, but when I saw it would mean I would complete the year on June 9, the Enschede concert, I sure liked it!
And here is the first list: Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 Dec (before 1997) This is also the list where we’ll be picking things up again, next week! Migrating the concerts 10-16 June which are now at the bottom, to the top, updating them if needed, and then rebuilding the list again week by week.
So a one year anniversary! Designing the list with Bon Jovi videos for one week on YouTube, costs me 4 hours, writing this blog another three to four. And every day where you see me posting a review? Oh, that’s another 2 to 3 hours..
Would I rather trade this legacy work for something more manageable? Spend my free time on something else?
This Enschede girl would not trade it for the world.
These are the soundtracks for the upcoming week.
Saturday 3 June
Today we have two perfectly good concerts! First off 3 June 1995, a bootleg video from Munich Rock Im Park, not to be confused with the professional video registration of Rock Am Ring on June 4th in Nürburg.
Bon Jovi 3 June 1995 Rock Im Park Munich, Germany🇩🇪 audio & video 🏟️ These Days Tour 1995
But the soundtrack of the day is of course the only 80s bootleg we have for these entire 7 days;
Bon Jovi 3 June 1989 Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour
A lost recording, that was only found, restored and uploaded in April 2023.
. Sunday 4 June
Today we have two recordings to choose from, but since I have already mentioned the professional shot show Rock AM Ring in Nürburg, let’s go for the obvious and make that our soundtrack.
There are many Tokyo Budokan recordings out there, but regardless what the title is, they are all from the second night there, on the 4th of June.
Also played but not added because the bootleg quality was not good enough X Bon Jovi X 4 June 1996 X Gijon, Spain 🇪🇸 X 🏟️ These Days Tour 1996
I didn’t include a tour overview, this week. But what I do want to point out is that in June the These Days Tour was touring both in 1995 (under a different name), as well as in 1996. So the Gijon concert was from These Days Europe 1996, and Nurnberg from These Days Europe 1995.
Only one concert played this day. And with my strong preference for choosing a concert played on that day, as opposed to spreading it over the tours or selecting the 7 best concerts every week, which would have been an option this week since we had 12 concerts, Pamplona is definitely my choice as soundtrack of the day.
. Tuesday 6 June
Oh Hello! Hello! Madness and mayhem, because they actually played two shows on one day in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Gymnasium, in Japan 1993! So there’s an afternoon show and an evening show.
And then June 6 is also the day of the first night in Berlin, in 1995.
Naturally this brings up all sorts of questions with in all probability not one right answer but I’m going to make 1993’s evening show in Tokyo the soundtrack.
Bon Jovi 6 June 1993 evening show Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 🏟️ Keep The Faith Tour
also played
Bon Jovi 6 June 1993 afternoon show Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 🏟️ Keep The Faith Tour
also played
Bon Jovi 6 June 1995 first night Berlin, Germany🇩🇪 🏟️These Days Tour 1995
. Wednesday 7 June + Thursday 8 June
These Days (😉) are very simple, because each day has one concert.
Bon Jovi 7 June 1995 second night Berlin, Germany🇩🇪 audio + video 🏟️These Days Tour 1995
Bon Jovi 8 June 1996* Landgraaf, Netherlands🇳🇱 🏟️ These Days Tour 1996
* I chose the upload from new channel Santi Jovi, over the hAnD90 channel, because it was a few minutes longer, and because I welcome new channels doing this work of upgrading and spreading the recordings far and wide!
I want you to know that I try to make my decisions based on quality, but when I don’t know what the “better” upload is, I don’t have a system!
Sometimes I give it to hAnD90, because he was first and really put in the legwork to bring the bootlegs to a broader audience. https://www.youtube.com/@hAnD90
And sometimes I will pick SantiJovi because he’s really serious too, tells stories in the description box and seems to be building a full and complete database which I think is an effort that should be applauded. https://www.youtube.com/@SantiJovi
But I understand if you think otherwise, or are loyal to one. I try to spread the work from multiple YouTubers.
About Thursday’s soundtrack in Landgraaf; Both Landgraaf and the site in Enschede on the 9th (Friday), are rural or country areas. Like the New Jerseys of The Netherlands! 😅 It really stands out that they played two locations in 1996, yet skipped Nijmegen and Rotterdam, which they had played at the 1995 leg of the These Days Tour.
Friday 9 June Final day of this series
Two concerts: The first night in Osaka, uploaded by SantiJovi on 23rd May 2023! So brand new.
And Enschede, which will be our closing concert for this series, and the soundtrack of 9th of June. I wholeheartedly chose the hAnD90 upload, because I have so deeply identified with this one, I was beyond the point of being able to change it. The thumbnail used in the square anniversary post 3-9 June, is from this video. The final soundtrack, of the year.
Bon Jovi 9 June 1993 1st night Osaka, Japan audio & video 🏟️ Keep The Faith Tour
Bon Jovi 9 June 1996 Enschede, The Netherlands 🇳🇱 final soundtrack of the year 🏟️ These Days Tour 1996
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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.
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Oh, Baby; Where do we begin! It is summer in Jovi land, which means the open air season has started. And although The Netherlands and many other countries were slow opening up their stadiums, (if you want a full story on that you can check my blog post about this phenomenon here) May/June does have both the These Days Tour 1995 and 1996, to bring out the big guns in terms of open air concerts.
However, there are only 4 full concerts available, which means that we have a chance to split in the two 1985 Fahrenheit concerts we had to drop last week. And I’m going to toss in a hAnD90 video: Bon Jovi | New Jersey | The Ultimate Live Compilation | 1988-1991 Which are live performances, of all the songs from the New Jersey album, which was released in September 1988.
So all in all it promises to be the most amazing of weeks!
Technically, it is Pentecost which means The Netherlands at least have another Holiday this weekend. But we are far from resting on our laurels. It is show time.
Touring Blueprint 27 May-2 June before 1997
Overview of all the tours running late May/early June, in the <1997 era. This will make it easier to follow where the soundtracks belong. Not to mention that I am at the point of needing a map.
The bold printed tours are the ones where we have full-show recordings from.
1983 🐣27 May-2 June Bon Jovi was still in startup phase 1984 🏟️🇺🇸27 May-2 June Opening for the Scorpions in America. No recordings. 1985 🇬🇧🏴+ 🌴27 May-2 June This first headliner tour has wrapped up, and for one month there are no official concerts. Late June they’ll be back, to tour America opening for RATT. This week we’ll have two 1985 concerts from last week, which we didn’t use. 1986 💿🇨🇦27 May-2 June hiatus Making album Slippery When Wet, recorded in Vancouver Canada. The city with more strip bars than churches, just so you know it was not a hiatus in FUN! 1987 🏟️🇺🇸27 May-2 June Slippery When Wet Tour, absolutely immersed, touring USA. However, we don’t have any recordings this week. 1988 💿🇨🇦27 May-2 June hiatus Making album New Jersey, recorded in the same studio in Vancouver as Slippery When Wet. And this choice would lead to their, in my opinion, best album ever “New Jersey”, September 1988. 1989🏟️🇺🇸🇨🇦27 May-2 June And, yes! The 1989 New Jersey Syndicate Tour is back from their break and touring 5 shows a week! We’re ready when you are! 1993 🌴 27 May-2 June Keep the Faith Tour is having 10 days off. They will return at June 3rd, in Japan. 1995 🇩🇪🇳🇱 🏟️ 27 May-2 June These Days Tour 1995 is touring Europe. 1996 🌴+🇪🇸🏟️26 May-2 June These Days Tour 1996 gets back to work and is breaking in their European tour this week, in Madrid.
So we have three tours in the United States, and both the 1995 and 1996 These Days Tours in Germany, The Netherlands (only 1 song, sorry), and Madrid.
These are the soundtracks for the upcoming week.
Saturday May 27
Bon Jovi 27 May 1995 2nd night Bremen, Germany🇩🇪 audio & video 🏟️ These Days Tour 1995
from the hAnD90 description box: “The show itself was very strong with a breathtaking version of Dry County, Richie doing a beautiful outro solo on Saturday Night and many more.”
. Sunday May 28 Pentecost
Compilation Bon Jovi | New Jersey | The Ultimate Live Compilation | 1988-1991 by hAnD90 “I changed the tracklist to make it feel a bit like a concert and also included Diamond Ring and Cadillac Man since one was written for the album and the other one was written during the tour.” + Also played this day Bon Jovi 28 May 1995 Nijmegen, The Netherlands one song:Rocking All Over The World 🏟️ These Days Tour 1995
Bon Jovi 29 May 1987 third night one song with Ted Nugent Detroit, Michigan🇺🇸 🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour + Also played undated Detroit, Michigan recording
Bon Jovi 27, 28 or 29 May 1987 first, second or third night I’d Die For You Detroit, Michigan🇺🇸 🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour
Bon Jovi 1 June 1996 Madrid, Spain🇪🇸 audio & video impression 🏟️These Days Tour 1996
“Nice show. Jon was sick.”
Friday 2 June
Bon Jovi 2 June 1989 Toronto, Canada🇨🇦 audio & video 🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour
from the hAnD90 description box: “It’s the first known screen recording of Bon Jovi and is very reminiscent of how far technology has come in these aspects in the last three decades.”
I think Tilburg 1985was the first video bootleg of Bon Jovi! But the moment you think you know bootlegs better than hAnD90 , is definitely the time to call it quits.
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Title: “Rock Star” or “Rock Star yoga/ business/ writer”
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You can find my books The Little Mistress Who Turned Into A Baby Koala A Boyfriend Like Jon Bongiovi and White Tigress Yoga Workbook at the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter
If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com. Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
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 more 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.
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Well, what can I say? It will be a short week! Last Thursday, The Netherlands had the Christian Holiday Ascension Day, which means that many of us are taking time with friends and family, and took Friday off as well to make for a long weekend. My days too are different than usual and I was unable to work on this post on Thursday to Saturday. Which means it’s now Sunday, and I had already seen I could and would easily make up for that!
I would be able to push forward yesterday’s (Saturday’s) legendary 3rd night in Yokohama 1996, to Monday. But then I found out the recording I was going to soundtrack today, was labeled wrongly! That it wasn’t the 21st of May concert it pretended to be.
So all in all, we now only have 5 days left, Monday to Friday. And our weekend has been free, just like the rest of the Netherlands.
Before we begin, I like to add a section where you can see what tours are running currently, in the <1997 era. This will make it easier to follow where the soundtracks belong. Not to mention that I am at the point of needing a map, with three different tours all touring Japan and/or Europe.
Touring Blueprint 20-26 May before 1997
The bold printed tours are the ones where we have full-show recordings from.
1983 🌱20-26 May Bon Jovi was still in startup phase 1984 🏟️20-26 May opening for the Scorpions in America 1985 🏟️20-26 May touring Europe, Fahrenheit Tour-closing in the UK This first headliner tour is wrapping up this week. Late June they’ll be back opening for RATT. 1986 20-26 May hiatus, making an album 1987 🏟️20-26 May 1987 Slippery When Wet Tour, USA 1988 20-26 May hiatus, making an album 1989🌴20-26 May New Jersey Syndicate Tour, USA, 15-26 May Band is on a well-deserved break 1993 🏟️+🌴 20-26 May Keep the Faith Tour wraps up European leg 20 May Dublin, 21 May Belfast. Only a few songs av. from Dublin and no recordings from Belfast. The band will take a break and come back June 3rd in Japan. 1995 🌴+🏟️ 20-26 May These Days Tour 1995. No shows 19,20,21,22 small break between Japan and Europe. Starting European leg 23rd Milan, 26 May Bremen first night. 1996 🏟️+🌴20-26 MayThese Days Tour 1996. On the 20th of May they play legendary closing concert for the Japan leg: Yokohama 3rd night. The band goes on a break and will resurface June 1st in Madrid.
Where the 1993 Keep the Faith Tour, has been our main distributor in the early winter months, it doesn’t give us anything this week. Meanwhile 1989 New Jersey Syndicate Tour, 1995 These Days Tour and also the 1996 sequel These Days Tour, all have breaks planned.
Both 1995+1996 These Days tours travel from Japan to Europe, just that 1995 already starts (Milan and Bremen) whereas 1996 takes a longer break, and we won’t see them doing Europe this week already.
The 1985 Fahrenheit Tour pumps out so many concerts, we can’t even do them all! So a shift in the Bon Jovi landscape for sure.
First let take a look at those lost (by me) Ascension weekend days, Saturday and Sunday. And then come the soundtracks for the upcoming week.
Saturday May 20
Bon Jovi 20 May 96 -> migrates to Monday 3rd night Yokohama, Japan🇯🇵 🏟️ These Days Tour 1996
X also played on this day: X Bon Jovi X 20 May 85 -> not added, recording too poor X Manchester, England 🇬🇧 X 🏟️ 7800° Fahrenheit Tour
. Sunday May 21
Bon Jovi 1993 05 21 -> Only one song available,Alison , Elvis Costello Cover Dublin, Ireland🇮🇪 🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour
X also played on this day: X Bon Jovi X 21 May 85 -> currently av. upload on YouTube is not Birmingham but Tilburg X Birmingham, England 🇬🇧 X 🏟️ 7800° Fahrenheit Tour
About The Birmingham Mixup: In 1985, the band was such a delicious hot mess themselves, having a Birmingham Tilburg label switched around on YouTube, is not going to break anything ☺️ So I don’t mind this bootleg being out there labeled Birmingham.
Mistake was corrected by uploader before this blog was posted, but the recording “Birmingham 1985” could be wider spread than that. Either way, for those having paid attention last week, the recording of Tilburg 1985 is very distinctive because Jon receives banners from the audience before Get Ready. And the Tilburg audience is so rowdy, singing the Whoo Whoos throughout the show. So if you think you’ve found Birmingham, you should be able to hear if it’s not Tilburg.
3rd Night Yokohama Japan was Saturday’s show, which we’re going to have as our soundtrack today. The description box on YouTube opens with: “One of the most beautifully structured setlists the band has ever played in my book!”
In 1996 Bon Jovi added two legs to their 1995 Crossroad/ These Days Tour. In 1995 it had been called Crossroad Tour, because the new album These Days would not be released until late June 1995.
After 4.5 months of rest in 1996, they added two victory laps to their successful tour; Japan and Europe. Where they would pull all the stops and go for the name as it was originally intended to be! The These Days Tour.
The third night in Yokohama 1993 is their closing concert for the Japan leg of this tour. After this, only Europe would follow.
1996 is regarded by many as their peak year. The pressure of 1995 had dropped off, and the band was playing in a lighthearted, fun way. Leading to their best work.
Also played this day: Richie Sambora & Jon Bon Jovi 22 May 94 Nara City, Japan🇯🇵 🏟️ The Great Music Experience
from the BJ Tours website: “Jon and Richie were part of The Great Music Experience, a three-night concert event held in front of a Buddhist temple. That concert was partly backed by the UNESCO in hope the event would be the first of seven annual concerts in front of some of the world’s architectural treasures. However, this show would remain the only one.”
. Tuesday May 23
Bon Jovi 23 May 1985 London, England 🇬🇧 🏟️ 7800° Fahrenheit Tour
Perhaps understandably, after Sunday’s Birmingham Mixup, I can no longer guarantee this is the actual show, on the actual date. But I am going for it! So a 1985 soundtrack, on Tuesday.
In 1985 Bon Jovi played their first ever headliner tour. Just like their two These Days victory laps in 1996, it had only two legs; Japan and Europe. Late June 1985 they would start touring the US, and be opening for RATT the rest of the year, and attending several festivals.
The Japan and Europe 7800° Fahrenheit headliner tour, was before their Slippery When Wet album shot them to world fame. Which was 1986.
Slippery When Wet would not be released until summer 1986. Which explains why we don’t encounter any 1986 concerts from January to July.
There are two tours wrapping up in Japan, and crossing over to Europe: The 1995 These Days/ Crossroad tour, which closed in Tokyo, Japan last week on May 18th. Milan 1995 is its opening concert, but we only have a few songs available. And the other tour is 1996 These Days, closing Japan with the 3rd night Yokohama on June 20th. That tour has gone on a 10 day break, and will not return until June 1st, Madrid.
Aside from two nights in the opening slot of ZZ Top, in September 1983, something I should get into how that ever happened for a band that had not even released an album yet, Bon Jovi was still playing clubs in March 1984. But it must have been on that same ZZ Top stroke of luck, that they were signed to open for The Scorpions, starting in April. It would take them all through America.
In summer 1984 they would go to Japan, for the first time ever. And play at festivals.
Late September to early November 1984, they would join KISS, and tour Europe.
The recordings from 1984 are significantly shorter than the rest of the tours, because they were still tied to the opening slot. They are also more rare, because obviously fewer people have taped it. But when listening to these shows you can hear all the elements were already there. The harmonies, the acapella cover-intros, Jon pumping up the crowd.
Like they were born ready.
Also played this day: Bon Jovi 24 May 1985 Newcastle, England 🇬🇧 🏟️ 7800° Fahrenheit Tour
Another one from the Fahrenheit Tour! There are too many to cover them all this week, as I try to make our week more varied and listen to multiple tours. Which feels like what writers say about having to cull their texts: Kill your darlings.
Thursday May 25
Again we are skipping the Fahrenheit show from today, in favor of :
Bon Jovi 26 May 1987 Detroit, Michigan audio + video 🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour
from the YouTube description box: “Even though Jon’s voice was audibly damaged already, the energy and showmanship of all band members was second to none at that time! And the high vocal harmonies of Richie, Alec and Dave stunning!”
As always, this (what I call) nitty-gritty Bon Jovi touring- America-late 80s concert, is the one I have set my eyes on. As a lover of the raw, the unconventional, and the borderline acceptable or perhaps with a preference to go beyond that, nothing beats 1987 Bon Jovi!
Can’t promise I’ll wait ’till Thursday.
Also played today: Bon Jovi 25 May 1985 Edinbrugh, Schotland🏴 🏟️ 7800° Fahrenheit Tour
This is the final concert from Bon Jovi’s first tour as a headliner. Two legs, which took them through Japan and Europe. 1985 will now drop off the radar, until they start opening for RATT late June.
Friday May 26
After the successful crossover from the These Days 1995 tour, from Japan to Europe, but unfortunately the first European concert in Milan not having been recorded in full; This is more than made up for with the two nights in Bremen that will now follow!
The final soundtrack and Friday’s blast from the past;
Bon Jovi 26 May 1995 first night Bremen, Germany 🇩🇪 🏟️ These Days Tour 1995
The second night will follow the day after, which will be in our next episode of this blog.
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If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com. Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
I used to write posts about one concert, here on this blog. Or review “Soundtrack of the Day” on Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram .
But 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; I have committed to writing this weekly overview, and additional Soundtrack of the day-posts on the socials. So follow me there Twitter Facebook Instagram Those posts offer more interesting stories about the concerts and customized art work.
It is a busy week with 12 full recordings, out of which 7 are from concerts in Japan. This is because both the 1995 Japan leg of the These Days Tour (officially called Crossroads Tour here, but I’ve committed to using one name per tour) and the 1996 Japan leg of the These Days Tour, are crossing swords this week.
Considering over half of the concerts is from one tour, and in one country, the week does turn out extremely varied! There are no recordings from the 1984 tour opening for the Scorpions, nor is there a recording from the 🏟️ 1989 New Jersey Syndicate Tour because they played three evenings in a town called Anchorage, out of which none were recorded. And then they’re taking a two week break.
But we do have a 1985 Fahrenheit Tour concert, live from the Netherlands! For those not fully familiar with the dates; Bon Jovi didn’t have their big breakthrough until second half 1986. In 1985 they were on their first worldwide headlining tour, in Europe and Japan. But they were not famous yet, making these 1985 bootlegs extra special because only the earliest of fans got to see them.
After last week’s hiatus we also have a 1987 Slippery When Wet Tour concert back in the list, which is always excellent news. Both the Slippery When Wet Tour as well as the New Jersey Syndicate Tour concerts in America, having a gritty feel to them. There were few moments Jon Bon Jovi could suppress the anger of being undervalued on home soil, in particular by the journalists.
This week’s Slippery When Wet Tour recording is from a concert in America, so I’m curious to hear how “bad” it is 😅
And we’re still in the holy months of spring 1993, where Bon Jovi had reinvented themselves after a rocky messy, North American tour in the earliest months of 1993. They had Kept the Faith, as their 1992 album said they would, and had overcome the rough start of that tour. Spring 1993 they spread their joy far and wide, throughout Europe.
This week, we can listen to two out of three Wembley concerts from that time. Not to be confused with 1995’s June concerts in Wembley though. These are the 1993 Keep the Faith concerts in Wembley.
There are 12 bootlegs to choose from this week, so culling had to be brutal. But instead of choosing the 7 best recordings, I prioritized choosing a concert that was played on the actual date.
Okay, my friends, I guess May will become the month where we sit down and have a talk about 3h+ concerts! ☺️ Something I still feel ambiguous about.
Ambiguous, because it makes the job of listening to them, and trying to capture them, almost impossible. In 2020/2021 I tried to make reviews about the 1995-1996 These Days Tour on my YouTube, and I just had to give up, because it was undoable.
But of course, 3h+ concerts also illustrate how good the band was at this point! And that going to a Bon Jovi concert would engulf you body, mind and soul; Giving you an experience you would never forget.
Fukuoka 1995 is the only ever concert known to have 5 (!) encores. Full context in the description box on YouTube.
Are you still with me, out there? SAME city, SAME tour, but one entire year and a day later, the band returned to Fukuoka. So 1995 was Saturday’s soundtrack, and 1996 is Sunday’s.
May 14th 1996, marks the kickoff of the These Days Tour in 1996. In 1995, the tour had been called “Crossroad Tour”, because their new album was delayed and wasn’t released before June 1995. But after 4.5 months of rest in 1996, they added two victory laps to their successful tour; Japan and Europe. Now officially called “These Days Tour”.
The relatively low-key These Days Tour 1996, would become according to many, including me, the performance pinnacle of their career. They had never, nor would ever, sound this tight, this on-top-of-everything, ever again.
Bon Jovi’s first ever headliner tour had one leg in Japan, and one in Europe. Late June 1985 they would start touring the US, and be opening for RATT the rest of the year, and attending several festivals. But in May, they were Kings of the Mountain!
This week we have two concerts from the Fahrenheit tour, Stockholm and Tilburg, the Netherlands. Such a remarkable coincidence that this European headliner tour, before their Slippery When Wet album shot them to world fame, actually comes with a descent amount of recordings. Recording not just the history of the band, but in a way also allowing a peek into the history of live music and their audience in the countries where these concerts were.
I’ll get back to that on the Dutch recording, in Tilburg.
also played on this day: Bon Jovi 15 May 93 Wembley, 2nd night 🇬🇧 🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour
Or as the title of the hAnD90 remastered upload says, this is the “Stunning 3rd night” of Bon Jovi in Wembley, 1993. A cue to any Bon Jovi fan this one is gonna rock your world. And then some more.
Bon Jovi 17 May 87 Des Moines, Iowa 🇺🇸 audio & video impression 🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour
This is the nitty-gritty Bon Jovi touring- America-late 80s one, that I have set my eyes on. As a lover of the raw, the unconventional, and the borderline acceptable or perhaps with a preference to go beyond that.
“Will be taxing even for diehard fans” hAnD90 warns in the description box. I say, bring it on.
This one made an unforgettable impression on me, not just because I am Dutch, but also because the crowd is rowdy. They keep singing Breakout’s catchy “woohoo” singalongs, deep into the concert, disturbing even my favorite part of these shows; The acapella “Bang Bang”, which was their intro to Only Lonely.
It makes listening to it both cringeworthy, as well as unpredictable and exciting. Like someone doing something sexual, and being unsure if you hated it or liked it!
also played on this day:
Bon Jovi 18 May 95 Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵 legendary concert 🏟️ These Days Tour 95 I’m not going to cover this concert, but the words “legendary concert” in the title as well as Richie Sambora singing and guitar-playing his heart out here in “Stranger In This Town”, as I just dropped in to, may suggest you should choose otherwise!
Bon Jovi 19 May 96 Yokohama, Japan 🇯🇵 audio & pro-shot video 🏟️ These Days Tour
Did you hear I said “PRO-shot”? Meaning multiple camera angles, edited tastefully; It means watching a professional show they could release on any streaming service (and perhaps they did!) and we’d all pay to watch it. Gladly.
So knocking out our week with the best tour of Bon Jovi, in the best imaginable technical quality . Just shows that EVEN when people are rowdily disturbing your work, shouting your own Woohoos back at you; That does not mean, you can’t be at the top of the world 11 years later!
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If you live in The Netherlands, Belgium or Germany, you can also order these books from me – just go to the bottom of this page: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/rockstarwriter to check out which ones you want, and write me an email at s_beenackers@hotmail.com. Payment is via PayPal or bank transfer.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
I used to write posts about one concert, here on this blog. Or review “Soundtrack of the Day” on Twitter, Facebook, and I am new on Instagram .
But 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; I have committed to writing this weekly overview, and additional Soundtrack of the day-posts on the socials. So follow me there Twitter Facebook Instagram Those posts offer more interesting stories about the concerts and customized art work.
It promises to be a beautiful week, although this week I could not find any recording of their opening for Scorpions tour in 1984; Nor any 1987 Slippery When Wet shows. But maybe that keeps it interesting, to not have the same menu every week!
We do have our first recordings from Asia’s Crossroad tour. And in total there are 8 bootlegs this week! Allowing us to choose.
I have chosen to keep the first night in Birmingham out (1993), and push Tuesday’s double bill, the 1989 New Jersey Syndicate Tour concert in Portland, to being Friday’s soundtrack.
These are the soundtracks for the upcoming week.
Saturday May 6
Bon Jovi 6 May 1995 Jakarta, Indonesia🇮🇩 audio + video, incomplete recording 🏟️ These Days Tour
First recording of the poorly registered first leg of the These Days tour, which was technically still called Crossroad tour, at this point. Crossroad was the 1994 Best of album, including two new songs Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night and their biggest 90s hit, Always. The These Days album would not be released until late June 1995, so Bon Jovi toured 1995 under the name of their 1994 album; Crossroad.
With Jakarta Indonesia, as the first recorded concert.
. Sunday May 7
Bon Jovi 7 May 1993 Paris, France🇫🇷 audio & video 🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour
Bon Jovi 8 May 1993 Essen, Germany🇩🇪 audio & video 🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour
Ninth and final German city, and the final show on Europe’s mainland. The band would cross over to the UK and Ireland, but return to Europe in August, and rock some more!
Bon Jovi’s first ever headliner tour had one leg in Japan, and one in Europe. Late June 1985 they would start touring the US, and be opening for RATT the rest of the year, and attending several festivals. But in May, they were Kings of the Mountain!
Wednesday May 10
Bon Jovi Seoul, South Korea🇰🇷 10 May 1995 audio + video 🏟️ These Days Tour
My personal favorite for this week! Oh, you just can’t beat the blood, sweat, and tears of the New Jersey Syndicate Tour, I don’t care what anybody says.
Portland wasn’t uploaded until October 2022, so it is actually a very recent gem, remastered and released by hAnD90. Who describes it in the description box as; “you’re in for one hell of a ride with a band firing on all cylinders and a crowd that responds adequately!”
Knocking out our week with Portland 1989, if these killer soundtracks do not push you into peak inspired performance mode this week; I don’t know what will.
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These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
These are the performances, played on this day, by Bon Jovi for the upcoming week.
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