New for me

Bon Jovi
“I’ll be there for you”
14 January 1989
Honolulu, Hawaii
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

🎛️🎶🎧-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVRu-Fb4v8Q

Welcome to a new series for this blog!

This Rock Star Writer blog will from now on be host to posts about live concerts from 1983 to 1996;
A position previously held by the Daily Bon Jovi Yoga blog, but today that blog has found its purpose in its latest iteration;
As home to daily Bon Jovi yoga.

Meaning it’s daily, it’s a blog, it’s about yoga done to Bon Jovi and everything that comes to our path, which history proves is a broad one 😉
You can sign up for those at the Daily Bon Jovi Yoga blog– , the previous host to this series.

So now that we’ve moved the 20th century Bon Jovi concerts, to this Rock Star Writer blog, how do we open here?

Well, as it happens I encountered just the right, bite-size Bon Jovi nugget on Twitter, to mark this occasion on the 14th of January, which is a 14th of January upload that is new for me.

Meaning: it has been on YouTube for years, but I managed to miss it when creating the two main Bon Jovi concert playlists you can find at the bottom of this post.
The two lists, which cover the entire year, do not have this one on them.

So I didn’t have this upload on there yet.
It is one song (I’ll be there for you), from a Hawaii 1989;
A concert that has no other uploads.
It was brought to my attention by Jane on Twitter, who shares all on-this-day events from Bon Jovi, on her fan account.

(post continues below tweet)

She also added an article that was published about this concert. And all of Jon’s quotes are still quite readable so I thought maybe you liked it if I reprinted them here?
Courtesy of @Jane_ on Twitter, thank you for satisfying our Bon Jovi hunger, and for keeping me sharp!

clipping printed
in advance of 1989 01 14 concert

Interview with Jon Bon Jovi by Wayne Harada.
Name of newspaper unknown, but the title the reporter has is pretty cool!
“Adventure Entertainment Editor”

The interview takes place by phone, on the day of the final concert in Japan, so January 10, 1989.

Jon Bon Jovi:

“There is an exchange of adrenalin with the audience that keeps you going. It’s the highest high. I don’t know if it’s better than sex, but just as good.”

“As a kid I always thought the guy singing on stage would look at me, even though he really didn’t see me. As a performer I felt I should always work at getting that energy going and that was one of the reasons I went flying in my last shows (on a cable, flying to a small stage in the back of the venue, playing one or more songs there-Rock Star Writer)
I realized I couldn’t see the whole place from the stage, so I flew. By getting to the back of the house I could see the people in the back. Making that eye contact. And they could see me.
It was exciting and every other rock act has done it since so I’ve hung up my flying wings.”

The rest of the interview is on page B4, under the header “Superstar”, but I do not have that page.

Which is why my work was done, and all that remained was adding:

Bon Jovi
“I’ll be there for you”
14 January 1989
Honolulu, Hawaii
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

to:
New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997

And to the playlist:
“Part II: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 6 Dec-9 June (before 1997)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScbVI_oPZcf77OtrO_935JD”
at January 14.

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