New remaster:

Bon Jovi
25 August 1989
Winnipeg, Canada🇨🇦
🏟️New Jersey Syndicate Tour

🎛️🎶🎧->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92uew3JwuiM

Or, as my original Soundtrack of the Day Tweet from 25 August 2022 said it concisely:

“Born to be my baby with harmonica
Let it Rock with Pink Flamingos
And;
“We don’t say goodbye, we just say goodnight.”
= Bon Jovi 1989″

Which was based on a then available recording, but the latest remastered audio, uploaded by hAnD90 on 16 February 2024, really made this concert shine.
Which is why I will do a beforehand failed attempt of eloquently describing its beauty.
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No words do 1989 Bon Jovi justice

👩🏼‍💻 the story 

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Before this review gets to the point where I brutally cap it, miles before it is even close to done, since “done” is a place that would require a song-by-song review and another 2.5 hours (An investment which has become even more impossible now that the hAnD90 channel treats us to at least one Bon Jovi pre-1997 upload a week! *heart eyes*);
Let’s start with the proper, tweet-sized review, from the description box, where hAnD90 always outlines what we are going to listen to:

“The first few songs, they were in their comfort zone and it felt like they were “warming up”
– until everything got unleashed from Living In Sin onwards.
Incredible energy, passion, raspy vocals (Wanted Dead Or Alive!) and so much more.
Absolutely stunning show!”
Source: description box by hAnD90

So now that the proper review is done, let’s start unpacking what I got for you today 😉
Because I did listen to this audio for days in a row!
There ARE notes here!

Though, something doesn’t really get written down, unless it is so powerful it manages to capture my attention when I am in deep levels of concentration writing something entirely not-Bon Jovi related.
If it manages to crack that defense?
I hastily look for a pen and scribble it down in a form of “homemade shorthand”.

Resulting in the following notes, for Winnipeg 1989;

“Speech < badname”

< means before, in my shorthand.
So the note means that like all other 80s performances of You Give Love A Bad Name, there is a story introducing this song. 

In Winnipeg 1989, Jon doesn’t even attempt, to tell a story in a way that it ends with: “Baby? You give love a bad name!”
Which means the story is short, and serves more as a breather than entertainment. It has a less comedian, more Rock Star attitude in Winnipeg!

“End of BTBMB”

BTBMB stands for Born To Be My Baby.
The note means that the end of Born To Be My Baby is noteworthy-
and it really is.
You could even say that the “take-off” hAnD90 describes, in Livin’ In Sin, can already be heard in Born To Be My Baby.
The lyrics/singing/final minutes of this song, already indicate this show is going to be great.
Speaking of which, in 2024, just like in 2022, I noted down:

“harmonica end of BTBMB!!”

Again, BTBMB stands for Born To Be My Baby.
And since the note is exactly what I tweeted about this song in 2022, it means my heart still, consistently and fully, melts every time I hear Jon play harmonica🥲

“BOB Richie”

BOB stands for Blood on Blood.
The note means that Blood on Blood is a good one here, in particular the parts where Richie Sambora is on vocals.

“Love for sale ❤️❤️❤️”

This means the acoustic New Jersey album (1988) song Love for Sale, made it to the stage, and that quite similar to Jon’s harmonica play, I get all excited because the song is about, well, “Love” for sale!
And I never outgrew being 16, when it comes to Jon Bon Jovi singing about sex or when it comes to drawing hearts.

“intro Wanted – fav guitar song”

Wanted stands for Wanted Dead or Alive
This means that the song Richie Sambora plays in the instrumental prelude to Wanted Dead or Alive, is what I call “my favorite song”.
I’m very musically illiterate, but other more knowledgeable fans would be able to name it in a heartbeat! 

“Wanted PASSIONATE!!!!!!”

This is the only note where you can see hAnD90 and me were talking about the same concert, since he too mentions the excellence of this song.

Then we’re getting to two notes, about songs which are almost certainly before Wanted Dead or Alive, but like I said, I listened to this concert for days, so these are notes I didn’t write down the first couple of times I listened.

The first of my closing notes is hard to reproduce, because I placed two strong vertical lines in the margin, to emphasize its importance, but cannot make this with my keyboard.

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||Screaming intro
||              “Let’s go for a ride”
||                       Let it Rock
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The vertical lines mean I understand the Winnipeg crowd screaming when they hear Let It Rock!!!
I would scream too!
In particular if Jon tosses in a few extra spoken words “Let’s go for a ride”
*screams back YEAH LET’S!!!!*

And then the final note, a song that is definitely not in the second half of the show, but it is fitting to end with:

“I’d Die For You ❤️❤️❤️”

Again, the hearts indicating that words are not needed. Who doesn’t long for those concerts that had I’d Die For You in them?
In particular in the 80s when Jon always played electric guitar, so it was a TWO electric guitars song!

My notes finish with the first two sentences of Jon’s speech introducing You Give Love a Bad Name.
Going back to early in the show, the first time he addresses the audience that night:

“Last leg of this never ending tour. We had to skip over Winnipeg but I swore we’d be back and now we’re glad we’re here.”

We too Jon.
It’s 35 years after the date, and we’re still glad you were there.

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This new remaster

Bon Jovi
25 August 1989
Winnipeg Arena, Canada🇨🇦
🏟️New Jersey Syndicate Tour

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 25 August 1989.

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