Legendary concert full show

Bon Jovi
1 December 1995
Johannesburg, South Africa🇿🇦
🏟️ These Days Tour

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qvtNwAg9s&t=267s

The concert was pieced together from numerous sources, it was remastered both video and audio, and uploaded on the 10th of August 2024, by YouTube channel hAnD90.

You can find an excellent explanation of the background to this meticulously put back together again recording, in the description box of the video.

The concert in Johannesburg is the only recording available of the four concerts of the South African leg of the tour.

The four would remain one of a kind;
The band would not visit South Africa again, until 2013.

Johannesburg was the final concert we have a registration from, from 1995.
The South African leg of the tour was originally the last part of the These Days Tour.

Due to numerous circumstances the tour was known under different names, but for this blog I round both their 1995 and 1996 concerts (more about those later) off to being the “These Days Tour”, because These Days was their 1995 album that was tied to the tour.

So ultimately South Africa 1995 was not the ending because in spring/ summer of 1996 Bon Jovi added a victory lap to their These Days Tour, visiting both Japan as well as Europe for the second time.

These had been the two places where both the reception of the album, as well as their concerts had done really well, and the added 1996 concerts would become the best they ever gave.

It was like the 1995 concerts, but smoothed out and thought through even more. The concerts were far less “messy” than 1995 had been.
The 1995 name changes of the tour had been symbolic for the mayhem Bon Jovi had been dealing with.
If you see their 1995 touring schedule, combined with their off-tour performances, it was absolute madness without a day of rest.

By 1996 only the good had remained, and those shows would become their best work, technically.

Johannesburg 1995 still carries that rawness, that realness, the year had been marked with throughout.
It’s not perfect, but there is a tension there that 1996 would no longer have…

Rumors have it the first South Africa show, 28 November Cape Town, had even been “off”.
Although we’ll never know, because we don’t have the recording.

The December concert of Johannesburg 1995, would be their last recorded accomplishment of that year.

And a reminder that sometimes almost perfect?
Was better than perfect could ever be..

This concert

Bon Jovi
1 December 1995
Johannesburg, South Africa🇿🇦
🏟️ These Days 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 1 December 1995.

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~Suzanne
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