Acoustic gig

Bon Jovi
4 December 1989
Paris, Virgin Record Store 🇫🇷
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p8YAtNfCsI

The concert was pieced together from numerous sources, it was remastered both video and audio, and uploaded on the 25th of August 2024, by YouTube channel hAnD90.
It is the first time we get to hear and see this gig in full (four songs).

You can find the history of this recording in the description box of the video.

It is a performance of the full band, in what looks like a Victorian-style mall, with an open ground floor and a ceiling that was raised across multiple stories, flanked by balconies.
The video, which is of poor quality but definitely giving a satisfying impression, was filmed from one of those.

Contrary to times when it was just Richie and Jon appearing, an acoustic format they had tried out at that year’s MTV music awards, this was actually a full band performance.
Bass player Alec John Such, drummer Tico Torres and keyboard player David Bryan were all armed with instruments, Tico brought an additional tambourine and Jon his harmonica.

To understand the madness of this short performance, it would be enough to look at the packed store, and the fans hungry to catch a glimpse of their favorite band.

But it also helps to have a sense of where we are on the Bon Jovi timeline here.
Because we are actually watching the final months of a tour that has been known under a series of adjectives to emphasize its juggernaut proportions;
The mighty, the exhausting, the grueling, New Jersey Syndicate Tour.

Named after 1988’s September album, which is according to many the best Bon Jovi album ever made;
New Jersey.

Their other two albums most frequently mentioned as their best are their breakthrough album Slippery When Wet (1986) and These Days (1995), which was the year they gained the respect of The Last of the Resisting Music Journalists, of which there were many, but lost a good part of their American audience.
You win some you lose some.

But I digress because the 90s Saga is totally irrelevant to where we are today;
The epic, the behemoth, the tour that would break the band and all of its members until it was pieced together again years later, much like this recording was;
The New Jersey Syndicate Tour.

And taking a look at December’s touring schedule surrounding this gig, will tell you everything you need to know.

Here are the dates surrounding the Virgin Store gig, 1989:
December 1, Madrid🇪🇸
December 2, Barcelona🇪🇸
December 3, San Sebastian🇪🇸
December 4, a day off. Oh no wait! We go to the record store in Paris 🇫🇷 on our day off 
December 5, Paris 🇫🇷
December 6, Rotterdam🇳🇱
December 7, Cologne🇩🇪

Yeah? You with me?

That’s a seven day streak of performances, across four countries!

No wonder there was no life left in them when early 1990 they wrapped up in Guadalajara.

If you want to read more about how this tour broke the band, try this one;

How Guadalajara became the heart of “Thank you, Goodnight” the Bon Jovi story
| gem sized post# 1 about the docu series

That is all I have for you today!

Thank you.
Goodnight 😉

Meanwhile know that this concert

Bon Jovi
4 December 1989
Paris, Virgin Record Store 🇫🇷
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

Has been added to:
New in Bon Jovi concerts before 1997

As well as to the gigantic playlist:
“Part I: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 10 June – 5 December (before 1997)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiGoDE3C06ScAo9UN4GyhtQWYfl3d6jMT”
at 4 December 1989.

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~Suzanne
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