Today’s card is:
Early Opportunity

Bon Jovi
3 November 1984
Opening for KISS
Brussels
🏟️ The First Tour 1984

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https://youtu.be/Nyu0KdKX4gw?si=Nn69nepURIKPR5Xo

Remastered by YouTube channel hAnD90, 13 July 2025.
The description box:
“Despite its age and hiss (it’s been over 40 years), I feel this cassette has a really nice and warm charme to it. Really old school, but kinda fun. And crazy to hear their young energy here!”
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Backstory 

3 november 1984, Brussels
opening for kiss

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The wrap-up was in sight.
Bon Jovi was three gigs away from the end of what had been a rollercoaster ride that had lasted 13 months.

From being thrown in front of the lions, opening for two ZZ Top concerts in 1983, probably making Bon Jovi the only band to ever play Madison Square Garden without even an album out;
To the album release in January;
To playing small clubs, followed by a gruesome three months of opening for the Scorpions’ North American Tour, where they learned to win over crowds who took offence by everything Bon Jovi stood for;
To August where they had five gigs in Japan, for Super Rock Festival 84.
And finally from late September to early November they toured Europe, opening for KISS.

The tour’s final concerts were Brussels (the concert for today), The Netherlands and Paris.

Thirteen months in which the band, put together in 1983, had grown into having a gang-like cohesiveness.
And turned them from five individual musicians into Bon Jovi;
A band that could now win over even the toughest crowd.

Beating the odds, and enduring countless objects and insults thrown at them from a variety of hostile audiences;
Saying yes to every opportunity to perform, and no doubt creating new opportunities with their bare hands whenever they saw just a glimmer of a chance, their first round was now on the very cusp of coming to an end.

“We’ll be back!” Jon Bon Jovi yells, not once but three times.
“I guarantee it!”

And guaranteed, it was.

 

Early Opportunity

the card

The Early Opportunity Card marks a period of learning, of growing and stepping into those boots many deem too big for you.
Or too early.
A pair of shiny black leather Someday Boots, yet you put them on your feet the moment you had them in sight.

And when people wanted to make you give them up because things did not go as planned, you had to improvise and your inexperience got you in severe trouble?
You did not just refuse to give them up, but those failures, those lessons, became the very reason you strut around in them with even more ownership and pride.

The Early Opportunity Card can refer to an intense time period that is currently going on, one that you are about to start but feel doubtful if it will not be too much (hint: it will require you to give up EVERYTHING)
Or it can refer to a time period that you’re wrapping up.
With just three electrifying 45 minute performances between you and the finish line.

Yet, can’t wait to see what’s next.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Rock Star Writer

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