Two new compilations from what appear to be the only two concerts the band gave from 1997-1999:

Bon Jovi
23 October 1998
Planet Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸
🏟️ off-Tour

🎛️🎶🎧->
https://youtu.be/xwQJbalzSBc?si=XUsRzDrGKjS9aKQR

And:

Bon Jovi
24 October 1998
National Car Rental Center, Sunrise 🇺🇸
🏟️ off-Tour

🎛️🎶🎧->
https://youtu.be/eNaBwT25OCc?si=M5FYBYv1_uz-RD_2

The remasters contain both video and audio, and were uploaded on the 25th of August 2024, by YouTube channel hAnD90.

Both recordings have excellent video & audio, all beautifully edited working around the limitations of the material. The songs are not complete, but when you listen you will hardly notice it.

The first performance is an acoustic set on the fanclub day, which was held at Planet Hollywood Fort Lauderdale.

And the second performance is at an event where there were multiple acts performing that day.
Its official name is “Y-100 25th Anniversary Bash”, where Y-100 is the name of a radiostation.

The location of this concert is a bit of a mystery. The official name is “National Car Rental Center” but the location tagged in the video is “Amerant Bank Arena”. And Jon refers to it being a new arena, during the show.

Wikipedia shows that the National Car Rental Center was indeed an arena.  It had been opened earlier that month, and is still the largest indoor venue in Florida today.
In 1998, the name had been sold and was won by the company National Car Rental.
The name would not be changed to Amerant Bank Arena, until September 2023.

Although the Planet Hollywood performance on the 23rd was behind closed doors, at a fanclub day, so few people will have seen it (it was the only concert ever to be held at Fort Lauderdale’s Planet Hollywood, which would close one month later);
The performance at the Y-100 Birthday Bash, was viewed as a reunion concert.

There is an article about the arena concert which anyone in the US or with a VPN can read, which excludes me but I can read the first few lines of the Sun Sentinel article;
It indicates that only Jon Bon Jovi’s presence had been announced.
The whole band showing up had been a surprise.

On both shows keyboard player David Bryan was replaced by Jerry Cohen. Bryan suffered from an injury on his finger, which got worse if he played, so he wasn’t there.

The arena concert has one of the most memorable iterations of Livin’ on a Prayer.
In the introduction Jon talks about what they have been up to the last two years, announcing the new album (also mentioned at the Planet Hollywood gig, including the title which was then still “Sex Sells” instead of “Crush”, what it would ultimately be called), and Jon introduces the song remembering the dreams he had as a kid, and inspiring the audience to stick to their dreams.

What follows is a slow paced version inspired by their acoustic performances, but fully electric and alternating between the intimate guitar-driven parts and the whole band going all out.

click here for Like a Prayer at the Y-100 Birthday Bash, 1998

That was it for today!
Now back from from 1998’s National Car Rental Center
to the 2024 “Dutch Concert Review Center”

Where these two concerts

Bon Jovi
23 October 1998
Planet Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale🇺🇸
🏟️ off-Tour

And

Bon Jovi
24 October 1998
National Car Rental Center, Sunrise🇺🇸
🏟️ off-Tour

Have been added to a brand new and probably very short playlist, since their seem to be only two shows:
Part III: Bon Jovi concerts on this day 1997 – 1999 | The Fin de Siecle Years

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