Early Opportunity | Bon Jovi 1984 11 03 | Brussels | opening for KISS | Concert Reading

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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BackstoryΒ 

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
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Jon Bon Jovi

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The Mandela Effect | Bon Jovi 1987 05 26 | Detroit (first night) | Concert Reading

Today’s card is:
The Mandela Effect

Bon Jovi
26 May 1987

Detroit
🏟️ Slippery When Wet Tour

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFcptAy3Cps

A video registration remastered by YouTube channel hAnD90, in 2020. The description box:
(this show)Β  somehow always captured the magic of that era for me.

And the description box also contains context to the entire Slippery When Wet Tour, by quoting Richie Sambora:
“Slippery’s success took us all by surprise. So much that our entire stage setup wasn’t prepared for these big arenas. Not the sound system, not the lightning setup, nothing.”

The video
Bon Jovi | 1st Night at Joe Louis Arena | Detroit 1987
was uploaded on the 21st August 2020 already.
So it’s not its newness that sparked my interest and made me select it to create a new card.
The context to this concert reading is an entirely different one altogether!

And one that could have been predicted by any Bon Jovi fan, with or without clairvoyance skills.

 

BackstoryΒ 

“25 may 1987 Philadelphia”
(hear me out!)

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The official Bon Jovi account on Twitter has got a bad reputation.
Although in light of the post-2022 slippery slope of the medium, it could have been worse.
It’s not like this account has become hateful, or went down the drain like the rest of them, but “we see it as” unreliable, fake motivational, a laughing stock, etc. Quotation marks because many fans have stopped seeing it altogether.
I know I did.

So when on the 25th of May I saw a colorful mid-80s Bon Jovi concertposter commemorating their show that day 38 years ago in a venue called The Freedom Hall?
I liked it!
Not only because I liked the poster, but also because it had been weeks since I liked one of Jane’s posts who posts daily about Bon Jovi, and the majority are dated as “On this day” (in 1987 f.e.)
I automatically assumed the poster was posted by her.

But it didn’t take long until I saw claims this poster was fake. That Bon Jovi did not play a concert on the 25th of May 1987;
Their concert on the 24th had been Thornville and on the 26th had been their first night in Detroit.

Philadelphia didn’t have a Freedom Hall.
And the photo was “clearly” (quotation marks because I am blind to this, but clear for those in the Know!) from 1988 and not from 1987.

Over 24 hours passed before the account took the fake poster down, but if you have X you can still see a picture of it here, on the account of Mitch Lafon, in a tweet on the dates surrounding the 26th which I used for this articleπŸ™

Meanwhile the generator to make your own fake concert posters had been tracked down and an extra thousand jokes about the interns who were apparently in charge of running the Twitter/ X account, were cracked.
Including someone remembering that time the account congratulated Richie Sambora for his birthday, despite him never having been included in any of the stories from the account.

But with this fake poster to a concert that never happened the account had crossed the line between ignoring a band member who had been instrumental to Bon Jovi’s success;
And was now knee deep in distributing fake news.

If I was their spindoctor, I’d suggest a statement that the account had been hacked.
Hell, I still think that is the most plausible explanation!
Surely better than the intern, since A. no serious band leaves their social media to chance and B. we all know interns do an amazing job at social media, so whomever has been in charge of it, is clearly not a Gen Z intern.

But I digress.

Because by far the most interesting thing I have for you is the possibility that the concert on 26 May 1987 did take place. In the Freedom Hall in Philadelphia and that people will remember having been there.

Something known as “The Mandela Effect”, after people who have vivid memories of Nelson Mandela having died in prison in the 80s, despite that not having been the case.
If you’re interested in knowing the scientific explanation you can watch this video:
The Mandela Effect Finally Explained

This is why I have chosen Detroit on the 26th of May 1987;
It is the concert that did take place, one day after the alternative fact-poster.

Bon Jovi Detroit on the 26th of May actually happened, we have a two hour video proving so. Just like Nelson Mandela really lived to be very old and did not die until 2013 when he was 95 years old.

With explanations for the Mandela effect going deep into quantum physics and the multiverse, and the idea that there is an infinite number of realities, the question raises;
Has Bon Jovi 26th of May 1987 actually taken place, in one of them?

 

The Mandela Effect

the card

The Mandela Effect Card means you have shifted.
And now your memory of what happened is different to other people’s versions of reality.

The theory stems from the Double Slit Experiment where observation influenced how particles behaved.
When observed the particles behaved like little pieces of matter. When not observed “they” were a wave, like light or water. They were still in potential, infinite possibilities.

This reality crossed time and space:
If a recording of the experiment was made without looking, and the tape was studied in the future, the same thing occurred.
Indicating the particles still felt it, even though the looking happened in the future.

When the Mandela Effect cards shows up in your reading, it means you need to be reminded that from a quantum perspective, what you think about, you bring about. And if you keep thinking about it, you keep bringing it about.

Alternatively, you are invited to see if you can change the past by going over the event in your mind, and creating a new memory of it. Of people lovingly supporting you. Of you being happy. Of safely taking the kettle off the stove and pouring the water in the tea pot, effortlessly.

You’re free to create, change or take out the whole layer of reality, that responds to thoughtforms.
The boundaries of reality may come with a lot more give, than you give it credit for.

Without your observation, none of this would be here.

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Map out your future but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi

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The Fortnight | Bon Jovi 1993 04 09 | Rotterdam, The Netherlands (first night) | Concert Reading

Today’s card is:
The Fortnight

Bon Jovi
9 April 1993

Rotterdam
🏟️ Keep the Faith Tour

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfQTmF1-ONg

A rare video registration remastered by YouTube channel hAnD90, with extra credit in the description box of the video on how the result was achieved:
one of my best long-standing Bon Jovi pals sat down and substituted the sound with one from an external tape. With both analog sources running off speed, it was a close-to-impossible task, but he managed to keep it close to working well. Special thanks, Ronny!

And my personal note of appreciation for integrating the pro-shot clip from You Give Love A Bad Name at 11:33, broadcast by Countdown Live (the V in the upper left screen is from the broadcast organization Veronica)

This new video version of
Bon Jovi | Live at Sportpaleis van Ahoy | Diehard Recording | Rotterdam 1993
Was uploaded on the 5th of October 2024.

 

BackstoryΒ 

9 Apr 1993 Rotterdam

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It was 1993, and Bon Jovi had not visited the Netherlands since their bootleg bestseller (the concert has been recorded on video and is one of the most well-known shows from the New Jersey Syndicate Tour) concert at the same venue, late 1989.
That concert too, was one booked by popular demand, since the band had visited Rotterdam already in the earliest weeks of the New Jersey tour.

So they knew Holland was digging them;
The question was, after four years and with the musical landscape having changed from rock to techno and grunge, would the Dutch still want Bon Jovi?

Late 1992, the band had broken their 1990-1992 silence with their comeback album Keep the Faith, which had a surprisingly different sound.
The single Keep the Faith is generally regarded as the closest they’ve ever come to dance! Due to the beat.

And Jon looked different too: His hair was cut, and he was sporting flanel shirts.

With this first single and the new look Bon Jovi had thrown the decade a few boons. AndΒ  it worked! Coupled with an excellent album and a tight promotional tour where they performed in tv studios all over the world including Dutch Countdown;
Bon Jovi was in!

Perhaps another reason they managed to survive the 80s had also been the allure of having been the rock band that had retreated from the public view those first years of the decade.
They had not desperately tried to keep up to make the first mark and win the decade.
Instead they had given the decade time to find its feet, and had had time to adjust and see what they wanted to pick up, and what they’d leave in the 80s.
Their management, for starters.

Whether it was the hitsingle, the new album, the late 1992 Countdown performance or the Dutch liking Jon’s new looks?
It was more than enough to sell out the 9th of April in a heartbeat, and a second date on the 23rd of April was immediately scheduled.

So when they took the Ahoy stage for the first time in four years, they knew they would be back in two weeks.
Something which Jon refers to frequently, during the show.

And from the description box of an earlier upload of hAnD90:
The band was clearly thrilled by the overwhelming demand (for tickets) as well as Richie being fueled by the visit of his friend Jimmy Page that night. As it was the standard for Bon Jovi’s shows at that venue, the energy of band and crowd was to go through the roof!

The encore closes with: “We’ll see you guys in two weeks!
And then they throw in an extra song:
An acoustic version of Never Say Goodbye.
Not yet, anyway.Β 

 

The Fortnight

the card

The Fortnight Card means you are weaving your own timeline, most likely over the span of two weeks but it could be any amount of time you are able to create an arc for.
Like a storyteller tying two events together, or a painter creating a diptych, an altar piece of two hinged wooden panels that can be closed like a book.

You’re giving a performance, creating an experience for someone, or making a piece of work but you’re also holding something back.

You’re giving your audience something to look forward to, leaving them in the sweet bliss of a promise of something yet to come.

You’re whispering in their ear:
“We’ll do this again. Soon.”

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And who knows?
Maybe from 2035 up, we’ll do what Jon calls a round two!
Covering the tours 2000 – 2010.

Map out your future but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi

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On the road | Bon Jovi 1989 12 23 | Frankfurt, Germany | New Jersey Syndicate Tour (14th month)| Concert Reading

Today’s card is:
On the road

Bon Jovi
23 December 1989

FrankfurtΒ 
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAO0fG8bUe0

by YouTube channel hAnD90, uploaded 23 December 2023.

BackstoryΒ 

23 dec 1989 Frankfurt

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With a four band line-up (Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Great White and Dan Reed Network) , this concert shortly before Christmas was actually a festival and not a regular concert.
It was called “Christmas Rock”.
At this point Bon Jovi had been touring for 13 months, three weeks and two days, and fatigue was setting in.
Where the first concerts had had their own challenges, Jon Bon Jovi was now dancing a very fine line between collapse and just pulling it off, legend has it with help from steroid injections in his throat.

When YouTube channel hAnD90 unlocked this recording after 34 years, I immediately wrote a whole article about it on my website Daily Bon Jovi Yoga.com. This site will almost certainly be dropped, for a number of reasons but one is that WordPress has eaten the layout and I would have to manually change html codes of all archived posts, if I would like to keep it operational.
But I did renew the domain recently, and changed the html, so the link to the Frankfurt 1989 article will probably work until March 2026.

I will use that 2023 article for the backstory.
The paragraphs below are from this article “a Christmas concert avant-la-lettre(link works until March 2026)
The On the Road– Card Reading below it, is new and was written today.

“A Christmas concert, before Bon Jovi even knew they had Christmas concerts!

Frankfurt 1989, is when the band hit what must have been their Christmas-infused homesick rock bottom, playing night after night in another city in Germany.
You can hear the melancholy drip off Blood on Blood’s introduction, and throughout the show every time Jon Bon Jovi drops the word Christmas – which is often and a concept that clearly means more to him than to the 1989 German crowd, where Christmas still revolved around baby Jesus not Santaclaus (who some say was given life by Coca-Cola!)-Β 
the pain of missing home is almost palpable.

A year after this concert, they were indeed home.
Exactly as they had longed for, playing Germany around Christmas time, having been 16 months on the road and counting.
But they would not just rest on their laurels.

For seven years, from 1990 to 1996, they would play New Jersey’s Count Basie theatre, in the week before Christmas;
The Christmas Shows
(link to the bjtours website where you can find them all)

But nothing explained the profound meaning it had to them, to spend Christmas at home;
Than Frankfurt 23 December, 1989.

 

On the Road

the card

The On the Road Card means you’re bypassing your own needs, claiming you are accepting and even choosing for things to be this way.
Labeling your version of working at Christmas as purpose, as inevitable, as what you have to do because it is the right thing.

You can deceive other people, but the heart is not so easily betrayed.

You have come to the brink of exhaustion, convincing even yourself this is your divine duty.
But you’re working yourself to death.

Go home, Rock Star.
Or did you not see A Christmas Carol.
I

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And who knows?
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Covering the tours 2000 – 2010.

Map out your future but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi

 

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The Ghost Album | Bon Jovi 1988 | Concert Reading | New Jersey – alternative double album

Today’s card is:
The Ghost Album

Bon Jovi
May – July 1988

Recording Studio Vancouver Canada
or unknown demo recording location 1987-1988

🏟️ New Jersey album

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKOymf1mhkw&t=441s

by YouTube channel hAnD90, uploaded 2nd April 2025.

Back StoryΒ 

1988 demos new jersey album

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Oh, THEBONJOVINEWJERSEYALBUM THEBONJOVINEWJERSEYALBUM THEBONJOVINEWJERSEYALBUM!
I ask of thee!
What could POSSIBLY have been more brilliant, more seductive, more the pinnacle 80s rock than Bon Jovi’s 1988 New Jersey album?!

The answer is of course TWO 1988 Bon Jovi New Jersey albums.Β 

Which is exactly what was forged, in the creative fires of the Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver.
The same place where biggest-80s-rock-album Slippery When Wet had been recorded two years prior.

The band wanted this successor simply called “New Jersey” after their homestate, to be a double album.
December 1987 the band already had 30 demo songs.

But the record company didn’t want a double album, claiming the fans would not be prepared to invest that kind of money.
For context: in 1988 I would have been prepared to give my life for a new Bon Jovi record, and I was not the only 16 year old who thought that way!
So clearly the band was in the position they could have created anything they wanted, ask any price they wanted, and still have us screaming for more.
But okay.
Record companies, you know how it is.

Anyway!
What followed was one singular New Jersey album, and decades of rare recordings resurfacing in different shapes and sizes.
The band’s 2014 Deluxe edition from the album New Jersey is the most official, most complete version we have, of how this album would have sounded if the band had gotten their way and the album had been a double one.

Under the working title Sons of Beaches, recording took off.
And although I like to think that all songs had the honor of being performed at least once in the studio in Vancouver Canada, it is possible some versions were never brought into the studio.

But what we do know is that there are multiple versions, even from songs that never made it to the album!
In April 2025 hAnD90 on YouTube gave us a new interpretation of how Sons of Beaches (meaning: an alternative version to the New Jersey album) could have sounded.

The description box says:

“They’ve been around as part of the Sessions From The Vault demo bootleg collection and widely spread across the fan base and on YT. I think back in around 2011, my good friend Felipe Fontoura (some may remember his amazing acoustic Bon Jovi covers back in the day!) fine tuned the wobbly old tapes from this session and brought them up to the right speed and pitch. I slightly enhanced his work by balancing the instruments a bit more and refining some things”

This is your cue to click it, and let yourself be absolutely rocked (this is a f*ing promise!) by this jaw dropping alternative version of a double album that never existed in the first place.

πŸŽ›οΈπŸŽΆπŸŽ§->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKOymf1mhkw&t=441s
Bon Jovi | Sons Of Beaches | New Jersey Demo Tapes | Vancouver 1988
1hour 16min 28sec

The superb quality of their writing, music and OMG can we talk about Jon’s voice?!
Because of ALL of those things, and the crazy number of songs from this era, New Jersey will never stop being:
The Well That Keeps On GivingΒ Β 

The Ghost Album

the card

The Ghost Album Card means you’ve been overpowered, most likely in the area of creativity. Capitalism and its henchmen have you in a chokehold, making you take your creative work back, or altering it.
They’re making you change the message, or cutting it in half.
Watering it down.

The power to create was given to you. The time has come to summon that same power to send the work into the world, exactly as it was intended.

Your call will be answered.

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This series is intended to run for ten years, covering a good part of the available 20th century concerts.
And who knows?
Maybe from 2035 up, we’ll do what Jon calls a round two!
Covering the tours 2000 – 2010.

Map out your future but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi

 

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The Rough Start | Bon Jovi 1988 10 31 | Dublin, Ireland | New Jersey Syndicate Tour (first concert)

Today’s card is:
The Rough Start

Bon Jovi
31 October 1988

Dublin, Ireland
🏟️ New Jersey Syndicate Tour

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https://youtu.be/0WIxdPC_H4o?si=YSliENQq6UFdOxzk

by YouTube channel hAnD90, uploaded 31st October 2023.

Back StoryΒ 

31 Oct 1988 Dublin

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The first concert of the New Jersey Syndicate Tour is best known for appearing in the opening scene of the Bon Jovi documentary Access All Areas, as being plagued by technical issues and arguments in the dressing room afterwards.
The setlist and concert analysis available at Bon Jovi Tour also points to an anomality of 6 out of 7 of the final songs having been covers.

The recording became available in YouTube channel hAnD90’s 2023 Halloween series!
Meaning it was so bad, it was scary πŸŽƒπŸ‘»
But with regard to what was actually on the tape, the general reception was that the concert had not been bad at all.

Maybe there is a lesson for us all, about how sometimes our own insecurities are our biggest enemy.

The Rough Start

the card

 

The Rough Start Card means you’ve probably started something without giving it the right amount of thought to prevent flaws, mishaps and mayhem coming your way.
“What are you doing back on the road so soon?” a reporter asked Jon Bon Jovi, at the start of the New Jersey Tour.
At the time he had thought it was a stupid question.

It wasn’t until years later he realized the reporter had had a very good point, and that it had indeed been borderline irresponsible, returning so quickly.

In particular because the tour would be extended and overbooked, keeping them occupied for 16 months and pushing them to breaking point.

And yet, Bon Jovi’s New Jersey Syndicate tour would ultimately go down as their most impressive, legendary, and daring undertaking.
And it established their reign.

The messy start in Dublin would amount into an accomplishment that would echo into eternity.Β 

The Rough Start Card is both a warning and an omen.

You are starting the journey of a lifetime.Β 

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Map out your future but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi

 

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