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.

 

Backstory 

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. And  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. 

 

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.”

~Suzanne Beenackers
Rock Star Writer

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