Bon Jovi | Live at Festhalle | Frankfurt 1993

A show that "revealed" the band (and especially) Jon was still human in April of 1993 and that was like the antidote to Frankfurt 2008! Whereas the latter started out rather mellow and culminated in a firework, this one here ran the opposite way. After weeks of running in overdrive, the band and especially Jon’s seemed to run out of fuel midway through the show. Attendees stated that he seemed to almost fall asleep while walking onto the catwalks during Dry County and he notably backed down a lot vocally in the encore. He actually ended the show with “I hope I didn’t disappoint you”. The recording ain't bad, the filming job is very good with nice close-up shots all the time! What puts this somewhere in the middle between good and diehard material is the source: there's no doubt a VCD source was in there somewhere down the line. Still, after different attempts (and a deleted upload), I went for getting more detail (and light) into the rather dark source and just accepted that it uncovered quite some pixilation and VHS noise in certain parts. The audio was affected (due to the compression on VCD) in terms of the characteristic metallic sound and some distortions in the lower frequencies. It was reworked heavily and is overall quite listenable I'd say. In theory, I do have a master copy of a different audio recording, but some dropped frames (and the fact that both were analog source, partly converted multiple times) made it too much of a hassle to dub it. For a very good video source, I may do it someday. Setlist: 01. Intro [0:00] 02. I Believe [0:59] 03. Wild In The Streets [6:14] 04. Jon greeting audience [11:03] 05. You Give Love A Bad Name [11:33] 06. Born To Be My Baby [15:20] 07. I Can't Help Falling In Love (acapella) [21:13] 08. Bed Of Roses [22:23] 09. Keep The Faith [30:12] 10. I'd Die For You [37:45] 11. Fear [42:34] 12. Jon talking about the band's burnout [46:30] 13. Blaze Of Glory [47:15] 14. Dry County [53:13] 15. Lay Your Hands On Me [1:05:00] 16. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead [1:13:44] 17. Blood On Blood [1:20:45] 18. Bad Medicine (cut in) [1:29:16] ~ Shout [1:34:51] Encore: 19. Acoustic Guitar Solo [1:39:18] 20. Wanted Dead Or Alive [1:43:24] 21. Livin' On A Prayer [1:49:05] This channel is now also on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/hand90_channel Feel free to follow for updates and discussions :) Also make sure to check out the new website dedicated to Bon Jovi Tours that a friend and I are working on: https://bjtours.jimdo.com/ It's steadily growing and includes a lot of background info and trivia on the albums as well as a lot of setlists (older tours are still under construction, but constantly added).

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