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Bon Jovi 09/22/1985

SHOWID 353802

Set I

Runaway
Heart of America

Set II

 

Set III

 

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Farm Aid I

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Notes: Shares disc with Farm Aid II 7/4/86 Bon Jovi - Farm Aid I - September 22nd, 1985 Memorial Stadium, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA 1. Runaway 2. Heart of America FARM AID I Bon Jovi was the very first artist at the very first Farm Aid back in 1985, they opened the show in front of a half filled stadium, and the initial audio really shows the crazy high winds that day. Within a few seconds the MTV folks fix the audio and Bon Jovi give it thier all. They played thier only real hit to that point "Runaway" and then do a tune Jon and Richie wrote just for the event. Heart of America impressed Willie Nelson so much he invited the band to record it for release at his own studio. Now you can take your pick from three possibilities of what happened next depending on which story you believe A.) the bands management and willie's management couldn't come to an agreement so it was never released and later lost B.) the band and willie "recreated" to the point that the track never got finished but a great friendship was begun C.) Willie had a fire at his studio and the master was destroyed. In any case the song was only ever played for an audience once and it is a great tune.Source: VHS#179 early 90's aquired from Japan taper from Satellite in Japan Format: NTSC 4:3 720x480 XDVD 29.959fps 1000kpbs AC3 48KHZ 156kb/s audio Fully Authored xdvd with chapters in TMPGEnc DVD Author 2.0 These are very rare recordings, I looked for a taper to trade with for them for 5 or 6 years. I finally found a taper from Japan who recorded nearly everything on MTV for years and was able to arrange a trade. Prior to that I had only VERY poor copies that were nearly unwatchable. What makes these rare is that MTV in NY City had a big fire that destroyed thier video archives in late 1986 and both of these recordings no longer have a Master as they were destroyed in that fire.