Gone were the glamour bands that were too one dimensional musically to evolve. “Nirvana had kicked us in the teeth,” Jon Bon Jovi once famously was quoted saying. A New Landscapeīy 1992, the landscape of music had changed. As the band felt the product suffer from a tour as arduous as that, their issues as a group consistently got worse, and Bon Jovi dissipated at their commercial peak. Yet, with all the pomp and circumstance that came with the pageantry of a tour that big, fresh off of a string of hits that include Wanted (Dead or Alive), Livin’ on a Prayer, Never Say Goodbye, You Give Love a Bad Name, Bad Medicine and I’ll Be There For You, and a video deemed so problematic in its own time period that it got Living In Sin banned from MTV, the band had their struggles, to their point where Jon Bon Jovi had to be bailed out on high notes by Richie Sambora, whose similar vocals complimented his to a tee, on stage. Their Opening Acts in Europe included the Runaway’s Lita Ford and Scorpions in Munich, in the States, it was major musicians such as Billy Squier and Bad Company. Following a massive 1990 touring success on the offset of The New Jersey Syndicate in 1988, Bon Jovi was a bona fide sensation, becoming one of the first North American bands to play Russia, selling out the Moscow Music Peace Festival.
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