Ten Classic Bon Jovi Albums Presented As Special Editions

I have Crush Special Edition and I got it on iTunes. It claims that the live tracks are from the Crush Tour, which would mean 2000-01. But clearly all 3 of the live tracks are from the Lost Highway tour or later. I can judge that just because of the voice change between then and now, and also on Just Older, Jon even says that it's been 24 years. That would mean 2008, because the first album was in 1984. And also, the live track in the vault, Two Story Town, sounds exactly like the version from The Crush Tour DVD, with just added crowd noise and guitar, so it isn't exactly "rare". Did anybody else notice this? It seems they got off cheaply on this album.

For anyone interested, the Lost Highway Special Edition is on sale for £6 at HMV. All other SE's appear to be the usual RRP price.

I noticed that on Crush as well. The Capt Crash sounds like it could date from 00/01, but the other two no. Especially Just Older.

Are the Re-Releases remastered then?? Or is the sound quality no diffrent to the 1998 versions of the Albums.

Is anyone still having trouble getting access to the vault? I've only gotten Crush to work. The rest won't validate.

Well, my Special Edition The Circle was shipped out today.... FINALLY.

The CD verification process sounds like a complete joke from the number of people here posting about issues with it.

I have Bon Jovi through Bounce and I haven't had any trouble at all verifying any of the discs. I'll get HAND and Lost Highway this week.

Anyways... I don't think "It's My Life" is from the LH tour. The reason? Because of the way he says "Like Frankie said I did it my way." On the Bounce and HAND tours he did it like the way it is on the Crush SE. He holds out the "I" longer and then says "did." I always figured it was to dodge the high note on the regular version. He went back to the normal way on the LH tour.

I'm not overly thrilled with all of the bonus tracks. Some are great, like Diamond Ring, KTF, In And Out of Love, etc., but some are bad soundchecks... especially Joey! Wow!

I think it is because he does that on the second, third, and last chorus. I noticed he did that on LH Tour, too, but not all the time. Plus the vocals and backing vocals all add up to be LH era.

Just listening to the Bounce extra tracks and it REALLY shows how much guitar sampling was done for the songs. I completely see where they were coming from when they decided to add another guitar player.

Aloha !

There wasn't any extra guitar player on the Bounce tour and those songs worked just as well live as any other song.

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Sebastiaan