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Old 08-18-2018, 09:46 PM
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Those Box Set songs are tough ones most of the time due to the Diamond-Ring-theory.

Jon has said on numerous occasions that there have always been songs they went back to because they weren't deemed "ready" yet at one point or didn't fit the album's theme in the end (I remember at one point Jon saying that the KTF album essentially had been written around the track Diamond Ring, yet it didn't make the cut).

Miss Fourth of July was written in 1991, yet the recording we know sounds like it had been recorded later than that. Drive was written in 1991, but released in 1997 and maybe even reworked there. I'm still convinced that they did reconsider Starting All Over Again at some point because the Box Set version sounds like he has to strain his vocals considerably and is much more out of his comfort zone.

I think they revisited some of their song ideas while preparing for Crush, simply because they had no idea where in which direction they should go and the lack of coherence on the record shows that.

And (I may be the only one here) to me some of the material from the post-DA/pre-Crush vacuum sounds somewhat similar to some of the Crossroad/Open All Night songs.

All points provided for You Can Sleep While I Dream are definintely valid, so I have two theories about that one:
1. The original song sketch really is from around 1993/94 since the whole song structure and melody fit too well. However, Jon may have decided that it needed different lyrics and that songwriter team worked out new ones for that after having finished copying One of Us from Joan Osbourne.
In the end, the song wasn't the direction the band wanted to take and it went back into the vault and then onto the Box Set.

2. Jon trying to emulate Saturday Night. Last year, he said in a Q&A that his regret about These Days was that he didn't put Saturday Night on there and made it the first single. So he's always had a soft spot for that song and may have wanted to do a similar one for Crush, hence the chord progressions being so close.

Now we should blame Obie for not labeling anything properly and leaving us with so much stuff to figure out about it.
With regards to Starting All Over Again there was an interview at the time of the release of the box set where Obie stated that the box set version differed from the bonus track version on KTF. The vocals on the box version were captured all in one take whereas the bonus KTF track version were recorded traditionally in parts.
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Old 08-18-2018, 09:58 PM
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Box Set is a great gift, many pure tracks, without overproducing to death, that's what I like. I think that's why I like BB more than THINFS, it sounds less forced.



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I had such an obsession with Crazy Love until I heard Tom Petty's Here Comes My Girl
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90s was such a great era for BJ.

80s was great as well yes, but slightly less special.

The box set was a great gift particularly because of all this music from the nineties (where official band albums count only 2, however 5 solo albums and lots of other things were happening).
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George Marino took care of the mixes. It is the best work in the Bon Jovi catalog, the purity of the instruments and vocals is impressive.



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I had such an obsession with Crazy Love until I heard Tom Petty's Here Comes My Girl
Yep, but those similarities are for me a plus in this song.
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I also like Crazy Love, maybe the similarities were one of the reasons to be left...
but that Tom Petty's song is not too good in my opinion...
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That year always confused me, 1996. I know there was some interview from the 90's saying Jon had a mobile studio outside each venue and he would record demos for D.A using the band. I wonder if these songs stemmed from that, even though it's clear those songs contain no other band members. To me the songs sound post D.A. pre Crush but who knows.
I Get A Rush also sounds more post-DA/pre-Crush to me, but in my opinion it was also Jon's attempt to re-write Rockin' All Over The World (which was played up and down on the TD tour).
Rivers Run Dry always sounded close to the TD vibe to me. So I can very much believe that it was from 1996.
Destination Anywhere had a very distinct sound and the songs that Jon wrote for it didn't necessarily reflect the stuff he was writing on other occasions. I Talk To Jesus and I Don't Wanna Live Forever wouldn't fit on the regular album too well either.
So those two may have been from 1996, but didn't capture the sound Jon was gunning for.
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I Get A Rush also sounds more post-DA/pre-Crush to me, but in my opinion it was also Jon's attempt to re-write Rockin' All Over The World (which was played up and down on the TD tour).
Rivers Run Dry always sounded close to the TD vibe to me. So I can very much believe that it was from 1996.
Destination Anywhere had a very distinct sound and the songs that Jon wrote for it didn't necessarily reflect the stuff he was writing on other occasions. I Talk To Jesus and I Don't Wanna Live Forever wouldn't fit on the regular album too well either.
So those two may have been from 1996, but didn't capture the sound Jon was gunning for.
I Get A Rush is a demo for Destination Anywhere, it was written in 1996. Jon did plan another solo record in 1998 or 1999 though - I think some sort of compilation with a bunch of new songs. I reckon I Get A Rush was recorded after the Destination Anywhere tour in 1997 had ended and before it's second leg in 1998. The second leg would make sense as shows had been booked yet a supposedly new solo record wasn't released.

River Runs Dry is from the first demo sessions for These Days in early 1994. It was recorded in the same period as Always and Someday I'll Be Saturday Night along with Letter To A Friend, Nobody's Hero and a few others I can't remember.

I Don't Want To Live Forever was after the release of Destination Anywhere. It's intro and overall sound sounds very much like Stereophonic's Local Boy in the Photograph which was released in March 1997. I think this one was recorded in one of those mobil units as drums usually sound a lot more polished on a Bon Jovi demo.

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I Get A Rush is a demo for Destination Anywhere, it was written in 1996. Jon did plan another solo record in 1998 or 1999 though - I think some sort of compilation with a bunch of new songs. I reckon I Get A Rush was recorded after the Destination Anywhere tour in 1997 had ended and before it's second leg in 1998. The second leg would make sense as shows had been booked yet a supposedly new solo record wasn't released.

River Runs Dry is from the first demo sessions for These Days in early 1994. It was recorded in the same period as Always and Someday I'll Be Saturday Night along with Letter To A Friend, Nobody's Hero and a few others I can't remember.

I Don't Want To Live Forever was after the release of Destination Anywhere. It's intro and overall sound sounds very much like Stereophonic's Local Boy in the Photograph which was released in March 1997. I think this one was recorded in one of those mobil units as drums usually sound a lot more polished on a Bon Jovi demo.

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Thanks for clearing that up!

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River Runs Dry is from the first demo sessions for These Days in early 1994. It was recorded in the same period as Always and Someday I'll Be Saturday Night along with Letter To A Friend, Nobody's Hero and a few others I can't remember.
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Shame River Runs Dry wasn't used. Id take this on These Days over Diamond Ring any day!
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