Thread: Hurricane Butterfly (unreleased song)
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Old 10-03-2018, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bonjovi90 View Post
Another problem probably is the amount of cover songs. They've always edited (at least some of) them out of official releases.

1992: An Evening With had "Baby What You Want Me To Do" in there on the MTV broadcast, they scrapped it for the VHS release.

1995: Jumpin' Jack Flash, I Don't Like Mondays and Rockin' All Over The World weren't used.

2000: Both the Bad Medicine and I'll Sleep When I'm Dead performances got castrated by deleting Rockin' All Over The World and Shout.

2008: Glad All Over and Start Me Up remained unused for the MSG DVD.

I don't know how huge the amount of royalty fees is that they have to pay for releasing cover material, but as the Hammersmith set was about half cover/half original, he'd have to spend even more money on it.
Royalities are based on units sold so it's not money he would have to pay out in advance, but less that would be coming in. Still less money in the Jovi pockets though.

It's possible the original artists declined for their songs to be allowed to be included - it might not have been a financial decision.
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