Originally Posted by Supersonic

Aloha !



It's not the VHS, it's Bon Jovi who do not own the rights to the songs that weren't broadcast live. Before the VHS was released parts of the show were broadcast live on the BBC and it's this compilation made by the BBC that made it onto the VHS. I'm sure the band could've opted to buy the rights etc. but it was all filmed by a crew that wasn't theirs and thus the only thing they could release was what had been broadcast on TV. A long time ago (2002 or something) the Oompas or Obie gave a more detailed answer on the BJ Q&A explaining why Live from London was so short.

The show is terribly overrated among many fans though, and Bon Jovi who keep mentioning it as one of the highlights of their career doesn't help either. I'm sure it left a big impression on them personally but the three shows were just alright with Jon holding back all the time just to save his voice for the third night and then blowing it anyway. Most of the second part of the show has Jon slowly losing his range. It's just that Jon losing his range back then still means having an insane voice compared to nowadays. There have been better shows on the 1995 tour, most in North and South America. But as for Europe; the only show where they were actually peaking was in Rotterdam during that leg. All other shows were "just" good. Spectacular compared to nowadays standard, but back then they could do much better than what they did on the 1995 European leg.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan