Well that's a relief. That isn't even as much as a bloody convenience fee! :p

Thanks for the info.

Oh cool! I'm betting that's the same acoustic version that was on the Wanted Maxi Single back in 1987, which I have....somewhere...and no tape deck. That maxi came with studio Wanted, a live version of Wanted from the Slippery tour, the acoustic Wanted, and I'd Die For You (regular studio version.)

The live version of Wanted is on the Japanese Slippery Remaster Bonus...though if I remember right, it was incorrectly labled as being from 1995. I was happy to get that particular version replaced with a CD version finally. It was always one of my favorite performances as well as my very first ever live Bon Jovi track....FOR YEARS! I always thought that performance captured their mood on that tour perfectly....passionate and full of emptiness, loneliness, and just plain drained from the unexpected nightmare that came with the overnight success of the album. The irony is when the song was written, they had no idea what was coming....I'm sure they wrote it based on what they already felt from previous touring, but it's here that you are hearing it performed with much more significance. I've always loved how haunting the intro sounded with Tico's bass thump much more prominent than on the studio version. If you listen to this particular version and then watch those images from the music video, what you see there goes with what you hear on the live version.

totally agreed to ticos bass thump - takes me back to driving to swim team practice....those were good days to be getting into music - that was a great tape...:)

It will be the same version as on the single. It was apparently taped during the SWW tour because Jon's voice is very shot. Suprisingly, it makes the song better - it help to create the imagination that being on tour is really hard.

The live version you speak about is, I guess, from Cincinatti March 19, 1987. It has great background vocals from Richie!

I've never really liked it too much as they quickly superceded that version with far superior and more memorable acoustic performances such as the MTV Awards, though I wouldn't mind getting my copy upgraded.

No, it isn't Cincinatti. I've had that show for years as well. The drums are hardly prominent on that show and I don't particularly like the sound. I'd much rather get a hold of the entire show the version of Wanted in question is from. It is not in circulation.

Aloha !

That version of Wanted Dead Or Alive was recorded on March 3, 1987 at the Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan, USA. There is a bootleg recording available of the night before, but the night this version was recorded is not in circulation as far as I'm aware.

Just because it's not on my site doens't mean that I don't have the information. :p

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I wasn't looking at your site while answering :D The next show I'd go for is Uniondale August 10, 1987 :D Those would be the obvious ones for me :)

I'm pretty sure that it should be March 11, 1987 (wow, precisely a year before I was born :D). I have the a bootleg of the night before March 10, 1987.

Aloha !

Whoops, yeah I got the date mixed up. It's filed as 3.11.1987 here, and with Americans changing the dates with the months it's sometimes a bit harder to get the day/month right. Silly wankers. :p

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

I don't understand their date system as well :D Maybe a need to be different :D

3.11.1987 it's clear that it is written in the American way because they weren't on tour in November 1987, last show was about the half of October at Hawaii. I don't remember the exact date and I can't be bothered to look it up now, I'm bored to death with writing an essay about architecture.

I have a sampler with the following information:

Wanted Dead Or Alive, USA promo, US CD7P 01

1 Wanted Dead Or Alive (Short Version)
2 Wanted Dead Or Alive (Live)
3 Wanted Dead Or Alive (Long Version)
4 Wanted Dead Or Alive (Acoustic)

(2) 1987-03-18 Electric Ladyland Studios. NY
(3) 1987-03-11 Cobo Arena, Detroit

For all you Europeans who don't understand these things - the date is expressed in standard format - Year - Month - Day :roll: