Jon Bon Jovi at Nippon Budokan Hall, Japan 1997

Personally, the seasons of autumn and winter are the perfect time to dive into Jon s solo masterpiece that is Destination Anywhere. Since it was one of his most experimental albums, I m always tempted to try approaches that might be a little more obscure. This time around, the show was dubbed with two quite different sounding sources since the second tape didn t have the clarity or soundscape of the first one. After having found a setting for the entire show, I further on applied different things to each part get a sound that is more alike. It s a very widespread sound, especially in the first half, that kind of floats around your head a bit. It gave room for more details in the music, but also lifted problems hidden before like digital tape noise near the end August 7, 4:15 or bass distortions. In fact, the bass rig was a problem that also affected the show itself. Jon goes for a spontaneous acoustic rendition inbetween to give the crew time to fix some PA issues and later on e