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Rath, the Ghost of the Navigator (navigatorsghost) wrote,
@ 2009-05-11 01:49:00

Current mood:	wistful
Current music:	Bon Jovi, Heartbreak Eyes
Entry tags:	beautiful things, bon jovi, i'd rather be dancing, links, metal, moody, music, needing something, not enough words, sadness

Wasn't looking - found this.
Bon Jovi, Heartbreak Eyes.

This apparently is a lost demo from the first Bon Jovi album. The user who posted it has a ton of similar outtakes, demos and so on (man, gonna be here all night!), but Bon Jovi has a particular place in my heart, so this is something a little special for me.

Cos... one of the fucked up things, for me, about the invention of sound and video capture technology is that even while it gives us chance to have the past at our fingertips, it really rams home the fact that you can't have it all, ever. There's more material already on record than any one person could ever sift for everything they wanted to hear, and much of it locked in vaults or forgotten in attics where you couldn't get to it anyway; and that's before you start asking for the stuff that wasn't caught on the magic reels, the one-nights-only that nobody taped, the old episodes that the BBC threw out. The rehearsals where someone achieved that one perfect riff while the deck wasn't running.

And even what we do capture and get to general release, is never the same as being there. This is why I love eighties hair metal videos and watch them with tears in my eyes; they're like tiny perfect splinters, sent shattering to the winds when the nineties put a sledgehammer through my sonic birthright and sent the pieces flying through time on the precarious wings of VH1 Classic and fans' old tape collections. And somehow, miraculously, they survived until now, twenty years later, they can embed themselves under my skin and dump their small cargos of preserved light and sound and beauty into my veins. I'm staring through a Youtube-sized, pixellated window into an age that doesn't exist any more and probably never did outside the daydreams of a pack of fluffy-haired adolescents in tight trousers, and it hurts so much to know that it was broken before I ever got there - but I can never stop hunting for more pieces.

...maybe some part of me still does believe that one day I'll find them all and be able to put it back together. *soft smile*

Rath

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	kimbleshi 2009-05-11 02:28 am UTC (link)
	hugs This post is something really beautiful. Thanks for sharing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-11 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Thank you! I'm glad you appreciated it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ironlord 2009-05-11 10:01 am UTC (link)
	And somehow, miraculously, they survived until now, twenty years later Only, 20 years ago, the 80s were in their death throes. It will soon be 30 years until that great year that gave us Iron Maiden's debut, two Saxon albums, Ace Of Spades, British Steel and Back In Black... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	navigatorsghost 2009-05-11 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	True, but there was a lot of good hair metal (if you accept such a thing is possible) that was released a lot closer to the fag end of the eighties. Point, though. (Reply to this) (Parent)