Jon Bon Jovi | Richie Sambora | Live at Tōdai-ji | The Great Music Experience | Nara City 1994

Short, but absolutely beautiful performance! Jon and Richie were part of The Great Music Experience, a three-night concert event held in front of a Buddhist temple. That concert was partly backed by the UNESCO in hope the event would be the first of seven annual concerts in front of some of the world’s architectual treasures. However, this show would remain the only one. Since Jon and Richie came without the rest of the band, they were backed up by other musicians: Queen drummer Roger Taylor, session guitarist Phil Palmer, session bassist Pino Palladino, English musician Wix Wickens on keyboards, English musician Ray Cooper on percussion and for Livin’ On A Prayer by Kirk Pengilly from INXS on saxophone. The video, especially its colour space, was restored in VirtualDub. The audio was rather tricky since they had to mix all the different allocations of musicians on the spot in the live broadcast which often meant that certain instruments kind of drowned or it became rather mushy when they switc