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00 - The Show Must Go On - Pink Floyd

01 - Miracle - Jon Bon Jovi

02 - Blood Money - Jon Bon Jovi

03 - Santa Fe - Jon Bon Jovi

04 - Dyin' Ain't Much of a Livin' - Jon Bon Jovi



Bon Jovi, the seminal arena rock band of the late 80's and also the first concert I ever went to for a band that I was into. My mom took me and my sister in 1987 on their breakout Slippery When Wet Tour, with Cinderella in tow.



But just a few years later, at the turn of the decade in 1990, Jon Bon Jovi wrote an entire soundtrack and music inspired by "Young Guns II".

Emilio Estevez, son of Martin Sheen and brother of Charlie Sheen, played William H. Bonney, "Billy the Kid" in the original Young Guns and then again in the sequel.

He asked his friend Jon Bon Jovi if he could use their power ballad, "Wanted Dead or Alive" for the new movie.

But instead Jon quickly penned "Blaze of Glory", the song that we all know today, it was a number 1 hit that Summer and remains a classic to this day.



This week, the film and the soundtrack to "Young Guns II" turns 30 years old.

I was an impressionable 15 year old boy when it came out. Let's celebrate both film and music together today.

That was another single off of the soundtrack, but just less known, that was "Miracle".



I participated in a little civil disobedience this past Saturday. And speaking of my recent transgression, the last time I swam in the sacred waters of Barton Springs was after I walked in the Spirit World myself, earlier in the year.

All completely harmless, I promise. Nothing like you have been seeing on the news, but I may be seen in a few video clips if you look hard enough.

But could you imagine the lawlessness of the old West? In Billy's time following the Civil War, in the 1880's? In New Mexico, a territory no less? Well, that's what 1988's "Young Guns" is all about. Billy and the Regulators in the Lincoln County War.

The film ends with and epitaph of the demise of Billy the Kid by the hands of Pat Garrett at Old Fort Sumner in 1881, with the word "PALS" scrawled on his headstone.



"Young Guns II" is the continued story, but now expanded upon by Brushy Bill Roberts.

The real-life man who in 1950 appeared claiming to be the real legendary dead western outlaw William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid.

He proves to be able to escape from handcuffs and has all of the scars from The Kid's gunshot wounds.

As old as he is, he even travels to the state of New Mexico for a meeting with the Governor.

He and his lawyer are wanting the full pardon that he had been promised by New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace in 1879, but which was subsequently withdrawn.

During the meeting he has a heart attack. He returns home and dies a couple weeks later in his adopted home of Hico, Texas in Hamilton County.

Where I have family to this day. And home to the old Koffee Kup Kafe. He is buried there and now has a new and improved headstone and even a statue downtown.



This is "Blood Money".