Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive 1987 The music video was filmed in black and white by cinematographer Derek M Allen and features footage from the bands massive 1986 1987 world tour, including shots from Buffalo NY s Memorial Auditorium Chicagos UIC Pavilion, Rochester, Minnesotas Mayo Civic Center, Denver, Colorados McNichols Arena, Pittsburgh, PA F Pitt Tunnel and Pittsburgh Skyline, Oklahoma City, Huntington, WV, and other venues The video captures the life on the road feeling, with several shots of the exhausted band members The audio for the video uses the short edited version of the song In Bon Jovis Slippery When Wet Special Edition, Jon and Richie perform the acoustic version of Wanted Dead Or Alive live, and before singing they mention they wrote the song in Richies mothers basement a year ago 1985 or 1986 and Richie says Mom this is for you and Jon thanks her by saying Thanks for Richies mom for not doing the laundry the day we wrote this song, its called Wanted Dead or Alive In this version, Richie and Jon take turns singing during the second and the last verse The guitar solo is performed on one of Samboras trademark multi necked 12 string Ovation guitars, rather than switching to an electric guitar for the solo and last verse of the song