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9/25/10

Bon Jovi: Bits of useless fluffy gossip

Ok, here's some things that have been popping up in my Google Alerts.

In the "Book that shall not be named" it "alleges" that back in 1985 Jon Bon Jovi dated Diane Lane  which this is true there are pictures to prove it also, Jon briefly mentions it during this interview from a few years ago on Centerstage on the YES Network (with Yankees announcer Michael Kay) this is also the interview at the end where Jon says "...The next night you see Richie and...  My wife's always said the devil's not gonna be red and have the horns, he gonna look just like Sambora and he's gonna go... (Jon makes hand gesture gesturing a person to come closer)."



What the book goes on to say and I'm going to paraphrase so I don't have to link to anything, Jon liked that she could party, but the party was over and Jon broke up with her when he found out that she was partying with Richie Sambora.  This kind of matches up with what was said in Star Man about Richie on page 141.

Next useless gossip bit:

Heather Deen Sambora will legally be Heather Locklear again per TMZ:

Heather Locklear is finally erasing the last trace of her 12-year marriage to Richie Sambora ... his last name.

Heather -- who filed for divorce in 2006 -- filed documents on Friday in L.A. County Superior Court requesting her name officially be changed from Heather Deen Sambora to Heather Locklear.

Heather also wants the name changed ASAP ... because she claims she needs a new passport with her old name attached by the time she travels abroad on October 25.

So now you CAN get that Future Ex-Mrs Sambora shirt and not feel there still might be another legally Ex- Mrs Sambora wandering around.

Also another thing that popped up was a comment on a message board about performing fellatio on many African American Men to give Richie a Bubble Bath, and I paraphrased that since the person who wrote it was much more explicit.  I mean how do you go to boards and make comments like that?  Where does your motivation come from?

So if you're reading this, make an outrageous comment.  I'll laugh.

9/3/10

Bon Jovi: Daughtry vs. Bon Jovi? Gulf concerts cross dates

No offense to Daughtry but what was the song that you sang really really well on American Idol?  And who did you tour with?  Yeah that's what I thought.


Free concerts on beach in Gulf Shores pit Bon Jovi and Brad Paisley against Pensacola Beach's DeLuna Fest

Julio Diaz
jdiaz@pnj.com

DeLuna Fest, set for Oct. 15-17 on Pensacola Beach, is getting some competition across the state line.

Rock superstars Bon Jovi will play on the public beach in Gulf Shores, Ala., on Oct. 15, and country hit-maker Brad Paisley will take the stage on Oct. 17 in free concerts.

The two events are part of the Concerts for the Coast series taking place in Baldwin County, Ala., and largely funded with BP money to provide relief for tourism hurt by the Gulf oil spill.

While concert announcements of this magnitude normally would be met with great fanfare among Pensacola music fans, the local response is far more muted.

That's because the concert dates directly conflict with the opening and closing days of DeLuna Fest, the three-day music festival planned for Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach.
DeLuna Fest features 39 acts, including Stone Temple Pilots, Daughtry, 311, Bush and Dierks Bentley. Tickets are $90 for the weekend or $47.50 for Friday or Saturday. The third day, featuring Willie Nelson and 13 other acts, is free.

Some fans questioned why Gulf Shores organizers would schedule their shows the same weekend.
"I love the free concerts — seems like a great way to bring locals together and attract people from out of town," said Christian McArthur of Pensacola. "But it does seem to be a direct slap in the face to DeLuna Fest. There are a lot of weekends to organize a show. Aren't we all supposed to be working together to revive the Gulf Coast?"

And Dawn Keller of Pace said, "DeLuna Fest has been planned for way too long to have Bon Jovi and Brad Paisley stealing the spotlight."
DeLuna Fest was first discussed before the Santa Rosa Island Authority board in January and formally announced in April as a two-day festival for Oct. 15 and 16. Those two days are being paid for entirely by private funds.

The third free day, Oct. 17, was added last month after festival organizers with Five Flags Tourism Group received $300,000 from the Escambia County Tourism Development Council. That money came from the $25 million given to the state of Florida by BP.

Herb Malone, president and CEO of Gulf Shores/Orange Beach Tourism, said organizers were aware DeLuna Fest already was scheduled for the same weekend.

"I don't want to say there wasn't consideration given," he said. "But we are neighbors and competitors at the same time. We always have been. In my opinion, there's plenty to go around."
A statement Wednesday from DeLuna Fest publicist Edwin Banacia of the Pensacola advertising agency Ideaworks stressed the need for cooperation among organizations throughout the Gulf Coast.

"Although DeLuna Fest was planned well before the oil disaster, our resolve was strengthened after we saw how our coastal community suffered," the statement said. "Now, more than ever, DeLuna Fest is so important for the recovery of this community.

"... We share the same goals as our surrounding communities and that is to show the world the beauty of our coast and bring business back to our struggling economy."

Additional Facts
Ticket information
The Bon Jovi and Brad Paisley shows in Gulf Shores will be free, ticketed events.

Tickets will be available through Gulf Shores and Orange Beach lodging partners. Officially, those sales start Wednesday. A list of lodging partners is available at www.gulfshores.com/packages-deals.

Additionally, 5,000 tickets to each concert will be available to area residents, including Pensacola-area residents.

Tickets will be available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Erie Meyer Civic Center, 1930 W. Second St., Gulf Shores, Ala.; Orange Beach Recreation Center, 4849 Wilson Blvd., Orange Beach, Ala.; and Foley, Ala., City Hall, 407 E. Laurel Ave.

There is a two-ticket limit per person available on a first-come, first-served basis with a valid government photo ID.

7/27/10

Bon Jovi: Is it really that bad??

I'm kind of fascinated with biographies of people and reading also helps my trivia knowledge.  So in the grand scheme of Rock N Roll there are so many other things that are worse than laying on a bed w/ 4 semi nude women.
Let's look back at debauchery in Rock N Roll courtesy of Snopes.

First stop 1967 England.  The Rolling Stones and the Mars Bar

A Mars Bar Fills That Gap

Claim: When British police conducted a drug raid during a party at Keith Richards' Redlands estate in 1967, they found Mick Jagger eating a Mars bar out of Marianne Faithfull's vagina.

Cover of "The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shel...Origins: When nineteen police, on a tip-off, raided a party at Keith Richards' estate in February of 1967 in search of illegal drugs, Mick Jagger Richards, Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, and six other male guests were lounging about a downstairs room watching TV and listening to music. Faithfull wore only a large, orange fur bedcover that she had wrapped around herself after taking a bath a little while earlier. The police searched the house and the persons in it, gathered various pieces of evidence, and left. A month later, Richards and Jagger were summoned before the court on drug charges. By the time the trial started at the end of June, a rumor had already started spreading that when the police arrived at Redlands, "they had interrupted an orgy of cunnilingus in which Jagger had been licking a Mars candy bar pushed into Marianne's vagina."

There was absolutely no truth to the rumor, however. The police did not burst into the house, catching everyone unaware: they knocked very loudly at the front door, and Keith calmly got up to answer it. At the time police arrived, the room was, in the words of Christopher Gibbs, one of the guests at Redlands that evening, "a scene of pure domesticity." 
Keith Richards 
At Keith Richards' trial, much was made of 'Miss X' (i.e., Marianne Faithfull), the single female guest who had been present when police entered Richards' house. One female detective testified that when the police squad arrived, Faithfull had been "completely naked." Another male detective stated in court that as he had studied Marianne Faithfull during the raid to detect signs of drug use, she had purposely let the fur bedcover she was wearing slip, "disclosing parts of her nude body." (Faithfull later admitted that she had indeed given the police "a quick flash.") These lurid details about a naked girl wrapped in fur rug, brought out at the trial and reported in the press (although largely untrue), established the idea that the police had interrupted a drug-induced orgy.

Next is a story that may be slightly true.  It's 1969 and Seattle.  A Red Headed girl meets history courtesy of Led Zeppelin, rope and assorted fish.


Claim: Members of Led Zeppelin once employed a mud shark on a female groupie.

Then there was the infamous "mudshark incident," which was actually more like a red herring. In 1969, Led Zeppelin checked into Seattle's Edgewater Inn. The place was a favorite with musicians because guests could fish from their rooms. The band hauled in some fish. Then they hauled in a seventeen-year-old redhead named Jackie. She mentioned she really liked being tied up. The obliging Englishmen ordered a rope from room service. Next, Jackie removed her clothes and the boys tied her to the bed. Then the road manager entertained the band by taking a red snapper and introducing it to the girl's private parts.2

The most ubiquitous non-Stones-related tale is unquestionably the infamous "mud shark" legend, which relates how members of Led Zeppelin supposedly employed a (live) shark as a sexual device with a pliant female groupie. This story is tough to classify as either "true" or "false" because so many different versions with varying details exist, but we might safely say it's one of many legends formed from a kernel of truth covered with several layers of exaggeration and embellishment.

The core incident took place at The Edgewater in Seattle (probably at the time of the group's 27 July 1969 appearance at the Seattle Pop Festival), a hotel on Puget Sound from which guests could fish right out the windows of their rooms. According to Richard Cole, Led Zeppelin's road manager, he and drummer John Bonham (aka "Bonzo") were busily engaged in the pastime of catching sharks through an Edgewater window when they were interrupted by some persistent groupies, but what occurred next didn't quite live up to the notorious modern version of the legend:

The true title of Led Zeppelin IV
It wasn't Bonzo, it was me. It wasn't shark parts anyway: It was the nose that got put in. We caught a lot of big sharks, at least two dozen, stuck coat hangers through the gills and left 'em in the closet . . . But the true shark story was that it wasn't even a shark. It was a red snapper and the chick happened to be a f_______ redheaded broad with a ginger p____. And that is the truth. Bonzo was in the room, but I did it. Mark Stein [of Vanilla Fudge] filmed the whole thing. And she loved it. It was like, "You'd like a bit of fucking, eh? Let's see how your red snapper likes this red snapper!" That was it. It was the nose of the fish, and that girl must have come 20 times. But it was nothing malicious or harmful, no way! No one was ever hurt.

So yes, a female groupie was sexually engaged with a fish, but the fish was not a shark (and was presumably dead from having been stuck on a coat hanger), it wasn't "stuffed" inside her, the only member of Led Zeppelin present at the time (John Bonham) was merely an onlooker rather than an active participant, and the woman left the hotel unharmed. (Richard Cole may not have been the most accurate chronicler of Led Zeppelin's history, but since his accounts tend to run to excess it's safe to assume the reality was no wilder than he presented it. In any case, accounts given by others connected with the incident don't substantially contradict Cole's version.)

Nonetheless, tales of sexual exploits involving groupies and animals are familiar entries in the Led Zeppelin canon of rumors:
One evening, two young girls were lounging in the bathtub of Led Zeppelin's hotel suite. Page walked in. He giggled, "We figured you need something to keep you company." Then he threw four live octopuses into the tub. The young ladies wound up enjoying the octopuses more than the rockers. "Oh my god," squealed one of them, "I've gotta get one of these. It's like having an eight-armed vibrator!"

Led Zeppelin later cheered on another adventurous female fan while she made love with her pet Great Dane. The boys in the band even provided strategically placed bacon for the Great Dane's pleasure

And if you want tales of Rock N Roll excess from 4 guys that don't remember half of what they did check out Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band, some of the stories you're just like, EWWW how could a woman exploit herself like that.  But it's a good vacation/conversation starter book.


7/24/10

Bon Jovi: Sex, Drugs and Bon Jovi

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A new book is coming out this week by some former tour manager of Bon Jovi who's going to detail the "salacious" past of my favorite musical act.  As a long time stalker fan I will save you some money and go over some of these "salacious" things.



Steven Adler's new autobiography apparently isn't the only rock tell-all that will be released next week. 

OMG the last time Steven Adler was relevant he was a sad sack of humanity on Celebrity Rehab w/Dr Drew. 

We received an announcement that Bon Jovi's former tour manager Richard Bozzett will release Sex, Drugs and Bon Jovi on July 26th. Here is the info that we were sent about the release:
Bon Jovi has sold more than 130 million records worldwide and performed in front of more than 34 million fans but little is known about how Bon Jovi rose to superstardom as he doesn't often talk about the early years.
For the first time, take an all-access backstage ride into the early years (1983-89) through tour manager Richard Bozzett's eyes in Sex, Drugs and Bon Jovi. This book visually takes you from the group's first performances in front of a few hundred fans through being an opening act to touring on their own and becoming Rock Legends.

Some items in the book of particular interest include:
• Bon Jovi's managements connection to the largest cocaine and marijuana trafficking operations of their time, which led to multiple run-ins, while touring, with the DEA. 

*snore* Ok, Doc McGhee Bon Jovi's former manager was arrested in 1982 for distribution of Marijuana and he had some cocaine and other assorted drugs as well.  He didn't go to jail but had to do community service which became the Moscow Music Peace Festival which was free in the USSR but here in the states cost $29.95 on PPV, I know this because I was at Band Camp at East Stroudsburg University in PA and begged my Dad to buy and tape it for me (which he did).  This is such a non news item for long time fans.

• Details on Bon Jovi's use of speed prior to shows to get "amped up" and Halcion after shows to allow him to sleep

Non News, lots of people did this during the 80's and there were a whole lot of things he could have done that were way worse.

• Details on how the Living on A Prayer tour saved the band for financial chaos

More Non News.  The band has talked about this extensively.  They owed everyone money and if Slippery wasn't a Success they were done. And Livin' on a Prayer tour???  WTF???  It was the Slippery When Wet Tour.  Dumbass.

• Never-before-released photos of the band touring, partying, family get togethers shedding a new light on the early days of these Rock Legends and a "Sex Scandal" that never leaked.

Ok, there are so many rock n roll sex scandals that are out there for example, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithful & a Mars Candy Bar.  Led Zeppelin, Groupies and Fish.  And if you read another Former Disgruntled Bon Jovi employees book "Star Man" by their former security guard you could add Richie Sambora, Twin Sisters & a Cucumber.  If it had been as bad as this guy states it would be the stuff of urban legends.

This apparently won't be a wide release as Amazon does not carry the title at press time,

Yes, I too could publish my own book, but I could get it published on Amazon and it would be Kindle compliant because I would be that awesome.

but we were sent a link to the book's website http://sexdrugsbonjovi.com/ - (warning the site's flash programmer thought it was a great idea to have a blaring video included that you can not mute!)

YES!  Do not go to the site, I had to mute my computer because the video would not stop blaring it's music.

Atlas Books is also selling it at http://www.atlasbooks.com/marktplc/03053.htm
Warning: These were the only two references to this book that we could find aside from the "announcement" that was sent out to various news sites. Nor could we find a publisher listed. The Atlas site does have an 800 number you can call to order. 

This itself should tell you how reputable the author is and how salacious the book is, either that or no publisher wanted to publish it for fear of facing Bon Jovi's lawyers (especially in the UK where slander laws are much harsher than here in the US).

If you want an interesting read try and find Star Man: The Right Hand Man of Rock 'n' Roll (Paperback) by Michael Francis and don't waste your money and buy it new, just buy a used copy.  It's not worth $15 but it's an interesting read for less than $10.  

The only thing I find interesting are the pictures.  I like to see other people's pictures and not the posed ones, but the ones that are more candid and give you a glimpse of that time.  

7/10/10

Bon Jovi: Jon Bon Jovi tears his calf muscle on stage

***UPDATED****  7/10/10 10:14 am SEE BELOW

Oh No!  Jon got a cramp on stage at the 4th show at the NMS aka New Giants Stadium last night (Yeah they're back in the states!!!) during one of the encore songs of The Beatles: Glad All Over.  Poor man.  Many women right now are willing to lie about their medical credentials to help.

Watch the video below.





You can see Jon walking it off here, in the closing number of Prayer:



TMZ Bought got the footage of the final bows, it was on youtube, but got pulled by the person who uploaded it.  TMZ has it loaded into their player, whereas the video above during Glad All Over is direct to YouTube:

TMZ - Jon Bon Jovi Injured, Finishes Concert

Many women will be heading to the Bon Jovi hotel dressed like this, I'm sure:


The question will be, are they there for Jon, or as a Birthday surprise for Richie?????

6/10/10

Bon Jovi: The Price of Tickets

 More from the make a (King of the) mountain out a molehill files:


(RTTNews) - Bon Jovi is speaking out against accusations that the band is overcharging fans for their residency at London's O2 Arena. In a recent statement to the Daily Mirror, Jon Bon Jovi claims the top priced $2,000 ticket package is just one option and that fans can buy tickets at much lower prices.

"Those tickets are a couple of special package tickets," he said. "I don't really know what they are, they could be anything. It may be that you get everything and it may be 20 tickets. But it ain't the front row and it ain't the front section. It's certainly not gipping (conning) anyone else out of anything."

The band started their 12-date run earlier this week with a performance on the roof of the O2 Arena. Assisted by a team of climbing experts, the band ascended to the building's highest point and offered up renditions of "We Weren't Born To Follow," "Superman Tonight," You Give Love A Bad Name" and "It's My Life."

The performance was projected onto screens located throughout the arena's outer concourse.

If you believe that Jon doesn't know what ticket prices are I have a bridge to sell you:

It's over 100 years old but still is usable.

Also Bon Jovi waved the service fees on all tickets today for the rest of the month.  But you know you have to buy the tickets now, not when they went on sale, like 6 months ago.

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