Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge: Day 30

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 30 - Random - whatever you want, you've made it!

I'd like to dedicate this final day to all the fans and great friends I've met/made over the years.

We start thinking we have one thing in common, but at the end of the day, we have many things in common.

I'll leave the challenge with this:

One for love, one for truth
One for me and one for you
We once were divided, now we stand united
We stand as one undivided

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 29!!!

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


One more day! I did this every day and posted unlike some people who skipped a day (Marnie I'm looking in your general direction).


Day 29 - Reasons you love Bon Jovi


I love the music

I love the positivity and hopefulness

I love the melodies

I love the harmonies

I love lamp. (That's an Anchorman reference)

I love the fact Alec isn't in the band anymore.

I love Tico

I love David

I love Richie

I lust after Jon, and his ass.

But most of all I love the music.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 28

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 28 - Cities/places you've seen Bon Jovi


Tampa, Fl - 6 Times

East Rutherford, NJ - 4 Times

Charlotte, NC - 1 Time

Auburn Hills, MI - 1 time

Gulf Shores, AL - 1 time


Tickets purchased (Kinda sorta at Fan Club stand)

San Antonio, TX - 1 Time

Las Vegas, NV - 1 Time


For these two dates I can't wait....  :)

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 27

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 27 - Would you ever consider getting a Bon Jovi-inspired tattoo? Explain

I don't have any tattoos I am TERRIFIED of needles. I also like to look at artwork in a museum, not on my body. So probably not. But I have considered getting a NY Yankees tattoo. But that gets shot down the thought of needles. UGH.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 26

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 26 - A photo of a member of the band's tattoo

Hmmm who's arm art is this????  LOL

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 25

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 25 - Your favorite Bon Jovi logo

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 24

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 24 - Your favorite Bon Jovi lyric


"It's all the same, only the names will change."

From Wanted Dead or Alive. It's to me like saying Same Shit Different Day.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 23

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 23 - A photo of your favorite Bon Jovi merchandise

I have so much that when 20/20 did their sit down interview with Jon I joking said to my Dad (and maybe it wasn't so jokingly) I paid for that house.

I love the shot glass set I got at the NMS last year.

I have all of my tour programs framed and hanging up (although out of all my tour programs my most beloved one is the Pink Floyd one from their last and probably final tour in 1994 for the Division Bell).

I have framed my poster from Giants Stadium in 2001.

My Keep the Faith poster from 1993 is still on my bedroom wall.

My Bon Jovi t-shirts from the 80's, they are still in good shape.

I have a bunch of vinyl singles, Runaway, You Give Love a Bad Name, Lay Your Hands on Me, etc.

I would have to say my probably most prized possession is my Vinyl Copy of New Jersey on picture disc.  The New Jersey Album cover was the B side and the picture from inside the liner notes was the A side. I saved up for MONTHS (I was 13 at the time) to get it hoping that someone else wouldn't go into Record Record in Pompton Lakes , NJ and buy it before me.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 22

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 22 - A photo of you and any member of Bon Jovi, if you have one


I have a picture of Obie, that's as close to a band member as I got.

 This is Sherri giving Obie the quilt she made, and Stacey handing him the Superman Boxers.

Shortly after this Obie wished me a Happy Birthday.  

Good Times.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 21

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 21 - The song that made you fall for Bon Jovi


That's easy.


I'm going to go into Sophia Petrillo mode for this:



Picture it, New Jersey, 1986.  A lonely 6th grader in a cabin full of semi hormonal pre-teens at Stokes State Forest, in Sussex County.

A school trip so there is no radio, but someone has smuggled one in.  We move it around the room, searching, hoping and fnally finding the place where Z-100 comes in. 

We listen and the DJ says, 'Here is the new one from Bon Jovi.'

The room erupts into the high pitched screams that most people associate with a good hard kick to a man's groin or a Justin Beiber concert.

"Shot through the Heart and you're too blame
Darlin' you give love a bad name...."

And that lonely 6th grader was me.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 20

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

20 - Your favorite music video

I love this video it's different from anything that had/have done. Great song too! I Believe off Keep The Faith

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 19

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 19 - Your favorite quote from Richie Sambora

"I'm talking about giving the people what they want. It's just like, you know, I don't wake up with perfect hair. It takes a certain creativity to get it right. Sometimes that's me; sometimes that's Miguel, my stupendous stylist."

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 18

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 18 - Your favorite tour/era

I would have to say The Jersey Syndicate Tour. I think they learned how to be and not be a band. The lessons that they learned on that tour shaped and continue to shape the band. They learned they can do 18-month long tours but they need time to relax. They learned they need to be away from each other and they need separate downtime.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 17

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 17 - Your favorite album art


This is a toughie.  In the grand scheme of rock, honestly Bon Jovi has some crappy covers.

Here are the 2 I have narrowed it down to:

Look Ma, no Alec.

I love the Bounce, it is probably the one cover that you could hang up as an art piece.  These were taken at the Very Large Array in New Mexico. 

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 16

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge


Day 16 - Your favorite quote from Jon Bon Jovi


"The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure"

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 15

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 15 - A topless photo of the guys

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 14

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 14 - A photo of Bon Jovi that you have taken, if any

So Many.  But this one is my favorite, just an accident really.  It looks like Jon is trying to make that sexless "marriage" legit.

But here's one I took in Gulf Shores of the Band taking their final bows ( Hmm I left out the Hobbit)

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 13

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 13 - Your favorite Bon Jovi gig

Toss up, between Giants Stadium night 1 & the Bounce tour show in Tampa cause I bumped into Paul O'Neill from the NY Yankees and Joey Fatone from N'Sync sat 2 rows in front of me.  That and they did 3 encores the final song was Never Say Goodbye.  I think that's a song for many of us that makes a show super special since they rarely play it and if they played it more it wouldn't be as special to hear.

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 12

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 12 List all the times you’ve seen Bon Jovi live, if at all

1. March 1993 - USF Sun Dome, Tampa FL
2. July 2001 - Giants Stadium Night 1
3. February 2003 - Continental Airlines Arena 
4. February 2003 - Continental Airlines Arena 
5. March 2003 - St Pete Times Forum , Tampa FL
6. January 2005, Charlotte NC
7. April, 2005, St Pete Times Forum 
8. April, 2005, St Pete Times Forum 
9. January 2008, Auburn Hills MI
10. March 2008, Tampa, FL
11. April, 2010 Tampa FL
12. May 2010 NMS night 3
13. October 2010, Gulf Shores AL

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge Day 11

Bon Jovi: 30 Day Bon Jovi Challenge

Day 11 - Your favorite cover or B-side

This is an easy one.

This song was the B-Side to Livin' on a Prayer

I will honestly tell you Always isn't Bon Jovi's #1 selling single of all time because of Always.  But because of the B-Side.  Many of us long term fans who grew up listening to Bon Jovi in the late 80's early 90s remember this song being played every once and a while on different radio stations late at night (I remember Z-100 playing it around or after 11 PM a lot).



I still love this song, it puts me in a great mood.