Bon Jovi: What do You Got live in Mexico

Finally good video surfaces of this new Bon Jovi hit being played in a stadium. The PC Richards version is nice but in reality so many more people will be exposed to this song in a stadium or arena setting. Also the acoustics are better at the PC Richards Theater than they are in a stadium.

Bon Jovi: Few people have come to expect to Bon Jovi

From our Bon Jovi loving friends in Costa Rica.

Since No Hablo Espanol, the translation is courtesy of the all powerful and multi-lingual Google Translate.

The first story has a video of the band's plane landing.

Group performs tonight at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa

17 years later, Bon Jovi returned

Arrival rockers arrived the country yesterday and were immediately taken to the hotel where they met several fans

Gerardo González V. gegonzalez@nacion.com 25/09/2010 08:45 PM

A small and enthusiastic group of lucky fans received yesterday, shouting at the band Bon Jovi on arrival at your hotel.

The private flight brought the singer Jon Bon Jovi and his companions landed at Juan Santamaría International Airport, when the clock struck 5:10 pm

Immigration officials were responsible for registering the income of the country rockers.

A production team was waiting at the foot of the stairs to transfer them immediately to their hotel, a caravan of vehicles.

The band and their entourage were taken to a luxurious hotel in the capital, whose name we can not disclose at the request of the production. There, a warning fans could see how the singer Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, drummer Tico Torres and keyboardist David Bryan entered as a bullet to the hotel, amid the security personnel.

Only one young man could steal a kiss on the cheek, the singer and the young Salvadoran Quiteño René Torres got him to sign his album Slippery When Wet.

The musicians ignored the presence of the press. Tico Torres only waved to the cameras.

Meanwhile, the camera flashes and some threw away their screaming begging for a little souvenir of the reunion.

Wanting more. The swift passage of the musicians left with a distaste for those who were waiting anxiously in the hotel.

Melissa Ponce, a resident of Santa Ana, was one that could see up close rockers.

"It was too fast, I could only say hello. I thought they would have more contact with the public, "he told the young man of 29 years.

For his part, Abraham Madrigal Puriscal, described as a dream come true seeing their idols in person.

Not everyone was so smiling after the entry of the musicians.

"We came from Quepos and not at all" was the comment that said the boy Samuel Alvarado, age 7, visibly disappointed at the fleeting passage of rockers.

He, along with her mother and brother Lineth Solano, Efren 10 years, came to San Jose just for the concert today.

The band will perform tonight at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa in his tour Tibás The Circle and after an absence of 17 years when they first came and played before a sold out show at the Palacio de los Deportes.

Today, the band returned with a show they have promised will be huge, full of innovative technology and, above all, with their biggest hits.

Yes, I expect them to stand outside of a hotel in Costa Rica and sign autographs, just like I expect them to do the same thing here in the states.  *Rolls Eyes*

Story numero dos.

Few people have come to expect to Bon Jovi

Caterina L. Elizondo celizondo@nacion.com 26/09/2010 36 minutes ago

At about 11 am, the atmosphere at the Estadio Ricardo Saprissa was not yet very hot, waiting for the concert of the band Bon Jovi.

However, the 'fans' most loyal in the group were there even queuing since Thursday.

Parents and children, coworkers, friends and even acquaintances through social networks began to fill the lineup, although the income is scheduled for 4 pm

According to Paul Fonseca, manager of corporate security Isaseca, three days of monitoring the area and so far there has been no major incidents.

"At the moment production (Evenpro) has not done reporting on items that can not enter, but we know that professional cameras are banned," said Fonseca.

Sales are also strong, along the block of the stadium there are several food stalls and sales of items such as shirts, scarves and memorabilia from the band. . There is no shortage of ticket resellers, who prowl through the rows looking for who they sell and buy tickets.

At this time it rains in Tibás, and as mentioned some concert-goers have been covered with coats and umbrellas, because outside the stadium there are no tents or camping allowed.

In a few hours will bring more information about the environment before the concert of Bon Jovi, after 17 years of no-show in the country, www.nacion.com .

Bon Jovi: Screen Caps from What do you Got?

Here are some screen captures from the What Do You Got video.

I love Youtube 1080 HD it's like being there.  On several of these photos I wanted to lick my screen but then I thought, that would be bad because I would electrocute myself.

Oh my God. This one makes me I just can't describe it in words. I think he's looking at Richie and that sure as hell ain't the "Stink eye"

Bon Jovi: Bon voyage Jersey band’s long journey leads to stadium mega-shows

Image via Wikipedia

Bon voyage

Jersey band’s long journey leads to stadium mega-shows

By Jim Sullivan | Friday, July 23, 2010 |

There’s arena rock and then there’s Bon Jovi.

Bon Jovi doesn’t play arenas anymore. It plays football stadiums - including Gillette Stadium Saturday night.

Which, when things go well, is where you end up after 28 years and 3,500 shows..

“Or some crazy amount like that,” guitarist Richie Sambora, 51, said before Bon Jovi’s show at Toronto’s 55,000-capacity Rogers Centre earlier this week. “I don’t know if anybody has comprehensively toured as much as we have.”

But the band, led by singer Jon Bon Jovi, hasn’t forgotten its New Jersey club roots. “After all these years, we know how to make a stadium an intimate place,” Sambora said. “I don’t think we’ve ever had a bad show.

Bon Jovi - which also includes keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres and, since 1994, bassist Hugh McDonald - has sold 120 million albums. The band had a No. 1 country hit in 2006 with “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” a duet with Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles. Their 11th studio album, “The Circle,” debuted at No. 1 last year. And they’re now deep into a 150-show tour.

“When I walk onstage and I look down and see my shadow,” Sambora said, “I say to myself, ‘Well, it’s pretty good to be me.’ I look up and there’s 55,000 people staring at me enjoying my songs. I do this all over the whole world. I’ve got the best partner and frontman in the business.

“Besides having one of the biggest bands on the planet, Jon and I were just in the gym and we’re looking at each other going, ‘Man, we’re still having fun. Everything’s really cool.’ ”

Herald: The concert business is in dire straits and big acts are scrapping tours, canceling arena gigs, but not you.

Sambora: We’re adding shows all over the world. We’re on cloud nine, man. The way the climate is in the touring business now, it’s amazing. We work as hard as we can every day, all the time. We still don’t take a bit of this for granted.

What’s your take on the continued success?

It’s the people. Not only that, it’s our own challenge to ourselves. Honestly when you get to do what we do at this level - to do what you love to do and make money - it’s extraordinary. There’s an internal challenge that we all bring to the party. It’s about bringing your heart and soul and leaving everything up there on the stage every night. You’re here. Let’s bring it. That’s been our attitude.

Did you have arena-sized ambitions from the get-go?

When we were young, we had a plan that we were going to be able to play everywhere. Of course you have the big ambitions, but nobody could have dreamed this big, or for this long. Frankly though, when we were making “Slippery When Wet,” we knew we had a couple of hits. When Jon and I wrote “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name,” we looked at each other and said, “Yeah, we can work this.”

You’ve sold millions of records, but have never been a critic’s darling.

Ah, we’re an American rock ’n’ roll band. We just are who we are. We’ve never been a critic’s band, but “The Circle” got amazing reviews and the live shows are getting amazing reviews. So everything comes around.

It seems with “The Circle” there’s a bit more grit and reflection. Any thoughts?

It really constitutes a lot of different things. It constitutes growing up. It’s always relying on your influences and rediscovering what your roots are. We’re on a constant quest for evolution. There’s a populist, working-class ethic to it. Jon and I have probably written close to 500 songs, and you draw a lot from what’s happening in the culture and what’s happening in the world. “The Circle” couldn’t have been written at a different time. Those songs were written about how people were feeling about the economic crunch. It’s not a political album per se, but it’s an album about how people were reacting to what was happening in the world. It was right at the time of the election and a lot of people had a lot of hope that Obama was gonna get elected. There’s a string of hope that goes through those songs and there was a string of doubt, a lot of different emotions.

What’s your writing process?

Jon and I write very simply. We start out with a conversation about what we’re feeling. It’s spontaneous combustion. It’s always in the moment and we’re always in the same room with a couple of guitars or a piano. If you can sell it with a guitar and voice, that’s the way we base it.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Music Review: At the Meadowlands, Bon Jovi Goes to a New Home (nytimes.com)
• Music Review: At the Meadowlands, Bon Jovi Goes to a New Home (nytimes.com)
• Bon Jovi fans 'Keep the Faith' at concert (troyrecord.com)

Bon Jovi: Bon Jovi's bad medicine good for Edmonton

Another day, another Bon Jovi concert review.  But at least the reviewer isn't snarky and mean and wishing he or she was at some Hipster band's concert.

Bon Jovi's bad medicine good for Edmonton

BY ELIZABETH WITHEY, EDMONTONJOURNAL.COM JULY 16, 2010

 

Bon Jovi performs at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton July 15, 2010

Photograph by: Larry Wong/Edmonton Journal, edmontonjournal.com

EDMONTON — As soon as I heard the chorus of Bed of Roses, I was back at the school dance in Grade 10, a hormonal, desperate dreamer singing along while watching the cool kids slow-dance, ever hopeful some hunk might someday be willing to sleep on a bed of nails in my honour.

Yup. Bon Jovi can still pound a Prairie girl’s heart into mawkish mush.

Twas the perfect night for an outdoor trip down rock memory lane at Commonwealth Stadium: clear skies, just a sliver of moon, no coat required.

The epic rock band came on as the sun set and wouldn’t stop playing until after Cinderella’s bedtime, giving the sold-out crowd of more than 40,000 a serious hit of bad medicine.

“I’m just gettin’ warmed up,” frontman Jon Bon Jovi shouted after 40 minutes. The set, well over two hours, was everything fans could hope for: all the classics (and there are a LOT of classics), video bling and plenty of close-ups of the lead singer. He’s still got it, that Jonny: the voice, the hair, that sweaty V-neck sex appeal that makes an otherwise sensible woman want to pounce and paw. Not bad for a 48-year-old father of four who’s currently suffering from a torn calf muscle. Jon injured himself at a show last Friday in New Jersey; his stage movement was noticeably limited but he grooved as best he could, punching the air and doing one-legged hops while tossing self-deprecating comments to the audience.

“You got another leg?” he asked the band. “I could use one.”

Jutting out from the stage was a raised walkway making a half-circle into the crowd, with some lucky ticket holders tucked in the middle. Jon couldn’t prowl back and forth on the walkway but he sneakily hobbled out to the front of it while guitarist Richie Sambora sang Lay Your Hands on Me.

“I like the view out here,” Jon said. “Not easy to get here but it was worth the trip.”

Support act Kid Rock got the rowdy crowd riled and gave them plenty of time to tank up on beer with an hour-long set. Fans sang along with All Summer Long and I Put Your Picture Away as the rockin’-rappin’ renegade monkeyed around on stage, standing above a turntable and playing it through his legs while smoking a cigar.

“Woooooh!” he shouted. “That’s the redneck mating call.” The gel-nailed, handlebar-mustachioed masses hollered back.

But it was Bon Jovi they’d come for. Like kittens at a bowl of milk, they lapped up Jon’s bad-boy grin and husky sound as he belted out one anthemic hit after another: You Give Love a Bad Name, Dead or Alive, Livin’ on a Prayer. And I couldn’t help but appreciate his passion performing I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead — clearly, he means what he sings.

The Bon Jovi posse may be jowlier and wrinklier but their energy Thursday was unfaltering — Sambora was unstoppable, burning up yet chilled out, chewing gum the entire show while singing backup vocals, and drummer Tico Torres bashed out beats in a perspiration-soaked frenzy. Keyboardist David Bryan’s frizzy mop is so dated yet I’m not sure I’d want it any other way. The collective wildness quelled my cynicism about vintage bands touring for the money.

These guys still love what they do.

ewithey@thejournal.canwest.com

Kid Rock is like not the best looking man in Rock N Roll, he's not the worst either, of course the ugliest man in Rock in Chad Kroger from Nickleback.  When God handed out Rock Star Pretty of course Jon was at the front of the line and by the time Chad got there (hell, even if he had been second in line) God let him know, 'Oops, sorry all out..." (I'm not insulting Nickleback as a band like some people do, I like their music, but Chad to me is U-G-L-Y).

Bon Jovi: Bon Jovi Two decades of full stadiums

I love articles where they get facts wrong, aka go to the Obie O'Brien school of Bon Jovi history.  Read the article below and let me know if you found the error.  It's so obvious.  LOL

Bon Jovi

Two decades of full stadiums

BY ERIN HARDE, FOR THE LEADER-POSTJUNE 19, 2010 4:02 AM

- - -

When rockers Bon Jovi play to 35,000 screaming fans of all ages on July 28 at Mosaic Stadium, it may be hard for some to reconcile the now middle-aged clean-cut frontman and founder Jon Bon Jovi with the '80s glam metal icon.

But his roots, quite literally, are the reason Bon Jovi and his band can still fill stadiums more than two decades later. The New Jersey group found fame as part of the hair band movement -- that is, for those too young to remember, hard rock and metal bands whose long scraggly locks, bandanas, ripped denim and tattoos defined their image and music.

Anybody who loved Bon Jovi in the '80s likely also had cassette tapes of Ratt, Poison, Slaughter and Cinderella. While those bands are still active, Bon Jovi prevailed, weathering industry changes, and persevering through the creative dry spells. Madonna may be a musical chameleon and the Rolling Stones are as indestructible as cockroaches, but hard-working Bon Jovi has held his own, and is still beloved by millions today.

So how has he remained so popular? Maybe it's because when glam metal gave way to grunge in the early '90s, he began shifting into the pop genre, attracting a brand new demographic of fans. Maybe, as any female fan will attest, it's because of his rugged good looks, with or without his famous hair. Or it could be that he's just a decent, hard working nice guy. Like fellow New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi has kept his nose clean over the years.

He married his high school sweetheart Dorothea in 1987, has four children with her, and they're still married, practically unheard of in the industry. Just ask his womanizing guitarist, Richie Sambora, who found himself in plenty of mischief over the years from rehab to a high profile divorce from Heather Locklear. Bon Jovi's biggest scandal? He cut off his famous mane in the early '90s, which made headlines on CNN.

Not that the band members didn't squabble, but rather than resolving it the usual way with drunken fighting, they once retreated to the Caribbean specifically to work out their issues and discuss the future. Ultimately, the group went on hiatus a few times in the '90s, but all four members -- Bon Jovi, Sambora, drummer Tico Torres, and keyboardist David Bryan -- kept busy with solo projects, including television and movie stints in Bon Jovi's case. Even in many of those roles, like his kind contractor Victor on the Fox sitcom Ally McBeal, he was a nice guy.

In the last decade, Bon Jovi has enjoyed a huge resurgence with Crush, which featured "It's My Life," Bounce, a nod to the band's ability to bounce back into the limelight, Have a Nice Day, Lost Highway, and their latest The Circle.

Make a Bon Jovi playlist that pulls singles from each era, and it's easy to see how much the band has experimented with its sound. Classics from Slippery When Wet, like "You Give Love A Bad Name," "Livin' on a Prayer" and "Wanted Dead or Alive," wildly vary from newest single, "We Weren't Born to Follow."

Yet, he lost few fans along the way. Regina couple Blaine and Chera Miller have been devoted to Bon Jovi since 1987.

"I was 12 years old, and had the Slippery When Wet tape," says Chera, a Grade 3 teacher at Henry Janzen School.

" 'You Give Love A Bad Name' was their No. 1 hit, and that was pretty much when I really fell in love with Bon Jovi."

Her husband picked up on Bon Jovi when sophomore album 7800° Fahrenheit was released.

"I got into that glam rock era. My friends were all into it, Motley Crue, Cinderella, the hair bands," says Blaine, a maintenance worker with the Regina Public School Board.

For the Millers, Bon Jovi isn't just a band, it's a way of life. Between them, the Millers have seen Bon Jovi nine times. Blaine first saw the group on its New Jersey tour in 1989 while Chera camped overnight at the Agridome to be the first to buy tickets for the band's 1997 performance in Saskatoon. She laughs at herself now, acknowledging that kind of dedication wasn't necessary as Bon Jovi wasn't at its peak then.

When the couple married, their first dance was to "Thank You for Loving Me," and when their second child was born, they named him Jovi, showing just how dedicated they are. Already, the one-year-old pays tribute to his namesake when he wears his Bon Jovi onesie.

"We saw him in 2006, and after watching that concert and falling in love with him all over again, I said to Blaine, 'Our next child, boy or girl, we're naming him or her Jovi.' "

Friends and family weren't surprised by the choice of name. When people think of Blaine and Chera, they think of Bon Jovi.

Like Bon Jovi and his wife, the Millers are also high school sweethearts, finding each other at F.W. Johnson Collegiate and discovering their common passion soon after dating. As members of the Bon Jovi fan club, the pair landed fourth-row seats to the Regina performance, and hope to hear tunes from their favourite Bon Jovi eras.

For Blaine, it's "Wanted Dead Or Alive," and "Blood on Blood," while Chera loves Lost Highway the best and wants to hear "(You Want To) Make a Memory" and her wedding song.

Despite their long-standing devotion to the band, the Millers have yet to meet Bon Jovi, but Chera hopes a letter she wrote to the fan club about how much Bon Jovi has impacted their lives will one day lead to a photo opportunity with her son and the band.

"I've never met him in person yet, but I'd love to."

Rosie Blais also hopes to meet him in July. Blais is lead singer of Enjoy Your Pumas, the Winnipeg act that landed the opening slot at Mosaic Stadium before Kid Rock takes the stage. The 19-year-old figures she could learn a lot from the rock veteran.

"I think I would ask him how to stay relevant, and stay real," she says.

"You gotta think about this. Bon Jovi is an enormous act, the biggest tour in the world, and he's asking local acts to open for him. He doesn't have to do that, it's so nice he does give this opportunity to people."

With ticket prices as low as $25, Bon Jovi is giving fans the chance to see a huge rock show for next to nothing. Neil Donnelly, vice-president, events and entertainment, at Evraz Place, promises the show will have all the spectacle of the Rolling Stones and AC/DC concerts.

"The lighting, the staging, the video, the audio will be just as big as what we saw at AC/DC. It will be a full-on rock show."

Rather than a catwalk through the middle of the crowd, Bon Jovi's setup will have a semi-circle jutting out from each corner of the stage. Those willing to pay more than $500 a ticket will enjoy the show from inside 'the circle,' as dubbed by the band.

Whether fans are teenagers or 30-something parents, love Slippery When Wet or Crush, once worshipped hair bands or just like to sing along to the band on the radio, they're sure to agree on one thing -- Regina is in for "one wild night."

- - -

TOP SONGS

Selected by Tim Harrison, Jack FM.

5. "Blaze of Glory"

I know it wasn't a band song, but it just seemed perfect as the theme for the Young Guns II movie complimenting the "young dudes" cast of Kiefer Sutherland and Emilio Estevez. Plus it hit No. 1!

4. "Wanted Dead or Alive"

So fitting a song for the time period. It was the third release from Slippery When Wet, they were the biggest band in the world, jetting all over the globe on the "Steel Horse" they rode. And people clammered to see them "Dead or Alive." The video just showed the exhaustion, yet they had to bring it every night.

3. "Bad Medicine"

So, it had been two years since Slippery When Wet overtook the world, they had toured extensively and now they had a new album. How good could it be? Could it rise to the heights of Slippery? The first single answered that question. That nasty hook in the intro of the song grabbed everybody -- and the ride was on again.

2. "You Give Love a Bad Name"

Up until this point, they were another flashy young band with long hair and some catchy hooks. But when they released this song to radio, I remember getting goose-bumps playing it. The cold intro -- "Shot through the heart and you're to blame" They had no idea what this song was going to do to them for the next five years.

1. "Livin' on a Prayer"

What do you say? It's their signature song. I remember seeing them in Calgary back in the early '90s and I wasn't sure which song I most wanted to hear until half the show was over and I said to myself, "They have to do 'Livin' on a Prayer.' Everybody around kept screaming 'Livin' on a Prayer,' 'Livin' on a Prayer.' " That's when I knew this was their biggest song. Oh, and it was their final encore of the night. It may be that way July 28th at Mosaic Stadium!!!

Bon Jovi Kisses Fans at Start of Squeaky-Clean Concert Marathon

IN this review of night 1 at The O2, I think he really hits it on the head regarding Hallelujah, and Jon needs to be careful not to perform it too much.

Oh and I love his descriptions.   But what about Tico????  Why does everyone forget about Tico???

Bon Jovi Kisses Fans at Start of Squeaky-Clean Concert Marathon

Review by Robert Heller

June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Three years ago, Jon Bon Jovi played the first rock concert at London’s O2 Arena. Last night, the first of a 12-show residency, the U.S. star returned to flash a smile, kiss some girls and get down to 2 1/2 hours of stadium- sized anthems and blue-collar rocking.

Since June 2007, the O2 Arena has become one of the world’s leading rock venues. Bon Jovi’s commercial success stretches over 25 years, with more than 120 million albums sold -- 28 million of them being 1986’s “Slippery When Wet.”

Right from the start, Bon Jovi’s band works to deliver. “Blood On Blood” sets the pace. It launches with a squeal from the guitar of Richie Sambora, who wears a flash silver jacket. Sambora keeps the hair-metal flame alive with virtuoso guitar work that never lets fireworks usurp good old-fashioned melody.

The rhythm section gets the rock-blues chugging. David Bryan, his corkscrew curls bobbing with excitement, throws in flashes of synthesizer.

The main event, though, is the singer. With his matinee- idol cheekbones and blue-eyed gaze, the all-American hero, 48, is born to perform. His hair is salon perfect while his super- white smile is the most dazzling thing on the O2’s stage.

He moves into the audience to give a chaste kiss on the cheek to some female fans (and one excited guy). He also sings, powering hard-rock and pop-rock anthems.

Close-Up Footage

“When We Were Beautiful” packs a special punch. “Work for the Working Man” comes with some social-realism-styled graphics. Unlike most arena gigs, Bon Jovi’s stage has no props or pyrotechnics. The big screens are used, for most of the show, only to highlight close-up footage from onstage.

There are some dud moments. A couple of songs feel like Eagles cast-offs puffed up in metal trappings. A cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is over-emoted and self- reverential.

The wholesomeness of it all -- clean melodies, relentless air-punching and vacuous sing-a-longs -- make you yearn for a bit of rock filth or Bruce Springsteen grit.

It was nothing that Bon Jovi’s winning smile, and an encore blast through “Living on a Prayer” couldn’t fix.

After last night’s show, Bon Jovi will be welcomed back to the O2 for years to come.

I haven't forgotten about Tico:

5 songs I would like to hear on The Circle tour & 5 I wish wouldn't be played

So, rumor is Bon Jovi's going to pull out some rarities on the Circle tour. What a diehard fan says is a rarity versus what Jon says is a rarity may differ.

Many other people on line have posted their "requests" so here are mine:

The 5 Songs I would like to hear on The Circle Tour

Happy 2010

I haven't updated this in awhile since things got busy.

I went on a cruise in October, came back got seriously ill, had some job interviews while seriously ill, and finally got a job early November.

So in apology I want to offer the 2010 Bon Jovi The Circle Calendar, its chock full of, well, Bon Jovi.

January