Bon Jovi: The Making of the Bad Medicine Video

Found this on You Tube, figured I would share.


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If you watch at the very beginning the kid Standing next to the Late Great Sam Kinison is everyone's favorite balding Bongiovi brother Matt, because Tony isn't balding and Jon is not balding he's thinning and there's a difference.

And OMG Alec is wearing one of Cher's wigs.  Either that or a dead cat.

Bon Jovi: Greatest Hits DVD

Awesome.  Once again not available in the US or Canada (Randomly Bon Jovi Brasil, Mexico and the rest of Central and South America are not part of the US or Canada)

BON JOVI GREATEST HITS DVD features the band's biggest worldwide smash hits in a career-spanning set of original promo videos, alongside the greatest ever live performances of each and every one of these legendary tracks.

The phenomenal live footage includes the band's groundbreaking rooftop show on top of London's O2 Arena (never before been released on home video) as well as an exclusive performance of storming new single WHAT DO YOU GOT?, not available anywhere else.

17 ORIGINAL VIDEOS + 17 LIVE PERFORMANCES

THE ULTIMATE VIDEO COLLECTION

This DVD includes Livin' On A Prayer, It's My Life, You Give Love A Bad Name, Bad Medicine, Who Says You Can't Go Home, Have A NIce Day, Always, Lay Your Hands On Me, We Weren't Born To Follow, Keep The Faith, Blaze of Glory and MORE!

This DVD collection is available around the world, minus US and Canada. Look for it when you purchase your Greatest Hits album in November!

The Greatest Hits DVD can be purchased from Amazon.co.uk and it is all regions which means it will play in newer DVD players in any country.  Which is also what they did with the MSG DVD and I had it last December.  Stupid Universal Music.  Trying to hold the American (& Canadian) Bon Jovi fan down, don't you know we have credit cards and access to the internet???

Here are some pictures from Amazon.co.uk of the back of the DVD which videos and which performances.  Makes me wonder if next year we can expect a DVD package of the 70+ songs performed at the O2 this past June.  Hmmm Bon Jovi????  Hmmm?????  What Do You Got is live from Peru.

 

 Of course after reading the track listing I have most of the live stuff on DVD, and did they remaster the videos to look all HD on the TV (Jon & Richie circa 1986 in full HD *swoon* I'm sure Alec's goatee [and of course Alec himself] look more frightening in HD, Happy Halloween), it would be even better if the re-mastered all the VHS Videos from the 80's where they had like Slippery When Wet the videos & NJ the videos & of course Access all Areas (A Rock N Roll Odyssey) which I refuse to pay $300 for all the CDs I have just to get that DVD.  

That would be the ultimate Bon Jovi DVD set (they're still not listening I'm sure).

So to recap:

You can buy the Greatest Hits DVD from an online retailer from Europe.

Bon Jovi Needs to remaster all their video collections & Access All Areas to full 1080i/p HD and put out a DVD box set

The O2 should be out on DVD w/All 70+ songs performed (in 1080i/p HD)

Alec John Such is scary even when it's not Halloween.

Bon Jovi: Bon Jovi Greatest Hits Review

One of the first reviews of the Greatest Hits I've seen, and they don't do the Ultimate Greatest Hits (I'm sorry in some cases you get twice as many songs for pennies more the regular Greatest Hits is a rip off).  

Bon Jovi Greatest Hits Review

BBC Review

New Jersey hard-rockers of worldwide appeal release a new hits collection.

Mike Diver 2010-10-29

There’s no shame whatsoever in admitting to having some affection for Bon Jovi. If you’re of a certain age – and the spread’s wide, from teenagers to mums and dads in their 40s and 50s – then there’s every chance that significant moments of your life have occurred around this pop-rocking foursome riding high in the charts. Frankly, those who can’t sling their head back, punch the air and holler along to the chorus of Livin’ on a Prayer are likely unsalvageable from whatever depression they’ve slipped into.

As for the question of whether the group needs another best-of set, bear in mind that their last worldwide compilation of such a style, Crossroads, came out 16 years ago. That’s nearly a generation’s worth of new rock ‘n’ roll that’s up for inclusion here, then. But, perhaps wisely, the majority of these 16 tracks (an expanded double-disc version is available too, should you be worrying that Blaze of Glory has been erased from Bon Jovi history) are taken from the band’s mid-80s to early-90s globe-conquering albums. The fresher fare is yet to fully rub into the leather of rock’s already plenty stained jacket of time, but numbers like It’s My Life, from 2000’s Crush, and Have a Nice Day from the 2005 album of the same name, have clout enough to them to suggest that, eventually, they’ll be just as revered amongst the band’s fanbase as catalogue classics from New Jersey and Slippery When Wet.

Granted, one person’s classic is another’s cut that can’t be abided – but there’s a genuine universal appeal to a great many Bon Jovi tracks that puts them in the same league as U2. Sure, you’ll hate a few tracks when they’ve been playlisted into irrelevance; but time heals, and sure enough today Bon Jovi’s most brilliant firecrackers are enjoying new leases of life. No fewer than 12 of the tracks across these Greatest Hits discs will be available for players of the Rock Band series of video games to download. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi notes, in the accompanying promotional material, that these songs have stood the test of time, and for once the statement is more truth than flog-some-records hyperbole.

As with many greatest hits packages, a couple of new songs are tagged on the end – What Do You Got? is a by-the-book slowie worthy of a few lighters held aloft, and No Apologies is a rollicking barroom jam that’s high on energy if rather rattling of heart. They’re perfectly serviceable, but be fair – this is getting bought for the big-haired 80s hits, and nothing else. And that’s perfectly fine.

Bon Jovi: (Jon) Bon Jovi Mulls Solo Album After 'Circle' Tour Wraps

You know I like Jon's albums but there's magic when he and Richie and Desmond Child write together.  We shall see.

Bon Jovi Mulls Solo Album After 'Circle' Tour Wraps

It's a long way off, but Jon Bon Jovi is already hatching plans for August, after he and his band wrap up touring in support of their 2009 album, "The Circle," and a "Greatest Hits" set that comes out Nov. 9.

"I'm going to sit on a beach for August, which is usually what I do, and come September figure out what's next," Bon Jovi tells Billboard.com. Some possibilities? "A smaller-sounding solo record and/or focus more on the philanthropy and sports ownerships," he says. "I don't see any acting in the immediate future. It'll be out of the political cycles, and there's nothing else I wish I could do. I'm not a coulda, shoulda, woulda kind of guy. If I wanted to do it, I tried it, so it's not like I have any hidden desire to become a chef or anything."

Bon Jovi Up for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

If he does take the solo album route, Bon Jovi -- who went it alone on the 1990 soundtrack for "Blaze of Glory -- Young Guns II" and on 1997's "Destination Anywhere" -- predicts he'll go for "a lyric-driven, acoustic-sounding kind of thing with piano, a couple guitars, a B3 (organ) and a violin. I do these solo things oftentimes for charity, and I enjoy the atmosphere because it really gives the singer a chance to sing. You're not competing with the loud amps. So I could see myself doing a singer's type of a record. We'll see."

Before that, however, comes quite a bit of Bon Jovi group activity. The "Greatest Hits" album comes out in two different configurations -- a standard 16-song single disc and a two-disc "Greatest Hits -- Ultimate Collection," with five new songs spread across the various domestic and international editions. The project was first broached to follow 2007's "Lost Highway," but was pushed back when Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora came up with a batch of topical new songs for "The Circle."

Q&A: Bon Jovi Talks Pushing Himself On Tour

"While we're in the midst of 'The Circle' tour, this 'Greatest Hits' made the most sense," Bon Jovi explains, "because the tour's going to continue through the summer of next year. For those who have just found the band in this rather prolific decade, this is a great introduction, and for the fan who's been there the last three decades, this is everything you've ever known and then five new songs. So I feel like they're getting value added, too."

Bon Jovi says two of the new songs, the single "What Do You Got?" and "This Is Love, This Is Life," were started during "The Circle" sessions but didn't fit the album and were finished for "Greatest Hits," along with "This Our House," an MP3 download premium for those pre-ordering the album. The other two, "No Apologies" and "The More Things Change," were written specifically for the compilation.

He says he was surprised that "What Do You Got?" got the nod to be the first single. "I said, 'If anyone wants to pick a single, you tell me. What do I know?' " recalls Bon Jovi, who favored "No Apologies." "That was the one that floated to the top, and I was taken aback because it was the (last) of the five I would've picked. But people have really been relating to the lyric, and seemingly for...radio, it's a hit."

Bon Jovi has a number of appearances and events lined up in conjunction with the release of "Greatest Hits." On Nov. 7, the group will perform at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Madrid, where it will receive the inaugural Global Icon Award. The next night will see the premiere of "One Night Only," a concert film from May's opening run at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, at 750 movie theaters worldwide. They'll appear Nov. 9 on CBS' "The Late Show with David Letterman," along with a webcast concert that will stream on the show's website and Vevo.com, followed by a monthlong run that includes the "Today" show, A&E's "Private Sessions," the American Music Awards, "Ellen," "Larry King Live" and "CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute."

Bon Jovi resumes "The Circle" tour on Nov. 30 in Tokyo and hits Australia and New Zealand before a six-leg North American leg starts in February. The band then wraps things up in Europe during June and July, including a show at the Hard Rock Calling festival on June 25 in London's Hyde Park.

Bon Jovi: Looking Ahead (India)

A little news from India.  (Although it feels like a few different interviews smushed together, or Jon is just givin his typical scripted answers).

Looking ahead

Somya Lakhani

Jon Bon Jovi on letting the past be and why being sexy is essential to a rockstar

How has your music evolved over decades? What are the new elements you have added to your music in the new four songs in Bon Jovi Greatest Hits?

It’s been 16 years since the last Greatest Hits album, so there are several other hits in nearly two decades that had to be included. It’s not like I’m using this for a reunion tour or anything. There are 27 different songs here. The four new songs The More Things Change, No Apologies, This Is Love, This Is Life and the first single, What Do You Got? were written specifically for inclusion in this compilation.

You were in your 20s when Slippery When Wet sold almost 28 million copies. How did you deal with such instant stardom?

I dealt with stardom by keeping in mind that once it comes, everything is bigger, and things move twice as fast. You’re recognised twice as often.

How did you handle your early years in the music industry—about intense rivalries with contemporaries, stardom, paparazzi, link-ups, rumors. Any regrets?

Today is a blessing. I’ve been doing the job that I like for 30 years. I have very few regrets, nothing to be sorry for.

You are often called the ‘sexiest rock star’. How do you deal with this tag?

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock ‘n’ roll, and if I may say so, I’m pretty good at it. Being married and monogamous, it’s the closest thing I can do to having sex without getting in trouble. 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 sure.

What are your plans now? Are you working on any music or film projects?

I would love to be able to do both acting and making music. If I look at someone like Frank Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.

With such a huge fan base in India- do you plan on touring here anytime soon in the future?

I’m not sure. It’s unfortunate but true that we are so tied up in so many other places. We will make an announcement once we have planned a tour.