tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67404767698030999052024-03-13T22:28:38.196-04:00Queenie's CornerQueeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.comBlogger1275125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-21367549252863223832020-09-18T08:00:00.001-04:002020-09-18T12:15:19.185-04:00When you Can't Do What You do...<div style="text-align: justify;">Do What You Can...</div><p> </p>
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I may post here every now and again, like I am going to in just a sec, but for the most part, this corner will pretty much remain radio silent. But for now, for all the ones who still love and support our favorite stetson-wearing guitar man, this is for you...</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">With Daughter Ava Amid Heather Locklear’s Return To Rehab</span></b></div>
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Heather Locklear’s daughter, Ava, is surrounded by support during a difficult time.</div>
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In the midst of her mom’s <a href="https://www.accessonline.com/videos/heather-locklear-is-back-in-a-rehab-facility-whats-really-going-on-with-the-actress" rel="noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">return to rehab</a>, the 21-year-old college senior spent quality family time with her dad, Richie Sambora, when they took a last-minute trip to his hometown of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, over the weekend to visit her grandmother, Joan.</div>
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A source tells Access, “Ava had a small break from studies, so the two jetted out to see grandma to get some much-needed love and smiles. Joan, like her son Richie, has always been a big supporter and shares love for Heather. Ava is Joan’s only grandchild [and] seeing her was the biggest surprise and gift Joan could have asked for.”</div>
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The undergrad student is set to return to school at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles this week. An insider reveals that she has impeccable grades as well as a passion for acting — just like her famous mom.</div>
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Ava has previously shown off her talents in “Mommy Be Mine” and “This Is 40.” Meanwhile, Richie has been busy in the studio working on new music for his upcoming solo album.</div>
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Last week, a source told Access that Heather had been re-admitted into a rehab facility two weeks ago for treatment for alcohol abuse.</div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-62276403195277224372018-07-19T08:36:00.000-04:002018-07-19T08:36:04.863-04:00Summer Goals...<h1 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Roboto Condensed", "Arial Narrow", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 47px; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">
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Of course the Hamptons is where the idea behind Hampton Water was born, and the wine they co-created with Gerard Bertrand is already a hit!</div>
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“Extra’s” AJ Calloway caught up with the father-son duo in May. Jon revealed, “We've been named one of the top five rosés in the world in our first year.”</div>
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Jesse added, “90-point rating from Wine Spectator, 94 from DrinkBeverage.com.”</div>
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At least that was the consensus following last weekend’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, at which the enduring New Jersey rockers were finally granted entry into the Cleveland shrine.</div>
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Between an expectedly uproarious introductory speech by longtime band friend Howard Stern and the fan-satiating reunion with guitarist Richie Sambora and original bassist Alec John Such, Bon Jovi topped every headline.</div>
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Bon Jovi perfroms during the 33rd Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on April 14, 2018 in Cleveland. Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images</div>
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It’s a familiar spot for frontman Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres, who, along with longtime bassist Hugh McDonald and Sambora replacement Phil X, have filled arenas for more than three decades.</div>
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The band will play an encore performance at Philips Arena on Friday, slightly more than a year after their last visit to promote their 13th studio album, “This House Is Not for Sale.” The album was reissued earlier this year with a couple of new tracks.</div>
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Recently, Bryan and Torres chatted with reporters on a conference call to discuss Bon Jovi’s history and future.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">David Bryan:</span> “Yeah, hopefully later than sooner. You know what, it’s amazing when you look at the reunion tour and then the farewell tours and you look at so many bands that have their 14th farewell tour. I don’t really know how true those are and how much they need to sell tickets. I think for us it’s more about, we’re just going to keep doing it and having fun. The future has yet to happen, and until then we’re just going to keep having fun and making records and go play in front of the people and have a great time. … Look at the Rolling Stones, and they’re in their 70s.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Tico Torres:</span> “We made a promise to ourselves as far as that. As long as it’s fun and as long as we can have something to contribute musically together, why not do it? That’s where we’re at. … Some people have to retire. A lot of it could be physical. Some people like (Rush drummer) Neil Peart, I was watching (something where he says), I can’t play like Neil Peart anymore. Then you have the other spectrum of B.B. King. He passed away with a guitar in his hand.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Bryan:</span> “We always set out to be the biggest band in the world. It takes a lot of hard work to get lucky. We put in all the hard work and we got lucky and we went around the world to 50 countries and we played it over 30 times, each country. We’re proud to bring American rock around the world. We remain curious and kept just wanting to remain current, always getting better at our craft and always getting better at making records and playing live. It’s always a constant lesson. You just learn and stay curious and stay passionate.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Torres:</span> “The key is, like David said, stay true to yourself. I’m amazed that we have three generations in the audience that come see us play. That amazes me that it transcends not only to the kids that grew up with us, but their grandkids. To me, that’s wonderful that music can do that.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Bryan:</span> “At 3,000 (live shows), it’s hard. They all stand out. You can’t really say that one is better than any other. They’re all great and some are even greater. We’re very fortunate to have that many great experiences, really.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Torres:</span> “I can think of one. When we played for the queen of England. Presidents come and go, but the queen’s been around for (decades). It was kind of special to meet her and play for her. It’s those little things, but there’s a lot of those that are like Dave said, that really charm our life. We’ve been blessed.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Bryan:</span> “We got in a room together, looking at each other and really bashing out in the studio. We hadn’t been doing that for a while on the other records, and this one was like, let’s just get live, get in the room all together and bash it out and really create something, and we really did and are very proud of that record. For this second leg of the tour, we added two new songs. ‘When We Were Us’ is for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and where we’re at in our careers and talking about where we were and where we’re at and where we’re going. We added a couple more songs (to the new edition of the album) to just bring some new material for these shows coming up.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Bryan:</span> “We all get together when we do sound checks. We all come together and we have a nice chicken soup together. We sit around and have soup.”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Torres:</span> “That’s a prerequisite. We’ve got to have chicken soup in the dressing room at every show. Not M&M’s, chicken soup. It keeps the colds away.”</div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-16213765017748822012018-03-16T12:23:00.000-04:002018-03-16T12:23:38.744-04:00Bon Jovi: Denver, 3-14-18<div style="text-align: center;">
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So, yours truly jetted off to Denver this week to visit a dear friend (Willow) and to take in the very first show on this leg of the This House is Not For Sale Tour. It was a whirlwind trip which I would do again in a heartbeat.</div>
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I landed at Denver International Tuesday evening, and found that once I de-planed, I had to take a train to actually get to the terminal to where Willow was waiting to take me to her place. I had no idea just getting to her would involve planes, trains and automobiles. An adventure in and of itself for someone who's home airport involves nothing more than walking off the plane away from the gate and thru the doors to your loved ones and the exit. </div>
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Anyway, I won't bore you with the hours prior to the show, other than to say that Denver is beautiful and the Rocky Mountains, breathtaking. I can't wait to go back. If you ever get there, I can recommend Estes Park as one place to definitely visit. </div>
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Our pre-show dinner was something I need to mention though. We parked Will's car at the Pepsi Arena and Uber-ed to <a href="http://dbardenver.com/">Dbar Restaurant</a>. If any of you are Food Network watchers like I am, you will probably recognize the name Keegan Gerhard. He is one of the owners. The place started as a dessert cafe, but now they added a restaurant and full bar. The food was amazing as was the dessert we shared. And, while we were waiting for our Uber back to the arena, we met Keegan himself. He came walking up and was checking out the outside seating area and made a comment about us waiting and I instantly recognized his voice. I wasn't 100% sure when I saw him, but when he talked I knew. So, what do I do? I actually said "you <b>are</b> Keegan!" He chuckled and said yes he was, he shook our hands and chatted for a minute. Pretty cool moment. Then our Uber showed up and it was into the cadillac and off to the show we went.</div>
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We did the standard stand in line and wait for the doors to open, then had our bags checked and go thru metal detectors schtick. While waiting we noticed a woman up ahead of us had the coolest jeans on. She had patches from all the tours on them, the HAND smirk being prominently displayed on her back pocket. That has to be one of my favorites. The other thing we noticed about this woman, she had a toddler in her arms. He couldn't have been more than 2. I get that you want to share your love with your kids, but in my opinion, 2 is a tad young for a rock concert. But that's just me.</div>
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So, after waiting in a insanely long line for swag, we got our t-shirts (Queenie did not get a tour shirt, she supported the Soul Foundation with her purchase) found our seats, made some new friends and waited. </div>
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We were not impressed with the opening act. So we chatted with our new friends and commented on the young man sitting in front of us. He was with his dad and in conversation found that he was wearing his dad's original 1987 Slippery When Wet Tour T-Shirt. Pretty cool.</div>
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Now, the last time I saw the band, Richie was still with them. I also wasn't impressed with their performance on the Iheart Music Awards. So, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. </div>
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I shouldn't have worried. They were fantastic. So much better than what I saw on TV a few weeks ago. The interaction I missed seeing during their television performance was there, the connection I hadn't felt was there. It was incredible. Jon was on and sounded as good as ever. We got, what I think is a crazy good set list:</div>
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<i> When We Were Us</i></div>
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Some may not think the list was anything all that great, but it was all just up, up, up...the energy level was just crazy in the arena. And Jon never stopped. At one point I leaned over to Wills and told her "He's such a dork!" He was doing one of his crazy, high step, marching kind of dances across the stage. She agreed and added "that's why we love him!"</div>
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It was just high energy all the way. <i>Keep the Faith</i> was a highlight. He had the maracas working, and then, he disappeared down the stairs. Quick change time. And here's where I have to give props to Phil X. He absolutely killed it on that song, especially the extended ending. It was ridiculously good. And David had an insane keyboard solo. Just amazing. </div>
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And then Jon reappeared out on a side stage in the crowd, one section over from where we were sitting. He gave us <i>Bed of Roses</i> and <i>Amen</i> from there before making all the ladies swoon and there was no shortage of cellphone videos from there. He made his way back to the stage and turned the volume back up to 11 for the rest of the show.</div>
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After <i>Bad Medicine</i> they all disappeared and made the crowd go crazy. One guy near us shouted himself hoarse begging "more, we want more!" The guys must have heard him because they came back and gave us three more.</div>
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When they started <i>Wanted</i>, the man sitting in front of us (with the kid wearing his <i>Slippery </i>t-shirt) voiced the thought I had in my head. <i>It will never be the same</i>. While true, it was good in its own right. They finished with <i>Prayer</i> and the crowd showed their love by singing the song for them. Jon thanked the crowd for their love, friendship and support thru the years. They took their bows, and Jon stood there for a long moment, hand over his heart beaming at the crowd before disappearing.</div>
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It was a good night. I am so glad I was able to be there. I probably won't get to any other shows this tour, as of right now they're not scheduled to be anywhere near me until Toronto and those dates don't work for me. So, as short and sweet a trip as it was, I'm glad I did it.</div>
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<i><b>QNote</b>: as an aside, I am a Bon Jovi purist. Do I miss Richie? Damn right I do. Do I know he's not coming back? Again, sadly, I do. Does it make me miss what he and Jon had together any less? Absolutely not. Does it take away from what the Band is doing now? I don't think so. It's just different now. I know they will never be what the were and that's okay. I enjoyed the show, the line up now works, but it's just not what I think when I think Bon Jovi, and that's on me. So, take this review for what it is, my opinion on the show by the Band I have loved since 1984.</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">EXCLUSIVE: Jon Bon Jovi pays recorded </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">$10 million for Palm Beach house</span></b></div>
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Rocker <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/new-rocker-bon-jovi-dines-lake-worth-restaurant/rSUOVqdW0uknLakvWSVurM/" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Jon Bon Jovi</a> has paid a recorded $10 million for an oceanfront house in Palm Beach, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.</div>
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The singer evidently used an ownership company to buy the longtime home of Judith Goldfarb and her late husband, businessman Gene Goldfarb, at 230 N. Ocean Blvd. The deed was recorded Thursday by the <a href="https://www.mypalmbeachclerk.com/officialrecords.aspx" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Palm Beach County Clerk</a>’s office.</div>
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The real estate brokers and other parties directly involved in the deal couldn’t be reached.</div>
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Bon Jovi is said to own a home in Boca Raton, as <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/trumps-palm-beach-go-what-do-an-insiders-guide-993246" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a>and <a href="http://www.bocaratontribune.com/bocaratonnews/2014/07/10-well-known-names-who-call-boca-raton-home/" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">other</a> media outlets have reported, and for years, he has regularly been spotted in South Florida, dining at restaurants and attending polo matches, according to news reports. A <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BonJoviUpdates/posts/10155930381928834" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">December 2017 posting on a Facebook fan page</a> shows a photo of the singer posing with fans on Worth Avenue. The same month, he was also photographed dining at Benny’s on the Beach at the Lake Worth beach, as <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/new-rocker-bon-jovi-dines-lake-worth-restaurant/rSUOVqdW0uknLakvWSVurM/" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">the <em>Palm Beach Post</em> reported</a>.</div>
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Bon Jovi, who is married to Dorothea Hurley, also has friends who are seasonal residents of Palm Beach, according to media reports, including <a href="http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/national/meet-the-new-neighbor-howard-stern-reportedly-pays-million-for-palm-beach-home/S40fSnOxfilIE0oBSVWCfJ/" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">radio shock jock Howard Stern</a> and <a href="http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/business/real-estate/exclusive-jon-bon-jovi-pays-recorded-million-for-palm-beach-house/gClvgsVODxXHpJcbO4bYiL/%20http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/local/patriots-owner-bob-kraft-president-trump-have-palm-beach-connections/c1vdUYUdNhXuIqsdz7HNtK/" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self">New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft</a>, who is also a friend of President<a href="http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/trump/" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_self"> Donald Trump</a>. Stern lives about a mile from the property, and Kraft’s residence is even closer.</div>
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On Wednesday, Bon Jovi made a return appearance to<a href="https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8236277/bon-jovi-billboard-artist-100" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> Billboard’s “Artist 100” list</a>, earning the No. 1 spot. The list “measures artist activity across key metrics of music consumption, blending album and track sales, radio airplay, streaming and social media fan interaction to provide a weekly multi-dimensional ranking of artist popularity.”</div>
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Billboard attributed the singer’s “surge back to No. 1 … nearly entirely to sales generated by a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer accompanying Bon Jovi’s upcoming U.S. arena tour.”</div>
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The five-bedroom, two-story house built in 1985 stands on a property measuring about a third of an acre at the corner of Atlantic Avenue, two blocks south of Wells Road on the near North End.</div>
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The house is ripe for renovation, sources said. It’s unclear whether Bon Jovi will renovate it or replace it with a new home.</div>
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A New Jersey native, Bon Jovi is lead singer for the band Bon Jovi, which earned $35.5 million last year, according to Forbes.com. Forbes ranked the band No. 80 on its <a href="https://www.forbes.com/celebrities/list/3/#tab:overall" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">2017 list of the world’s 100 highest-paid celebrities</a>. In 2016, Forbes estimated <a href="https://www.forbes.com/pictures/emjl45efmhi/16-jon-bon-jovi/#726c28b51c88" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Bon Jovi’s personal net worth</a> at $410 million.</div>
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He also is <a href="https://www.rockhall.com/class-2018-inductees" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a 2018 inductee</a> into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.</div>
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The band came to the forefront in the 1980s and has since sold more than 120 million albums worldwide, making them one of the best-selling groups of all time, <a href="https://www.billboard.com/video/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2018-inductees-announced-billboard-news-8070437" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">according to Billboard News</a>. Their hits include <em>Living on a Prayer, Bad Medicine</em> and <em>Wanted Dead or Alive.</em> The band’s latest album is <em>This House Is Not For Sale,</em> which also is the title of its latest tour.</div>
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Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate acted on behalf of the buyer in the Palm Beach sale.</div>
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The house had been on the market for more than a year, according to records in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors’ Multiple Listing Service. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates had it listed at $10.875 million, down from its original price of just under $14 million.</div>
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Moens and Angle couldn’t be reached and their offices declined to comment on their behalf.</div>
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The house has 6,803 square feet of living space, inside and out, as well as a two-car garage, a swimming pool and a balcony facing the sea, property records show. The interior features a library/den, a dining room, a fireplace and a wet bar, according to its MLS listing.</div>
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The buyer was a Florida limited liability company named after the property’s address with a mailing address in care of Sussman & Associates, a Nashville-based accounting firm specializing in the entertainment industry. Headed by Charles Sussman, the firm handles international business management, royalties and tax planning. Sussman also is the manager of 230 North Ocean LLC, records show.</div>
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Sussman and his company <a href="https://www.discogs.com/Bon-Jovi-The-Circle/release/2800567" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">are credited</a> on at least two of Bon Jovi’s albums for providing business-management services for the singer.</div>
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Ellen Goldfarb, who has a home in Palm Beach, acted as trustee of the trust in her mother’s name that sold the house, the deed shows. She couldn’t be reached.</div>
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The Goldfarbs paid $2.2 million for the property in 1991, courthouse records show.</div>
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Judith Goldfarb is the widow of Gene Goldfarb, an apparel manufacturer and wholesaler who was chairman of House of Perfection Inc., a company founded by his father in 1934. He “owned and operated manufacturing facilities in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina,” according to his <a href="http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=gene-stanley-goldfarb&pid=1088108" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">obituary in <em>The New York Times</em></a>.</div>
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The Goldfarbs supported a variety of charitable and cultural organizations, including the U.J.A.-Federation, Ben Gurion University, State of Israel, American Jewish Congress, United Way of Palm Beach and Greenwich, Conn. The couple also supported lent support to Good Samaritan and Saint Mary’s hospitals. Gene Goldfarb also was one of the original supporters of the Kravis Center, according to his obituary.</div>
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The sale is the latest deal in what has been <a href="http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/business/real-estate/reports-single-family-sales-broke-out-doldrums-fourth-quarter/ABBPBUEBPj3PQ1B7BZUbqL/" shape="rect" style="color: #aa787c; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">an active Palm Beach season</a> for properties priced at $10 million or more.</div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-37051454936830992102018-03-07T08:14:00.000-05:002018-03-07T08:14:33.525-05:00When We Were UsNew song, new video...<br />
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I like the song, I like the video, but like most of you, I miss the Jon/Richie dynamic. But if you look close, you'll see Richie in the video more than once.Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-24884934152616231132018-02-23T08:05:00.002-05:002018-02-23T08:05:53.626-05:00Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Going to be There...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Such </span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">say yes to a Rock Hall reunion</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Emails have been exchanged and the answer is yes.<br /><br />Ex-members Richie Sambora and Alec John Such will be joining the rest of Jersey's Bon Jovi on stage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday, April 14 at the Public Hall in Cleveland.<br /><br />“We’ve exchanged emails and (Sambora’s) looking forward to coming, as is Alec Such,” said Jon Bon Jovi during the “iHeartRadio Icons with Bon Jovi” broadcast, Wednesday, Feb. 21 at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City. “I talked to Al as well, so they been invited to not only come and celebrate but to perform with us.”</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sambora exited the band in 2013 and original bassist Such departed in 1994. The band's Jon Bon Jovi, David Bryan, Tico Torres and Hugh McDonald will also be recognized the Rock Hall. The Cars, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues, Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe are also going in.<br /><br />“I never wanted to be in anybody’s club, but it’s a pretty cool club to be in,” said Bon Jovi in an on-stage interview with radio personality Jim Kerr on Wednesday. “Any place that Elvis, the Beatles and the Stones and all the ones who created this art form called rock ‘n’ roll. People who were our fans for the last three decades, they didn’t waste their time, energy and faith in us not to see it come to fruition, because this is as much for those who followed us as it is for us.”</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon Jovi will also receive an iHeartRadio Icon Award during the March 11 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Forum in Los Angeles, it was announced on Wednesday during the ICONS broadcast. The awards will be broadcast live on TBS, TNT and truTV. Fellow Jerseyan Charlie Puth along with Cardi B, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Backstreet Boys and Camila Cabello have been announced as performers.<br /><br />Bon Jovi played the band’s classics and new material, including the live debut of the new “When We Were Us,” over an hour for about 200 fans at the iHeartRadio Theater on Wednesday. “When We Were Us,” a soaring rocker in the classic Bon Jovi style, and “Walls” will be added to a re-release of the band’s 2016 album, “This House is Not for Sale,” on Friday, Feb. 23.<br /><br />“It’s a rebirth,” said Bon Jovi about the current status of the band from the stage. “This band has been born again a few times. Whether it was the early ‘90s with ‘Keep the Faith,’ in light of what was happening in the Seattle scene, we re-found our inspiration and it came out with ‘Keep the Faith.’ In 2000 when we came back with ‘Crush,’ we found a whole new generation of fans with ‘It’s My Life.’ Then in 2005, by the time we got to ‘Who Says You Can’t Go Home,’ we expanded further into the country field.”<br /><br />“So this is another of the big rebirths because of the changes that’s happened in the band and there was a lot to say after a tumultuous period, but we came through it stronger than ever.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Let's take it from the top," Jon Bon Jovi says before launching into a rehearsal of <a href="https://www.iheart.com/artist/bon-jovi-39361/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c8161d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bon Jovi</span></a>'s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What About Now</em> song "Amen." Like a maestro, standing at the center of his home recording studio in his Native New Jersey, the iconic rocker is perfecting every detail for Bon Jovi's upcoming tour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In just a few short weeks, Bon Jovi will kick off their 2018 <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This House Is Not For Sale Tour</em> in Denver, Colorado (March 14), and exactly one month later, the legendary band will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The band is also re-releasing their latest album, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This House Is Not For Sale</em>, which includes two brand new songs, "When We were Us" and "Walls." Additionally, the band is also receiving the very first iHeartRadio Icon Award during the 2018 <a href="https://news.iheart.com/featured/iheartradio-music-awards/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c8161d; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">iHeartRadio Music Awards</a>. It's a very exciting time for Bon Jovi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reaching the 35th year of their career, Bon Jovi has since shared 13 studio albums, three live albums, and six compilation albums, among other releases, and have brought their music to fans all over the world during at least 18 tours. The honor of being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is more than fitting for the band. "This is a club where you go, Elvis [Presley] is a member? Cool. [Mick] Jagger's a member? Cool. I wanna be in that club. So, it's very special," Jon says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Jon Bon Jovi's home recording studio, the band is gearing up to head out on the road. There is every kind of instrument you can imagine; a slew of guitars all lined up, ready for action, drums and percussion instruments galore, and keyboards. With the tour ahead of them in a few weeks, and a large catalogue of music to pull from into their set list, Bon Jovi is making sure they can give their loyal fans the best show possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the band explains, "It's all about playing, making the best art you can, and then bringing it to the people, and looking out there at those faces. Everybody just having a great time and we're having a great time, and that's really what we live for."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And they have the accolades to prove it. Bon Jovi is one of the best live bands and greatest touring bands out there. In their rehearsal space is memorabilia to remind them of their incredible accomplishments over the last 35 years; magazine covers, tour posters, keepsakes of their record-breaking tours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Bon Jovi says, the secret to their longevity is, "You just have to loving doing it. There has to be a motivating factor, which is the love of making music."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon Jovi is rereleasing their 2016 album <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This House Is Not For Sale </em>(which debuted at No. 1 when it was originally released) with two brand new songs for fans. So, there's no doubt it's because of this way of thinking that the band not only continues to make new music, but that they also make music that appeals to fans of all generations. Jon explains, "To have a song that has lasted 35 years, generations, it's the closest that you'll ever come to immortality. The beautiful thing about a song is that it lives on."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Celebrate Bon Jovi's by watching the band perform and receive the first-ever iHeartRadio Icon Award during this year's iHeartRadio Music Awards. Fans can tune in live on March 11th at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on TBS, TNT and truTV, on iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide; and on the iHeartRadio app, the free all-in-one digital music, podcasting and live streaming radio service. TV subscribers can also watch the iHeartRadio Music Awards on the TBS, TNT and truTV Apps. You won't want to miss it!</span></div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-1603326532536472932018-02-09T08:24:00.000-05:002018-02-09T08:24:40.145-05:00New Music from RSO<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Love is in the air and RSO is on the speakers!<br /><br />To kick off the Valentine’s Day festivities, <a href="http://people.com/tag/richie-sambora/">Richie Sambora</a> and <a href="http://people.com/tag/orianthi/">Orianthi</a> have released a modern rendition of <a href="http://people.com/tag/sonny-bono/">Sonny </a>& <a href="http://people.com/tag/cher/">Cher’s</a> 1965 hit “I Got You Babe” on Thursday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />“‘I Got You Babe’ is one of the best duets of all time and it’s a song that reminds us that true affection has no limitations,” the couple said in a joint statement to PEOPLE. “Ori and I loved paying homage to this timeless Sonny & Cher classic.”<br /><br />When the <a href="http://people.com/music/jon-bon-jovi-recalls-richie-sambora-leaving-bon-jovi/">former Bon Jovi guitarist</a>, 58, first met the Australian singer, 33, in Hawaii in 2013, sparks flew — both creatively and romantically. Now, the match made in heaven has a whole lot of love to spread to their fans. The pair are also releasing a new original song titled “Forever All the Way.”</span><br />
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“We’ve been doing our own duets and writing so much music together as RSO, and ‘Forever All The Way’ is a song we wrote about sincere commitment,” they added. “And just like Valentine’s Day, this song isn’t only about romance, it’s also about love for a child, a parent, a friend, or a family member.”<br /><br />After writing nearly 70 songs over a two-year period, RSO’s first release came in September 2017 in the form of a five-song EP called Rise. Their debut full-length album is due out in April.<br /><br />“I Got You Babe” and “Forever All The Way” are available for purchase and download now.</span><br />
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-65806913000090281422018-02-01T12:44:00.001-05:002018-02-01T12:44:48.501-05:00Jon Bon Busy Guy...<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a data-reactid="134" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/jon-bon-jovi/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jon Bon Jovi</a><span style="color: #45444a;"> </span>and his son Jesse have collaborated on a family brand of wine, which will be launched later this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Named Diving Into Hampton Water, the rose was produced in association with top French winemaker Gerard Bertrand and will retail at $25 a bottle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“It’s a favorite in our household because you can drink it starting with lunch and into the evening, and we enjoy lots of it whenever we travel,” Bon Jovi <span style="color: #45444a;">told </span><em data-reactid="143" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #45444a;"><a data-reactid="144" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/travel/bon-jovi-wine-france.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a></em><span style="color: #45444a;">, </span>before elaborating on his love for the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France, where the grapes for the wine were grown. “It’s a storybook area with castles and ruins and rolling hills, and I really loved the architecture – the medieval castles were in such good shape. Also, you’re not really going to find any chain restaurants there. We dined at all tiny, family-run places, and I ate a lot of seafood, especially shellfish. Americans haven’t discovered this part of France yet, and it was a pleasure to discover. Growing up in New Jersey, I’ve been preaching my whole life that you have to get out to find the beautiful places in this world.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The wine is named after the Bon Jovi family home in Main Beach in East Hampton. “[W]e’re out in the ocean and on the sand every day,” the singer said. “The Hamptons is an outdoor life – we go on beach walks, and I’m an avid runner. I also go bicycling.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a separate<span style="color: #45444a;"> </span><a data-reactid="149" href="http://guestofaguest.com/hamptons/things-we-love/your-new-favorite-hamptons-rose-is-byjon-bon-jovi" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">announcement</a><span style="color: #45444a;"> </span>he noted, “Creating this wine with Gerard was just as creative as collaborating with another songwriter, Gerard uses his talents and wine knowledge just like a gifted musician. And working with my son on this has been an amazing experience.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diving Into Hampton Water has a Twitter account, which included a brief exchange with Bon Jovi last week. I“We’re 29 minutes away from the first glass of Hampton Water of the night. … What are all of you doing tonight?” the singer was asked. “Already poured mine," he replied. "Can’t wait until you all have a chance to enjoy Hampton Water.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon Jovi and <a data-reactid="156" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/bon-jovi/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">his band</a><span style="color: #45444a;"> </span>will be<span style="color: #45444a;"> </span><a data-reactid="159" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/howard-stern-bon-jovi-rock-hall/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">inducted</a><span style="color: #45444a;"> </span>into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in April, while their latest<span style="color: #45444a;"> </span><a data-reactid="162" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-2018-tour/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">tour</a><span style="color: #45444a;"> </span>in support of their 13th album<span style="color: #45444a;">, </span><a data-reactid="165" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-this-house-is-not-for-sale-album-review/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><em data-reactid="166" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">This House Is Not For Sale</em></a><span style="color: #45444a;">, </span>begins in March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not everything works out for New Jersey native and rockstar Jon Bon Jovi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After<a href="http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/bon_jovi_new_york_condo_for_sale.html" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.125em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> listing his 4,000-square-foot West Village duplex for $17.25 million last summer</a><span style="color: #333333;">, h</span>e had to settle for an offer of only $16 million, which is reportedly how much the four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom condo sold for this week<span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/rocker-jon-bon-jovi-sells-west-village-spread-1517418332" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.125em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">according to The Wall Street Journal</a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bon Jovi purchased the condo, which is located on the fourth and fifth floor of a building at<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://streeteasy.com/building/150-charles-street-new_york" style="border-bottom-color: black; border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.125em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">150 Charles St.</a><span style="color: #333333;">, f</span>or $12.88 million in August 2015<span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The unit features a large landscaped terrace directly "off the entertaining rooms of the apartment" that -- like most of the condo -- overlooks the Hudson River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other highlights include a "top-of-the-line" custom kitchen, a "well-proportioned" master suite with views of the Hudson River and Freedom Tower and hardwood floors throughout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost no band that started after the 1970s has been more successful than <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/bon-jovi">Bon Jovi.</a> They have sold a reported 130 million records and packed just about every stadium in the world many times over. Their songs are inescapable on classic-rock radio (not to mention karaoke bars) and their last four new albums hit Number One on the Billboard 200. Despite all that, they only appeared on a single Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot before finally getting in this year, nearly a decade after first becoming eligible. Frontman Jon Bon Jovi <a href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-hall-of-fame-out/">shared his views</a> on why that happened with Howard Stern last year, but presumably all is forgiven now that they are finally in. We spoke with drummer Tico Torres and keyboardist David Bryan a couple of days after they heard the big news.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: freight-text-pro, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">How did you first hear you were in?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>Jon called me. It's something that's iconic in a sense. A lot of my friends are in it. It's pretty prestigious. The fact that it covers all types of music is a beautiful thing. Of course, there's so many other people that have yet to be in there like [John] Coltrane. Elvin Jones was my drum teacher for God's sake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">How about you, David?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame carrier pigeon dropped by my house and delivered the note. [<i>Laughs</i>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">What were your first reactions?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bryan: </span>It was great. There's a lot of people that are in it. There are a lot of people that aren't in it and deserve to be in it. There's a lot of people that are going to be in it. It's a nice recognition of 25 years after 1984, which is when our first record came out. We're what I call a current classic. We still have a Number One record and we're still out there touring the entire earth and selling out stadiums everywhere, and yet we're still a classic. It's a great thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Did the news surprise you at all?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>I was elated. It was nice to tell my mom and my son. He was the first one. He's 13. I told him right away. I had to tell my mom. We grew up annoying our parents, making noise and having band practice. For me, it's been going on since '67. If anyone deserves the first mention, it would be my mom. Our parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David, what does this mean to you on a personal level?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>When you look at it, its almost a journey of your peers. You're in with people you grew up with. They were my heroes, the reason why I play rock & roll. It's an honor to be amongst them. It's a nice nod from the industry. We've been eligible since 2009, so it's nice to be recognized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Did it ever bother you that it took this long?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;"> </span>There's only so much room. Again, David mentioned this, there's a lot of people that should be in before us that have since passed, like Joe Cocker, guys that made statements in life that we grew up with. It's an ongoing adventure of music. It also brings to light a lot of music of people that gets passed to younger people, people just getting into music. They can actually go backwards and research and learn from it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>We were at the inaugural, way before the Hall of Fame was built, we played that concert in Cleveland. We had Eric Burdon with us. There were so many greats that night, from Al Green to Little Richard to Jerry Lee Lewis. It was a pretty special event and it's wild that this many years later we're amongst them and there's a building now. It's all good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">They're taking in the two of you, Jon, Richie Sambora and Alec John Such. Do you think those are the right ones? Did they miss anybody?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>That pretty much covers the band when we started.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">It's going to be you guys, the Moody Blues, the Cars, Dire Straits and Nina Simone. There tends to be an all-star jam at the end of the night. Can you think of any song that would work everyone?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>That has to be the hardest part of the night because everyone has great songs. You can do a standard blues song or something. I don't know. I guess we'll figure it out when we're in the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bands usually get three songs. Can you take a guess at which three songs you'll do?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>I guess we'll figure that out. It's kind of new to us. You have to include the songs that got us to this point. It's a hard pick. We'll figure it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Bands often play with former members at the induction ceremony. Are you down to play with Richie Sambora and Alec John Such that night?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>Absolutely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>They are a huge part of us. We'd love it if they played with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Do you keep in touch with Alec?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>Honestly, he's a mystery sometimes. The hard part is finding him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">H</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">e played with you guys in 2001. The fans are always very curious about him. He's the mystery man of Bon Jovi to so many people.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>He's always been the mystery man of Bon Jovi, even then he was like 007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Many people will argue that Hugh McDonald should be inducted since he's been there for so long.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres: </span>He's a big part of the band. They should acknowledge that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">What are the future plans for Bon Jovi?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>We're going to keep touring. That's what we do. We love to make records and we love to tour. We did a handful of shows this year down in South America and played a bunch of big stadiums and Rock in Rio. Next year, we're putting plans together and we're going to do some shows, do what we do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">So few bands are able to play those soccer stadiums you guys headline. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tico Torres:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>The hardest thing about those soccer stadiums is trying to find room in the soccer schedule since that takes precedent. We're lucky in South America that there wasn't much soccer that time of year. But it's incredible to still fill houses. A lot of it is because we try to stay current. We come up with new material and songs and try to reinvent ourselves. It's a journey of a lifetime. I'm glad we're able to do that as a band and keep creating and expanding our limits<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 20px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">I think a lot of fans in America don't realize that you're just as popular overseas, filling stadiums in Asia, Europe – it's a real global thing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>The fans realize the hell out of it. It's been something we always set out to to from the beginning, which was play the world. We'd go out and play 50 countries. We've done 50 concerts 30 times. They're familiar with us and we're familiar with them. It's a big world out there. One of the greatest things about our band is that we bring the American dream to the world. Here's a bunch of kids that were living in nowhere New Jersey and we made it through a lot of practice and a lot of work and a lot of luck. It shows the world, "If we did it, you can do it." It's that whole dream of "you can make it" that we bring to the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">David, you've won Tony Awards. The band has won Grammy Awards. How does this compare to those honors?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />David Bryan:</span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;"> </span>Any honor is an honor. You can't really say which one is better than the next, but it's always wonderful when you're honored by your peers for your work. There's the Tonys and the Grammys we won and were nominated for. The Tonys were an amazing evening and this will be another amazing evening. It's wonderful to be recognized by our peers, and the fans. This was one of the biggest fan votes. Almost 2 million fans voted for us, which was huge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Can one million Bon Jovi fans possibly be wrong?<br /><br />The formerly huge-haired New Jersey group leads the 2018 class of inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the organization announced on Wednesday, an accomplishment that may have at one time been thought impossible. Long a commercial juggernaut, if scoffed at by music snobs, Bon Jovi also won the Rock Hall’s <a href="https://www.rockhall.com/class-2018-nominees">fan poll</a>, receiving more than a million public votes, which counts as a single vote in the overall judging.<br /><br />Asked about its inclusion, Jon Bon Jovi, the band’s lead singer, stammered a bit. “Well. I mean … we’re very happy about it,” he said in an interview. “And um, you know. It’s great.” He paused. “I really want to say it’s about time,” he added, using a colorful adjective omitted here.<br /><br />The band will be inducted along with Nina Simone, the Cars, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who will receive an Award for Early Influence, at the 33rd induction ceremony on April 14 at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland; the show will be broadcast later by HBO and SiriusXM.<br /><br />More than 1,000 industry figures, including artists and historians, cast ballots for induction. The Rock Hall takes into account “an artist’s musical influence on other artists, length and depth of career and the body of work, innovation and superiority in style and technique,” according to the criteria. Artists become eligible for the Rock Hall 25 years after the release of their first recording.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Am I relieved? Yeah,” said Mr. Bon Jovi, whose group has been eligible since 2008. “Am I pleased? Absolutely. But,” he repeated, “It’s about time,” using the same colorful adjective.<br /><br />Starting with its self-titled debut in 1984, Bon Jovi has released 13 studio albums, including “This House Is Not for Sale,” which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/arts/music/bon-jovi-rae-sremmurd-billboard-chart.html">topped the Billboard chart last year</a>. The group’s hits like “Runaway,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “It’s My Life” have led to more than 100 million records sold (hence the 2004 box set titled “100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can’t Be Wrong”).<br /><br />Still, the band’s place in the pantheon — especially this one — has remained an open question. In “Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/books/jann-wenner-biography-joe-hagan.html">a juicy new biography</a> by Joe Hagan about the publishing mogul, who also co-founded the Rock Hall, Bon Jovi receives a special kind of scorn.<br /><br />“I don’t think he’s that important,” Mr. Wenner, who remains chairman of the foundation that oversees inductions and was himself inducted in 2004, is quoted as saying in the book. “What does Bon Jovi mean in the history of music? Nothing.” Mr. Wenner also noted that Mr. Bon Jovi enlisted the billionaire investor Ron Perelman to help his case. (The band had been nominated once before, in 2011.)<br /><br />Mr. Bon Jovi declined to respond directly to those slights. “There’s no reason to get into mudslinging,” he said, adding of the voters: “The truth is that they all came around and said, ‘You can’t deny the facts.’”<br /><br />He continued: “We’re not on the ‘where are they now?’ tour. My last three tours were the biggest-grossing tours in the world. We’ve been blessed that people come and see us and there’s a big catalog of music. I wasn’t surprised, but I was pleased.”<br /><br />The rest of the Rock Hall crop varies from more straightforward — Dire Straits and the Moody Blues, which both got in on their first try — to slightly left of center.<br /><br />Though the Rock Hall has been criticized in the past for its lack of diversity, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/arts/music/radiohead-nina-simone-kate-bush-nominees-rock-roll-hall-fame.html?_r=0">five of the nominees this year</a> were acts led by women, while six featured nonwhite performers. Ultimately, two prominent black women — Ms. Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe (both deceased) — made it in as first-time nominees.<br /><br />Other less down-the-middle rock ’n’ roll acts to receive their first look this year — including Kate Bush, Rage Against the Machine, Eurythmics and Radiohead — did not make the cut this time. Members of Radiohead <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/11/radiohead_books_its_way_out_of.html">publicly expressed ambivalence</a> about the honor and booked a tour date in South America on the night of the induction ceremony.<br /><br />Overall, this class of inductees also stands out for lack of acts especially popular with Gen X: Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur, N.W.A, Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Public Enemy have all been inducted in recent years. Additional nominees passed over this year included Depeche Mode, Judas Priest, J. Geils Band, the Zombies and LL Cool J, who would have been the seventh hip-hop act inducted.<br /><br />Mr. Bon Jovi said he was looking forward to the ceremony, though he was not aware that all the groups present traditionally participate in an all-star jam at the end. “I really don’t watch award shows and get caught up in all that,” he said.</span><div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-15397440695832622902017-12-04T07:54:00.001-05:002017-12-04T07:55:04.653-05:00New Music is Coming...From <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2017/12/01/new-bon-jovi-music-2018/913518001/">USA Today</a><br />
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</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />ASBURY PARK, N.J. — The new year means <a href="http://on.app.com/2zEe6Ol">new music for Bon Jovi</a>, said frontman Jon Bon Jovi during a Facebook Live on Thursday. <br /><br />“We’re going to put out a couple of new songs to share with you for the new year,” said Bon Jovi. “I think they’re pretty good. Just two tracks to support what we hope to be sharing with you in 2018.”<br /><br />Bon Jovi then gave a telling wink.<br /><br />The new music will be the band’s follow up to <i>This House Is Not for Sale</i>, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart when it was released in November 2016.<br /><br />Later in the broadcast, Bon Jovi said that current events will inform one of the songs.<br /><br />“The current news has obviously been filtered for the past year to a place where I’m able to process some of it and put melodies to it, so there is some mention without being too opined,” Bon Jovi said. “It’s definitely prevalent in one of the two new songs.<br /><br />“The world’s gone crazy — I’m looking to you guys, the next generation, to reinvent the wheel,” Bon Jovi said. “Be the future you want to be because we’re counting on you. It’s not being political if you’re worried about taking care of the planet that we live on and the people around you. We’re all more alike than we are different.”<br /><br />Bon Jovi took a handful of questions that were posted to the band’s Facebook page and answered them for about 15 minutes. He spoke about maybe someday bringing the story of Tommy and Gina to Broadway, his growth as a songwriter and what the band has been rehearsing as of late.<br /><br />Bon Jovi is expected to tour in 2018.<br /><br />Songs from “<i>These Days</i> and a lot of the album tracks form ‘<i>Keep the Faith</i>,” Bon Jovi said of the rehearsal material. “We’ve been playing <i>Dry Country</i> again and <i>Blaze of Glory</i>, <i>These Days</i> and <i>Hey God</i>, so the rehearsals are feeling really great.”<br /><br />The current lineup includes David Bryan on keyboards, Tico Torres, drums; Hugh McDonald, bass; Everett Bradley, percussion and backing vocals; and Phil Xenidis and John Shanks on guitars.<br /><br />Bon Jovi also thanked fans for the more than 1 million fan votes they’ve received for possible induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. <br /><br />“I came here to say thanks for exceeding a million votes with another week to go,” Bon Jovi said. “It’s really nice that our friends out there who supported the band for such a long time are having their voices heard. It’s been fun.”<br /><br />Bon Jovi is <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/10/05/rock-hall-2018-radiohead-nina-simone-judas-priest-up-induction/718427001/">one of 19 nominees for the Rock Hall’s Class of 2018</a>. The top five fan voted acts will compose a fan’s ballot that will count as one of the ballots.<br /><br /><br />Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Depeche Mode, Judas Priest, Kate Bush, the Cars, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, LL Cool J, MC5, the Meters, the Moody Blues, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Link Wray and The Zombies are this year’s other nominees.<br /><br />The 2018 inductees will be announced later this month and inducted on April 14 in Cleveland. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/10/05/vote-your-faves-into-rock-and-roll-hall-fame/733423001/">Fans can vote once a day</a> for their favorites through Tuesday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s web site, <a href="https://www.rockhall.com/fan-vote/2018-fan-vote">rockhall.com/vote</a>.<br /><br />“Fingers crossed,” Bon Jovi said. “We’ll find out in the next couple of weeks.”</span>Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-773524089369642012017-11-17T08:02:00.001-05:002017-11-17T08:02:58.395-05:00An Evening with Richie and OrianthiAll you Richie lovers, if you're in the New York City area, you might want to check this out. Click on the source link below, tickets are $25...<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Backstory: An Evening of Music and Conversation w/Richie Sambora & Orianthi (RSO)</span></b><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7fa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Join us for a unique opportunity to be part of the studio audience at this intimate conversation with Richie Sambora and Orianthi. The pair has joined forces for a new, genre-spanning musical project under the name RSO that sees these two platinum-selling singer-songwriters and world-class guitarists teaming up as a duo. They recently released a five-track EP called Rise, and there will be more music coming soon. The evening features a long-form interview, short performance, and opportunity for audience questions.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7fa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Richie Sambora and Orianthi will be interviewed by author and journalist Brad Tolinski. The event is part of the BackStory Events online series and will be live streamed by Guitar World magazine.</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7fa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">About Richie Sambora and Orianthi (RSO):</span><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7fa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">American rock icon, Songwriters Hall of Famer, and founding member of multi-platinum, Grammy-winning band Bon Jovi, Sambora (who has sold over 130 million albums worldwide and has co-written over 20 Top 40 hits and 11 Top 10 hits) and Australian guitar virtuoso Orianthi (who has shared stages with the likes of Michael Jackson, Santana, Prince, ZZ Top and was the first female member of Alice Cooper’s band) have both written chart-busting singles, toured the globe extensively, collaborated with superstar artists, and released three solo albums each. Their new collaboration, RSO, sees Sambora and Orianthi teaming up as a duo for a genre-spanning musical project encompassing elements of rock, blues, pop, R&B and country. They have plenty of stadium-ready melodies, uplifting lyrics, and top-notch musicianship, and the Rise EP is just the first taste of a lot more music to come from RSO. The harmonious blend of Sambora and Orianthi’s voices and guitars are front and center, putting a fresh spin on male-female duets. RSO displays the combustible chemistry that Sambora and Orianthi have both onstage and off. </span><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: #f7f7fa; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: #f7f7fa; color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">Find out more at http://www.rsoofficial.com</span></span></div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-27540148481350816072017-11-16T07:54:00.001-05:002017-11-16T07:54:38.406-05:00Jon Bon Heart Breaker...Who doesn't love carpool Karaoke?! P!nk was awesome!!<br />
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Pink Admits Jon Bon Jovi Broke Her Heart As She Belts Out Hits With James Corden For Epic ‘Carpool Karaoke’ Skit</span></h1>
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It’s long overdue, but Pink has finally belted out some of her classics in an epic “Carpool Karaoke” segment.</div>
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The 38-year-old joined James Corden for the much-loved “Late Late Show” skit, with her singing along to the likes of “Let’s Get The Party Started,” “Raise Your Glass” and “What About Us” in the 11-minute long clip.</div>
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It didn’t take long for Pink to open up about her major crush on Jon Bon Jovi when she was younger, with her admitting he even ended up sending her his leather pants.</div>
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The hitmaker said, when asked about when her obsession with the rocker first began: “Like 7 or 8, I still remember coming home in the car from singing lessons and they said on the radio that he’d married his high school sweetheart, Dorothea. I almost threw up in my mouth. I ripped his posters off the wall and threw them out and didn’t come out of my room for days.”</div>
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“I was devastated, it was the first time someone ever broke my heart,” Pink admitted.</div>
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Corden then asked the singer what had happened when the pair first crossed paths, to which she laughed: “I told him the first time I met him, we did a radio station in New Jersey, I think I was like 22, and I was like ‘how are you guys? Are you happy, you and Dorothea?'”</div>
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She continued, “And then he sent me a flower arrangement with a pair of leather pants. The flower basket was life-size and there was a note that said ‘now you can finally get into my pants.’ Carey [Hart] threw them out!”</div>
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Pink also spoke about her first ever tour gig being the opening act for N’Sync.</div>
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The star recalled: “I was 19 and they were really sweet. Joey Fatone used to come into my dressing room every day and visit with us,” as Corden replied: “He had a bit of a crush, right?”</div>
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Pink said: “We went on a friendly date, not a date date. We’re in the friend zone,” as Corden joked: “I think he thought he was making it to the end zone!”</div>
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The pair then ended the hilarious clip by singing upside down, before disaster struck and Corden got stuck.</div>
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In many ways, this was inevitable. After spending most of the '80s on the road, the band had taken a break after the touring cycle wrapped up for 1988's juggernaut <em data-reactid="140" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-reactid="141" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/bon-jovi-new-jersey/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">New Jersey</a></em>. During this break, music trends had moved on from the kind of glossy hard rock and metal at which Bon Jovi excelled. Separately, the members of the band explored different sonic avenues. <a data-reactid="144" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/jon-bon-jovi/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jon Bon Jovi</a> landed a solo No. 1 hit, the twang-tinged "Blaze of Glory," from the movie <em data-reactid="147" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Young Guns II</em>; guitarist <a data-reactid="150" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/richie-sambora/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Richie Sambora</a> released a solo album, 1991's <em data-reactid="153" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Stranger in This Town</em>, featuring guests such as <a data-reactid="156" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/eric-clapton/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Eric Clapton</a>; and keyboardist David Bryan dabbled in soundtrack work.</div>
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In a 1993 interview with <em data-reactid="161" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-reactid="162" href="https://earofnewt.com/2014/05/09/bon-jovi-drops-fairbairn-goes-with-rock-for-keep-the-faith/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Georgia Straight</a></em>, Sambora credited this break — and the band's individual creative detours — for rejuvenating Bon Jovi. “We needed to find ourselves individually,” he said. “The Bon Jovi situation was extremely successful, and I was very happy to be in a band of that stature, but there was almost nothing left to write about at that point — we were all just so tired and so burnt out. All we were writing about was bein’ on the road and bein’ in a hotel room and bein’ lonely and talkin’ to your girlfriend on the phone. They miss you and you miss them — that was what our lives were about at that time.</div>
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“So to actually take a step back and see what was happening in our lives gave us some more stuff to write about. Plus, all of a sudden I was working with people like Eric Clapton and Tony Levin from <a data-reactid="167" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/peter-gabriel/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Peter Gabriel</a>, and Jon was workin’ with <a data-reactid="170" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/elton-john/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Elton John</a> and <a data-reactid="173" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/jeff-beck/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Beck</a>, so workin’ with all these different artists gave us different influences, which we brought back to Bon Jovi. It made it fresh and brand-new, and we were excited to be with each other again."</div>
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Still, in the time between <em data-reactid="178" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">New Jersey</em> and <em data-reactid="181" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep the Faith</em>, the members of Bon Jovi also nurtured their emotional and personal lives — and addressed the fissures and strains that contributed to the band's exhaustion. Jon Bon Jovi fired manager Doc McGhee and took control of the band himself, forming Bon Jovi Management. More notable, after chatting with <a data-reactid="184" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/aerosmith/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Aerosmith</a> manager Tim Collins, Jon Bon Jovi decided to enlist the help of an outside, unbiased mediator to help get to the bottom of the act's deep-seated disagreements.</div>
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"That was a saving grace for the band because we finally had a place where we could be honest and talk to each other about what was good, what was bad and what was indifferent," he told <a data-reactid="191" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121631443" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">NPR</a> in 2009. "And when you cleared the air and you realized, 'Wow, that was nothing, let's just go and make the next record,' everybody came back with a clear head. We went in two years later and made <em data-reactid="194" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep the Faith</em>."</div>
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Making <em data-reactid="199" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep the Faith</em> was a leisurely process that involved going back to their roots by spending time wood-shedding in Bon Jovi's basement. Later, the band decamped to Vancouver to work with Bob Rock, who had engineered and mixed <em data-reactid="202" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Slippery When Wet </em>and <em data-reactid="205" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">New Jersey</em>. Asking Rock to produce <em data-reactid="208" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep the Faith</em> was an inspired move: The studio guru was fresh off <a data-reactid="211" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/metallica/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Metallica</a>'s <a data-reactid="214" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/metallica-black-album/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Black Album</a>, and so had experience helping hard rock bands navigate the grungier '90s landscape.</div>
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And Bon Jovi assimilated quite well, mainly because they stuck to what they did best. "Little Bit of Soul" and the Desmond Child co-written "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" are laid-back, bluesy struts, like the <a data-reactid="219" href="http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tags/rolling-stones/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;">Stones</a> playing a dive bar in Jersey; "Blame It on the Love of Rock & Roll" is a glammy mash note to (what else?) rock 'n' roll; and "Woman in Love" is a classic Bon Jovi barn-burner with blazing guitars, stacked harmonies and slippery grooves. On the mellower side is "I Want You," on which a protagonist pines for an ex and all but begs her to rekindle their relationship, and "In These Arms" is a soaring pop-rocker that's not too far off from <a data-reactid="222" href="http://diffuser.fm/tags/u2/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">U2</a>'s sky-high anthems.</div>
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Yet <em data-reactid="227" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep The Faith</em> also took some rather impressive risks. "If I Was Your Mother" starts off like Black Album-caliber thrash, and quickly segues into a quieter section with strings and distorted vocals. The title track is a ferocious mission statement with a propulsive back beat that hewed toward contemporary Top 40. (It's no accident that then-popular electronic band Jesus Jones <a data-reactid="230" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vAd9yoNB80" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">remixed</a> the song — the seemingly weird pairing made perfect sense.) And the album version of "Dry County" — a mid-tempo power ballad with moody piano, scorching electric guitar and desert-blues acoustic accents — is nearly 10 minutes long.</div>
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But <em data-reactid="237" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep The Faith</em>'s biggest hit, the <em data-reactid="240" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Billboard</em> Top 10 hit "Bed of Roses," was the most dramatic departure of all. A power ballad bolstered with Hollywood-caliber melodrama — waltzing piano, seagull-cry guitars, an anguished chorus — it provided a blueprint for the band's move into adult contemporary circles. Not that Jon Bon Jovi was necessarily thinking that far ahead when he wrote it.</div>
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"I think that the best songs that come out of honesty are the ones that you're quick enough to write down," he told <em data-reactid="245" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-reactid="246" href="http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo29/bon_jovi_interview.htm" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #667763; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Cosmopolis</a></em> in 2002. "For instance, 'Bed of Roses,' when I was writing that song in `92, was in no mood to be writing a song due to the circumstances, and instead of putting the pen down and walking away from the piano, I sat down and wrote, '<em data-reactid="249" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Sitting here wasted and wounded with this old piano ...</em> ' and the hurt that I was feeling physically that day."<br />
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<em data-reactid="253" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Keep the Faith</em> peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard chart, but only went double platinum, a far cry from the band's '80s sales milestones. Still, in the U.K., the album was even more successful; six singles landed in the Top 20 of the chart. And, more important, the record showed Bon Jovi that they could survive anything — changing musical trends, business turmoil, personal dust-ups — and come out ahead.</div>
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"The genre of music that we were a part of was now going away and, you know, here was this sign of faith, which is all we really had to go forward with," Bon Jovi told NPR in 2009. "We went into the '90s with a clear objective, and that was to believe in each other and have in what it was that we were all about."<br />
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<br />Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-44603661043302761452017-10-12T08:06:00.000-04:002017-10-12T08:06:13.674-04:00Jon Bon Photo-bomber<i>I kinda have to agree with one of the commernters on the article that, because one of the mom's asked him to be in the pic, he didn't really photo-bomb the shoot. Still, it's cute.</i><br />
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In an unexpected “epic photo bomb,” musician Jon Bon Jovi jumped into a photo shoot with kids modeling rock and roll clothes for a Long Island mompreneur’s company, making bunny ears above one boy’s head.<br />
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Sabrina Drazic of Manhasset, co-founder and owner of Kamari Kids, was with six children taking photos in Manhattan’s West Village on Oct. 8 for her 2-year-old online-only boutique’s fall...<br />
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-46839934980367653772017-09-19T07:55:00.000-04:002017-09-19T07:55:33.441-04:00The Daily Bitch...Relevant today?<br />
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It was just two years ago that one of New Jersey’s finest, rocker Jon Bon Jovi, <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2015/9/10/9922596/jon-bon-jovi-snags-12-95-million-west-village-pad" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">bought</a> a three-bedroom spread at <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/neighborhood/1385/west-village" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">West Village</a> celebrity magnet <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/building/251/150-charles-street" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">150 Charles Street</a>. But it looks like the musician is moving on: His apartment just <a href="https://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/5162478" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">hit the market</a> (with Corcoran’s Robby Browne team as the broker) asking a cool $17.25 million.</div>
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That’s a pretty decent upgrade from Bon Jovi’s purchase price of $12.95 million. Per Corcoran, the duplex apartment has plenty of luxurious touches: There’s an enormous great room with Hudson River views, three bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms (the master also has a walk-in closet), and a den area that could be converted to a fourth bedroom. There are windows <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;">everywhere, </em>so the place gets plenty of light.</div>
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The best part, however, is undoubtedly the outdoor space: The apartment comes with a 1,500-square-foot terrace with stunning views of the city, along with two smaller, less over-the-top patios (including one off the master bedroom). Not too shabby at all.</div>
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Bon Jovi has had quite the real estate journey in the past few years: After <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/20/at_last_bon_jovi_officially_lists_soho_penthouse_for_42m.php" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">listing</a> his gigantic Soho penthouse for a staggering $42 million in 2013—and getting no takers—the rocker <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/10/bon_jovis_penthouse_stops_living_on_a_prayer_cuts_price.php" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">cut</a> the asking price not once, but <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/17/bon_jovis_soho_penthouse_returns_with_375m_price_tag.php" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">twice</a>. The palatial apartment <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/03/30/someone_finally_bought_jon_bon_jovis_lavish_soho_penthouse.php" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">finally sold</a> in 2015, though the buyer ended up <a href="https://ny.curbed.com/2017/3/11/14894806/jon-bon-jovi-former-soho-penthouse-for-sale" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(113, 138, 131); box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff604a; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit; transition: color 0.1s, background-color 0.1s, fill 0.1s; vertical-align: inherit;">re-listing</a> it last year; it’s now going for $38 million.</div>
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/music/jon-bon-jovi.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Bon Jovi</a> surprised 2,600 students with an acoustic performance during Fairleigh Dickinson University’s commencement ceremony Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey." data-reactid="15" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/music/jon-bon-jovi.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d90ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Bon Jovi</a> surprised 2,600 students with an acoustic performance during Fairleigh Dickinson University’s commencement ceremony Tuesday at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.</div>
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The unsuspecting graduates, who were the winners of a <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/gma/jon-bon-jovi-announces-contest-crash-college-graduation-131903809--abc-news-music.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d90ff; text-decoration-line: none;">nationwide contest to have Bon Jovi crash their commencement ceremony, screamed and shouted in their seats as the singer walked on stage.</a></div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""Today marks the end of one chapter in your life and the start of another," Jon Bon Jovi told the proud graduates. "Enjoy the book. You're the one writing it."" data-reactid="17" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
"Today marks the end of one chapter in your life and the start of another," Jon Bon Jovi told the proud graduates. "Enjoy the book. You're the one writing it."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">“Our student response was incredible and thanks to their participation, FDU was the national winner,” the university’s president, Christopher Capuano, said after Bon Jovi’s performance of his new song, “Reunion.” “I’m sure that is something that we will all remember for a very long time.”</span><br />
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<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The singer appeared on “<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/gma" target="_blank">Good Morning America</a>” today as he was gearing up for the big surprise, hiding inside the MetLife stadium locker rooms." data-reactid="22" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
The singer appeared on “<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/gma" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d90ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Good Morning America</a>” today as he was gearing up for the big surprise, hiding inside the MetLife stadium locker rooms.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="“We had a nationwide contest to have Bon Jovi perform at your graduation,” he explained. “I had written a song for a commencement I was giving, and since then it had turned into a record, a song on our new album called ‘Reunion.’ And so we’re going to pop up and surprise the school who had the most votes to get us to come.”" data-reactid="23" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
“We had a nationwide contest to have Bon Jovi perform at your graduation,” he explained. “I had written a song for a commencement I was giving, and since then it had turned into a record, a song on our new album called ‘Reunion.’ And so we’re going to pop up and surprise the school who had the most votes to get us to come.”</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="The song's chorus includes the lyrics, "Write your song, sing along, love your life ... Learn to laugh, dare to dance, touch the sky ... Take pictures each step of the way ... Make this the best of the rest of your days ... Start your revolution and I'll see you at the reunion."" data-reactid="24" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
The song's chorus includes the lyrics, "Write your song, sing along, love your life ... Learn to laugh, dare to dance, touch the sky ... Take pictures each step of the way ... Make this the best of the rest of your days ... Start your revolution and I'll see you at the reunion."</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Bon Jovi caught up with "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan before the surprise performance, where the rock icon offered his graduation advice, saying he would tell the former students to "be careful of the words that you say, not only to others, but to yourself."" data-reactid="26" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Bon Jovi caught up with "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan before the surprise performance, where the rock icon offered his graduation advice, saying he would tell the former students to "be careful of the words that you say, not only to others, but to yourself."</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content=""Don't take any criticism too heavily, but don't accept the praise too loudly either," Bon Jovi added. "Be humbled in your approach to things."" data-reactid="27" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
"Don't take any criticism too heavily, but don't accept the praise too loudly either," Bon Jovi added. "Be humbled in your approach to things."</div>
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He said that he hopes his song "Reunion" will be "a song that you’ll be able to sing and relate to, and hear on the radio, and go 'That was a part of my graduation.'"</div>
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The contest, <a href="http://www.mtvu.com/bonjovipromotion" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2d90ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">which partnered with MTVU</a>, asked college seniors to share their best college moments on Twitter using the hashtag #JBJReunionContest.</div>
<div class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm" content="Bon Jovi is no stranger to celebrating college graduations this week." data-reactid="41" style="background-color: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em;" type="text">
Bon Jovi is no stranger to celebrating college graduations this week.</div>
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“Two of my kids are graduating college this week,” he said on “GMA.” “Stephanie has got her film degree and Jesse’s got his political science degree, so daddy’s going to two graduations.”</div>
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As he was exiting FDU’s commencement stage after his performance, he wished the class of 2017 “Good luck.”</div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-72635307133662665402017-04-07T08:02:00.001-04:002017-04-07T08:02:21.813-04:00Postponed...I'm sure by now you've all heard the news...<br />
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Frontman Jon Bon Jovi has been fighting bronchitis since the weekend.</h2>
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Based on doctors' recommendations, <a href="http://www.billboard.com/artist/296092/bon-jovi/chart" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #01b1e6; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bon Jovi</a>’s concerts at Madison Square Garden on Friday and Saturday will be rescheduled to next week, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Billboard </em>has exclusively learned.</div>
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The postponement is due to the bronchitis that frontman Jon Bon Jovi has been fighting since last Saturday.</div>
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"The decision was difficult to make, but made in the interest of delivering the full, powerhouse performance for which Bon Jovi is known," according to a band spokesperson.</div>
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Tickets purchased for Friday's show will be honored on April 13, and Saturday's tickets will be honored on April 15.</div>
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For more information on the rescheduled dates, visit <a href="http://www.bonjovi.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #01b1e6; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">BonJovi.com</a>, the <a href="http://www.thegarden.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #01b1e6; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Madison Square Garden</a> website and <a href="http://www.livenation.com/artists/41419/bon-jovi" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #01b1e6; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">LiveNation.com</a>.</div>
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Bon Jovi, the band, was sounding a little off at PPG Paints Arena Wednesday night, and then Jon Bon Jovi put his finger on it.</div>
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He was almost halfway there, after doing “Runaway,” when he revealed that he’s had a cold since Saturday night: “I think I'm singing like s--- tonight, and I apologize… but I'm gonna keep pushin’ on and if you stick it out with me, I'll stick it out with you.”</div>
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He was right to come clean. You could hear the scratchiness in his throat, and the sound mix, with the bass amped up like King Kong stomping through Uptown, wasn't doing him any favors. He dropped down to some raspy whispers over the verses and lots of cringe-worthy flat notes on the choruses.<br />
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This was Bon Jovi’s first trip to town with the full band since 2013. Before that, he sold out consecutive nights at the arena in 2010. This time, the show hit Groupon, and on Tuesday, the Steelers, who were not the promoters, sent out an offer to season ticket holders for $10 concert tickets.</div>
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What went wrong? Was it backlash for supporting Hillary Clinton in October? Was it the awkward intrusion into people's living rooms in that DirectTV commercial? Something cooled off the fanbase on this visit.</div>
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It’s certainly not a lack of radio play, and the band even had a No. 1 album last year with “This House is Not for Sale.” The title track was the dramatic show opener, played behind a curtain with projected video of Pittsburgh roads leading right to PPG Paints Arena. </div>
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It was a promising start, and seemed enough like a regular Bon Jovi party in the Burgh, because Bon Jovi hits are pretty uncomplicated and all break into big choruses for everyone to sing along. The crowd helped out, in more ways than one.</div>
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“This is the day when I need a karaoke singer,” he said. “Which one of you guys in a bar band knows all the words to Bon Jovi songs?”</div>
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Little does he know that we’ve had not one but two cover bands in this town called Bon Journey. Maybe those singers were even there. He didn't get one of those guys, but he did get Brad Evanovich, a volunteer from the crowd, to come up and do a spirited job on “Born to Be My Baby.”</div>
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He also had some subs on guitar, with Phil X and John Shanks ably filling the shoes of sidekick Richie Sambora, who bailed in the middle of the 2013 tour after 30 years.</div>
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Bon Jovi, still looking youthful at 55 in a biker jacket and black jeans, pushed his way through his a run of hits including “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “Bad Medicine,” “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” and “It’s My Life.”</div>
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But he probably needed more Brad. He skipped several songs in the usual setlist to jump ahead to “Bad Medicine” and then after 90 minutes of the expected two-and-a-half hour show, he threw in the towel.</div>
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“This is going to have to be the last one,” he declared, leading the band into signature hit “Livin’ on a Prayer,” with partial vocals from Phil X and the fans, who at that point, were probably a lot happier if they got the Groupon or the Steelers deal. </div>
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“I want to thank you for your kindness,” he said. And they truly were kind. “I'm sorry we couldn't do the full show tonight. God bless you all.”</div>
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And with that, he was off for some good medicine, bad medicine, whatever he needed. The next show is Friday night at Madison Square Garden.</div>
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The winner of a contest to open for Bon Jovi here was the Interlochen Singer Songwriters from the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, who were nothing like Bon Jovi stylistically, playing shrill singer-songwriter piano pop. They gave it a valiant effort, for amateurs, but were taking a slot that could have been filled by any number of really good Pittsburgh bands.</div>
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Queeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14400635275075265985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6740476769803099905.post-58090144527785667702017-04-03T08:06:00.000-04:002017-04-03T08:06:18.397-04:00Review: Bon Jovi Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia 3/31/17This review hurts me. I know Jon's voice isn't what it was in the 80's and as a fan I know that the band very nearly killed themselves touring early on. Jon's voice won't ever be what it was, but, and if any of you were there Friday night maybe you can shed some light, is this reviewer being honest or unduly harsh? Was his voice really <b>that</b> bad? I haven't been to any shows on the tour - the closest the band has come to my hometown is a 4 hour drive on a week/work night - so I can't and won't judge on video alone.<br />
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Nearly two years ago, <a href="http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2015/08/van_halen_rocks_pnc_moments_highlights_photos_vide.html" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(185, 225, 255); color: #0088ee; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">I reviewed Van Halen at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel,</a> and noted the dichotomy that now exists within the legendary band: members Eddie, Alex and Wolfgang Van Halen all still shred with aplomb, but singer David Lee Roth can scarcely carry a tune.</div>
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Diamond Dave's squawking that night was a detriment to the group's entire live production. After decades of vocal strain, his instrument just isn't what it used to be -- it's not even close. </div>
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After a largely off-key, two-and-a-half-hour set in Philadelphia Friday night, it is clearer now more than ever that Jon Bon Jovi has entered this dubious category. </div>
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Let me state emphatically, I do not enjoy bashing Bon Jovi. "Slippery When Wet" was one the first CDs I bought with my own money. I take no joy or schadenfreude in ripping an artist who otherwise still puts on a bright, fun show, and who is clearly still trying. </div>
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Besides, it did not seem as though the cheering crowd of 15,000 at Wells Fargo Center minded the bum notes at all. They came to dance, to hear the hits and see Jon, 55, flash that million-dollar smile.</div>
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And they received all of that. Every Bon Jovi favorite was rolled out with the appropriate bells and whistles, and the six-piece band behind Jon -- five of which sing backup -- were entirely serviceable, unleashing every guitar and synth solo you'd expect. Lead strummer Phil X has done well as a replacement for Richie Sambora (who left in 2013); on "It's My Life" and "Lay Your Hands On Me," his crunchy solos stole the show. </div>
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But for fans who will be attending Bon Jovi's New York performances April 7 and 8, and spent hundreds of dollars to see the band bust out "Bad Medicine" and "You Give Love A Bad Name," know this: the live show will sound most like the CD when Jon is quiet. When Phil X and keyboardist David Bryan are given their brief vocal solos in "We Got It Goin' On," you will wish they just kept singing.</div>
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The list of subpar vocals on Friday night was long, but especially poor were the heavier new track "We Don't Run," the verses to "Born to Be My Baby," and "Have a Nice Day," where every note not landing in Jon's comfortable lower register was either shouted through or missed completely. </div>
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"My voice is shot, I'm going gray, these muscles all ache," Bon Jovi tellingly sings, or tries to, in "God Bless This Mess," a mid-tempo track off the band's November LP "This House Is Not For Sale," which does have its merits. The title track, which opened the show, is a pumping arena-worthy anthem and the melody to "Rollercoaster" actually felt fresh and I'm still humming it this morning. </div>
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But other than the tender new ballad "Scars on This Guitar," where his voice managed to hold its own, nothing matched the original recording. </div>
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Was this just an off night? They are nearing the end of the tour, aren't they? Maybe he's just tired. </div>
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It doesn't seem like it; at his intimate show at the <a href="http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2016/10/bon_jovi_unveils_new_album_in_full_at_nj_concert_a.html" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(185, 225, 255); color: #0088ee; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank in October</a>, he showed the same cracks. Like Lee Roth, Jon Bon Jovi was never an overpowering vocal talent to begin with, and it appears that 35 years of rock n' roll have done their bidding. Watch any of the videos in this post and hear for yourself. </div>
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Does this mean he and the band should just hang up their guitar straps and sip Bud Lights in a recliner for the rest of their lives? No, of course not. In spite of his vocal, this was still an engaging show with seasoned musicians, and the arena went wild with each of Jon's hip-shakes, struts, and mention of his own rear-end.</div>
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People still want to see them. Throughout Friday's show, Jon expressed his gratitude to the crowd for sticking with the band, and how "This House" is a new beginning for the group. They aren't going anywhere.</div>
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If Bon Jovi were to extend its current tour into a summer show at MetLife Stadium, New Jersey's largest venue would easily fill with 55,000 rock fans. Heck, they could probably play three nights in a row and sell out each one. </div>
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But just know, as you are shelling out cash for a good seat, to check out one of New Jersey's most iconic rock acts, you are now doing so at your own risk.</div>
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