He is a excellent, guitarist was reading credits, and thank yous on slippery when wet under his name which came out in 87 he gave thanks to Randy Rhoads which died in 82. I can see why he is with many other influences excellent.
Bon Jovi are my Rolling Stones. An amazing hard rock band that forever will be above and beyond any of their peers. Long live The Jersey Syndicate!!! ❤💀🤘🏼
Can we all agree that Wembley was just an epic performance?! And that Dry County performance is one of their best ever! I play it all the time and clear my living room so I can rock out to Richie's guitar, he completely shreds that guitar! 🔥🤘 Damn I miss those days!!
1-Dirty little Secret 2-Broken Heart 3-If I Was Your Mother 4-Fear 5-Hearts Breaking Even 6-Wild is the Wind 7-Houmbaintrain 8-Only Lonely 9-Secret Dreams 10-Open All Night (Bounce record)
The day Alec left Bon Jovi was never the same again. His performance live was always amazing, great vocals, solid bass lines. He was so underrated... He is truly missed and may rest in peace.
Edge of A Broken Heart definitely should have been released on a proper studio album, I feel it should have been on the Jersey album, it had that total hit potential and IS A BON JOVI SONG!
I dunno about a top 10 off the top of my head, but here's some I love that aren't so wildly popular : Edge Of A Broken Heart Borderline Homebound Train (It's Hard) Letting You Go - absolutely ADORE than song! Last Man Standing If I Was Your Mother (one of Richie's HEAVIEST riffs) Just Older Not Running Anymore Secret Dreams We Don't Run
Anything from Wembley 95 is amazing. The always second solo is my favourite of all time! And I was lucky enough to see him play dry county too! Amazing!!!!
O melhor que eu vi pessoalmente foi o solo de encerramento de Always em São Paulo no ano de 2010. Era aniversário do Tico, 06/outubro/2010. Estádio do Morumbi. Foi insano e inenarrável ❤
While it's difficult to pick one over my fave of the Moscow Music Peace festival (which lives in my soul), that one with Les Paul is knocking at the door for top spot. None of the 'rock star' flash of some of the others. Just Richie playing & feeling the music (like the Moscow intro imo). That man was born to play music like that.
Wild is the wind Santa Fe Save a prayer My guitar lies bleeding in my arms (and most of These days) Dirty little secret These open arms Brokenpromiseland Fingerprints Blood in the water
Not gonna lie, this was a great list. I had exactly the same experience listening to One Wild Night, back when I knew Bon Jovi as the "It's My Life" band.
Unfortunately BJ showed what they could do for 2 albums (KtF and TD) and then went full pop-rock shite. Also, never realised before, but Bitter Wine is just I'll Be There For You but with different lyrics lol.
@@Cheximus they’ve always been pop with elements of hard rock. Sambora was the rock element and when he wasn’t allowed to shine so much in the 2000s, their sound became more country then they lost a lot of their rock edge
@@bjtop10 he was allowed to shine, he changed too. Look at Undiscovered Soul and then his later releases. He was going in the same direction as Jon. Soft rock and pop. I would argue 7800 isn't very poppy, it's mostly just hard hair rock. Sambora also started to get really sloppy with his playing around the 2000s.
@@Cheximus Soppy can be good in a good rock ballad but obviously Bon Jovi lost their quality songwriting and banging tunes after These Days album. Don't think Jon could do a power ballad anyway now his voice is weaker.
@@Jonny._. underrated from the context that they didn’t become singles - did you not hear what I said at the start? ‘True Bon Jovi fans’ - what the heck does that even mean?
Something to believe in, it's hard letting you go... the entire These Days album is their peak musically and lyrically, the sound is so rich, it all works so well together, they're all at their best. I was blown away by it at 13 and still am.
Captain Crash & The Beauty Queen From Mars; Letting You Go; We got it Goin On; Undivided; Hook Me Up; Stick To Your Guns; Only Lonely; Tokyo Road and many many others
Stay, Edge of a Broken Heart, and I Want You are so incredibly underrated and rarely spoken of. Such great songs. Funny story I’ll never forget. I was driving down the road late one summer night, windows down, and I Want You was blasting on my radio. I came to a light and the car next to me started beeping at me. Driver was trying to get my attention just to ask what song was playing cause he loved it.
This was before Bon Jovi became a corporation, a mass-production machine... You can see how he let all his talent soar without the limitations imposed by the CEO. I believe he expresses it best in "You Can Only Get So High.
Richie’s gtr playing was unbelievable on These Days (1995). 5 yrs later, with the release of Crush they aimed for a ‘new’ sound - music no longer emphasised on guitar solos or at least what Jon thought. So from there, Richie really had to limit what he could do with the gtr. Then the sound started to lose a lot of its hard rock edge..with Richie leaving pretty much sealed it. Even today with an amazing guitarist like Phil X, his skills don’t shine with Bon Jovi
