Richie Sambora is just the most effortless musician. I’ve seen these guys many times since the 80’s and watched countless clips and the dude NEVER makes mistakes and makes it look so easy. Master of his craft. I lost all interest when he left the band.
Honestly Jon Bonjovi Jr is the best nomatter how he does it. His voice is so beautiful vocals no matter what. You have to love his energy or your just not a true Jovi girl.
Honestly, I think Bon Jovi is just as good as they were. It doesn't matter what genre they play. It just matters that they sound good. In all honesty, they sound amazing even after 30 years. Phil X is a great guy, but I prefer Richie. I hate when people don't support the band's new songs ... I love them just as much as their old songs. But whatever. It's your opinion.
Agree with you about The Circle. I listened to it as soon as it came out (but didn't buy it nor download it) and i believe it is better than all of their prior albums (from Crush to Lost Highway). That said i think Jon and the guys deserve props. Jon knows his business and has a genuine talent for writing songs with hooks. I haven't buy a Bon Jovi album since "Crush" tough.
I hope you realize he didn’t write all these songs by himself. Richie was a major part of their song writing. Take a look at the credits if ya don’t believe me
mind you, compared to the standard chart-topping shit, The Circle was as good an album as anybody could expect from a band evidently still trying to remain mainstream
yeah... i do believe Bon Jovi's music always had different flavors and styles but i think there was a point in time when they specifically lost those seventies influences (british hard rock, soul, blues) in their songs and that is when their compositions started to change.
Is this the only shot? 'Cause in the the definitive version of the music video they were on a roof. Or they shot different versions or they regretted and shot the roof version and decided that was going to be the mean and the only one version of the music video.
Yeah, i didn't know Phil X at that time but as soon as i saw his performance during the solo of Keep The Faith i thought "this guy blew Richie right away" ..no disrespect to Richie obviously.
I think the same. For me "These days" was their last good album. For me, "Keep the Faith" and "These days" even were their best albums, there was something more mature then in their two previous gold albums. Bon Jovi were on the right way. But then they prefered popularity on quality. Very good producing and perfect catching of the younger generation, but since 1995 their music doesn't sound good and plausible. It looks like 50-60 years old guys are stuck in adolescence.
