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June 30, 2007
Bon Jovi @ BUDOKAN
I want you to want me!! (^_^)
Continue reading...Posted by riesambo at 10:35 PM |
June 29, 2007
BON JOVI、ドリカム夢の共演実現に神戸っ子熱狂
◆ 「THE SUPER DRY LIVE」で熱唱 ◆ アサヒスーパードライ発売２０周年を記念した「ＴＨＥ ＳＵＰＥＲ ＤＲＹ ＬＩＶＥ」が２８日、神戸市のワールド記念ホールで開催され、世界を代表するロックバンド「ＢＯＮ ＪＯＶＩ」と日本の「ＤＲＥＡＭＳ ＣＯＭＥ ＴＲＵＥ」が夢の共演を果たした。 オープニングを飾ったのはドリカムで「ＪＥＴ！！！」を皮切りに「大阪ＬＯＶＥＲ」など全８曲を披露。ボーカルの吉田美和は「久々に神戸に来られて嬉し〜い。きょうはみんなを酔わせちゃうよ」と、パワフルなステージで、約６０００人の招待客を魅了した。 一方、ＢＯＮ ＪＯＶＩは同ライブために約１年２カ月ぶりに来日。全米チャートのビルボードで１７年ぶりに１位に輝いたニューアルバム「Ｌｏｓｔ Ｈｉｇｈｗａｙ」や、ヒット曲「ＬＩＶＩＮ’ ＯＮ Ａ ＰＲＡＹＥＲ」などを熱唱。この日、ボーカルのジョン・ボン・ジョヴィは３８・５度の発熱をおしての強行ライブで、全１１曲を歌い上げた。
Posted by riesambo at 07:05 PM |
June 25, 2007
Concert at the O2 Arena
Bon Jovi in Concert at the O2 Arena in London - June 24, 2007June 24, 2007 - O2 ArenaLondon, Great Britain
Posted by riesambo at 06:14 AM |
O2 Arena in London - Arrivals
Bon Jovi in Concert at the O2 Arena in London - Arrivals - June 24, 2007June 24, 2007 - O2 ArenaGreenwich, London Great Britain
Posted by riesambo at 06:05 AM |
June 24, 2007
Bon voyage: The return of Bon Jovi
It's almost 25 years since Bon Jovi shot to fame with their big ballads and even bigger hair. On the eve of their latest sell-out tour, Jon Bon Jovi tells David Usborne why it hasn't all been plain sailingContinue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 06:25 AM |
June 23, 2007
Heather vs Denise: the feud continues
"When Robin refused, Heather fired her. It came as a terrible shock to Ava - and Richie wasn't happy about it either. But Heather didn't bend."Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 09:41 AM |
June 21, 2007
Richie Sambora feels great after 'detox'
Continue reading...Richie Sambora feels "great" after his "detox."
The Bon Jovi guitarist - who completed a week-long programme at the Los Angeles UCLA Medical Centre last Wednesday- revealed he sought help because he was "drinking too much.
However, he insisted he entered the facility for a "detox" and "did not check into rehab."
Posted by riesambo at 06:29 AM |
June 20, 2007
Bon Jovi: On The Record
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Thousands of fans hit Rockefeller Plaza to see the band and of course to find out how guitarist Richie Sambora is doing.
Posted by riesambo at 10:12 PM |
Richie Sambora's Rehab Confession
Also on the mend is rocker Richie Sambora.
He entered a treatment facility a few weeks ago, but he set the record straight about his ordeal.
He told NBC’s Matt Lauer, “I was just drinking too much, and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy, but it's good; it's great. I feel fine.”
Posted by riesambo at 08:36 PM |
Richie Sambora -- "It's All About Me"
Apparently, Richie Sambora doesn't have such a big problem with drugs or alcohol that it couldn't be cured by a simple week of detox and therapy! The rocker and the rest of Bon Jovi were performing on "Today" this morning when Matt Lauer asked Richie about his recent Lohanesque trip to treatment, with Sambora revealing, "I did detox." No biggie!The band rocked the "Today" stage and gave middle-aged women all over America something to brighten their morning. Richie's stay at rehab, er detox, was so brief that most of these fans probably hadn't even heard the news, or that he's busted up with Denise Richards.
From rock group to support group -- and back in a flash!
Posted by riesambo at 06:42 AM |
SAMBORA DETOXING FROM ALCOHOL
BON JOVI rocker RICHIE SAMBORA has dismissed reports he checked into rehab earlier this month (Jun07) - he detoxed from alcohol instead. The 47-year-old guitarist spent a few days at the UCLA Medical Center to treat what was previously an undisclosed problem. Sambora has had a tough year - his divorce from actress Heather Locklear was finalised in April (07) and he recently split from girlfriend Denise Richards (07). His father also passed away from lung cancer. Speaking on U.S. TV show Today this morning (19Jun07), Sambora said, "I did detox. I didn't check into rehab. "Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. My dad died too. It's been a rough year. "I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine." Bandmate Jon Bon Jovi added, "We've been through everything together and there was no way that we were not going to be supporting Richie right now - and that's what we're doing. He's been through the fire, and we've been there for him."
Posted by riesambo at 06:25 AM |
June 19, 2007
Richie Sambora: Getting ‘life back together’
Bon Jovi guitarist talks about going to ‘detox’ and the band’s new albumContinue reading...It’s been a rough stretch of road for Richie Sambora: a divorce last year, a break-up this year, and now a trip to detox last week to deal with his drinking.
“I was just drinking too much, and I needed to get my life back together,” he told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer in the Plaza outside the show’s studios, during a break in an early morning concert Bon Jovi put on for thousands of fans.
Posted by riesambo at 11:47 PM |
Music - Reviews - New York Times
But Mr. Bon Jovi has interests beyond civic cheerleading. On “Everybody’s Broken” he delivers a barbed sort of consolation, and on “One Step Closer” he describes what sounds like a recovery from addiction. Perhaps it means something that Mr. Sambora recently checked in and out of rehab; there’s a place for reckless behavior in country music, just as there’s a place for redemption.Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 06:36 AM |
Bon Jovi Channels Turmoil in New CD
Continue reading...In what Sambora told the AP was one of his first sit-down interviews in two years, following the breakup with his wife, Heather Locklear, and his romance with her friend Denise Richards (the two have since split), he said the songs reflect the heartache.
"It's interesting, the changes I've gone through in my life. I think I've brought a lot of the dramatics here within the lyric in a bunch of different places - just from the stuff that's been going on with me. I think even the songs I didn't write with Jon, I think he used me as his muse."
Sambora said the band closed ranks around him during the recent death of his father, who died of lung cancer, to help him get through it.
"They were unbelievable. We're a tight group. Everybody goes through their own stuff, and everybody supports each other while they go through it no matter what it is."
During the interview, he was joined by drummer Tico Torres.
"It's all part of a relationship. You get through it, together," he said, looking over at Sambora. (A short time after the interview, Sambora entered a Los Angeles-area rehabilitation center for an undisclosed condition. The band has said he will be joining them this month for a scheduled performance.)
It's perhaps this relationship among band mates that is laid open in the song "A Whole Lot of Leaving," a song that clearly invites the country music influence onto the album.
Posted by riesambo at 06:26 AM |
June 18, 2007
TBS「ズバリ言うわよ！」出演決定！
TBS「ズバリ言うわよ！」出演決定！7月10日（火）TBS「ズバリ言うわよ！」（21:00〜21:54）
Posted by riesambo at 11:18 PM |
When Jersey meets Nashville
A little bit countryContinue reading...Bon Jovi recorded "Lost Highway" with John Shanks, who produced 2005's "Have a Nice Day", and Nashville producer Dann Huff, who has cut records with Keith Urban, Faith Hill and Rascal Flatts. The album includes "(You Want to) Make a Memory," which peaked at No. 35 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in April. Bon Jovi and guitarist Richie Sambora wrote with top Nashville songwriters such as Brett James and Hillary Lindsey, whose credits include Carrie Underwood's "Jesus, Take the Wheel."
"From a lyrical standpoint, there's not that much of a difference," Sambora says. "From a musical standpoint, it's just adding the country flavors, like a pedal steel and more mandolins than usual. But the guitars are still heavy at times. I played a lot more slide on this record. I played some Dobro. I had a chance to extend myself and evolve."
The title track, for instance, sports subtle touches of fiddle and pedal steel, as might be heard on an Urban record, while "Whole Lot of Leavin' " begins with an acoustic guitar pattern and that steady four-on-the-floor rhythm that Waylon Jennings used to favor. But those are minor variations.
All of the Bon Jovi trademarks are still present — the shout-along choruses ("I Love This Town") and even the voice box ("We Got It Going On")."
I don't necessarily feel it's a full country record," says Steve Bartels, president of Island Records, Bon Jovi's label. "It's more an album that is inspired by Nashville."
Even after the success of "Who Says You Can't Go Home" — which earned the band its sole Grammy — Bon Jovi knew he needed to tread carefully while courting the country audience, which can be intensely loyal but highly suspicious of outsiders. He delivered the keynote presentation at this year's Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, and the band showcased new songs and old hits during a private show for programmers and industry executives."
You don't want to feel like you're carpetbagging," Sambora says. "That's why we refrained from doing this before."
Posted by riesambo at 06:34 AM |
COUNTRY "HIGHWAY"
Guitarist in rehabContinue reading...In the title track of his band's new album, Jon Bon Jovi sings, "Life changes like the weather.
'Life took a strange turn for the musicians this month when guitarist Richie Sambora entered a rehabilitation facility for unspecified reasons. Sambora is expected to be well enough to perform with Bon Jovi on the "Today" show Tuesday, the release day for Bon Jovi's "Lost Highway." The band is scheduled to perform "(You Want To) Make a Memory."
If "Lost Highway" has an undercurrent of melancholy, it's likely a reflection of Sambora's troubles. Emotionally, Sambora has been put through the ringer since the "Have a Nice Day" album, enduring a divorce from Heather Locklear, a breakup with Denise Richards and the death of his father.
Sambora says as much in the publicity material for the album: "Writing this record with Jon was deeply cathartic. I was going through emotional changes that were new for me. An ailing father. A painful divorce. The start of a new chapter in my life. I poured everything I had into this project, every last bit of soul at my command."
Sambora also stated that "Seat Next to You," a song on the new album, was inspired by his relationship with his dad, though it has been altered to fit a romantic, boy-girl theme.
Sambora was not available for comment for this story. Plans for an interview with Jon Bon Jovi were canceled, with his publicist citing his "hectic travel schedule."
Posted by riesambo at 06:32 AM |
June 16, 2007
Jon Bon Jovi: I've been no saint but my wife still rocks my world
Continue reading..."We finished touring last August and typically a two-year period goes by before you do something. But seeing what was happening with Richie and Dave (in the band) kind of inspired me to write."
What was happening with Richie and Dave were that both band members had gone through painful divorces - David Bryan from his wife April McLean and Richie Sambora from actress Heather Locklear.
Richie's subsequent relationship with Denise Richards (former wife of actor Charlie Sheen) ended shortly after his father died of lung cancer this year.
Indeed, Sambora has just been admitted into a rehab facility in California for an undisclosed problem.
"Richie's OK, but he's a work-in-progress, you know," says Bon Jovi softly.
"We've been in the band together for so long and gone through a whole range of experiences, but to be honest, we'd had no real strife until recently.
"Then parents were passing away and divorces were happening and kids were coming of age and suddenly it wasn't me, me, me any more, but we, we, we. The subject matter for the album just presented itself.
"There's a song called Whole Lot Of Leaving, an obvious phone call home to my wife saying: 'Hey baby, be strong, because there's a whole lot of leaving going on.'
"I'm there as the third person sitting on that bed while Richie's telling Heather or Dave's telling April that they're strangers and I'm there telling them there's light at the end of the tunnel.
"There's another song called Seat Next To You. For Richie, it was about missing his father. For me, it was about missing my girl when I'm away."
Posted by riesambo at 06:15 AM |
PEOPLE CAVES TO PUBLICISTS
PEOPLE magazine bends over backward to land "exclusives," promising publicists kid-glove treatment for their clients. Yesterday, an insider told us that People.com was given first dibs on the story that Bon Jovi rocker Richie Sambora was being released from rehab only because the Website agreed to his publicist's demands. "Staffers were told Richie's people wanted a full story to run, not just the statement they sent," said the insider. Reporters were also told Sambora's people didn't want the magazine to say "rehab" or that "he was released," and that People was strictly instructed to use the word "treatment facility." Sure enough, minutes after Page Six learned of the demands, People.com posted the tale, which read, "Richie Sambora has left the Los Angeles treatment facility he entered last week, People has learned exclusively. 'Richie Sambora has completed a program at the UCLA Medical Center,' a Bon Jovi rep tells People." A spokesman for People told us, "We ran their statement and we are glad we broke the news first."
Posted by riesambo at 06:03 AM |
June 15, 2007
Bon Jovi rocks a country album
"From a lyrical standpoint, there's not that much of a difference," Sambora says. "From a musical standpoint, it's just adding the country flavors, like a pedal steel and more mandolins than usual. But the guitars are still heavy at times. I played a lot more slide on this record. I played some Dobro. I had a chance to extend myself and evolve."Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 06:25 AM |
June 14, 2007
Sambora Wraps Up Stay in Treatment
Continue reading...Richie Sambora apparently didn't need 30 days to cure what ailed him.
Posted by riesambo at 10:04 PM |
Bon Jovi Revive Unplugged and find the Lost Highway
Bon Jovi Revive Unplugged and find the Lost Highway The band's boss talks about their new disc and their intimate concert performance.Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 06:56 AM |
June 10, 2007
Maybe Sambora came unstrung
Maybe Sambora came unstrungContinue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 10:31 AM |
Richie Sambora Checks Into Rehab After MTV Unplugged Fiasco
Richie Sambora Checks Into Rehab After MTV Unplugged FiascoContinue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 10:21 AM |
Has the Rock and Roll Lifestyle Caught Up with Richie Sambora?
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Posted by riesambo at 10:15 AM |
Bon Jovi's MTV Disaster
Bon Jovi's MTV DisasterContinue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 10:05 AM |
June 09, 2007
Richie Sambora Enters Treatment Facility
Sambora will still perform with his band in a concert on the Today show on June 19. "Anytime Bon Jovi plays a Today summer concert show, it's an event, and we've been assured that Richie is going to keep his commitment and perform with Bon Jovi on June 19," Jim Bell, the show's executive producer, says in a statement to PEOPLE.Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 11:33 PM |
June 08, 2007
Richie Sambora Gives Treatment a Try
As Bon Jovi was getting unplugged, Richie Sambora may have become unhinged.The shaggy-haired guitarist checked into a treatment facility Wednesday, a day after it was reported that he had trouble making it through the taping for an upcoming episode of MTV Unplugged.Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 11:47 PM |
Richie Sambora enters rehab
Rock star Richie Sambora is the latest celebrity to enter rehab for treatment for alcoholism. A representative for the lead guitarist for the rock band 'Bon Jovi' has revealed the news, albeit without naming the clinic.Continue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 11:40 PM |
Richie Sambora Enters Rehab
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has entered rehab."Richie Sambora has entered an undisclosed treatment facility in Los Angeles," a rep for the band told People. "He asks that you respect he and his family's privacy at this time."
Richie, 47, announced his split from Denise Richards a month ago after a controversial, year-long courtship.
He and ex-wife Heather Locklear, 46, divorced last year. They have one daughter, Ava, 10.
Posted by riesambo at 06:49 AM |
June 01, 2007
BON JOVI - BON JOVI THE POLICE TO REVIVE UNPLUGGED
BON JOVI, MARY J. BLIGE and reformed rockers THE POLICE are among the acts billed to revive MTV's UNPLUGGED series.
The acts have been lined up for a series of acoustic shows this summer (07), beginning with a Bon Jovi showcase next month (Jun07).
Insiders claim The Police will record their Unplugged show in Miami, Florida in July (07), during a break in their current American tour.
John Mayer and Kenny Chesney are also among those who will star in Unplugged showcases.
'Unplugged' Specials with The Police, Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney, Mary J. Blige and John Mayer to Break Out Across MTV, VH1 and CMTContinue reading...
Posted by riesambo at 06:15 AM |