Brazil Greeting!

Again, translated courtesy of Google. The original can be read here.

Bon Jovi that Brazil will see in October is the "peak" of the band, although the singer feel "too old".

"I'm like an old horse that you put on the field and shoot. I do not know how Mick Jagger does this crap. He is 20 years older than me."

At 48, Jon Bon Jovi admits that the group had "ups and downs" in its more than 25 years of existence.

The tour of "The Circle", which will be followed by the launching of the compilation "Greatest Hits" in November, "is the highest of all."

See message from Bon Jovi to Brazilian fans:

"We're at a point insanely good, could not be better. We have all the experience and the exuberance yet - you can not tell youth - for us to get carried away with a tour," said Leaf, in a hotel in NY.

The problem, he says, is that "things are starting to break and shatter."

In July, Jon Bon Jovi injured his calf during a presentation in New Jersey and left the stage without being able to walk.

Improved? "The leg is fine, but now I broke my toe," she laughs.

He kicked the couch to get up "to catch a mess to eat. I fell straight down." "I try not to hurt myself up there," he says, about the shows in Rio and SP.

The presentations mark the band's return to the country after an interval of 15 years, by "a number of reasons, the economy being one of them - even in Brazil, with its ups and downs, did not allow us to go back.

If in 1995 the tickets were only $50, they start today from $160 (in SP) and reach R $600 (two cities).

"Really? Wow. It's an expensive ticket, even in U.S. dollars. I'm sorry to hear that."

While apologizing for the price of entry, the singer promises to "too many hits and great production, with 15 years of music [the Brazilian] never heard live."

And if it's any consolation, this should not be the last pass of the group in Brazil, plans to rely on the musician. He sees the band in the footsteps of the Rolling Stones, both active since the year that Jon Bon Jovi was born. "We've met the time to separate."

The only point of his career that the singer does not want to repeat is a foray into Hollywood cinema.

After more than ten years of trying, "came a point where I was going through shame."

"The kind of movie I was doing was crap. I had to say 'come on, have some dignity'!"

"That vampire movie ['Vampire - The Dead', 2002] and that hockey one ['Pucked', 2006] were horrible. Good experiences, but horrible. I do not want to be associated with shit."

Broken toe? Ouch! Been there, done that... more than twice. Sheesh.

~ Hath

PS: Thanks to LK and D for this!!