Chilean Interview

Thanks LK for sending this my way!! Jon spoke with Chile's leading newspaper, El Mercurio. The full article (in its original Spanish) can be found here. This is the translated version, as per Google translate (way faster than doing it myself. I know, lazy).

Jon Bon Jovi: "It's disappointing as we continue to see long-haired rockers of the 80"

After 17 years, the band returned to Chile on Oct. 1 to reopen the National Stadium for the big concerts. Their leader said to come to show his maturity: "We're not victims of our success."

CLAUDIA GUZMAN / Special Envoy

NEW YORK .- Jon Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi leader, with a sly laugh guilt when asked why it took 17 years for the band to return to Latin America. Now in full promotion of his latest album "The Circle" and a forthcoming greatest hits compilation, admits that it was time to pay.

Installed-sitting and lying-in a sofa in the penthouse terrace of the Soho Grand Hotel, apologizes. And it does so with brutal honesty: "If we were not before it was for economic reasons, by the reality of the region. But these years have been very prolific. We have traveled almost all over the world, made five albums in a decade, we are family and we ready to raise the average of our tour of 100 shows at 140 in order to be there. "

In Chile will arrive on October 1st, reopening the National Stadium for this type of show. Will restart from a tour millionaire after the closure of American stage on July 31 and a vacation of two months who have had the musician 48 years her beach house to enjoy their four children and, more often than I would like , traveling to Disneyland with the lowest, Romeo, 6 years old.

Jon Bon Jovi, the voice of the band in 1990 and in 1993 he waved his long hair in Chile, and matured. And show the world what their priority: his neck four medals hanging heart-shaped with names Stephanie, Jesse, Jacob and Romeo. "You know, we are no longer victims of our success. In the 90 we said 'enough is enough', we took control and we realized that we had to wear us. In our youth we were everywhere all the time. And that affected us. So if we are not amused, the audience was not going to do it, "he explains. So, he says, also allowed a solo career experience and sounds closer to country. But not anymore.

"The Circle" is a clear return to the sounds of home, is a pledge of allegiance to the fans?
"Yes, but that's not all. There are always new sounds. Although I owe a lot to our fans, who have children who are also fans, and it is wild. The music crosses generations. And borders! You come from Chile to speak with a musician from New Jersey. That is a miracle. This is the miracle of music. does not even matter that the language is not the same. "

How to make that continue to identify as part of "hair rock"?
"It's disappointing as we continue to see long-haired rockers, because it means they have not taken the trouble to look at what we've really done. And when it comes to journalists, is laziness. They do it just to put a headline or sell a book. It is they who were left in 80. "

What did you think the publication of the book "Sex, drugs and Bon Jovi" where there are pictures of him in bed with four other girls?
"That was sad. For someone who worked with us, after so many years, to reveal, for money, photos of a session done for Playboy magazine. But if you show up pointing at the camera! And I've never been with four women. Maybe I would have loved to (laughs). But it was not real. "

Tickets
For his show on Friday 1 October, the New Jersey band has already sold 43,000 of the 55,000 villages of the National Stadium. Pacific VIP and Grandstand courts are exhausted. Tickets are sold through Ticketmaster.

The essential songbook
It seems strange that after 27-year career and 12 studio albums, with more than 120 million copies sold, Bon Jovi productions have only two hits. That is why the November 9th show "Greatest hits" in two versions: a disc of 16 tracks and "Greatest Hits: The Ultimate Collection" CD set with 28 tracks.

Jon Bon Jovi has his own Top 3: "'Living on a Prayer', 'Wanted (Dead or Alive)' and 'It's my life' always have to be," he said.

But there will be new material. The songs "What do you got", "The More Things Change", "No apologies" and "This is love, this is life" are new compositions that accompany the hits.

~ Hath