Jon Bon...Barbie?

Thanks, LK, for dropping this CREEPY item in my inbox :) Totally made me laugh. Bidding is over on this item on ebay, but you HAVE to check this out:

Um, wow.

~ Hath

What Do You Got?

You got the video from last night's performance.  Makes me like the song more now.  I like the "real" sound this has over the studio track.

Look for it on the BJCT later tonight.

~ Hath

Sydney Travel Packages Updated

From BonJovi.com

Great News! The Backstage With Jon Bon Jovi/Runaway Tours trip to see Bon Jovi Down Under In Sydney, Australia JUST GOT BETTER!!! The Q&A was such a success on our London Fan Club Trip that JBJ has agreed to do it again for our Australia Fan Club Trip! We also have GREAT SEATS in the up front center in sections 5 and 6.

Visit BonJovi.com/Travel for more information!

SYDNEY TRIP
DECEMBER 16 - DECEMBER 19, 2010
ON-SALE NOW!!

PACKAGE INCLUDES:
- Three-night hotel accommodations at the the Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach
- Ticket to the BON JOVI concert on December 17th
- Daily breakfast
- Pre-show poolside cocktail reception

Travel packages are only available to our Backstage JBJ Members; become a member today at BonJovi.com/Join.

And remember to check in with the BJCT blog for setlists, videos, etc., as the tour winds up again!

~ Hath

David and Lexi

... No, not a wedding picture, but an out-and-about picture: from Wednesday night at the Incubator Fashion Show in NYC.

Sorry Curl Girls, but they look quite happy :)

~ Hath

Thanks Q, for dropping this in my inbox!

BJCT Post: PC Richards & Sons

Bon Jovi in NYC on Thursday night!

Check out the BJCT for setlist, photos, and videos/audio (as we find it).

Have anything you want to share?  Drop a line to the BJCT Blog Team

~ Hath

My favorites from last night (shouldn't be a surprise lol)



                   

Bebe Interview

Telenoche Interview (Bebe Contepomi)

The interview, a short video, popped today. Thanks D, for the heads up!!

(Translated by Google)


Bebe Contepomi traveled to the United States to interview Bon Jovi, in exclusive Telenoche. The Argentine fans are eager to see them live in our country. "We are eager to play in Argentina. Long time no go, well I'm happy to be back. We are eager to go. Yes, I remember the pitch. And also, buying works of art. I really liked, "he told Jon Bon Jovi, lead singer of the band.

For his part, guitarist Richie Sambora recalled his last visit to the country. "We bought many works of art. We ate good food and we all agreed on the court. Buy works of art ... is a great city, very bohemian.

"The American group shows are very good in its staging. "There were two shows alike. The scenarios ... It is a good production and the songs change with each show and never know which ones are going to do. Never know, do not even think. Everyone knows the reputation of the band: full of hits shows long and we guarantee they're going to go well.
"On the musical style that Bopn Jovi development in recent years, the singer said that "we were very prolific in the last decade. We made five records and now, the Greatest Hits. I think every day is an opportunity to write a song. You only have to open some more eyes and pay attention to what you're listening. Every day is a reminder of how we see it, and there is always something to say and do. "The circle" was a vision of what was happening in the world and write about it. The Greatest Hits is a celebration and the songs are more for partying. They are more about life and love, rather than on current problems such as "The Circle". Every day there are opportunities to write.

"The validity of the band is no secret. "The great secret is to continue being yourself. Do not try to follow fashion. Writing songs, be who you are as an artist. Some will like and others not, to some like a disk, and another not. Also, the constant search for evolution. Jon and I want to keep evolving and learning, still do. I think that's one reason why we stayed together. Not only had fun, but it is a quest to keep learning and evolving. If there were such a search would not be fun ", said the guitarist.

It only remains to wait for the group to Argentina and the chance to see them live on 3 October in River.

Grey's Anatomy Promo

The new single features prominently in this TV spot, which aired heavily during the Emmy Awards broadcast:




~ Hath

A&E Private Sessions

According to this (shot sideways) video on Twitter, which I've turned right-side up below, the guys will be on A&E Private Sessions on November 14th -- my Anniversary weekend!!  So, I'll miss it, but will have the trusty DVR going.

I've looked at the schedule on A&E, but don't see this episode up there yet.

~ Hath

More from Twitter...

SI Vault Photo (1991): Jon Bon Jovi poses with Sean Landeta & Matt Bahr in the Giants locker room after the Super Bowl: http://su.pr/16hwzM

Look at that grin!

Gotta love Twitter.

Thanks D!

~ Hath

Fall Is In The Air

Brrrr!

The thermometer dipped below 55 this morning – it’s clear that fall is in the air…

Fall brings the end of the summer (and JonBon’s annual Labor Day bash, to which my invitation was once again stolen from my mailbox *pout*), which ordinarily would put me in a mood, since I am always cold, and the only time I’m truly comfortable is when the heat index is flirting with 100. But Fall is also when my beautiful son was born. It’s when my father celebrates his birthday (along with dozens of cousins, in-laws and friends). It’s when I start the 8-month ordeal that is otherwise known as pee-wee hockey.

It’s also when football season starts.

There are only a few things I love more than Bon Jovi. My family (close and extended), my network of friends, the sound of a baby laughing, the smell of cut grass, and football.

I can’t put across just how much this sport means to me. Not just the enjoyment I receive in watching the game, but the memories the MEANING the game has for me.

Some of my earliest memories of time spent with my dad include football. He worked 80 hours a week to support us when we were small. He was never home for dinner, but was always home before we went to bed. He’d sit on the sofa, and my brother and I would pull his shoes off and climb up into his lap for snuggles and kisses. Then we’d be off to bed, my mother would feed daddy, and we’d be one day closer to Sunday, when he was always home.

We actually have this board

I have lots of great childhood memories of my Daddy. In the summer, we would play outside, swimming, or basketball, or board games under the sun. We learned to play cribbage at an old picnic table set up alongside the pool one steamy summer in the 80’s – a game we still enjoy and play with my dad every chance we get. We’d listen to baseball on the radio, my brother and I would fetch beers from the cooler for him, and we’d stay out long past when the crickets grew quiet.

In the winter, my brother and would build snow forts while Dad shoveled, and no matter how much snow we knocked back into the driveway, he would never yell. Daddy would dig a hole in the snow on the side yard so our dog could have someplace to “make”, and taught us how to make the perfect snowballs.

In the spring, he’d mow the lawn, cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth as he pushed the old non-motorized walk-behind back and forth across the yard.

But in the fall.

Mom would make the most amazing breakfast before we’d go off to church. Always the 11:30 Mass, and we were home by 12;45. Because at 1:00 we had a standing date. With Daddy. And the television.

The New York Football Giants,
Thank you very much

We’d watch the NFL faithfully every Sunday. My brother would be tucked on my dad’s right side, and I’d be on the left. We’d cuddle in close, and be warned not to repeat anything my Daddy said, because he’d be known to let a “shit” or “dammit” fly during the course of the game. We’d watch the game, learning to spot an I-formation or to cringe when the defense played zone instead of man coverage at an inopportune time. We learned to call the flags before they were thrown. We learned the names and numbers of our favorite Patriots. We learned it was wrong, wrong, WRONG to root for the New York Jets, but it was so right to respect and root for the New York Football Giants -- unless they were playing the Pats.

Over the years, we’ve laughed at the “expansion team Cleveland Browns – wait, what?”, and watched the skill level of our beloved New England Patriots peak and plummet. Somewhere before I was ten, I learned to mix the perfect Johnny Red and water – a fact that would have DSS pounding on the door now-a-days. I learned that when Daddy gets excited, and jumps up off the sofa, hands raised in victorious celebration, he’s a bit too tall for the living room, and will bloody his knuckles on the skip-trowled ceiling.

When I graduated from college and landed my first real paying job, the very first thing I did, before moving out of my parents’ house or buying a car, was to fork over $100 to the New England Patriots and get on the waiting list for season tickets. At that time, the waiting list was long – not as long as today, but long enough that I put the hold in my would-be-married name, even though Mr. Hath and I were not speaking at the time.

Foxboro Stadium

As someone on the wait list, I had the privilege of purchasing two-game packages every April. It was always one preseason and one regular-season game, four tickets to each, but it was LIVE FOOTBALL. The first year I got them, I put a pair into the Father’s Day card for my Daddy. It was only the third time I’d ever seen him with tears in his eyes. (My wedding and the first time held my son were the other two times).

Six years later (and now married, and with a much better job), I got the post card telling me we were in. In the House. Foxboro Stadium. With its monster 40 degree incline hill from the lot to the stadium gates, and the cold, hard, metal benches. With its Zolack and Grogan and Tuna and snow and rain and absolutely no protection from the elements whatsoever. GLORIOUS!

Gillette Stadium

Every year since then, except the 2000 Season (in August of that year, I was SO pregnant the doctors thought a sneeze would start labor, and after that, my Hathlet was too new to leave with my mother, for even an instant) we have gone to every home game at first Foxboro, and now Gillette. A few games a year we sell to family or friends, but for the most part, it’s all us – Daddy, Mr. Hath, myself, and either a friend, my brother, or Hathlet.

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep this Patriots fan from her appointed games.

And it’s bliss. Pure bliss. Even though it can get cold.

We got through 8 batteries
each per game!

For some reason, I don’t notice the cold when I’m tailgating in the parking lot with my dad. We all huddle under the tent with a small heater for comfort, and a Coleman lantern for light. We sit at on a Patriots-emblazoned card table while Dad rests in his Patriots chair. Mr. Hath cooks on the grill no matter what the elements are doing, and we play endless hands of cribbage. When Daddy turned 60, my brother and I had a “Happy Birthday John” message put on the scoreboard for him, and he smiled for a week.

Every fall for the past twelve years, we dust off our tailgating equipment, try to remember how we pack Mr. Hath’s truck, shake out our game jerseys, find our pompoms and battery-heated socks, and prepare for another season in the cold. Why? Because it’s football and we love it.

Really, do you need an
explanation here?

What business does this have being on a Bon Jovi blog? Last year, two of my favorite things joined together when the Patriots adopted This Is Our House as their touchdown celebration song. At this past Sunday’s game, there was Bon Jovi all over the place. Have a Nice Day was played in the time before kickoff. This Is Our House was played many times, as our Pats had a great game. The cheerleaders danced to Bad Name. And my Dad just smiled at me. “This song is from your boys, isn’t it?” he’d ask, every time a different song played.

Yes, Daddy, they are. And now he can share them with me through our love of football.

~ Hath

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!!

CBS Promo: This Is Our House

LK, you are an absolute gem! Thanks for this!!

And a few stills for you :)

~ Hath

Greatest Hits ~ New Song Preview

*** Pulled shamelessly and without permission (but with full attribution) from Lee-Ann at Blame it on the Love ***

Bon Jovi's Facebook page now has 30-second previews of "This Is Love, This Is Life" and "The More Things Change" from The Ultimate Collection/Greatest Hits. Listen to them at this link.

Lee-Ann also documented the lyrics she heard:

We ain't got much but what we got is all that matters
We're pickin' up the pieces, tryin' to put 'em back where they belong
Ohh, it's gonna be alright
This is love, this is life
When times get tough we're still worth the fight
This is love, this is life

and

I tell you one more time with feeling
Even though this world is reeling
You're still you and I'm still me
I didn't mean to cause a scene
But I guess it's time to roll up our sleeves
The more things change the more they stay the same
The same sunrise, it's just another day
If you hang in long enough they say you're coming back
Just take a look, we're living proof and baby...

I have not given the clips a listen, mostly because Facebook is blocked from work. But reading the lyrics, I had an instant jolt of deja vu with "You're still you and I'm still me" -- where else is that from? Silent Night, yes?

Anyway, for anyone who's had the chance to listen, are they soft-rock tunes like What Do You got? Or something different? Like? Dislike?

~ Hath

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