Bon Jovi in Concert: May 20

From the Bon Jovi website:

Join Bon Jovi on the beach at Bamboozle Festival in Asbury Park, NJ on May 20th for a full headlining set of all the hits!

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Access to premium viewing areas next to the stage
Extra room to stretch your legs
Private bars
Private bathrooms
Don't miss out on this full, headlining performance packed with all the hits from Bon Jovi! If you have already purchased your wristband, click here to add on Beach Club & Lounge access.

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Mid-Day Motivator: Wrong Villain

JBJ to Receive Beacon of Hope Award

Bestowed by the Covenant House

About Covenant House

Every year, Covenant House rescues thousands of homeless kids from a hopeless life on the streets.

For millions of homeless kids, basic needs like a hearty meal, warm bed, and safe shelter are true luxuries. Instead of knowing the joys of childhood, every day these kids face the life-or-death dangers of living on the streets.

Covenant House was founded 40 years ago with the mission to help these homeless kids. Today, Covenant House is the largest privately-funded agency in the Americas providing food, shelter, immediate crisis care, and essential services to homeless, throwaway, and runaway kids.

Covenant House doesn't stop at offering an immediate safe harbor to homeless youth, we strive to move each kid forward down the path to an independent adulthood, free from the risk of future homelessness.

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivators: Disguise

Um, nope, it doesn't :)

~ Hath

Spark Opportunity Challenge

As seen on YouTube:

Musician and member of the youth-focused White House Council for Community Solutions Jon Bon Jovi joins SparkAction and the Youth Leadership Institute to launch the SparkOpportunity Challenge, an innovative "crowd-sourcing" competition for young people to share their ideas on how to create local jobs and opportunities for youth. Winners will receive grants and assistance towards realizing these "solutions" in their communities.

To submit your ideas for The SparkOpportunity Challenge, young people and their adult allies can visit SPARKOPPORTUNITY.ORG, submit ideas to create jobs and opportunities, and vote for the ones they think can work. Winners will recieve a $1,500 seed grant, a tablet, and mentoring.

Twitter: #sparkopportunity



~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivators: Be Afraid...

Resplendent Randomness: Walk this Way

Truer Words

Thanks, Kiwi, for sending this to me.

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivators: Haircut

Interview with John Shanks

From Guitar World

This month, Shanks begins work on his fifth album with Bon Jovi. A few weeks prior to joining the band in New Jersey for tracking, he called to talk about his recording and songwriting career, as well as his work with Van Halen.

You’re recording your fifth album with Bon Jovi. Talented songwriters, great musicians, studio veterans and nice guys — what more could a producer want?

This new album is going to be great! We’ve got a lot of songs and we’re ready to go. There’s a really strong body of work here. It’s been a small group of people writing these songs. I’m proud of the stuff we’ve written and I’m excited about it. Might another song or two get written? Maybe. But we’re going in with a full load of artillery and songs that we feel really good about. We’re recording at Jon’s house. We’ve done some stuff at my house and at Electric Ladyland that we’ll probably keep and work off of, so some songs we’ll be building on and some we’ll track in the room with the band.

What is the history of your working relationship with Bon Jovi?

We were supposed to write one day a long time ago, maybe 2001. I flew back east to see my parents, checked my messages, and Jon had called to ask if I wanted to get together and write. We knew each other a little bit and he had my number. I had to call him back and tell him that I was in Boston and driving to my parents' house. He said, "Don’t worry. There’ll be other times.” I got another call asking if I could come to New Jersey to produce their next record. I shipped some gear, brought my engineer with me, and every day we would write from noon until 4 or 5 and start recording. On the second day, we wrote “Have A Nice Day” in his guesthouse, then we walked across the lawn and started recording. Richie and I did guitars all night and background vocals and a scratch vocal from Jon. I played keyboards. The band came in and put drums and bass on it. That song was almost a record overnight. It felt like a hit, so we just went for it. Some of the songs we write and record like that and some we wait for the band and track live. “We Weren’t Born To Follow” was tracked as a band. “Superman Tonight” was done slightly differently. I’m really excited about this new record. I love the songs, we have a direction, we have a sound and we know what we want to do.

You can read the rest of the article here.

~ Hath

Two New Stories

My authors have been very patient while I weed through some tough personal choices this month, but there are two new stories listed on the FF directory for you to sink your teeth into:

Have a Little Faith (a Jon story)
~ Tori Alainn

"Faith makes all things possible....love makes all things easy" If only she believed it. Now, he wants to make it up to her. If only she could have a little faith...

The Answer (a Richie story)
~ Pirate

Can the answer to everything be love?

Enjoy!

~ Hath

Mid-Day Motivators: Prank