Richie Sambora's Ferguson Residency

From Hollywood Reporter

With the release of his solo album, Aftermath Of The Lowdown, this past September, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora revealed another side of himself to fans. “During this whole period of time when I’ve been doing interviews, it’s given people a really good insight about who I am," Sambora tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I think I’ve been quite vulnerable in my music and through this record. I wanted people to get to know me [beyond] being the right-hand man in Bon Jovi.”

Empowered by the response, Sambora has opened the door even further by showing off his love of comedy. “I’ve always been a comedy buff,” he says. “I’m always watching Comedy Central and I love Colbert, Daily Show, Bill Maher -- all that kind of stuff. I think Louis C.K. is right up there, too.”

But as a childhood fan of Johnny Carson, Sambora holds a special place in his heart for late-night TV. So when CBS asked him which show he could be involved with, he immediately chose The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, where the guitarist has moonlighted all week as band leader.

“Richie, as far as late-night comedy goes, has low standards -- that must be it,” Ferguson joked. In all seriousness though, the two have developed an immediate rapport, as evidenced by their on-air banter.

Clearly, the two share similar philosophies.

“I love the spontaneity,” Sambora says of the show’s un-scripted approach. "For me, I get more anxiety from the scripted thing than having spontaneity. I don’t know what the f--k is going on and that’s the fun of it. You just gotta listen and engage him and wait for him to engage you.”

Though Sambora is a newcomer to the world of late-night, Ferguson says the guitarist gets it. “He understands and knows how to do a very loose kind of improvised show, which is how we approach it,” the host says. “There are a lot of people in this building, and in show business, that are not rock 'n' roll, but Richie is. And I think the show is kind of rock 'n' roll.”

~ Hath

  

Craig Ferguson (12/6 show)

With "Wanted" at the end. Nice. Though I would have liked to hear Nowadays.  Maybe on tonight's show...



~ Hath

Richie in Huffington Post

(September 7, 2012)

The 'Lowdown' on Richie Sambora: His Music, His Struggle, His Triumph

"Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora's Girlfriend Exposed As 'High-Class Prostitute'"

"Shot Through the Heart! Locklear, Sambora to Divorce"

"Guitarist Richie Sambora Goes To Rehab"

Richie Sambora has gotten used to seeing his life through tabloid headlines. At any given moment these stories and much more about singer and guitarist for Bon Jovi have helped sell papers around the world. But what is the truth?

After losing his father to cancer, a divorce after 13 years of marriage to actress Heather Locklear and struggles with substance abuse, Sambora is revealing it on his first solo album in 14 years, Aftermath of the Lowdown. As the man, who has penned such anthems as "Livin' on a Prayer" and "It's My Life," said, "The truth is the lowdown, and after you speak that truth, there's always an aftermath."

While some artists may be reluctant to share their personal thoughts, Sambora said it would have been a risk not to expose his emotions on his third solo album.

"Authenticity is what I believe makes a great record, and let's face it, I've been a guy who has been media fodder for a long time," Sambora said. "I'm a man who has fallen down, and I've gotten up. This record is a celebration of what's on the other side of it. I got through it, and I'm better for it."

Growing up in New Jersey, Sambora can still remember watching the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show when he was 5 years old. It was at that moment he knew that making music was something he wanted to do. At 14, he taught himself to play the guitar and never looked back.

Next year Bon Jovi will celebrate their 30th anniversary of making music together, and they are hotter than ever. In 2010 they were named the top touring act in the world for the second time and played to over 35 million people around the world. As he once said about playing rock 'n' roll: "It's like having sex with your clothes on." In spite of their popularity, Sambora, a member of the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, remains focused on his craft.

"Every time I step out on stage I try to compartmentalize the fame and that media shit to the music," he said. "I don't let them meet. What I do on a musical level is my passion and pleasure."

Even though Sambora has the opportunity to sing a lead vocal or two during Bon Jovi concerts, people often don't think of his as a singer. Yet, he was the lead singer for all of the previous bands he was a part of. He hopes this album will help alter perceptions and realize his vocal abilities.

"People are always asking me, 'What are you expecting out of this record?' For me, as a songwriter, if people listen to this music and can relate to it and it can keep them company and doesn't make them feel alone, then that's great. That is what music has done for me throughout my life."

How is this solo album different from your previous ones?

My life is in a different place. All of that contributes to what this record is. For me, I don't know if three times is a charm or what, but the authenticity that I got out of this record -- from the writing to the recording to the actual end product -- I'm just thrilled. As an artist, you make records sometimes and they don't live up to your expectations. With this record, I covered the ground that I wanted to cover, and it came out so spontaneously and energetically.

The first single is "Every Road Leads Home To You." What does the song mean to you?

I was really talking about coming home to my family, which is my daughter. Everyone has a definition of what home is. It could be your family, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your wife, husband, your house, or even being lost within yourself. Metaphorically, it was a personal thing I was writing about that transcends into a universal subject.

In the past you've said that "flowers grow in cow shit." Obviously your issues over the past several years helped you put these songs together.

I've dealt with addiction and different demons throughout the years. For me to omit that, it wouldn't have been authentic. By no means is this an addiction or rehab record, but I had to address that piece of my life. If I can shed wisdom on it for the people who are having the same problems that I have, that's really great. When I say this record is about my stuff, the thing I really found is that my stuff is pretty universal.

What I've learned scouring the Earth like I have is that music is the most evocative and transformative language in humanity. The stuff I wrote in my bedroom sold out stadiums in 52 countries across the world.

"Seven Years Gone" is another song on the album. In it you sing: "You wake up and you're seven years gone." What does that song mean to you?

It's about me. A lot of the stuff I'm citing on this record is stuff that jolted me and made me look at my life and the choices I've made. It's like, "Hey, man, you've really got to take life seriously and be present because one day you wake up and it is seven years gone." I was looking back, and it seems that in seven years I've learned so much, and I've come so far as an adult. With the help of my daughter and help of my friends, I've had great mirrors around me.

"You Can Only Get So High" was written when you came out of rehab last year. It talks about how the tabloids tend to embellish the real truth. What did they embellish?

Obviously they are going to glamorize anything they possibly can. Hey, my baby pictures are in the tabloids. Not everybody, but a lot of people, have gone through the trials and tribulations I have. I just happen to be in one of the biggest bands in the world, and I also go out with a lot of famous women and things like that. So, I live in the glare of the spotlight of all that stuff. I try not to look at it as anything I should be ashamed of. I actually came out of it. I think that song was about me shedding my wisdom on what I've learned about substance abuse, and it gets to a point where it doesn't work.

What have you learned about substance abuse?

It's a lie. Hey, I don't have regrets. Let's face it, man, I've had a really good time. Socially and living a life that's very blessed and very lucky. I've worked hard, obviously, to make that luck. It [drinking] was part of my job. I grew up playing in bars. I started when I was 16 and back then nobody ever heard of AA or anything like that. I was hanging around with a bunch of musicians, and it was kind of what we did. It wasn't even looked down upon at that point. If you're in a bar and playing a song that people like, everybody is buying you a drink. Then you get into a big rock 'n' roll band, and it just kind of escalates. It never really got out of hand. We always took care of business. When I found that was slipping a bit -- and it took 30 years for that to actually happen -- I decided to pare that stuff down. Now I've successfully done it. I think my life is better for it.

Were you ever scared about what was happening?

I wasn't scared for myself. I was scared for the people around me because it always has a ripple effect. When I was seeing that ripple effect happen, that's what really jolted me back to reality. Nothing was waning in business, but it just wasn't working for me physically or personally. That needed to change. I sought the help, and I got it. I'm so much happier now.

You wrote the song "I'll Always Walk Beside You" for your 14-year-old daughter, Ava. What kind of father are you?

I'm a really good father. The biggest joy in my life is my daughter. One of the biggest challenges when you become a single parent is how you are going to take that detrimental situation and turn it into an opportunity to get closer to your child. I did it quite pragmatically. I went to a psychologist and learned where she was in her development. I took it very seriously. I think we've done it correctly. We became closer after the divorce.

How did the song come about?

I guess it was about two years ago. There was a picture of her and I walking down the street in my hometown when she was little. It's a picture that is shot from behind. I had it blown up and on the bottom of the picture I had "Ava, I'll always walk beside you. Love, Daddy." I put it in a frame and gave it to her for her birthday. This was the last song I wrote for this record.

As you mentioned, you do go out with a lot of famous women. Those relationships have had very public breakups. What have you learned about love over the years?

Look, I love being in love, and there are so many different kinds of love. Whether it's love with your family, romantic love, with friends, and then there is love of life. I've been lucky to experience it all. Obviously, because of my life and a lot of time on the road, love is challenged. I had to create some kind of balance. I would love to get into another relationship that had some promise. Romantic love can be fleeting. It comes in and out of scope within your life. I've learned not to have a tremendous amount of expectation about how long it's going to last. So, when it does happen, it is very special. I would like to have it hang around.

What's next for Bon Jovi?

The band's record is already done. Toward the end of my record, Jon and I started writing the band's record, and we finished it a couple months back. I was a very busy boy this year.

Whatever happened to Tommy and Gina from "Livin' on a Prayer?"

We brought them back in "It's My Life." That was the first time we ever used characters in our songs. They were the quintessential New Jersey, working-class couple. At that particular point in time, it became everybody. Everyone saw a point in their life when they were living as Tommy and Gina or they were living Tommy and Gina right now. That was a magical song. I think it was my first realization that songwriting is a very universal thing.

After everything you've accomplished, what are you the most proud of?

Obviously my daughter is number one. Then, any time you reach someone with a song is a proud moment.

Photo Shoot

... I presume promoting the new record?

~ Hath

  

Craig Ferguson (12/5 Show)

So, no song at the end of the show from Richie (if you've been on Twitter today, you see all the complaints), but another fun show.



~ Hath

Richie Interview ~ Artist Direct

(September 24, 2012)

Still catching up on old things in my inbox. I've actually made a pretty good dent in the backlog :)

~ Hath


Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi Talks "Aftermath of the Lowdown" and More

"It's really attached to my life," Richie Sambora says of his new solo album, Aftermath of the Lowdown. "I'm thrilled with the record. I really am."

The legendary Bon Jovi guitarist has every reason to be too. Aftermath of the Lowdown is his deepest, most diverse, and dynamic solo offering to date. It encompasses a myriad of styles, and it sees Sambora evolve immensely as both a songwriter and guitarist. This is Sambora at his best, and it's one of the most infectious and invigorating albums of the year.

In this exclusive interview with ARTISTdirect.com editor in chief Rick Florino, Richie Sambora talks Aftermath of the Lowdown and so much more.

Was making Aftermath of the Lowdown a relatively fast process?

It wasn't a stressful process. I got off the road with Bon Jovi last August. You'd think after an eighteen-and-a-half month, 52 country stadium tour that I would be tired. I took about a week off, and the songs started to come. I was energized by the whole thing. I knew I had a break in the band's schedule. I haven't made a solo record in over ten years. I said, "Man, this is the time to do it". It was a look back over my life over the last decade—the ups and downs and trials and tribulations. It started to come out.

What's your take on the record as a whole piece? It flows from top to bottom smoothly.

I think the record flows really well also. It's strange because, as an artist, I adapted to a lot of different genres stylistically. It's stuff I've respected throughout my career. Even that song "Nowadays" has a very punk characteristic to it. It's a throwback to my days when I played in bands in New York and I was going to CBGB and Max's. I was really young. I was almost a teenager. There were things coming out in this record that have been influences throughout my life. It was a pleasure to go revisit those energies.

When did you write the riff for "Burn That Candle Down"?

It started out with me saying to myself, "I want to write a real barnburner I can jam on!" It's something that will really work on live basis. I conjured up the image of burning the candle down as if you were with a girl in a hotel room and you decided to go crazy all night physically and have good time until the candle was burnt down [Laughs]. Then, as I was writing it, that one took shape over a few weeks. At the time, Occupy Wall Street was happening. It became a little bit of a protest song for me. I started to feed off that energy. There was an influence of that. It became more like, "Our voice is going to get out, and we'll burn that candle down". Metaphorically speaking, there's a duality to it.

What's the story behind "World"?

I wrote that with Bruce Foster who's a dear friend of mine. He was the guy who ushered me into the music business when I was in my late teens. He had a deal on Casablanca Records. I was in college, and I'd play with him. He'd pull me into sessions as a guitar player. I played with his band. He was the real first pro I ever played with. I've written lots of songs with him on my other solo albums, and he's written for other artists also. We wrote this five or six years ago. I remembered the melody. It's like an adult lullaby. It's begging the world for forgiveness because humanity has fucked it up [Laughs].

Was the overall approach boundless for you?

There's a dexterity that comes with making a solo album as an artist. You get to explore your own individuality. I'm in this very big band. That has its own energy and definition. That's all about compromise really. That's why we're still together after 30 years. When you're making a solo record, it's your view. This record is about my stuff. I found by exploring what's happened to me, it's everybody's stuff. What I've gone through, whether it's divorce, losing your dad, or being a single dad, there's anxiety to all those things. I'm a guy who's fallen down and gotten back up. It's also about that triumph too. I got a chance to play on this record. There's a lot of jamming that came right off the floor. I wanted this to be an authentic record even from a musician's standpoint. You can hear that there was interaction and fierce interplay between musicians.

You keep challenging yourself instrumentally.

Over the past decade, I've been with the band, and it's been uber-succesful. It's astounding to me how many people we've gotten to. That being said, it sometimes shuts you down at an artistic level. This record gave me the opportunity to go wild with my own whims and explore my own ideas. I actually started taking guitar lessons again [Laughs]. They really didn't show up on the record because the lessons I was taking were in alternate tunings and finger-style methods I started to embrace. I just wanted to learn and I found myself landing in a place where I had some time on my hands and I wanted to continue to evolve as an artist. This record is a new beginning to me. I think you can hear that in the tracks. I don't think people have heard me like this before. I've heard me like this before [Laughs]. There's a real enlightenment that happened to me.

Has this opened the door for more music?

Absolutely! I really can't stop the flow now. Believe it or not, towards the end of recording Aftermath of the Lowdown, I started to write with Jon again for the band record. That's finished now. I actually did a couple of records this year. I was very fertile on a creative basis.

Where did the album title come from?

It's interesting. Whenever you give someone "the lowdown", that's the truth. You're telling somebody the truth. There's an aftermath to that. Laying down these songs was like the truth to me. Now, we're going to see what the aftermath is. The important thing for a musician or a songwriter is that the songs actually reach people and they relate to them. Songwriting and being an artist is all about communication. You make a record, and it's yours. As soon as it's finished, you give it to the world, and it becomes their record.

Did you get try anything you never did before?

Oh yeah! I'm the boss on this. I can do whatever I want. I can take as much time as I want. That's the beauty of this. I wanted to go with an independent label to have that dexterity. It gave me a lot of freedom, which I should have at this point in my career [Laughs]. When you're in a band that has a big stadium thing going on, there are certain songs you have to write to fulfill that energy. I was just following the songs and everything that would come out of my heart from a song level. I look at songs as emotional vignettes of my life. You sketch them out when you sit down with an acoustic guitar and a voice. You build the architecture of the song. When you bring into the studio, which is my laboratory, you get out the paint brushes, and you color the paintings sonically.

Who's on your playlist?

I'm listening to everything! My playlist has always been very diverse. My daughter turns me on to new stuff she's listening to. It could be anything from country to the most gangster rap there is [Laughs]. I try to buy at least two new records a week. I have to keep in shape so I get on the treadmill and listen to music to take me away. I listen to records all the time, whether it be a heritage artist who has a new record or a new band. I like a lot of Dangerbird releases like Fitz & the Tantrums. I listen to a lot of The Black Keys. It's band-driven. I like the authenticity of guys who actually get in a room and play. Then I have my steady dose of the blues like Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and guys like that. I think that's important for a musician. If you're a student of music, you have to relive your influences. You also have to keep fresh and current.


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~ Hath

JBJ in Forbes Magazine

(September 7, 2012)

Jon Bon Jovi: Hungry To Help
This story appears in the September 24, 2012 issue of Forbes Life.

[Jon] Bon Jovi’s magnum opus is the Soul Kitchen, a “recommended donation” restaurant in Red Bank, New Jersey, launched last fall. The eatery’s core purpose, says Bon Jovi, is simple: to feed people in a dignified way that engenders self-respect. “We empower people by having them earn their meal working in the restaurant,” he says.

The suggested contribution for a mea—perhaps some Garden State gumbo, followed by cornmeal-crusted catfish—is $10. Those who can afford to pay more are encouraged to do so, while those who can’t are asked to bus tables, wash dishes, or volunteer to help other local causes.

Since its inception, the Soul Kitchen has doled out about 10,000 meals; a guest chef series with appearances by Mario Batali and Tom Colicchio has helped juice the restaurant’s profile. So have the efforts of the Soul Kitchen’s founder—according to a study by data firm General Sentiment, Bon Jovi generated $449,932 in publicity value for the restaurant last year.

“I’m certainly willing to leverage my celebrity,” he said during the philanthropy summit. “If it means I have to come and sing at your kid’s bar mitzvah, I’m very available. Whatever it takes.”

Bon Jovi wasn’t always quite so willing. Up until the turn of the millennium, he merely dabbled in philanthropic activities, from Covenant House to the Special Olympics. That changed on a wintry evening after a concert in 2005, when Bon Jovi peered out of his Philadelphia hotel room window and noticed a homeless man huddled against the side of a building. “I thought, now here’s something where we can affect change without a scientist to invent a cure.”

That same year, Bon Jovi hired former IRS agent Mimi Box to help start the Philadelphia Soul Foundation, initially in conjunction with the Arena Football League team of the same name, which Bon Jovi co-owned. One day shortly thereafter, Bon Jovi was walking through a dilapidated section of North Philadelphia with housing crusader Sister Mary Scullion, who suggested he fix up one of the houses. The rock star asked the nun how much it would cost to do the whole block—and eventually secured funding to restore 15 homes. After the Arena Football League suspended operations in 2009, he kept the charity going, rechristening it the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation.

A few years later, Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, saw a Brian Williams segment that featured a community kitchen in Denver called the So All May Eat Café. This wasn’t a food pantry or a soup kitchen but a place where people could volunteer to work in exchange for a healthy meal. That eatery had been inspired by a similar establishment in Salt Lake City called One World Everybody Eats.

“The key element that Salt Lake and Denver stressed to us was that you needed to find a location where you had a very supportive population and one that was in need, too,” says Box. “You need to have the intersection.” The Bon Jovis found that near their old stomping grounds in New Jersey. After piloting the restaurant concept in a church and a soup kitchen, they settled on a decrepit garage in Red Bank, turning it into a working restaurant within a matter of months.

Next up: more Soul Kitchens, if all goes according to plan—something the old Bon Jovi might not have pursued. “That’s the difference between being a young man figuring out who you want to be and being a man who’s come of age who wants to leave a legacy of who he has been and who he will continue to be.”

Read the whole article here.

~ Hath

12-12-12 Concert Broadcast

In less than two weeks Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dave Grohl, Roger Waters, Eddie Vedder, Bon Jovi, Alicia Keys, The Who, Paul McCartney and other music superstars will play a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden called 12-12-12 – The Concert For Sandy Relief. Tickets go on sale this Monday at Noon ET and are expected to move quickly. For those who can’t see the once-in-a-lifetime event in person, there are plenty of options to follow the action.

Cable networks Showtime, HBO, the Sundance Channel and AMC will all air a live simulcast of the show. You can also stream the concert as it happens on Hulu, Yahoo and AOL.

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Accessible by 1 billion people worldwide

34 US Networks & Television feeds to North & South America, Asia, Europe, Africa & Australia

Global streaming

Starting Starting at 7:30 p.m. EST, on December 12, "12-12-12," The Concert for Sandy Relief, will be broadcast live from Madison Square Garden via a global network of US and International television stations, Clear Channel radio stations and leading web sites. Check the listings below to see where to tune in to watch or listen to this legendary event.

Streaming Websites | US Channels | Int'l Channels

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Craig Ferguson (12/4 Episode)

Featuring "Seven Years Gone". Just beautiful.



~ Hath

New Richie Story

An anonymous donor has left this little goodie for your reading pleasure:

What happened after the concert in London, one of my biggest dreams I never thought could come true...

Every Road Leads to London

Enjoy!

~ Hath

Soraia Video

Soraia played a "Live at Five" performance at Philly radio station 104.5 FM on November 30. It was video-cast as well as broadcast on radio. The video is up in archive now for viewing -- 2 songs and a little pre-broadcast warm-up and chat.

 Here's the link -- the title of the archive is actually "Live @ 6 11-30"

 Just click and it will play.

Enjoy!

http://www.radio1045.com/pages/live-at-5.html

~ Hath

Richie @TheRealSambora Interview

From MSN Entertainment:


Richie Sambora gives us the scoop as Bon Jovi announces major new Because We Can tour

The new tour, Because We Can, is groundbreaking in its concept. They've tiered the ticket prices to seven different levels, partly to thwart the scalpers and partly to give fans a break. While there are some high-end VIP packages available, thousands of tickets are priced at $19.50. Tickets for 1987's "Slippery When Wet" tour were $16.50 -- which is $32.15 in today's dollars when adjusted for inflation. So it's technically cheaper to see them now than it was to see them back then.

Sambora -- whom [Jon] Bon Jovi describes as "my right-hand man. He's Dean to my Frank" -- took a few minutes from his schedule to talk about the new tour.

MSN: How was your live Q&A with fans from the theater? I'm told that had never been done before.

Sambora: "It's the first time anything like that ever happened. We interacted with our fans, which we do a lot. We had a Q&A with the fans both on Twitter feed and our website. Questions were coming in from everywhere, Australia, South America, Europe. It was really cool. We've got a lot of new music to put out there, so that's what we're doing."

So those people overseas must have been up in the middle of the night to submit the questions.

"Thank God for our fans. I was just in Europe -- I just put out a solo album 'Aftermath of the Lowdown,' and I was in Europe for a solo tour. They sold out in presale! There were people who went to every show. There were people there from China, for God's sake! It's crazy."

Well you're on Twitter all the time, it seems.

"Absolutely! At least a couple of times a day. It's definitely me, man. I enjoy it. I like to hear people's opinions. Sometimes I'll just have a question of the day and put it up there because I'm curious about what people think."

You've been a band who are willing to experiment, whether it's your residencies in large stadiums or your new tour where you've gone with tickets priced as low as $19.50.

"It's a band philosophy that came from a long, long time ago, even before we had hit records. We said 'Let's play everywhere. Live, live, live. Let's tour everywhere.' We didn't have a hit record, but we played in all these countries supporting other bands or playing a club tour. What happened was the garden was seeded. The only thing missing was a hit record. Then 'Slippery' hit, and we had a bunch of hit records (laughs). It exploded worldwide. We've always taken a global stance on making music and taking the tour on the road. When the grunge era came in, in the early '90s we went out and broke 20 new markets. Our sales really didn't suffer that much, and we were able to remain ourselves artistically."

Where does that work ethic come from? When you're not touring, you're all still working.

"It's really important when you're a band that stays together all this time, that everybody does have their individual efforts that they can be an individual with. That's very, very important stuff. Lucky for us we all support each other's efforts, whatever it may be. Anytime you do something different, you bring back a whole new knowledge to the band. It's like it's brand-new again. It's a good learning process and it also freshens the relationship. A band is very much like a marriage. If you limit yourself in that relationship … that doesn't work. Here, everybody gets a chance to do their own things."

That could be stifling if you're a band like the Beatles or the Eagles back in the '70s when there were little or no side projects -- the band was your full-time job.

"I'd be playing music no matter what. Whether I was successful or not, I'd still be playing a club somewhere or sitting in my room playing. I'd have been doing this anyway in some form. When it's in your blood there's no choice but to go out and try to be successful."

Your pricing on the tour is very innovative. You're playing for cheaper prices than you did in '87.

"We want people to come see us, man! And you have to be flexible to the world economy. That's very important. People have less and less money to spend on entertainment, so you have to be flexible. We've been flexible for many years. Even through natural disasters. We'd be going to the Midwest when they had those big floods in the '90s. We dropped our ticket prices, we had food drives, we donated to the Red Cross and stuff like that. I just did the same thing on my solo tour. I played in Hollywood and gave all the profits -- and matched the profits -- to the Red Cross. You gotta do things like that."

Were you or other members of the band impacted by Hurricane Sandy?

"Yep. David actually lost a house. It's gone. It's gone. My mother had to come live with me. Her house wasn't gone, but the lower level of her house had a lot of water damage. It was unlivable. It definitely impacted us."

How do you have the stamina for this much touring?

"Once you get a mammoth excursion like this up and going … our last tour was 18 ½ months and 52 countries. No telling what this one is going to be. The only thing I can say, again, is even in our younger years, we liked to break barriers, go to new places. We're looking for countries we've never played before or rarely played. I think South Africa is on the list. Prague. Croatia. Places like that we haven't played that much. It's going to be at least a year, and obviously a lot of dates in America. Canada was so good to us last time. We did stadiums, then five Air Canada Centers, all that stuff. It was a big tour, man. We're doing Europe, Australia, Japan, South America. We've got a lot of work ahead."

And you're doing more solo work as the house band on "Craig Ferguson" all next week?

"When you do a solo album, you get to tell your stories. People get a chance to relate to the stories. We're all connected, and music is the most connective and evocative language in the world. I've seen it all around the world. It's going to be an interesting week on 'Craig Ferguson.' It's funny, I was having a meeting over at CBS about placing my music in TV shows. They said, 'What show do you want to be on?' and I said I wanted to be on Craig Ferguson, man, because I just dig him. I have for many years. They said 'No problem. Done.' I said 'How about I be on a week?' They loved the idea. As well as being the musical guest, I'm going to be the house band and a regular guest. It's gonna be Richie Sambora week on 'Craig Ferguson'! (laughs). I'm excited, the band's excited. It's going to be crazy. I kinda vamped on what John Lennon did on the Mike Douglas Show when I was a little kid. He was on for the whole week. That's where that came from."


~ Hath

Craig Ferguson (12/3 episode)

Watch it while it lasts on YouTube :) Very fun episode.



~ Hath

MasterCard Priceless Event in LA

Los Angeles, CA / Paramount Studios / 1 December 2012

1. Lost Highway
2. You Give Love a Bad Name
3. Born To Be My Baby
4. We Weren't Born to Follow | Follow (partial)
5. It's My Life | IML-2 | IML-3
6. Whole Lot of Leavin'
7. Wanted Dead or Alive | Wanted-2 | Wanted-3 | Wanted-4
8. Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen From Mars
9. We Got It Goin' On
10. Who Says You Can't Go Home
11. Livin' on a Prayer | Prayer-2 | Prayer-3
12. Bad Medicine w/Shout

Encore

1. Run Run Rudolph
2. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

And, YouTube user Panos BonJoviTV streamed the whole thing, and I'm not sure if (when) it will be taken down, but...

As/when I find more videos, I'll update the post.

And there are a ton of photos up in my Photobucket.

~ Hath

Richie on HairNation

(September 29, 2012)

During the last weekend of September, Richie Guest-DJed on Hair Nation. It was, of course, all pre-recorded and his part was only about 10 minutes total, but it was an enjoyable hour.

Along with the songs he chose for his hour, he played 2 of his own songs (Nowadays, Sugar Daddy) and one Bon Jovi track.... which was If I Was Your Mother.

01 Intro & DJ Richie - Whitesnake
02 In the Still of the Night - Whitesnake
03 Promo Tag
04 Shake Me - Cinderella
05 DJ Richie on Skid Row
06 Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row
07 Promo Tag
08 Rock Me Like a Hurricane - The Scorpions
09 DJ Richie - Nowadays
10 Nowadays - Richie Sambora
11 Promo Tag
12 Hysteria - Def Leppard
13 Promo Tag
14 Hang Tough - Tesla
15 Promo Tag
16 Smooth Up In Ya - Bulletboys
17 DJ Richie - Ratt
18 Round and Round - Ratt
19 Promo Tag
20 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Warrant
21 Promo Tag
22 Coming of Age - Damn Yankees
23 DJ Richie - Bon Jovi
24 If I Was Your Mother - Bon Jovi
25 Promo Tag
26 Jet City Woman - Queensryche
27 DJ Richie - Sugar Daddy
28 Sugar Daddy - Richie Sambora
29 Outro


The ever lovely CatteSambora put it up on my Mediafire for anyone who wants it.

~ Hath