AXS TV Presents: A Conversation with Bon Jovi

[Music] welcome back everyone this is the part of the show where you take control you guys ask questions and John's going to give you answers so let's get started first is from Valerie Brown in all of your years of touring what is your most memorable moment on stage that's impossible Val I mean how many over nearly 40 years there's so many I can remember um the first time we played the garden 1983 opening for zezy top before the first record came out we're about to start the very first song that the crowd is being polite then there's silence Richie was meant to start the first song and his guitar was dead and the chant started to grow ZZ Top ZZ Top and the audience is starting to get restless and he's Panic stricken and I to take off my guitar I toss it to him I go it's all on you play the guitar he plays mine turns it up to 10 and we get through a 30 minute set in 17 minutes so that's the first one that I think of for you but that's that's that's one that's true well that's rock and roll so that's perfect um Robert Rosenberg wants to know what was your biggest accomplishment and also your biggest disappointment in your career again you know I mean how do you figure what was the biggest accomplishment I I think that along your career and a storyed career every step of the way you think was the big accomplishment so whether I played a block dance or got a record deal or got our first number one album or played your first I don't know Stadium uh to our induction into the Hall of Fame every time you got to that level you thought that's the Pinnacle and then you look up and there's another mountain in front of of you so it really never ends Tabitha Perkins wants to know was there a single moment when you realized that you had hit it big time you know I think that that that question was answered with the last one too along that ride you never really know if you've made it and along the way when I look back from a vantage point you know a year or two or five on you look back and you go oh wasn't that cute look where we are now oh wasn't that cute they're nice you know and it just keeps going you know all all I know is is that it just keeps going which is such a gift for all of us um Ethan Snider asks who are the artists making music right now that you're listening to which performer of today do you see having the staying power that you have had I I like unique artists um and I think that there are plenty of them you know streaming did open up the world to one thing beautiful we don't have to be siloed by terrestrial radio where playlists are so small or the way MTV used to be programmed so when I see somebody as as popular but as unique as Harry Styles or Billy ish then I go amen hallelujah this is really great you know and so I I think the world of those kinds of artists who aren't who aren't afraid and they're not making cookie cutter music to appease pop radio you were on top of it you have great taste I'm not surprised um Val maloa wants to know how do you recharge your Creative Energy that's a good question um you know how do I recharge my Creative Energy well you have to have the confidence to shut off the the faucet when you've finished kind of a a project and then you take your time and and know that have you have the confidence to do nothing and that to me is a part of doing something and then eventually you're going to stumble into a a book a movie a record an experience that's going to lead you to sit down and start thinking of words and and a melody and picking up a guitar to find the chords that's such great advice the whole sometimes doing nothing is doing something I love that Tracy K kahun asks what is on your personal playlist right now oh my goodness that's always a tough question because you know it's after I walk out of the room I'll have had 10 ideas as to what I was listening to um just this morning I heard that new uh Bruno Mars song that he put out because it's brand new and I was curious he's such a great singer I wanted to see what he had to say I liked it um so I'm always open-minded to hearing something new I'm looking for the singer songwriter I'm looking for that guy that's going to be my next Dam and rice who was somebody that many years ago I I just I couldn't get enough of he could sing the phone book to me and I would have bought it so I'm always looking for that and I think that the world needs more than anything a rock band the world needs a rock band yeah where are you guys you know I mean the guy that has the poster that the kid is looking at right now in his bedroom where's the rock band where's after the killers in Coldplay I haven't seen a rock band come along that most of Access TV was the guys I grew up watching and listening to you know those are the posters on my wall I want to see that happen again uh because the world's ready for you the cool thing is because there are young rock bands it's just that rock has not become as popular in in in mainstream culture so there it's alive and well it's just a little bit more underground so there's hope you're telling me you're telling me exactly um Steven troop wants to know how do you decide from 334 songs what to play on your set list when you tour well Steve I think that um there's let's pretend that on a average night there's 23 or 24 songs MH 15 of them are going to have to be the hits which leaves me eight songs to play with four are probably going to be new songs which is going to make the artist happy and then two of them get to be the crazy album track or a cover song that you just feel like getting your juke box on and that's pretty much what you're relegated to simply because you know if I come to your town and and I don't play Living on a Prayer or it's my life or bad name again you're going to be disappointed I don't want to disappoint you and I remember when I was a kid seeing a couple of guys that I grew up listening to who ended up playing like Reay versions of their classic hits cuz they were tired of playing them and you know I was like at a bingo hall watching them play so I was like I get why you're doing it but this is the first time I ever got to see you and I'm crushed so you know they want to hear prayer and it's my life in bad name and wanted the way they were written and recorded there's a total art to creating the set list I respect that I I love that so much Floren basila says what's the most beautiful and important lesson you've learned from volunteering I think what I love the most about volunteering is that I get the same kind of endorphin rush and this is no exaggeration as I do when I'm doing something musical uh performing or you know going out in public to do something because I know that we're affecting change directly and you leave there you're tired and you knew you did something good today so I've always known the thing that you know that there's the Hales and the Have Nots and that we're all blessed to to be able to help instead of being the ones that are in need of help and this covid crisis brought that out M more than ever when we had to open our food bank how many firsttime people were there getting groceries that were last year donating to a food bank um so there by the grace of God I right um with all that in mind that's the obvious but the feeling you get participating in the model of of in in the case of the Soul Kitchen is like the highest high you could ask for that's amazing it's such a gift Paul Cooney wants to know what's one song that isn't your own that you wish you would have written oh that list could go on forever that's a tough one I mean that's true um how about if I just just say artists I mean there's probably 10 Leonard Cohen songs that I would have cut my arm off for or weights Paul Simon Dylan Bruce Petty I I heard a version of Southern Accents today on the way down here that I love that song I just love that song I hear it now more and more often and I thought it was almost like my little secret because I've always loved that song on that album and the lyrical content just always floored me but it's a gem and it's that song that I wish I'd written not the single you know just not you know the single off of that record whichever one it was I forget right now uh but those are the lyrical gems that I just I I wish could be an idea for a potential cover you never know from you never know nice uh the last band question is from Deborah mlan if you can go back and tell your 18-year-old self anything what would it be and why there was a period in time when I got physically and mentally really burned out so I think if I could have told the 18-year-old relax it all will be okay if you need to take more breaks and by the way enjoy yourself because you know the only way you're going to relax is if you truly have fun doing it you know that doubt that enters eventually in any real artist's mind or heart you know did we get lucky was it a fluke am I actually any good am I worthy of putting my record on a shelf in a record store next to the to the greates um that's you know those are the things that would gnaw at me and and I didn't have as much fun as the band did uh I didn't enjoy Slippery When Wet as much as the guys did um but if I didn't have the drive that I had you know they they wouldn't be here with me you know and that's just kind of the magic that made it all happen right it's about enjoying the process I love that John thank you so much for your time for your music for this album for continuing to give back and inspire you just rock and we are grateful for you so I thank you Alison and thanks everybody out there um I hope you enjoy this this was the one and only time that we did uh 2020 in its entirety to four walls and each other but we get to share it with you all here on axis bonji 2020 performed live in its entirety and don't miss the exclusive pre-show a conversation with John bonjovi On A Night Like This bonji 2020 Saturday March 20th starting at 8: on 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Channel: AXS TV

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Keywords: Music, AXS TV, Classic Rock, Rock Music, Concert

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Length: 12min 16sec (736 seconds)

Published: Wed May 01 2024