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[film reel clicking and whirring]
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[♪ upbeat music playing]
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[Jon Bon Jovi] [over phone] Johnny.
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[John "Johnny" Lassman] [over phone]
How are you, buddy?
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[Jon] I'm well.
It's good to hear your voice.
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[Johnny] Are you ready to take
the world by storm once again?
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How's Omaha?
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[Jon] Omaha is wonderful.
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[Johnny] Have a little reunion
to get you ready.
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[Jon] Yeah, buddy.
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[Johnny] [over radio]
Rockin' 101, the Rock Station.
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The Johnny Rock Show.
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You know, people always say to me,
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"Ah, Johnny, yeah,
you say you know Jon Bon Jovi.
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Sure you do. He never does
any interviews on your show,"
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but look who's on the phone.
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Jon Bon Jovi,
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welcome to the Johnny Rock Show.
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[Jon] [on phone] Hey, Johnny, my old
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dear friend.
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[Johnny] You walked into WAPP,
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gave me a cassette of Runaway,
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and as they say, the rest is history.
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Well, look, without you guys,
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who knows if we would've been having
this phone call 40 years later.
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[Johnny] Right on. Okay, the tour,
what can we expect?
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[Jon] Plan to show up.
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After that, who knows?
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{\an8}You know, we're sort of working it out.
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{\an8}It's been a long time
since we've been on the road,
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so we're excited and anxious
and wanted to go back
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to a handful of cities on this,
our 39th year of existence
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just to get my feet wet
and then next year,
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of course, being our 40th,
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I think there'll be more of a celebration.
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[Johnny] Alright, listen,
you knock 'em dead,
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uh, opening night and
we will see you Sunday night.
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[Jon] Thank you very much, buddy.
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Proof that this story was true.
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[Jon] I haven't really
figured that out yet.
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I'm going through some cleaning out
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of the closet in my head.
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Is it, I'm dealing with
old muscle memory of things
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that weren't working right?
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You know, then-then
you're like, I-I can't wait,
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and on the other hand,
you're going, "Ugh, again?"
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[exhales]
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So it, you know, you're torn.
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[snapping fingers and clapping]
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-[Jon] Yes, yes.
-[cheering]
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Ah-ha!
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Yes, yes, yes!
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[Tico Torres] It's just
the calm before the storm.
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{\an8}It's not fear, but it is an energy
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{\an8}that I kinda harness.
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-We're all in this together, man.
-Yes.
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-Come on.
-All in this together.
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Everybody together, huh?
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-Fun moment.
-[David Bryan] Kill it. Woo!
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-Alright, come on.
-[band clapping]
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{\an8}Oh, you know, I'm so
looking forward to this.
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{\an8}Just to walk on that stage.
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You know, we're like race horses that are
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just sitting in the stall.
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It's like, just get us out
so we can run again.
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[crowd cheering]
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-[♪ playing "Limitless" by Bon Jovi]
-[♪ band vocalizing]
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[Tico] As soon as you hit the
first note, then you're in it.
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Then we're all together.
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It's not one entity, it's all.
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♪ Wake up, everybody, wake up ♪
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[David] There's so much joy
in just playing
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and you're just right there in that moment
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and you're looking out
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and you're looking at all these faces
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that are smiling,
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and it, and I'm smiling
just as much as they are,
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'cause it's that energy
keeps feeding back and forth
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and it's godlike to me.
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♪ On a night like this... ♪
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[Jon] To truly become one with the sound
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and that it was all encompassing,
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the band, the singing, the crowd,
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you're really not there.
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You come down afterwards
and you go back into your body
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and it hits you when you're
walking down the hallway,
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back to the dressing room.
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[David cheering]
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[Jon] When we're all together,
none of us are there.
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♪ On a night like this ♪
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♪ One prayer, one wish ♪
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♪ Step out off the edge ♪
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♪ It's worth the risk ♪
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♪ On a night like this ♪
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♪ One touch, one kiss ♪
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[crowd cheering]
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♪ Step out on the edge ♪
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♪ It's worth the risk ♪
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♪ Life is limitless, limitless ♪
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♪ Limitless, limitless ♪
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♪ Life is limitless, limitless ♪
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♪ Limitless, limitless ♪
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♪ Whoa oh ♪
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♪ Whoa oh ♪
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[crowd cheering]
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Hi.
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-Hi.
-Hi.
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I'm with Jon Bon Jovi of Bon Jovi
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and tonight we're at
the Municipal Auditorium
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-with Scorpions.
-She's nervous.
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I am not.
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-Are you married?
-I get married every night.
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You keep asking me this question.
This girl needs it bad.
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Look, 'cause a lot of people
out there wanna know.
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I mean, you know, you're kinda cute,
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and you're really popular
with all the girls
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and you write some neat songs,
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and, and so tell us
about the songs you write.
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You write most of your stuff, don't you?
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-Uh-huh.
-Or does all the band together or...?
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We come up with different ideas
in, uh, separate places.
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You know, everything's working out well.
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I usually write a lot of this stuff
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and take it to the band
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and then we make records.
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[Richie Sambora] Jon, you said
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you're not married, man.
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-[laughter]
-My baby.
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Jon, I'm sorry to disappoint
everybody out there.
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Exactly, th-that's the funny
thing about these things.
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{\an8}Obviously, everybody has
their own perception
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{\an8}about what happened
and how it happened to them
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because obviously when you're in a band,
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people experience fame and fortune...
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or debt or whatever that is
that comes along
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with it all in different speeds.
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Before that was happening,
I was recording my originals
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and, uh, creating relationships
at all these different labels
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and stuff like that.
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Jon was doing the same thing.
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He was a go-getter, he was a hustler,
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kind of just like I was.
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He was leader in his band,
and I was the leader in my band.
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Jon had had a song called Runaway,
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which, you know, I kind of
disliked very much but...
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[chuckles]
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I saw something there.
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He had the it factor.
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Hi, we're Bon Jovi,
and this was the debut single
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on the brand new first video
of our first album called...
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[all] Runaway.
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[band vocalizing]
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[Jon] It was 1983.
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I'm signed, we're signed,
the band are together.
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Now it's time to get a manager.
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A guy named David Krebs,
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who was the biggest manager at the time.
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They had AC/DC, Aerosmith, Def Leppard,
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Joan Jett, and he had Rex Smith.
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That one went over your head, didn't it?
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And he takes me
into his office and he says,
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"You could be like Rex Smith."
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Hmm, okay.
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What about AC/DC and Aerosmith and...
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But the name that was running
around the hallways
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of the record company was a crazy man
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by the name of Doc McGhee.
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I woke up this morning.
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I woke up this morning.
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-And I said to myself.
-I said, "Self..."
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-"Self..."
-"Self..."
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[both] "...what a great fucking
day for rock and roll."
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{\an8}[Doc McGhee] My job is to
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{\an8}do one or two things
that change your life,
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not good moves, change your life.
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♪ Break out ♪
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I was at Polydor Records.
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I had, uh, Mötley and everything that
was blowing up at the time and...
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the interim president said,
"You should see this kid we're looking at
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"called Jon Bon Jovi.
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He's got this Runaway on WAPP."
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So I said, "Well, I'll go see this."
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Doc McGhee is in a place
called International Falls on vacation.
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Oh, well, we're playing
at the Garden tonight.
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All these managers are coming.
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[Doc] Jon told me, he said,
"I'm gonna play tomorrow night,
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'cause somebody had canceled
for ZZ Top." I said, "Don't."
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We had no manager and no equipment,
you know, no big stuff.
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You know, we're doing the Garden.
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We're, like, calling up
our friends and going,
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"Come on, man, I don't wanna
lift my own amp at the Garden.
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I gotta have somebody to
help me here." You know?
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McGhee knows that if he's
not there in that hallway
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in that night, he's gonna lose this band.
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He shows up by renting some
little prop job of an airplane,
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which was a big deal to us.
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Had his own limo driver,
which was a big deal to us.
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And he puts on such an entertaining act
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to get our attention.
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Started dealing with Doc
and he's a great gentleman.
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But we didn't listen. We just wanted to
play the Garden.
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[Doc] I wish it was as easy to tell people
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what to do, but you can't.
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You know, when you think you can do that,
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then you're completely delusional.
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[Jon] Richie was meant to start a song,
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one that we had written together.
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[Richie] I go, "Listen,
I'm gonna get out there.
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"It's the guitar crowd.
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"Just give me like, you know, 20 seconds.
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I'll just blast some stuff."
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And his guitar didn't work.
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[guitar feedback squealing]
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The crowd went from
polite applause to silence
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to, [chants] "ZZ Top."
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[chanting] "ZZ Top, ZZ Top."
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And I'm thinking, "Oh, Christ,
this is over before it starts."
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[Richie] It was the longest 18 seconds.
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Everything went into slow motion.
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I take off my guitar
and I give it to Richie,
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and I said, "That's what we got.
Let's go."
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And he starts soloing.
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[♪ discordant guitar music playing]
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Oh, that was horrible.
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[laughs]
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But it was the first time
I played the Garden.
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[♪ concert recording of
"Runaway" by Bon Jovi playing]
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[Doc] They had fun, but it was a disaster
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because you have to have the confidence
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to be able to, to pull that off.
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It was the fastest set ever, ever played.
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I think it was, like, about 18 minutes.
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We were like The Ramones.
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-[mimicking electric guitar]
-[sings] ♪ Get ready ♪
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[crowd cheering]
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[Jon] We were scared shitless.
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Good enough to get by.
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[Richie] The magic of denial.
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We thought we did a great job.
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[laughing]
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[Doc] We went back to my office,
and we all sat around
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and talked about why it was a bad move,
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and I listened and let them talk.
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They have to get it... not me.
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Hmm, Doc clicked with me.
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He knew how to run a circus.
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[Doc] It wasn't like they
all have the same viewpoints.
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They're all completely different,
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and so the sum of all those guys,
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I went, "This has gotta happen.
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This has gotta work."
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[Jon] We fell in love with McGhee's rap,
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and then I flew out to California with him
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to go and see Mötley Crüe.
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Jon had him checked out,
uh, by a private detective
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and said that, you know, he was a crook,
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and I said, "Perfect, hire him.
He's the guy."
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Doc's an imposter.
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He's the guru of rock and roll.
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The man behind the plan.
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A voice on a telephone.
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Well, I'm in an interview right now, Doc.
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Wait, hold on a minute, okay?
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See, Doc, this is like Charlie's Angels.
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You know, like on Charlie's Angels,
you never knew who Charlie was,
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but they got all the commands?
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That's Doc.
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[Jon] I remember him taking me
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to a record store and saying,
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"Well, what do you want to be?"
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And he says, "If you're with me,
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I want you to be
the biggest band in the world."
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{\an8}He said, "You see that, you could be that.
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You see that, you could be that."
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That's what my job is,
is to make 'em bigger
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than what they are,
and they have to believe it
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and they have to go after that next step.
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[Jon] And I was just enamored,
and I signed a deal with him.
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Had a lot of adventures with that guy.
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We-we signed with Doc,
this is all in '83, right?
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So this is after the ZZ thing,
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and we got from September 'til January
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before our record comes out,
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but we're not ready to sit home.
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We want to be on the road, you know?
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And he says, "Well, you know,
you got a road crew,
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"you got a bus, you got this,
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you got that?" We says, "Nah!"
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Let's throw it on a station wagon,
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hooked it up in a U-Haul,
and we drove, right?
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[♪ "Get Ready" by Bon Jovi playing]
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After we recorded that in '83,
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and in '84 we went out to tour.
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[Jon] That first tour was amazing.
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It was the American wet dream.
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[Doc] They were really,
really a good solid band.
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They could sing, they could play,
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and they had that attitude
and the more confidence
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that they built up, the better they were.
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You only get that by being out there.
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[Jon] We were gonna do, I don't know,
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25 clubs in 30 days kind of thing,
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and, uh, I was the first one
to show up on the bus
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because oh, my God,
we had our own tour bus.
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We were so excited.
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When you get your first tour bus,
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you think you died and gone to heaven.
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♪ No Romeos who'll love and leave you... ♪
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[David] My house is 20 grand.
The tour bus is like 500 grand.
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I'd never seen anything
that nice in my life.
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[Jon] I mean, I was there so early,
I just kept walking in
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and around it and on it
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and in the bunks and out of the bunks.
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[David] All the neighbors
came out, you know,
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in their curlers
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and smocks on and everything going,
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"Oh, your kid made it, look at this."
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And sure as fuck, David shows up
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with a bowling ball... [chuckles]
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fishing pole.
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Basketballs, every... Like...
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Alec had a gun.
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[Richie] I mean, it was the
stupidest thing.
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Everybody had 13 pieces of luggage.
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Who knew? We didn't know what
this was about.
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[Richie] Like we were
gonna have time to do
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any of that kind of stuff.
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[David] Then we couldn't fit
all the shit in the bus.
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So then we had to go back
to each of our houses
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and drop the bowling ball back off,
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'cause we didn't have any fuckin' room.
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[bus zooming]
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[Jon] So the adventure began.
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[Tico] Doc always believed in playing
the band live everywhere.
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I mean, what we would do
one stop in a state now,
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we would do six, seven, eight stops.
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I believe that you have to take
the bands to the people,
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not the people to the bands.
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[Jon] I remember playing
in Texas places where,
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you know, like, the Blues Brothers
should have played
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with the chicken wire
and them looking at us
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with our long hair and the cowboys
thinking we was cute,
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[chuckling] 'cause we were probably
cuter than their girlfriends.
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[Richie] We looked better than half
the girls we ended up with.
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I thought that was kind of funny.
[chuckling]
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[Jon] I remember the bus
breaking down in the desert.
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I remember going to California
for the first time
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as a band pulling down the Sunset Strip,
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playing some little theaters
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with a Los Angeles band called Ratt.
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{\an8}[announcer] LA's newest,
hottest band, Ratt.
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{\an8}Performances were so raw and so energetic.
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{\an8}[Jon] Not bad for a bunch
of kids from New Jersey.
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{\an8}What do you guys think?
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{\an8}[Obie O'Brien] And then you hear
the audience
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{\an8}responding to them. You go, man,
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{\an8}th-there's something happening here,
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{\an8}and that's early on.
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{\an8}[Tico] It's fun, it's chicks,
it's rock and roll.
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It's the whole thing.
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[Doc] It was about playing.
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It wasn't about how much money you made.
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It's a thing that I love
about the music business.
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It's called before the zeroes,
when it was fun.
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[Tico] Yeah, so the key was
never to play
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while under any influence,
you know, by not drinking.
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I never did, that was never my thing,
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'cause you should get high off the music.
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We were always about the music.
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We never walked on that stage fucked up.
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Here I'm standing with Jon Bon Jovi
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and the band Bon Jovi.
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[crowd cheering]
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You guys have opened for Hall & Oates...
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-Yeah.
-...and, uh, ZZ Top,
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and, uh, things are going real well.
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Well, we're on tour right now
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in support of our new album
on Mercury Records.
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-[Alan Thicke] Mm-hmm.
-Uh, we're doing
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a headlining tour right now,
and then we'll be out
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with the Scorpions doing the arenas.
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{\an8}-[Alan] Great.
-[Klaus Meine] California,
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{\an8}there is no one like you!
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[♪ rock music playing]
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[Jon] So we did that first month
playing the bars.
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The Scorpions, the German band,
take us out on the road
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to open for them in arenas.
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So we graduate to playing
as an opening act.
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You have 35 minutes,
and you have to cut your teeth,
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you have to win a crowd over.
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We went out and learned
a lot from the Scorpions.
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I thank them very much to this day.
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[Jon] They were a great live band,
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taught me a lot of tricks.
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We call them, like, the Panzer tank,
just ride, rolled on.
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There was no such thing
as less than 120% every night.
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-[♪ energetic rock music playing]
-[crowd cheering]
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[Jon] I wanted to tour
with The Cars or Bryan Adams,
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and Doc McGhee said to me,
"You have to go out there
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and earn an audience," by touring
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with what he called
the black t-shirt crowd.
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[Richie] When Doc had told me
that we were slated to go out
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with the Scorpions and we're singing...
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♪ Ooh, she's a little runaway ♪
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You know, I'm going, "Oh, shit."
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[Doc] Jonny would say,
"They're gonna throw shit at us,"
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because, you know,
he was kind of a pop band
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compared to what the rock bands were.
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[Jon] We couldn't be categorized so easily
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because we weren't heavy metal
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and we weren't pop.
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[David] And people fucking hated us.
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Every night was a fucking war.
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[Jon] I remember Tico wearing
a plastic baseball helmet
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from the quarters that were
pinging off of his head.
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I'd be hearing... [imitating pinging]
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quarters, nickels, this
and that, and the other thing
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'cause people wanted
to hear some heavy stuff.
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[Tico] 'Cause you never know
what they'd fly out.
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-Oh, when they, when the lights went out.
-Put the head down.
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Oh, let's hit the drummer.
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-I like that.
-Touch the chin.
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Definitely, uh, made our skin thick.
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[Doc] Kind of forced them
into going to that direction
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of being that rock band.
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[Richie] You know, we started
to, to make a bit of progress,
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and we went out and worked harder
than anybody else did.
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[Jon] Used to be the worst
guy in the world
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you ever wanted opening your show, me.
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The worst motherfucker
you ever wanted to see,
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because I'd do anything
to upstage the headliner
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to try to win that audience over.
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{\an8}As far as the new album's concerned,
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{\an8}we're gonna do the Japanese tour,
come home for three weeks,
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{\an8}and then we're doing
our European tour with Kiss.
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So, uh, we're lucky enough that
our first album is a world tour.
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♪ Are you ready Tokyo ♪
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[Doc] Then when we went to Japan
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and the record company,
they were building Jon
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like an idol band, they called it.
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[♪ "She Don't Know Me"
by Bon Jovi playing]
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We're like, great, where's Japan?
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I think, you know, at that point,
I drove with my parents
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in a station wagon to Florida.
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I think it was the most
I ever made it outta New Jersey.
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{\an8}[Doc] We played all through Japan.
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They were like
the Beatles there at the time.
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♪ What more can I do ♪
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♪ There's nothing that I haven't tried ♪
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[Tico] Kids were lined up
singing songs,
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500 in front of the hotel.
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We weren't used to it.
I mean, we were barely getting on radio.
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[Richie] Oh, yeah, well,
we were the Beatles there.
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It was the most unbelievable thing.
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It was thousands of kids waiting
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at the airport and screaming.
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[David] Had little dolls of you
and stuff, you know?
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It was hu... You're like, "Really?"
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[crowd cheering]
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[♪ band plays "Get Ready"]
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[Jon] Hello, Tokyo.
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[laughing]
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Here we go.
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♪ Come on, come on ♪
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♪ Get ready ♪
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♪ Come on, come on ♪
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[Jon] Give yourselves a nice hand, Tokyo.
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We'll see you all again.
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We are back and talking with Jon Bon Jovi.
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-Hey.
-Second visit to MTV for Jon.
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-A Jersey kid goes to Japan.
-[Jon] That's what it is.
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-[host] How was it for you?
-[Jon] Oh, it was amazing.
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Uh, th-the kids are amazing. [chuckles]
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[host] So they love Bon Jovi over there.
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[Jon] Yeah, fortunately.
I'm-I'm glad somebody
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does besides my mother, you know?
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[David] We really went around the world
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and played lots and lots
and lots of countries.
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{\an8}[Jon] Doc McGhee took us to Europe.
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{\an8}We opened for Kiss in the no-makeup stage.
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{\an8}[Richie] Taught us a lot, you know,
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being on the road for two years now,
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it kind of gives you an education,
what the world is about.
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Singing their solid gold classic, Runaway,
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here's a band everybody's
talking about, Bon Jovi.
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[audience cheering]
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[Jon] The first album comes and goes.
We have a nice little run.
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You have your whole life
to write your first record.
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You have six or seven weeks
to write the second.
490
00:19:56,283 --> 00:19:59,744
I am, as you are, impatient for results.
491
00:20:02,163 --> 00:20:04,124
[Obie] He would do a show
and record it live
492
00:20:04,207 --> 00:20:05,792
and send it to me, and I would mix it.
493
00:20:06,167 --> 00:20:09,629
Then he actually did
his second record at my studio
494
00:20:09,713 --> 00:20:11,256
in Philadelphia at The Warehouse.
495
00:20:12,215 --> 00:20:16,636
[Jon] Last album, uh, was
a feeling of writing songs.
496
00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,972
I was writing a lot from point of view
497
00:20:19,055 --> 00:20:21,308
of a, a kid in New Jersey.
498
00:20:21,391 --> 00:20:23,852
You know, you're writing
from only a limited background.
499
00:20:24,477 --> 00:20:27,606
We write. In fact, David and I co-wrote
the first single,
500
00:20:27,689 --> 00:20:30,984
and it barely breaks the top 40.
501
00:20:31,067 --> 00:20:33,236
And it was just like,
"Oh, let's go write some more songs quick
502
00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:34,529
because people have heard of us."
503
00:20:34,696 --> 00:20:36,907
{\an8}Let's get another album
in their face right away.
504
00:20:37,115 --> 00:20:40,243
{\an8}And instead of taking
our time and thinking it out
505
00:20:40,327 --> 00:20:43,163
and letting the songs really breathe,
506
00:20:43,246 --> 00:20:44,956
we really, really rushed.
507
00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,043
Your brand new LP is called
7800 Degrees Fahrenheit.
508
00:20:48,126 --> 00:20:51,505
That, by the way, is the temperature
which rock melts.
509
00:20:51,588 --> 00:20:52,756
Cute, huh?
510
00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:55,008
{\an8}[Tico] The second record was not great,
511
00:20:55,091 --> 00:20:58,678
{\an8}and the band was still going
through a lot of growing pains.
512
00:20:59,137 --> 00:21:00,764
[Jon] If you're smart enough
to learn how to play
513
00:21:00,847 --> 00:21:02,516
your instrument, check.
514
00:21:03,475 --> 00:21:05,060
You're incredibly fortunate enough
515
00:21:05,143 --> 00:21:07,604
to have written that song, check.
516
00:21:08,188 --> 00:21:11,149
Now I'm supposed to know
how to make a video?
517
00:21:12,150 --> 00:21:13,735
No check. You know? [chuckling]
518
00:21:13,818 --> 00:21:17,822
[band members shouting incoherently]
519
00:21:17,906 --> 00:21:19,741
[band member] Where's the video?
520
00:21:19,824 --> 00:21:20,909
[singer] Where?
521
00:21:21,034 --> 00:21:22,035
[Jon imitating drumroll]
522
00:21:22,410 --> 00:21:24,079
[host] Tell us about your tape
and then put it in.
523
00:21:24,162 --> 00:21:26,706
This is the first video
of our brand new Mercury album.
524
00:21:26,790 --> 00:21:28,291
This is called Runaway.
525
00:21:30,835 --> 00:21:32,796
It was our first video
and what did we know?
526
00:21:32,879 --> 00:21:34,548
And we saw it and we almost died.
527
00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:37,551
[Richie] We made five videos
in our first two records.
528
00:21:38,426 --> 00:21:40,512
We look at 'em and now we say, "What?"
529
00:21:40,595 --> 00:21:43,932
-Man, you sold us out.
-[David] What the hell were we doing?
530
00:21:44,015 --> 00:21:45,725
[Richie] We were very naive,
and we didn't know
531
00:21:45,851 --> 00:21:47,936
-what the hell to do. So we like...
-[Jon] Just have to learn.
532
00:21:48,019 --> 00:21:50,230
[Richie] So people are going, "Okay,
wear this and go over there
533
00:21:50,313 --> 00:21:52,607
and act like that," and you go, sure.
534
00:21:52,691 --> 00:21:55,235
Man, they are not nice people.
535
00:21:55,318 --> 00:21:57,195
[Doc] I said, "What are you?
536
00:21:57,487 --> 00:21:58,738
"You're a fun rock band.
537
00:21:59,197 --> 00:22:02,701
"It can't be, you're, uh, selling hot dogs
538
00:22:02,784 --> 00:22:05,161
"and then he comes over
and gets out of the car,
539
00:22:05,245 --> 00:22:07,205
and the other guy's a cab driver."
540
00:22:07,289 --> 00:22:08,623
What the fuck is that?
541
00:22:09,666 --> 00:22:12,210
[Jon] For the first videos that
everybody's seen up until now,
542
00:22:12,294 --> 00:22:16,047
um, I can honestly say
that I had nothing to do with whatsoever
543
00:22:16,131 --> 00:22:18,216
{\an8}because they hire these directors
and storytellers
544
00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:20,051
{\an8}who have nothing to do with our songs.
545
00:22:20,594 --> 00:22:22,095
[Richie] Plus, we looked like crap.
546
00:22:22,179 --> 00:22:24,806
Basically, our whole outfits
were about $20.
547
00:22:25,307 --> 00:22:28,226
We would just take t-shirts
and cut 'em up.
548
00:22:28,310 --> 00:22:31,146
The West Coast stuff, they were like rock
and roll pirates.
549
00:22:31,646 --> 00:22:33,940
So we're like, "Okay,
tie shit on you like a pirate
550
00:22:34,024 --> 00:22:35,400
and wear, like, a pirate shirt."
551
00:22:35,859 --> 00:22:38,987
So I think bands were formulating,
you know, whatever that look was.
552
00:22:39,404 --> 00:22:41,031
[Richie] The music is the important thing,
553
00:22:41,114 --> 00:22:43,992
not the pictures, not the
album cover, not the videos.
554
00:22:44,075 --> 00:22:47,078
The music is the thing that
the kids are relating to still.
555
00:22:47,370 --> 00:22:49,623
We had a gold record, you know?
I don't know how.
556
00:22:50,165 --> 00:22:52,167
You know? But I guess
Jon wiggled his ass enough
557
00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:56,379
{\an8}and we played some loud guitars
and had some decent songs.
558
00:22:57,047 --> 00:22:59,883
{\an8}[Jon] Not my favorite record,
but it did a little bit better.
559
00:22:59,966 --> 00:23:02,677
{\an8}We went out again on the road
and worked our asses off.
560
00:23:02,761 --> 00:23:07,265
{\an8}And every night, we're
establishing ourselves as a live band.
561
00:23:07,349 --> 00:23:10,560
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Richie Sambora.
562
00:23:10,644 --> 00:23:14,189
[♪ playing guitar solo of
"In and Out of Love" by Bon Jovi]
563
00:23:20,278 --> 00:23:22,739
Bands like Bon Jovi, they have a sound.
564
00:23:22,822 --> 00:23:26,201
It sounds like them live,
which is different from the record.
565
00:23:26,576 --> 00:23:28,203
[Tico] We're starting to gel,
566
00:23:28,286 --> 00:23:30,789
but playing it live
is a different game too.
567
00:23:30,872 --> 00:23:33,542
It comes from time and time
and again, you keep doing it,
568
00:23:33,625 --> 00:23:34,626
where we kept getting better.
569
00:23:35,085 --> 00:23:37,754
[♪ thrilling guitar music playing]
570
00:23:37,838 --> 00:23:39,923
[Richie] You know,
the band was a steamroller,
571
00:23:40,006 --> 00:23:43,635
but it wasn't becoming
the alchemy of the band yet.
572
00:23:43,927 --> 00:23:47,305
♪ In and out of love ♪
573
00:23:48,515 --> 00:23:49,933
We've been out since April.
574
00:23:50,016 --> 00:23:52,352
Uh, we hit Japan first, you know,
575
00:23:52,435 --> 00:23:54,729
and we did, uh, four weeks
of headlining over there
576
00:23:54,813 --> 00:23:56,648
and then we bopped over here to Europe
577
00:23:56,731 --> 00:23:58,942
for five weeks, and then we went
straight to America.
578
00:23:59,025 --> 00:24:01,236
[interviewer] Yeah, it looks as though
it's not gonna end as well,
579
00:24:01,486 --> 00:24:02,696
you were saying a moment ago?
580
00:24:03,196 --> 00:24:04,447
[Jon] No, it could be.
581
00:24:04,531 --> 00:24:06,116
-This is...
-Rumors, rumors.
582
00:24:06,199 --> 00:24:09,327
This is our manager's, uh,
Count de Monet tour, you know?
583
00:24:09,411 --> 00:24:10,620
-[laughs]
-[interviewer] I do.
584
00:24:10,704 --> 00:24:12,289
{\an8}[Jon] I think, uh, the idea is
585
00:24:12,372 --> 00:24:15,375
{\an8}to finish the year out in America
586
00:24:15,458 --> 00:24:17,294
{\an8}and then sit back and think
587
00:24:17,377 --> 00:24:18,712
{\an8}about a new producer
588
00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:22,632
{\an8}and take in a-a-a while
to do the next album.
589
00:24:23,592 --> 00:24:24,843
It could have been worse.
590
00:24:25,343 --> 00:24:28,513
The single-minded focus
as to what the, you know,
591
00:24:28,597 --> 00:24:31,141
the vision was didn't happen
until the third album.
592
00:24:36,229 --> 00:24:37,397
[Dean Grillo] Let's get you sound.
593
00:24:40,233 --> 00:24:41,610
[sharp exhale]
594
00:24:42,569 --> 00:24:45,447
Still got 26 miles to go
on this marathon.
595
00:24:45,530 --> 00:24:46,531
[Jon] Yeah.
596
00:24:46,615 --> 00:24:50,327
{\an8}Jon does a lot of work
preparing himself as a person
597
00:24:50,410 --> 00:24:53,038
{\an8}and as well as preparing
for, for what this is.
598
00:24:54,331 --> 00:24:56,458
How's the body feel
for those couple of runs?
599
00:24:57,459 --> 00:25:01,213
[Jon] You know, calm before the storm
or a little beat up,
600
00:25:01,296 --> 00:25:02,964
-I can't decide.
-[Dean] Okay.
601
00:25:03,548 --> 00:25:05,217
He's very physical out there,
602
00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:07,594
so his whole body has to be maintained,
603
00:25:07,677 --> 00:25:10,722
but then specifically muscles
that are involved in singing
604
00:25:10,805 --> 00:25:12,516
have to be constantly
605
00:25:12,599 --> 00:25:15,477
-loosened and relaxed.
-[Jon exhales deeply]
606
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:17,896
[Dean] When you're out here,
the mental aspect of performing
607
00:25:17,979 --> 00:25:20,023
at this level takes the forefront.
608
00:25:20,106 --> 00:25:22,442
See, this is much better right now
than it was two days ago.
609
00:25:24,152 --> 00:25:25,987
Once those physical needs are met,
610
00:25:26,071 --> 00:25:29,491
nothing else will work in a connected way
611
00:25:29,574 --> 00:25:33,078
without the mind and the spirit aligned.
612
00:25:33,620 --> 00:25:34,788
[Jon sighs]
613
00:25:35,664 --> 00:25:38,083
[Jon] I was watching TV
a couple of weeks ago,
614
00:25:38,166 --> 00:25:40,502
and the talk was,
is that Tiger was coming back.
615
00:25:40,585 --> 00:25:43,380
[commentator] Tiger Woods, a winner again.
616
00:25:43,463 --> 00:25:45,715
{\an8}[Jon] He has a horrific,
most likely career-ending,
617
00:25:45,799 --> 00:25:48,969
{\an8}maybe, you know,
life-changing car accident.
618
00:25:49,553 --> 00:25:53,139
A year later, he shows up
on the podium of the Masters.
619
00:25:53,223 --> 00:25:56,184
{\an8}The reporter says, "Are you intending to
win the Masters?"
620
00:25:56,268 --> 00:25:57,477
{\an8}[reporter] So the question is simple.
621
00:25:57,561 --> 00:25:59,145
{\an8}Do you think you can win
the Masters this week?
622
00:25:59,229 --> 00:26:00,230
{\an8}I do.
623
00:26:00,814 --> 00:26:02,858
{\an8}[Jon] I looked at the TV screen
and I said,
624
00:26:02,941 --> 00:26:04,776
"Of course he's gonna win the Masters.
625
00:26:04,860 --> 00:26:07,279
Of course I'm going to be great tonight."
626
00:26:07,946 --> 00:26:10,282
-[golf club whipping]
-[crowd cheering]
627
00:26:10,365 --> 00:26:11,658
[speaker] Alright, Tiger!
628
00:26:12,909 --> 00:26:14,077
[crowd groans]
629
00:26:14,619 --> 00:26:15,996
[Jon] He didn't win the Masters.
630
00:26:16,454 --> 00:26:19,040
He played his heart out,
it hurt like hell.
631
00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:21,543
Did he put the clubs away and say,
632
00:26:21,626 --> 00:26:23,503
"Oh, well, I'm done?"
633
00:26:25,130 --> 00:26:26,339
No.
634
00:26:26,423 --> 00:26:28,425
[announcer] Tiger wanted
to get to Mount Everest,
635
00:26:28,508 --> 00:26:31,845
{\an8}-but he definitely got to the base camp.
-[crowd applauding]
636
00:26:31,928 --> 00:26:36,558
{\an8}[Jon] I understand what that is
because I too believed
637
00:26:36,641 --> 00:26:38,393
that I was going to be great.
638
00:26:38,476 --> 00:26:40,645
I've put in the time,
I've put in the effort,
639
00:26:40,729 --> 00:26:45,192
and what could be worse than,
it's still not working out?
640
00:26:45,692 --> 00:26:49,905
-[♪ downbeat music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]
641
00:26:49,988 --> 00:26:52,908
[Jon] Here we are,
tonight's show 10 outta 15.
642
00:26:52,991 --> 00:26:55,660
We started this journey asking
about the question of joy
643
00:26:56,578 --> 00:26:59,539
and on show one in Omaha,
Nebraska, there she was.
644
00:26:59,623 --> 00:27:01,791
[crowd cheering]
645
00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:03,627
I remember coming off the stage that night
646
00:27:03,710 --> 00:27:06,546
and feeling pure joy,
647
00:27:06,630 --> 00:27:08,590
something I hadn't felt much of
648
00:27:08,673 --> 00:27:10,175
in a number of years.
649
00:27:11,301 --> 00:27:13,011
It got a little bit better
the second night.
650
00:27:13,261 --> 00:27:16,973
Her lipstick may have been a little worn,
but she still looked good.
651
00:27:17,432 --> 00:27:20,936
Day three, it's there, but in-in truth,
652
00:27:21,019 --> 00:27:22,604
I took a couple body blows,
653
00:27:22,687 --> 00:27:25,398
I read some things,
and I don't often do that.
654
00:27:25,482 --> 00:27:27,776
{\an8}[reporter] The legendary rock
icon Jon Bon Jovi,
655
00:27:27,859 --> 00:27:30,570
{\an8}who has been rumored
to be losing his voice in recent years.
656
00:27:30,654 --> 00:27:32,072
{\an8}[writer] Sounds like he's super tired.
657
00:27:32,155 --> 00:27:33,907
{\an8}[columnist] They're not
gonna be able to tour anymore.
658
00:27:33,990 --> 00:27:34,991
{\an8}There's no way.
659
00:27:35,325 --> 00:27:36,785
{\an8}[Jon] And it hurt.
660
00:27:37,786 --> 00:27:40,580
It hurt because I've worked
so hard physically,
661
00:27:40,664 --> 00:27:44,292
mentally, spiritually,
to want to be here again,
662
00:27:44,876 --> 00:27:48,588
and I had to ask myself,
663
00:27:49,381 --> 00:27:52,050
"Is it worth going forward?"
Or is it worth saying,
664
00:27:52,133 --> 00:27:55,303
"Okay, you tried but the body
can't do it anymore?"
665
00:28:03,061 --> 00:28:04,396
[band member] Same song, from the top.
666
00:28:05,981 --> 00:28:08,817
[Jon] So when I use
these analogies of running
667
00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:12,028
the long race or the sports icons,
668
00:28:12,445 --> 00:28:14,573
it makes the impossible possible.
669
00:28:14,656 --> 00:28:17,492
It helps me remember how hard I've worked
670
00:28:17,576 --> 00:28:21,329
and that all of that training
doesn't get thrown away
671
00:28:21,413 --> 00:28:22,998
because somebody said so.
672
00:28:25,542 --> 00:28:27,294
[singing] ♪ Like this ♪
673
00:28:27,794 --> 00:28:31,631
♪ On a night like this ♪
674
00:28:32,257 --> 00:28:35,552
They don't know what's
behind it and what's gone into it
675
00:28:35,635 --> 00:28:37,888
and what is still left in the tank.
676
00:28:39,097 --> 00:28:42,142
You know, one thing
you can't be in this world is a quitter.
677
00:28:42,225 --> 00:28:44,102
So I'm good.
678
00:28:44,186 --> 00:28:47,022
Me and joy are holding hands. [chuckling]
679
00:28:50,859 --> 00:28:52,068
Come on, baby.
680
00:28:52,152 --> 00:28:54,905
[band applauding]
681
00:28:57,324 --> 00:29:00,785
[indistinct chatter]
682
00:29:00,869 --> 00:29:05,081
[♪ upbeat music playing]
683
00:29:13,757 --> 00:29:17,093
[crowd cheering]
684
00:29:19,346 --> 00:29:22,974
[crowd cheering]
685
00:29:30,607 --> 00:29:35,070
[♪ downbeat music playing]
686
00:29:37,322 --> 00:29:39,991
[Jon sighing]
687
00:29:42,702 --> 00:29:44,037
[interviewer] You left it out there.
688
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,623
Well, I didn't leave much.
689
00:29:47,165 --> 00:29:48,917
That was by far the worst show.
690
00:29:49,918 --> 00:29:51,086
[interviewer] Did you feel pooped?
691
00:29:51,169 --> 00:29:52,379
I was exhausted.
692
00:29:55,173 --> 00:29:56,174
I just had no gas.
693
00:29:56,258 --> 00:29:57,926
My eyes are puffy,
694
00:29:58,009 --> 00:30:01,972
just couldn't lift my arms or my legs.
695
00:30:03,723 --> 00:30:05,058
[sharp exhale]
696
00:30:05,517 --> 00:30:07,561
[♪ tense music playing]
697
00:30:13,149 --> 00:30:16,403
[♪ upbeat music playing]
698
00:30:16,486 --> 00:30:18,405
[Jon] In my journey
699
00:30:18,905 --> 00:30:22,659
to try to keep on top of my game,
700
00:30:22,951 --> 00:30:25,829
especially when I was broken vocally,
701
00:30:26,329 --> 00:30:30,792
there wasn't anybody
that was really dealing with this.
702
00:30:32,919 --> 00:30:35,046
So a surgeon, you meet him
and he wants to cut you,
703
00:30:35,755 --> 00:30:38,967
and then he'll tell you things like,
it's extremely risky.
704
00:30:39,384 --> 00:30:41,303
You might not ever sing a note again.
705
00:30:41,678 --> 00:30:44,055
Other ones just want to give you drugs,
706
00:30:44,347 --> 00:30:45,974
and we were reaching.
707
00:30:46,057 --> 00:30:48,393
We were going with sports guys,
talking to them like,
708
00:30:48,476 --> 00:30:50,270
"What do you got? How do you do it?"
709
00:30:50,645 --> 00:30:53,106
None of them could understand
that our economy runs
710
00:30:53,190 --> 00:30:55,358
on something as big as your thumbnail.
711
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:02,324
This big runs the 120-person organization,
712
00:31:03,283 --> 00:31:04,951
but I've had a problem.
713
00:31:27,849 --> 00:31:29,684
I don't mind the humility of it.
714
00:31:29,768 --> 00:31:33,188
The journey has sucked,
but it's made me wiser,
715
00:31:33,271 --> 00:31:36,399
greater appreciation for any
and everyone involved.
716
00:31:36,483 --> 00:31:39,110
The real true understanding
that everyone out here
717
00:31:39,194 --> 00:31:42,614
{\an8}sacrificed so much to just to be here,
718
00:31:42,697 --> 00:31:44,824
{\an8}and I mean more than the band, the crew,
719
00:31:44,908 --> 00:31:46,451
th-the team around me...
720
00:31:47,869 --> 00:31:49,829
and I see when I look in the eyes
721
00:31:49,913 --> 00:31:52,499
of those people that joy.
722
00:31:53,083 --> 00:31:54,834
They don't mind that
I don't hit a high note.
723
00:31:55,335 --> 00:31:57,587
Judging by the reaction I see
in that crowd every night,
724
00:31:57,671 --> 00:31:58,922
I don't think they mind.
725
00:31:59,005 --> 00:32:01,091
But it's the tarring and feathering
726
00:32:01,174 --> 00:32:03,426
of me on a nightly basis.
727
00:32:03,510 --> 00:32:06,346
You know, this is the real me,
the gray hair, the whole 10 yards.
728
00:32:07,013 --> 00:32:09,307
If I can't be the badass,
then I'm not here.
729
00:32:10,058 --> 00:32:12,102
My legacy is too important.
730
00:32:13,645 --> 00:32:15,397
[film reel whirring and clicking]
731
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:16,565
[tape clicking]
732
00:32:17,858 --> 00:32:19,860
Shelly, Shecky, are you out there?
733
00:32:25,615 --> 00:32:27,868
[Doc] The best thing that
happened to Bon Jovi was,
734
00:32:27,951 --> 00:32:29,411
he didn't have a hit.
735
00:32:29,494 --> 00:32:33,874
He had mediocre success
for the first two records
736
00:32:34,416 --> 00:32:37,210
and gave us time to play him
737
00:32:37,294 --> 00:32:40,130
about 500 shows around the world.
738
00:32:40,213 --> 00:32:43,592
Every day, Jon got a little bit closer
to where he wanted to be.
739
00:32:48,722 --> 00:32:50,765
[crowd cheering]
740
00:32:50,849 --> 00:32:54,186
[David] The biggest mistake you could
do was try to be big too early.
741
00:32:54,561 --> 00:32:56,730
Like, we're gonna headline
and then have empty seats.
742
00:32:56,813 --> 00:32:58,607
Like, y-y-you have to wait.
743
00:33:00,317 --> 00:33:03,904
{\an8}[Richie] People liked us,
but they didn't attach themselves
744
00:33:03,987 --> 00:33:07,574
{\an8}to the most important thing,
the foundation, the song.
745
00:33:07,991 --> 00:33:09,951
{\an8}I don't give a damn who you are.
746
00:33:10,785 --> 00:33:13,205
You ain't got a song, you ain't got shit.
747
00:33:13,288 --> 00:33:17,709
It's that famous story
of any big band's third album,
748
00:33:17,792 --> 00:33:19,085
the make-or-break year.
749
00:33:19,377 --> 00:33:21,755
[David] The second record
sold 800,000, not platinum,
750
00:33:21,838 --> 00:33:23,632
and the record company's like,
"Well, if you don't sell
751
00:33:23,715 --> 00:33:24,966
a million, then we're gonna drop you."
752
00:33:25,050 --> 00:33:26,051
It's like do or die.
753
00:33:26,134 --> 00:33:27,302
[Richie] We were having a hard time
754
00:33:27,385 --> 00:33:29,596
{\an8}bringing guys in to the audiences
755
00:33:29,679 --> 00:33:31,932
{\an8}'cause Jon was a very good looking guy.
756
00:33:32,015 --> 00:33:33,975
{\an8}So we needed to come up with something
757
00:33:34,059 --> 00:33:37,187
{\an8}and that was gonna be
Wanted Dead or Alive,
758
00:33:37,771 --> 00:33:40,607
and so the whole cowboy image
came into that.
759
00:33:41,358 --> 00:33:44,945
I went to the guitar company
and got a double-neck guitar.
760
00:33:45,028 --> 00:33:48,240
[Jon] Wanted Dead or Alive was written
in Richie's mother's basement.
761
00:33:48,323 --> 00:33:51,826
Some of them I wrote
in my bedroom in New Jersey by myself,
762
00:33:52,285 --> 00:33:53,745
and I said to Richie,
763
00:33:53,828 --> 00:33:56,540
"What we need to do is write a song
764
00:33:56,623 --> 00:33:58,416
for somebody else,"
765
00:33:58,750 --> 00:34:03,755
because I'll never forget
seeing Bryan Adams writing
766
00:34:03,839 --> 00:34:07,843
a song for Tina Turner
and then doing it as a duet.
767
00:34:08,510 --> 00:34:11,304
So we called up Derek Shulman,
who was our A&R guy,
768
00:34:11,388 --> 00:34:14,391
and one of the names
that came up was Desmond Child.
769
00:34:15,016 --> 00:34:17,769
{\an8}They wrote with me because they thought,
770
00:34:17,853 --> 00:34:22,482
{\an8}"Well, Desmond could help us
to get cuts with other artists."
771
00:34:22,607 --> 00:34:24,401
[Jon] I said, "I know who that is.
772
00:34:24,484 --> 00:34:28,530
"I remember a poster
of his band being hung outside
773
00:34:28,613 --> 00:34:30,949
of my dressing room at the Fast Lane."
774
00:34:31,032 --> 00:34:36,037
And I was all for it 'cause I-I...
we needed a jumpstart
775
00:34:36,371 --> 00:34:39,666
and we already had Wanted Dead or Alive
and Never Say Goodbye.
776
00:34:40,208 --> 00:34:43,003
I walked in to meet them
for the very first time
777
00:34:43,086 --> 00:34:46,923
at Richie's parents' house
where Richie was still living,
778
00:34:47,007 --> 00:34:48,508
started talking this and that.
779
00:34:48,592 --> 00:34:51,303
I said, "Well, you know guys,
I brought a title."
780
00:34:51,386 --> 00:34:54,389
And so outta my back pocket
written on a little piece of paper
781
00:34:54,472 --> 00:34:56,099
was You Give Love a Bad Name.
782
00:34:56,183 --> 00:34:57,225
♪ Bad name ♪
783
00:34:57,309 --> 00:35:00,812
And I saw for the first time the smile...
784
00:35:00,896 --> 00:35:02,063
♪ Shot through the heart ♪
785
00:35:02,230 --> 00:35:03,607
[Desmond Child]
...the billion-dollar smile.
786
00:35:04,191 --> 00:35:07,652
{\an8}Jon threw in, "Shot through
the heart and you're to blame.
787
00:35:08,570 --> 00:35:09,905
You give love a bad name."
788
00:35:10,697 --> 00:35:12,824
Well, holy shit, that sounds like a hit.
789
00:35:13,325 --> 00:35:16,828
[Jon] When we finished it,
we all saw the obvious,
790
00:35:16,912 --> 00:35:20,040
which was, "Oh, that's too
good, we'll keep it."
791
00:35:20,498 --> 00:35:23,835
He knew the next level of writing
792
00:35:23,919 --> 00:35:26,421
that made us better at what we did.
793
00:35:26,505 --> 00:35:27,964
[Desmond] When they started
writing with me
794
00:35:28,048 --> 00:35:30,967
and I started looking at telling stories,
795
00:35:31,051 --> 00:35:33,887
let's not just talk
about how hot a babe is,
796
00:35:33,970 --> 00:35:36,181
which is what all
the other bands were doing.
797
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,934
[Richie] Living on a Prayer
was a very important song
798
00:35:39,017 --> 00:35:42,521
'cause it was the first time
we ever used characters
799
00:35:43,146 --> 00:35:47,859
turned into a cinematic
sonic recording at that point.
800
00:35:48,276 --> 00:35:49,945
I remember the day we wrote that,
801
00:35:50,278 --> 00:35:51,905
not thinking much of the song.
802
00:35:51,988 --> 00:35:54,407
It's a piano, an acoustic guitar,
803
00:35:54,491 --> 00:35:56,284
and us sitting there with notebooks.
804
00:35:56,368 --> 00:35:59,246
The entire verse is one chord,
and there's no bass line.
805
00:35:59,329 --> 00:36:01,957
Gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk.
806
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,459
♪ Tommy used to work on the dock ♪
807
00:36:04,543 --> 00:36:05,877
Gonk, gonk, gonk.
808
00:36:05,961 --> 00:36:07,420
There's nothing else there.
809
00:36:07,796 --> 00:36:10,632
So when we walked out of the room,
I went, "Eh, it's okay.
810
00:36:10,715 --> 00:36:12,259
Who knows? It's fine."
811
00:36:12,676 --> 00:36:14,803
♪ Doesn't make a difference ♪
812
00:36:14,886 --> 00:36:16,346
Uh, you guys,
I don't think you're singing.
813
00:36:16,429 --> 00:36:17,889
Maybe "oohs" or anything.
814
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:20,892
♪ Got each other ♪
815
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,646
♪ And that's a lot for love ♪
816
00:36:25,063 --> 00:36:27,190
Richie and I got on our hands and knees,
817
00:36:27,607 --> 00:36:29,818
half joking, half for real,
818
00:36:29,901 --> 00:36:32,028
and begged him to at least cut it.
819
00:36:32,112 --> 00:36:34,406
Oh, we'll save that
for a movie soundtrack.
820
00:36:34,489 --> 00:36:37,826
I said, "Jon, that's the best song
we've written to date."
821
00:36:38,159 --> 00:36:39,744
And Richie said, "Boy, you're stupid.
822
00:36:39,828 --> 00:36:41,037
It's gonna be great."
823
00:36:41,121 --> 00:36:42,914
-Something like that.
-Okay, sure.
824
00:36:43,290 --> 00:36:44,624
Now I know everybody wants to know
825
00:36:44,708 --> 00:36:46,376
what's happening with you right now.
826
00:36:46,459 --> 00:36:47,794
When's the new album coming out?
827
00:36:47,878 --> 00:36:48,920
We're working on it right now.
828
00:36:49,004 --> 00:36:50,046
{\an8}We just started rehearsing.
829
00:36:50,130 --> 00:36:51,423
{\an8}Uh, we'll be in the studio
830
00:36:51,506 --> 00:36:54,176
{\an8}mid-March in Vancouver, Canada
831
00:36:54,259 --> 00:36:57,387
with a new producer,
and, uh, hopefully it'll be out
832
00:36:57,470 --> 00:36:59,848
on the streets... June.
833
00:37:00,265 --> 00:37:02,809
[David] It was Jon
helming the ship as he does.
834
00:37:02,893 --> 00:37:06,396
At that point,
he found a, a record producer.
835
00:37:06,479 --> 00:37:10,192
I was in my hotel room one night
listening to some new bands,
836
00:37:10,275 --> 00:37:12,402
and one of 'em happened
to be Black 'N Blue.
837
00:37:12,485 --> 00:37:16,406
So I threw this cassette in,
and it sounded better than the CD.
838
00:37:16,489 --> 00:37:18,950
The background vocal arrangements
839
00:37:19,034 --> 00:37:22,621
and the recording sounded
so interesting to me.
840
00:37:22,996 --> 00:37:24,414
Who produced this?
841
00:37:24,998 --> 00:37:26,541
"Bruce Fairbairn."
842
00:37:27,042 --> 00:37:29,961
{\an8}We researched this guy,
we tell him who we are,
843
00:37:30,045 --> 00:37:31,922
{\an8}he obviously knows,
and he's interested enough
844
00:37:32,005 --> 00:37:33,590
to hear some of the songs.
845
00:37:34,049 --> 00:37:37,761
And he says, "I'll do it, but you have
to come to Vancouver, Canada."
846
00:37:39,513 --> 00:37:42,057
[David] We went all the way over there,
away from New Jersey,
847
00:37:42,140 --> 00:37:43,475
away from everything we knew.
848
00:37:43,558 --> 00:37:45,602
Get away from everybody
and just be a rock band.
849
00:37:45,685 --> 00:37:47,229
Just concentrate, just do it there.
850
00:37:47,938 --> 00:37:51,816
We came together
and everyone was times 10.
851
00:37:53,068 --> 00:37:55,070
This sonic boom happened,
852
00:37:55,529 --> 00:37:58,573
and we recorded what became
Slippery When Wet.
853
00:37:58,657 --> 00:38:00,408
{\an8}[♪ "You Give Love a Bad Name"
by Bon Jovi playing]
854
00:38:00,492 --> 00:38:02,160
{\an8}♪ And you're to blame ♪
855
00:38:02,244 --> 00:38:04,204
♪ Darlin', you give love ♪
856
00:38:04,287 --> 00:38:06,248
And it was the most fun
857
00:38:06,331 --> 00:38:08,875
a rock band could ever have
making a record.
858
00:38:08,959 --> 00:38:10,085
♪ A bad name ♪
859
00:38:10,168 --> 00:38:12,379
♪♪
860
00:38:16,091 --> 00:38:18,969
[Richie] Vancouver was going
through a resurgence
861
00:38:19,052 --> 00:38:21,972
because it was the year
the World's Fair was there.
862
00:38:22,055 --> 00:38:24,140
So there was a lot to do.
863
00:38:24,391 --> 00:38:26,643
[Jon] There was great rock bars,
there was great strip bars,
864
00:38:26,726 --> 00:38:28,144
there was beautiful women.
865
00:38:28,228 --> 00:38:29,771
It was the Wild West.
866
00:38:29,855 --> 00:38:32,274
You're sitting here before the zeroes
867
00:38:32,816 --> 00:38:34,109
so you can have fun.
868
00:38:34,192 --> 00:38:37,654
You can explore what you wanna be.
869
00:38:38,029 --> 00:38:39,573
[Richie] I remember
the first time we walked
870
00:38:39,656 --> 00:38:44,160
{\an8}into Little Mountain Sound,
and I heard Bob Rock
871
00:38:44,244 --> 00:38:46,663
{\an8}and the sound that he got on the drums
872
00:38:46,746 --> 00:38:50,333
and I went, "Oh, yeah,
this is gonna be something."
873
00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:52,460
[Tico] Recording it, it came easy.
874
00:38:52,544 --> 00:38:53,962
It was magic.
875
00:38:54,045 --> 00:38:56,131
It was, you know,
we did a lot of practicing,
876
00:38:56,214 --> 00:38:57,549
pre-production, let's say,
877
00:38:58,216 --> 00:39:00,594
and we went into the studio,
and I remember doing the rhythm tracks
878
00:39:00,677 --> 00:39:01,970
in three days, four days.
879
00:39:02,053 --> 00:39:04,014
It was just one of those magical moments
880
00:39:04,097 --> 00:39:05,307
that they went in
881
00:39:05,390 --> 00:39:07,642
and just knocked it out without thinking.
882
00:39:07,726 --> 00:39:09,519
We didn't even have a name for the record.
883
00:39:09,644 --> 00:39:11,646
[Dee Snider] You have any idea
of title or anything like that?
884
00:39:11,730 --> 00:39:13,106
Right now, it's Wanted Dead or Alive.
885
00:39:13,231 --> 00:39:15,358
-I think that's what the beard's for.
-[Dee] Ah-ha!
886
00:39:15,442 --> 00:39:17,611
[Jon] The visionary
must have hit his head,
887
00:39:17,694 --> 00:39:19,863
because I grew a long beard
and a mustache.
888
00:39:19,946 --> 00:39:21,823
We were all wearing dusters,
889
00:39:21,907 --> 00:39:24,117
and we went into a cave in Vancouver
890
00:39:24,201 --> 00:39:27,495
and took these cowboy pictures
like you get at the Wild West Show.
891
00:39:27,579 --> 00:39:29,581
I go, "You're from fucking New Jersey.
892
00:39:29,664 --> 00:39:31,041
"You're not a cowboy.
893
00:39:31,124 --> 00:39:33,043
"Okay? Get in the car.
894
00:39:33,126 --> 00:39:34,252
This is over with."
895
00:39:34,336 --> 00:39:35,670
{\an8}This title Slippery When Wet,
896
00:39:35,754 --> 00:39:37,380
{\an8}could you explain that title?
897
00:39:37,464 --> 00:39:40,550
{\an8}Well, Slippery When Wet,
it really came from a strip bar.
898
00:39:40,634 --> 00:39:42,594
'Cause there was a, a shower in,
899
00:39:42,677 --> 00:39:44,763
this-this, uh, drinking establishment
900
00:39:44,846 --> 00:39:49,226
where young ladies seemed to dance to, uh,
rock and roll songs.
901
00:39:49,309 --> 00:39:51,770
{\an8}And a local photographer
in New Jersey by the name
902
00:39:51,853 --> 00:39:55,273
{\an8}of Mark Weiss shot an album cover
903
00:39:55,357 --> 00:39:59,653
based on dancers in the bars in Vancouver.
904
00:39:59,736 --> 00:40:03,657
[Richie] We wanted the album cover
to be this bodacious woman
905
00:40:03,740 --> 00:40:06,952
that we found on the beach
in Jersey, Angela, oh.
906
00:40:07,327 --> 00:40:09,412
{\an8}[Jon] PMRC in America, which is like
907
00:40:09,496 --> 00:40:12,374
{\an8}really, really cracking down
on sexual things,
908
00:40:12,457 --> 00:40:14,417
{\an8}said they wouldn't shelve it,
they wouldn't rack it.
909
00:40:15,168 --> 00:40:16,878
{\an8}The record company, they said, "Too late,
910
00:40:16,962 --> 00:40:19,005
we've printed a half a million copies."
911
00:40:19,256 --> 00:40:22,175
In a great management moment,
McGhee says to the label,
912
00:40:22,259 --> 00:40:23,677
"We'll get you another cover."
913
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:25,720
[Doc] It was three o'clock
in the morning, I'm with Jonny
914
00:40:25,804 --> 00:40:27,639
and when we couldn't use it,
915
00:40:27,722 --> 00:40:30,058
we couldn't come up with an album cover.
916
00:40:30,141 --> 00:40:32,477
Finally, Jonny takes a garbage bag,
917
00:40:32,561 --> 00:40:34,604
put-puts it over the garbage can.
918
00:40:35,105 --> 00:40:39,860
I squirted the water bottle
on a black Hefty garbage bag.
919
00:40:40,735 --> 00:40:44,990
Took my fingers, I wrote
"Slippery When Wet."
920
00:40:45,323 --> 00:40:46,616
-Take a picture.
-[camera shutter snaps]
921
00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:48,243
So we said, "Here's a black cover
922
00:40:48,326 --> 00:40:49,578
that says 'Slippery When Wet' on it,"
923
00:40:49,661 --> 00:40:51,288
and let the music do the talking.
924
00:40:51,913 --> 00:40:54,332
[Jon] So, we take the record
back to the label
925
00:40:54,416 --> 00:40:56,001
and shoot Bad Name as a single.
926
00:40:56,084 --> 00:40:57,669
Just going great. We're gonna shoot
our new video
927
00:40:57,752 --> 00:40:59,421
this week out in LA,
928
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:01,882
and it'll be to You Give Love a Bad Name,
929
00:41:02,424 --> 00:41:05,427
and, uh, right now,
I have decided that any director
930
00:41:05,510 --> 00:41:07,971
who tells me concept and storyline,
931
00:41:08,054 --> 00:41:09,764
I'm not talking to. [laughs]
932
00:41:10,098 --> 00:41:13,268
We knew that we had to be perceived
933
00:41:13,935 --> 00:41:15,979
as being an arena headliner.
934
00:41:16,062 --> 00:41:18,940
Let this, this video
935
00:41:19,024 --> 00:41:22,110
be the infomercial for your live show.
936
00:41:25,906 --> 00:41:29,743
[Jon] We've made a video that told
you what we were like live.
937
00:41:29,826 --> 00:41:32,495
That was a big reason
for the success of it.
938
00:41:32,579 --> 00:41:35,707
[indistinct singing]
939
00:41:35,790 --> 00:41:40,670
[Obie] Jon sent me a cassette tape
to the studio in Philadelphia,
940
00:41:41,087 --> 00:41:43,673
and I went, everyone's life
is gonna change.
941
00:41:43,757 --> 00:41:45,133
♪ I play my part ♪
942
00:41:45,217 --> 00:41:46,718
♪ And you play your game ♪
943
00:41:46,801 --> 00:41:50,222
[Jon] Immediately, the reaction
was through the moon,
944
00:41:50,305 --> 00:41:53,183
and the company was like, "Wow,
945
00:41:53,266 --> 00:41:55,101
I don't know what you've done,
but you've done it."
946
00:41:55,185 --> 00:41:58,146
[host] Whether it's Angela's chest
or a wet Hefty bag,
947
00:41:58,230 --> 00:42:00,732
New Jersey metal has made it to the top.
948
00:42:00,857 --> 00:42:02,025
Our new number one,
949
00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:04,819
You Give Love a Bad Name from Bon Jovi.
950
00:42:04,903 --> 00:42:08,782
♪ Shot through the heart
and you're to blame ♪
951
00:42:08,865 --> 00:42:12,327
♪ You give love a bad name ♪
952
00:42:12,410 --> 00:42:14,329
[interviewer] Where was Bon Jovi
when, uh, you-you had
953
00:42:14,412 --> 00:42:16,206
your first number one,
was that Living on a Prayer?
954
00:42:16,289 --> 00:42:17,290
Uh, Bad Name.
955
00:42:17,374 --> 00:42:19,376
We were in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
956
00:42:19,459 --> 00:42:21,294
opening up for .38 Special.
957
00:42:21,378 --> 00:42:23,922
[David] We already had contracted
to open up for them.
958
00:42:24,005 --> 00:42:25,257
I think it was like a month.
959
00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:27,634
{\an8}[Jon] You know, after our 40 minute set,
960
00:42:27,717 --> 00:42:30,220
{\an8}we get word that Slippery
is gonna be number one
961
00:42:30,303 --> 00:42:32,013
{\an8}the following week on Billboard.
962
00:42:32,097 --> 00:42:33,974
{\an8}Calling everyone we could on the payphone.
963
00:42:34,057 --> 00:42:35,600
{\an8}You got telexes from people.
964
00:42:35,684 --> 00:42:36,935
You know, I mean, it was a big deal.
965
00:42:37,018 --> 00:42:38,520
I mean, we did this group hug
966
00:42:38,603 --> 00:42:39,938
at Holiday Inn, man,
967
00:42:40,021 --> 00:42:41,815
the first time we were number one
968
00:42:41,898 --> 00:42:44,359
and, uh, to say, you did it.
969
00:42:44,442 --> 00:42:47,612
And here we are,
we had the number one record
970
00:42:47,696 --> 00:42:49,197
on the planet everywhere.
971
00:42:49,281 --> 00:42:50,824
Number one record, number one album.
972
00:42:50,907 --> 00:42:53,326
You Give Love a Bad Name,
everybody's playing that record
973
00:42:53,410 --> 00:42:55,203
and we're opening up for .38 Special.
974
00:42:55,287 --> 00:42:57,330
So then all of a sudden,
they were making a ton of money
975
00:42:57,414 --> 00:42:59,916
because they were selling out
like crazy because of us.
976
00:43:00,792 --> 00:43:03,336
{\an8}[Jon] It wasn't long before
their manager was like,
977
00:43:03,420 --> 00:43:06,548
{\an8}"Anything we gotta do
to keep you on this tour."
978
00:43:07,257 --> 00:43:08,592
And McGhee was, like, saying,
979
00:43:08,675 --> 00:43:11,136
"Thanks, but, you know,
it's time to move on."
980
00:43:11,469 --> 00:43:16,183
In, um, basically a month,
we outsold, you know,
981
00:43:16,266 --> 00:43:17,642
uh, what we did last year.
982
00:43:17,726 --> 00:43:20,812
[♪ "Raise Your Hands" by Bon Jovi playing]
983
00:43:20,896 --> 00:43:23,982
[Jon] Any and everyone
involved in that project
984
00:43:24,065 --> 00:43:26,651
had a multiple of 10 next
to their name after that.
985
00:43:26,735 --> 00:43:28,987
{\an8}The Slippery phenomenon began.
986
00:43:29,487 --> 00:43:32,324
[reporter] Slippery When Wet became the
fourth heavy metal album ever
987
00:43:32,407 --> 00:43:34,743
to make it to Billboard's number one.
988
00:43:34,951 --> 00:43:38,330
[Doc] It was a validation of what they had
989
00:43:38,413 --> 00:43:40,665
put themselves through for five years.
990
00:43:40,749 --> 00:43:44,085
And then once we flipped the headliners,
we sold out everywhere.
991
00:43:44,169 --> 00:43:46,463
There was no more middle fingers,
so that was the nice part.
992
00:43:46,546 --> 00:43:48,465
♪ You got a nasty reputation ♪
993
00:43:48,798 --> 00:43:51,468
[Tico] Now with the ability and funds
to be able to put on a show like that,
994
00:43:51,551 --> 00:43:54,513
it gave Jonny the opportunity
to use the whole arena.
995
00:43:54,721 --> 00:43:58,767
I mean, that's probably
what he had in his mind when he was a kid.
996
00:43:59,226 --> 00:44:01,770
I was like, "Got this motherfucker now."
997
00:44:01,853 --> 00:44:04,356
-[imitating rocket whooshing]
-That was the rocket ship.
998
00:44:04,439 --> 00:44:06,191
[Kaity Tong] One of the hottest tickets
around tonight,
999
00:44:06,274 --> 00:44:08,860
It was to see the world's
hottest rock group.
1000
00:44:08,944 --> 00:44:10,195
Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi
1001
00:44:10,278 --> 00:44:11,863
{\an8}has come a very long way
1002
00:44:11,947 --> 00:44:13,365
since growing up
in Sayreville, New Jersey.
1003
00:44:13,448 --> 00:44:15,033
[reporter] The third album from Bon Jovi,
1004
00:44:15,116 --> 00:44:17,744
Slippery When Wet, has become
the first number one LP
1005
00:44:17,827 --> 00:44:19,871
in their career,
and it looks sure to go down
1006
00:44:19,955 --> 00:44:22,832
as one of the biggest selling
heavy rock albums of the year.
1007
00:44:22,916 --> 00:44:24,459
♪ Raise your hands ♪
1008
00:44:24,543 --> 00:44:25,669
♪ When you want to... ♪
1009
00:44:25,794 --> 00:44:29,256
[Doc] This was just
about low IQ, high RPM.
1010
00:44:30,048 --> 00:44:31,758
This was about having fun.
1011
00:44:33,301 --> 00:44:34,511
It had to be dangerous.
1012
00:44:34,594 --> 00:44:35,846
Ooh, yah!
1013
00:44:35,929 --> 00:44:38,640
Uncle Richie gotta take his medicine now?
1014
00:44:38,723 --> 00:44:41,268
[David] I mean, it really was
from living with my parents
1015
00:44:41,518 --> 00:44:42,686
to living the dream.
1016
00:44:43,144 --> 00:44:45,188
{\an8}I went from nowhere to everywhere.
1017
00:44:45,272 --> 00:44:46,565
I still say it to this day,
1018
00:44:46,648 --> 00:44:48,108
I am like, the luckiest
1019
00:44:48,191 --> 00:44:49,818
fucking guys who ever fucking lived.
1020
00:44:49,901 --> 00:44:51,403
Get the hell outta here.
1021
00:44:51,903 --> 00:44:56,783
[band members speaking incoherently]
1022
00:44:57,617 --> 00:45:00,245
{\an8}[anchor] Your album is still
at number one in the States,
1023
00:45:00,328 --> 00:45:03,039
{\an8}selling over 100,000 copies a day.
1024
00:45:03,373 --> 00:45:05,625
{\an8}[host] Jon, let's say that there are
actually some people out there
1025
00:45:05,709 --> 00:45:07,544
who have never heard heavy metal music,
1026
00:45:07,627 --> 00:45:09,296
never heard of Jon Bon Jovi.
1027
00:45:09,379 --> 00:45:11,506
-Now what would you say to them?
-Where have you been?
1028
00:45:11,590 --> 00:45:13,758
♪ Got to raise your hands ♪
1029
00:45:13,842 --> 00:45:15,802
♪ When you want to let it go ♪
1030
00:45:15,886 --> 00:45:17,512
If you were to put the music you make
1031
00:45:17,596 --> 00:45:20,307
into a certain classification,
what would it be?
1032
00:45:20,390 --> 00:45:21,474
Good.
1033
00:45:22,184 --> 00:45:23,643
[David] But I don't think we changed.
1034
00:45:23,727 --> 00:45:25,437
{\an8}I think the world's perception
of us changed.
1035
00:45:25,937 --> 00:45:28,356
{\an8}Everyone goes, "Hey, you're famous."
I'm like, "I don't... okay."
1036
00:45:28,773 --> 00:45:29,983
[Jon] But when people ask us about money,
1037
00:45:30,108 --> 00:45:32,110
we say, "Well, this is our manager,"
1038
00:45:32,194 --> 00:45:33,320
and we point at him and say,
1039
00:45:33,403 --> 00:45:35,155
"He's rich and we're famous."
1040
00:45:35,238 --> 00:45:36,406
[band laughing]
1041
00:45:36,489 --> 00:45:37,866
I adore his looks.
1042
00:45:37,949 --> 00:45:39,701
[fan] Remember the first time
I saw him on a picture.
1043
00:45:39,784 --> 00:45:41,411
[crowd interviewer]
You didn't even hear the music
1044
00:45:41,494 --> 00:45:43,371
-and you knew you loved them?
-[fans screaming]
1045
00:45:43,747 --> 00:45:46,833
[Jon] These stories have been
repeated by others since,
1046
00:45:47,209 --> 00:45:50,504
and it happened from the time
of Elvis and Sinatra
1047
00:45:50,587 --> 00:45:54,132
and The Beatles,
but in our moment in time,
1048
00:45:54,674 --> 00:45:56,676
you know, we were everywhere.
1049
00:45:59,221 --> 00:46:00,889
[Richie] Now I'm gonna work
twice as hard.
1050
00:46:00,972 --> 00:46:03,016
So we weren't out there messing around,
1051
00:46:03,099 --> 00:46:04,726
but I got a fair amount
of messing around done
1052
00:46:04,809 --> 00:46:06,269
in that time myself,
1053
00:46:06,603 --> 00:46:09,022
you know, with the use
of some other things that I actually...
1054
00:46:09,105 --> 00:46:10,524
well, whatever it was.
1055
00:46:11,816 --> 00:46:14,569
This Tuesday night, 60 minutes of nonstop
1056
00:46:14,653 --> 00:46:16,780
{\an8}bop-till-you-drop Bon Jovi sweatshop.
1057
00:46:16,863 --> 00:46:19,824
{\an8}That's right, we are going
to be your guest VJs.
1058
00:46:19,908 --> 00:46:23,370
{\an8}[Doc] Back then, we had the biggest
tipping point of all,
1059
00:46:23,870 --> 00:46:25,247
{\an8}which was MTV.
1060
00:46:25,914 --> 00:46:28,041
{\an8}[Jon] We were at the forefront
1061
00:46:28,124 --> 00:46:32,587
{\an8}of MTV's influence on the world.
1062
00:46:32,671 --> 00:46:35,841
{\an8}Hi, I'm Jon Bon Jovi, and I want you to
spend a weekend
1063
00:46:35,924 --> 00:46:39,010
{\an8}of unbridled hedonism
with me and these guys.
1064
00:46:39,094 --> 00:46:40,178
{\an8}[band] Hell yes.
1065
00:46:40,262 --> 00:46:41,304
{\an8}MTV.
1066
00:46:41,388 --> 00:46:42,889
{\an8}[Doc] If you were good
1067
00:46:42,973 --> 00:46:44,975
{\an8}and you got on MTV,
1068
00:46:45,058 --> 00:46:46,101
{\an8}that would explode you.
1069
00:46:46,184 --> 00:46:47,936
{\an8}[all] Hi, we're Bon Jovi.
1070
00:46:48,019 --> 00:46:50,814
{\an8}[Jon] Fill in the blank
with five cute guys
1071
00:46:50,897 --> 00:46:54,359
{\an8}in a rock band, MTV was all excited...
1072
00:46:54,442 --> 00:46:55,861
{\an8}Music television.
1073
00:46:55,944 --> 00:47:00,365
[Jon] ...about taking us
to Southeast Asia and Japan.
1074
00:47:00,448 --> 00:47:05,036
{\an8}We had to start our world tour
right back in Japan
1075
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,789
{\an8}where all the best things happened, okay?
1076
00:47:07,873 --> 00:47:11,293
{\an8}We have us a brand new album and the song
1077
00:47:11,376 --> 00:47:13,962
that you're gonna see on MTV.
1078
00:47:14,546 --> 00:47:16,756
[Richie] We were working so hard through
it, especially Jon and I
1079
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,675
because we were the ones
that were waking up
1080
00:47:18,758 --> 00:47:20,260
and doing early morning radio.
1081
00:47:20,594 --> 00:47:21,970
We were the ones that were waking up
and doing all the press.
1082
00:47:22,053 --> 00:47:23,722
Some... the people wanted to talk to us.
1083
00:47:23,805 --> 00:47:26,600
{\an8}Well, we just left, uh,
Helsinki last night.
1084
00:47:26,683 --> 00:47:29,769
-[Richie] Yeah.
-[Jon] And we stopped here to see you.
1085
00:47:29,853 --> 00:47:32,355
You guys just don't get tired, do you?
1086
00:47:32,439 --> 00:47:33,732
[crowd cheering]
1087
00:47:33,982 --> 00:47:36,943
Is this the rock and roll capital
of England or what?
1088
00:47:37,235 --> 00:47:38,612
So you're having a good time in Australia.
1089
00:47:38,695 --> 00:47:39,946
-Absolutely.
-You-you had your...
1090
00:47:40,030 --> 00:47:41,489
You've been in Melbourne,
you're in Sydney.
1091
00:47:41,573 --> 00:47:43,575
Good evening, Vancouver, Canada.
1092
00:47:43,658 --> 00:47:45,744
Come on, Tokyo!
1093
00:47:45,827 --> 00:47:47,787
I got three more nights
here in Philadelphia.
1094
00:47:47,871 --> 00:47:49,331
You guys are getting... [chuckles]
1095
00:47:49,414 --> 00:47:51,583
You're getting to wear my ass out already.
1096
00:47:51,666 --> 00:47:54,044
The, the key to the band's success
is that we tour,
1097
00:47:54,127 --> 00:47:56,421
tour and tour and tour and when
we're done touring we tour.
1098
00:47:57,547 --> 00:47:59,257
[Richie] Our philosophy is, is that
1099
00:47:59,925 --> 00:48:01,718
we're not the show,
but the kids are the show.
1100
00:48:01,801 --> 00:48:03,386
We're just the host of the party.
1101
00:48:03,845 --> 00:48:05,639
[Jon] Are you ready?
1102
00:48:07,182 --> 00:48:09,309
[Obie] If you're there
when they open the gates
1103
00:48:09,392 --> 00:48:12,270
to a stadium show,
you watch how they enter.
1104
00:48:13,021 --> 00:48:16,858
They run top speed because they want to be
1105
00:48:16,942 --> 00:48:18,777
at that bar up front.
1106
00:48:19,861 --> 00:48:22,447
[Desmond] In those days,
I'd go to a Bon Jovi concert
1107
00:48:22,531 --> 00:48:25,909
and watch Jon just give it all on stage
1108
00:48:26,618 --> 00:48:29,621
and I'd hear him sing,
like, the highest notes
1109
00:48:29,704 --> 00:48:31,164
with all of his force.
1110
00:48:31,248 --> 00:48:33,833
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1111
00:48:33,917 --> 00:48:34,960
♪ Take my hand ♪
1112
00:48:35,043 --> 00:48:36,711
[Desmond] Like, wow, that's not just
1113
00:48:36,795 --> 00:48:38,380
in the recording room.
1114
00:48:38,463 --> 00:48:39,881
He can actually deliver that.
1115
00:48:39,965 --> 00:48:42,133
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1116
00:48:42,217 --> 00:48:46,012
[Tico] Jon is, he's feeling something,
and he takes it there.
1117
00:48:46,096 --> 00:48:49,224
We'd follow him, anywhere he went anytime.
1118
00:48:49,683 --> 00:48:53,812
So that's the key, to be that
on the money as a band,
1119
00:48:53,895 --> 00:48:56,064
and if he wants to take it to that way,
1120
00:48:56,147 --> 00:48:58,567
and he's never took it there before,
that's where we're going.
1121
00:48:58,650 --> 00:49:00,652
[crowd] ♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1122
00:49:00,735 --> 00:49:04,906
[Jon] Being a fan myself,
I've sat in the 99th row
1123
00:49:04,990 --> 00:49:06,533
and every time, swear to God,
1124
00:49:06,616 --> 00:49:08,326
the singer was looking right at you.
1125
00:49:08,410 --> 00:49:11,413
What I try to do is exactly that
1126
00:49:11,496 --> 00:49:13,748
and look at the kid in the 99th row.
1127
00:49:14,374 --> 00:49:16,835
[Obie] I would go out on the stage
and stand in the wings
1128
00:49:16,918 --> 00:49:20,088
and just look at that sea of humanity,
1129
00:49:20,172 --> 00:49:23,091
and they're all there for one reason
1130
00:49:23,175 --> 00:49:25,719
and it's to see this band
and see him perform.
1131
00:49:26,094 --> 00:49:29,764
Bon Jovi was arguably, at that point,
the biggest band in the world.
1132
00:49:29,848 --> 00:49:33,560
♪ Ooh, we gotta hold on ♪
1133
00:49:33,977 --> 00:49:36,146
[Jon] I had blinders on
for Slippery When Wet...
1134
00:49:36,229 --> 00:49:40,066
♪ You live for the fight
when that's all that you've got ♪
1135
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:44,237
...because 240 shows was
something I had never done.
1136
00:49:44,446 --> 00:49:45,614
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1137
00:49:45,697 --> 00:49:47,490
It was exhausting for me.
1138
00:49:47,574 --> 00:49:49,868
It was fun, but it was exhausting.
1139
00:49:50,744 --> 00:49:52,704
I was completely dead. I was exhausted.
1140
00:49:52,787 --> 00:49:55,916
I was doing cortisone
to get the cords working.
1141
00:49:56,875 --> 00:49:58,543
We tour so much
1142
00:49:58,627 --> 00:50:00,086
that you don't have a, a chance
1143
00:50:00,170 --> 00:50:02,088
to enjoy the luxuries of it.
1144
00:50:03,423 --> 00:50:04,925
It ends in the States in August,
1145
00:50:05,008 --> 00:50:06,551
and it's back to, you know, England
1146
00:50:06,635 --> 00:50:07,677
for the Donington Festival.
1147
00:50:07,761 --> 00:50:10,680
From there, Australia, Japan again,
1148
00:50:10,764 --> 00:50:12,140
Anchorage, Hawaii,
1149
00:50:12,224 --> 00:50:13,892
and then sleep like a big old bear.
1150
00:50:13,975 --> 00:50:15,101
I'm gonna hibernate.
1151
00:50:16,853 --> 00:50:18,605
[Richie] It's the, the correlation between
1152
00:50:18,688 --> 00:50:21,024
the cowboy of yesteryear or whatever
1153
00:50:21,107 --> 00:50:23,652
and the modern day rock and roller
1154
00:50:23,735 --> 00:50:26,988
because the cowboy would ride
into town on his horse,
1155
00:50:27,072 --> 00:50:30,325
rob a bank, hit the bar,
drink some booze, you know,
1156
00:50:30,408 --> 00:50:33,703
grab the women, take the money and run,
and do the same thing in the next town,
1157
00:50:33,870 --> 00:50:35,205
and we kinda do the same thing
1158
00:50:35,288 --> 00:50:37,374
except we don't rob a bank,
we go play a concert.
1159
00:50:37,457 --> 00:50:38,917
[David] I mean, it felt like
from day one,
1160
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,502
like that first time we got together,
1161
00:50:40,585 --> 00:50:42,921
it felt like five guys against the world.
1162
00:50:45,882 --> 00:50:47,926
[Doc] I think it was
very important to Jonny
1163
00:50:48,009 --> 00:50:51,388
to have that feeling
of family in the early days,
1164
00:50:51,721 --> 00:50:53,098
and that came from Slippery,
1165
00:50:53,557 --> 00:50:55,183
and that was what it was about.
1166
00:50:56,351 --> 00:50:59,354
[Jon] I know that I would
still be back at Kinney's
1167
00:50:59,437 --> 00:51:02,649
had it not been, you know,
for the team of me and Doc
1168
00:51:02,732 --> 00:51:05,360
because, uh, we're best friends, you know,
1169
00:51:05,443 --> 00:51:06,486
and that's what made it work.
1170
00:51:06,570 --> 00:51:07,904
[Richie] Bon Jovi is a family.
1171
00:51:07,988 --> 00:51:09,155
We've been doing this now
1172
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:10,574
for four and a half years straight.
1173
00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:11,950
You're brothers, you know.
1174
00:51:12,033 --> 00:51:13,535
[♪ "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1175
00:51:13,618 --> 00:51:14,661
♪ It's all the same ♪
1176
00:51:15,203 --> 00:51:18,123
♪ Only the names have changed ♪
1177
00:51:18,206 --> 00:51:21,585
[Jon] The bond that was created
from that time forward
1178
00:51:21,668 --> 00:51:24,546
was constantly evolving.
1179
00:51:24,629 --> 00:51:27,424
It-It changed our lives,
being in this band.
1180
00:51:27,507 --> 00:51:30,635
It-It-It defined who we became as men.
1181
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:35,182
The Bon Jovi band is definitely,
um, a family.
1182
00:51:35,265 --> 00:51:38,310
[Tico] The only band I've ever been in
that gets along this well.
1183
00:51:38,393 --> 00:51:40,478
-Family, family, I say.
-Plasma.
1184
00:51:40,562 --> 00:51:41,855
[interviewer]
Now is it just another band or
1185
00:51:41,938 --> 00:51:43,523
is it more of a family, would you say?
1186
00:51:43,607 --> 00:51:45,775
[Tico] No, it's definitely
different. It's like a family.
1187
00:51:46,276 --> 00:51:47,694
Been in a lot of different bands.
1188
00:51:47,777 --> 00:51:49,529
This is like, I don't know,
we get along together.
1189
00:51:49,613 --> 00:51:51,239
We kinda take vacation holidays together.
1190
00:51:51,323 --> 00:51:52,741
[interviewer] You do
hang out together when
1191
00:51:52,824 --> 00:51:54,034
you're not actually playing on stage?
1192
00:51:54,117 --> 00:51:55,285
Yes.
1193
00:51:55,368 --> 00:51:56,995
[David] There was that brotherhood.
1194
00:51:57,078 --> 00:51:59,289
It was us five guys and... on a bus
1195
00:51:59,372 --> 00:52:01,333
and then five guys in an airplane
1196
00:52:01,750 --> 00:52:03,168
outta seven billion human beings.
1197
00:52:03,251 --> 00:52:05,295
Not a lot of people get
to experience what we did.
1198
00:52:05,378 --> 00:52:09,758
[Jon] And it changed
the face of pop radio.
1199
00:52:09,841 --> 00:52:12,761
Those songs changed the landscape,
1200
00:52:13,386 --> 00:52:15,680
and that was our defining moment
with songs like
1201
00:52:15,764 --> 00:52:18,266
You Give Love a Bad Name,
Livin' On a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive.
1202
00:52:18,350 --> 00:52:20,769
They were all big monster hit songs.
1203
00:52:20,852 --> 00:52:23,104
[reporter] Do you feel like you're at
the top of the ladder?
1204
00:52:23,188 --> 00:52:27,442
No, I think, uh, every time
you get there to the, to the place
1205
00:52:27,526 --> 00:52:29,778
where you think is the top,
you find out that it just,
1206
00:52:29,861 --> 00:52:32,072
there's another extension
on that ladder, you know?
1207
00:52:32,447 --> 00:52:36,910
So we're not, uh satisfied,
and we're not done.
1208
00:52:36,993 --> 00:52:37,994
[crowd cheering]
1209
00:52:38,078 --> 00:52:39,287
[Jon] Thank you.
1210
00:52:39,371 --> 00:52:40,539
Good night now.
1211
00:52:41,248 --> 00:52:44,918
I was pretty exhausted
but there was no way
1212
00:52:45,669 --> 00:52:46,920
that we were gonna slow down.
1213
00:52:47,504 --> 00:52:48,505
None.
1214
00:52:49,047 --> 00:52:51,550
And I was also very cognizant
1215
00:52:52,425 --> 00:52:53,927
that I had to do it again.
1216
00:52:55,345 --> 00:52:59,307
And... every day, I was thinking about,
1217
00:52:59,391 --> 00:53:01,893
"How the fuck are we gonna do this again?"
1218
00:53:01,977 --> 00:53:03,979
[jet engine whooshing]
1219
00:53:04,062 --> 00:53:05,897
[♪ tense music playing]
1220
00:53:05,981 --> 00:53:07,148
[tires squealing]
1221
00:53:13,363 --> 00:53:14,614
[static crackles]
1222
00:53:16,032 --> 00:53:18,618
[Jon] This is Little Mountain
Sound Studios.
1223
00:53:18,702 --> 00:53:21,121
This is the beginning of our show, folks.
1224
00:53:21,955 --> 00:53:22,998
Fourth album.
1225
00:53:23,999 --> 00:53:26,293
No one's supposed
to know the title but me.
1226
00:53:27,419 --> 00:53:29,421
[chuckles] Guess what
I didn't think of, though?
1227
00:53:29,504 --> 00:53:32,674
I just locked myself out,
and it's nine o'clock at night.
1228
00:53:32,757 --> 00:53:35,677
We went back in and wrote New Jersey,
1229
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:38,305
which was initially gonna be
called Sons of Beaches,
1230
00:53:38,722 --> 00:53:42,058
and thank God, you know,
even then we were wise enough to say,
1231
00:53:42,559 --> 00:53:46,563
"Don't be that kind of cliché rock dude."
1232
00:53:46,646 --> 00:53:49,024
You know, you can get away with that once
with Slippery When Wet.
1233
00:53:49,107 --> 00:53:50,317
I can't believe it. Come on, follow me.
1234
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:51,526
[cameraperson] Okay.
1235
00:53:51,610 --> 00:53:54,613
I'm going to take you now into the room
1236
00:53:54,696 --> 00:53:57,908
where, where, where this new record
is being made by Bon Jovi.
1237
00:53:57,991 --> 00:54:00,327
Them guys are assholes,
so you gotta watch them.
1238
00:54:00,410 --> 00:54:02,412
This is Bob Rock's House of Sin,
they call it.
1239
00:54:02,495 --> 00:54:04,664
-Come in, come in. A lot of work here.
-[Jon] From the top.
1240
00:54:04,748 --> 00:54:06,958
Hi, I just came here,
and I'm nuts already.
1241
00:54:07,042 --> 00:54:08,043
[laughter]
1242
00:54:08,627 --> 00:54:11,129
[Richie] We had toured
for 16 and a half months
1243
00:54:11,588 --> 00:54:14,049
with a two week break after eight months.
1244
00:54:14,132 --> 00:54:17,344
Woo-hoo, and back to the grind.
1245
00:54:17,969 --> 00:54:19,971
Whoever's gonna watch this in the future,
1246
00:54:20,055 --> 00:54:21,097
here's one for you.
1247
00:54:21,264 --> 00:54:22,849
Cheers, let's put the fucking thing down.
1248
00:54:23,183 --> 00:54:25,227
[♪ heavy guitar music playing]
1249
00:54:25,310 --> 00:54:26,478
♪ Everybody ♪
1250
00:54:28,647 --> 00:54:29,648
Fuck, missed that one.
1251
00:54:29,731 --> 00:54:33,485
[♪ heavy rock music playing]
1252
00:54:35,028 --> 00:54:37,531
I used to be in this band, Bon Jovi.
1253
00:54:37,614 --> 00:54:40,867
Now I-I'm illiterate
'cause I drank tequila.
1254
00:54:40,992 --> 00:54:42,160
[interviewer] What did I ask you?
1255
00:54:42,244 --> 00:54:45,038
A band that stays together,
plays together.
1256
00:54:47,707 --> 00:54:50,252
We went right in there,
banged another one,
1257
00:54:50,335 --> 00:54:52,045
and the juices are still flowing again,
1258
00:54:52,128 --> 00:54:54,631
kind of recreate the same feeling,
1259
00:54:55,131 --> 00:54:56,508
and let's take it a step further.
1260
00:54:56,591 --> 00:54:58,760
[band] [chanting]
Be like Tico, be like Tico,
1261
00:54:58,844 --> 00:55:00,929
be like Tico, be like Tico.
1262
00:55:01,012 --> 00:55:02,848
[cameraperson]
Oh, no, welcome to Vancouver.
1263
00:55:03,807 --> 00:55:05,684
[Jon] Look at these guys,
can't take them anywhere.
1264
00:55:06,226 --> 00:55:07,477
[Doc] You're on a roll.
1265
00:55:07,811 --> 00:55:10,188
They've worn out Slippery.
1266
00:55:10,272 --> 00:55:11,690
It's not like Jon goes, "You know,
1267
00:55:11,815 --> 00:55:15,277
I gotta take a year off
and I gotta find myself."
1268
00:55:15,402 --> 00:55:16,945
He's not that guy.
1269
00:55:17,028 --> 00:55:19,281
Jon quit school because there was recess.
1270
00:55:19,364 --> 00:55:21,950
[♪ upbeat rock music playing]
1271
00:55:27,247 --> 00:55:28,498
[screaming]
1272
00:55:28,999 --> 00:55:31,126
[technician] That felt good. Let's do
one more, then we'll have...
1273
00:55:31,459 --> 00:55:32,627
[Jon] Thanks, guys.
1274
00:55:33,044 --> 00:55:34,171
Working hard.
1275
00:55:34,254 --> 00:55:38,550
[technicians snoring]
1276
00:55:39,509 --> 00:55:42,012
-Bob. Bob.
-Oh, what time is it?
1277
00:55:42,095 --> 00:55:44,472
[Jon] Fuck you, guys. Fuck you! Fuck you!
1278
00:55:44,681 --> 00:55:45,849
[laughter]
1279
00:55:54,774 --> 00:55:55,901
[cameraperson] Oh!
1280
00:55:56,568 --> 00:55:57,652
Now that was history.
1281
00:55:57,736 --> 00:55:58,862
[Jon] There you go.
1282
00:55:59,321 --> 00:56:00,655
We mixed everything until last night,
1283
00:56:00,739 --> 00:56:02,073
about one in the morning,
1284
00:56:02,157 --> 00:56:04,201
1:30 or so, and, uh, that's it.
1285
00:56:04,284 --> 00:56:06,036
We've had enough.
1286
00:56:06,119 --> 00:56:07,704
[interviewer] You know
what your first single is?
1287
00:56:07,787 --> 00:56:08,788
Bad Medicine.
1288
00:56:08,872 --> 00:56:10,916
We were doing some Fuji tape commercial
1289
00:56:10,999 --> 00:56:12,375
in Japan, believe it or not,
1290
00:56:12,792 --> 00:56:14,836
and I had found out that the girl
1291
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:16,671
I was going out with was a prostitute.
1292
00:56:17,255 --> 00:56:19,424
[laughing]
1293
00:56:19,508 --> 00:56:21,051
I mean, that'll shake you up a little bit,
1294
00:56:21,384 --> 00:56:25,096
and I was just, I was sitting there
in this black water
1295
00:56:25,180 --> 00:56:26,932
that looked like Fuji tape,
1296
00:56:27,390 --> 00:56:28,475
and I just went,
1297
00:56:28,892 --> 00:56:31,978
[sings] ♪ Your love is like
bad medicine ♪
1298
00:56:32,062 --> 00:56:34,898
♪ And bad medicine is what I need ♪
1299
00:56:35,023 --> 00:56:38,985
♪ Whoa whoa, shake it up just like
bad medicine ♪
1300
00:56:39,069 --> 00:56:40,487
[♪ "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi playing]
1301
00:56:40,570 --> 00:56:42,405
♪ Bad medicine ♪
1302
00:56:43,073 --> 00:56:45,659
♪ Bad medicine is what I need ♪
1303
00:56:45,742 --> 00:56:46,910
♪ Whoa oh oh, ♪
1304
00:56:46,993 --> 00:56:48,245
[Jon] A year after that
1305
00:56:48,328 --> 00:56:50,664
240 show Slippery tour,
1306
00:56:50,747 --> 00:56:53,917
which was as exhausting
as anything I'd ever done,
1307
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:55,627
we were back on the road.
1308
00:56:55,710 --> 00:56:57,170
You know, I mean Slippery was
1309
00:56:57,337 --> 00:56:59,256
everybody's dream come true.
1310
00:56:59,422 --> 00:57:00,882
It, uh, it gave us a job.
1311
00:57:00,966 --> 00:57:03,218
It gave us the opportunity
to tour and play
1312
00:57:03,301 --> 00:57:04,719
whenever and wherever we want to.
1313
00:57:05,512 --> 00:57:06,763
I want to do that again.
1314
00:57:06,847 --> 00:57:08,557
I mean, we did three on,
1315
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:10,350
one off, two on, one off,
1316
00:57:10,433 --> 00:57:12,477
three on, one off for like a year.
1317
00:57:12,561 --> 00:57:15,939
Went back into the studio,
did another record, did that again.
1318
00:57:16,022 --> 00:57:18,358
[Doc] And he was begging me,
just before he was saying,
1319
00:57:18,483 --> 00:57:21,486
{\an8}"Doc, can we go out?
Just, let's just do 300 shows."
1320
00:57:21,862 --> 00:57:23,780
-Just 300.
-Just 300 shows.
1321
00:57:23,864 --> 00:57:25,323
We'll take 65 days off.
1322
00:57:25,407 --> 00:57:27,284
I said, "Well, okay."
1323
00:57:27,367 --> 00:57:28,577
[gasps]
1324
00:57:28,660 --> 00:57:29,911
[both laugh]
1325
00:57:29,995 --> 00:57:33,248
There's no relax,
there's never a wasted moment.
1326
00:57:33,331 --> 00:57:35,125
You have to keep pushing it along,
1327
00:57:35,750 --> 00:57:38,920
and especially in those days,
it was conquer the world time.
1328
00:57:39,087 --> 00:57:40,380
[David] Touring is the whole thing.
1329
00:57:40,463 --> 00:57:42,257
I mean, the whole thing
of playing in front of people,
1330
00:57:42,340 --> 00:57:44,259
making records is fun
and all that kind of stuff,
1331
00:57:44,342 --> 00:57:45,886
but the whole reason
that we happened as a band
1332
00:57:46,011 --> 00:57:48,930
was because we got in front of an audience
1333
00:57:49,014 --> 00:57:50,724
and rocked their asses off.
1334
00:57:50,807 --> 00:57:52,726
[Jon] Third album comes out,
explodes.
1335
00:57:52,809 --> 00:57:55,729
Fourth album comes out
and has to do better, you know,
1336
00:57:55,812 --> 00:57:59,774
so we're there now, right? Tough.
1337
00:57:59,858 --> 00:58:01,818
[Richie] A good comparison
is like a prize fighter.
1338
00:58:01,902 --> 00:58:03,653
We have the title, we have the belt,
1339
00:58:03,737 --> 00:58:06,114
and every time we walk
into the ring with our record,
1340
00:58:06,698 --> 00:58:07,782
you have to defend it.
1341
00:58:08,033 --> 00:58:09,868
-Best concert I've ever been in my life.
-Oh, absolutely.
1342
00:58:09,993 --> 00:58:11,995
-Everything.
-The lights, the music.
1343
00:58:12,078 --> 00:58:13,538
Everything brilliant, everything.
1344
00:58:13,622 --> 00:58:15,081
[all] We love Bon Jovi.
1345
00:58:15,165 --> 00:58:17,500
[David] And at that time,
as we're gaining
1346
00:58:17,584 --> 00:58:21,379
all this fan appreciation,
if you will, around the planet,
1347
00:58:21,463 --> 00:58:23,507
we were never the critic star.
1348
00:58:23,590 --> 00:58:26,051
Rolling Stone, when
Slippery When Wet came out,
1349
00:58:26,134 --> 00:58:30,055
they called us a "smudgy third
generation copy of Quiet Riot."
1350
00:58:30,388 --> 00:58:32,599
The group Bon Jovi has been riding high
1351
00:58:32,724 --> 00:58:35,185
since their album Slippery When Wet
1352
00:58:35,268 --> 00:58:39,272
sold a paltry 14 million copies
around the world.
1353
00:58:39,356 --> 00:58:41,483
Now their new album
hasn't done quite that well.
1354
00:58:41,566 --> 00:58:43,401
It's called New Jersey,
but it's doing just fine
1355
00:58:43,485 --> 00:58:44,569
and it's selling in the millions.
1356
00:58:44,653 --> 00:58:45,946
[Jon] When New Jersey came,
1357
00:58:46,029 --> 00:58:47,280
we had gotten to that point
1358
00:58:47,364 --> 00:58:48,907
where everybody says,
"Okay, I'm sick of them."
1359
00:58:48,990 --> 00:58:50,659
You know, "Get lost,"
1360
00:58:50,992 --> 00:58:54,329
and we were the brunt of, you know,
a lot of finger pointing.
1361
00:58:54,829 --> 00:58:58,542
The Grammys didn't even nominate
Livin' on a Prayer,
1362
00:58:58,750 --> 00:59:00,418
You Give Love a Bad Name,
Wanted Dead or Alive.
1363
00:59:01,253 --> 00:59:03,129
It was hysterical and ridiculous.
1364
00:59:03,213 --> 00:59:04,589
But who cares, you know what I mean?
1365
00:59:04,673 --> 00:59:07,259
With people, we were always
the people's choice,
1366
00:59:07,342 --> 00:59:09,427
and that's who you're playing for.
1367
00:59:09,511 --> 00:59:13,181
[all singing] ♪ Your love is like
bad medicine ♪
1368
00:59:13,265 --> 00:59:16,101
{\an8}-♪ Bad medicine is what I need ♪
-[fan] Woo!
1369
00:59:17,018 --> 00:59:18,311
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
1370
00:59:18,478 --> 00:59:20,188
[David] We were the
chip-on-our-shoulder guys,
1371
00:59:20,272 --> 00:59:22,482
especially Jon, and it was a motivator.
1372
00:59:22,566 --> 00:59:24,818
Fuck 'em, you know, if they don't like us.
1373
00:59:24,901 --> 00:59:26,444
The people love us,
that's all that matters.
1374
00:59:34,327 --> 00:59:36,079
[band cheering]
1375
00:59:36,288 --> 00:59:39,541
♪ Words can't say what love can do ♪
1376
00:59:39,624 --> 00:59:42,168
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
1377
00:59:42,294 --> 00:59:45,881
And the winner is Bon Jovi.
1378
00:59:46,548 --> 00:59:47,841
[Jon] What we need to do is, um,
1379
00:59:48,341 --> 00:59:50,135
to give this one to all the critics
1380
00:59:50,218 --> 00:59:52,804
who said that Bon Jovi
was a flash in the pan,
1381
00:59:52,888 --> 00:59:54,723
who said that Bon Jovi was nothing.
1382
00:59:55,432 --> 00:59:57,225
This was the dream, this was the goal.
1383
00:59:57,309 --> 01:00:00,228
If it's all over now, it doesn't matter.
1384
01:00:00,312 --> 01:00:01,897
We made it to the dance.
1385
01:00:03,064 --> 01:00:05,734
{\an8}Giants Stadium, it's like the biggest gig
we ever played, you know.
1386
01:00:06,193 --> 01:00:07,903
[Richie] We're going
to have 80,000 people tonight.
1387
01:00:08,737 --> 01:00:10,155
Couldn't be happier if I was twins.
1388
01:00:10,238 --> 01:00:11,823
♪ Whoa oh oh ♪
1389
01:00:13,491 --> 01:00:14,910
[Jon] No one's ever done this, man.
1390
01:00:14,993 --> 01:00:17,037
The Stones, the Who, the... no one.
1391
01:00:19,539 --> 01:00:22,042
We were just crushing it,
doing as many shows
1392
01:00:22,125 --> 01:00:23,627
anywhere where we wanted,
1393
01:00:24,085 --> 01:00:26,796
and we had five top 10 hits
on that record.
1394
01:00:27,797 --> 01:00:30,592
We were absolutely the guys of the moment.
1395
01:00:30,926 --> 01:00:33,303
Jon Bon Jovi and his band
returned to their native state
1396
01:00:33,386 --> 01:00:34,763
of New Jersey Wednesday night
1397
01:00:34,846 --> 01:00:36,014
and turned the group's sold out show
1398
01:00:36,097 --> 01:00:37,182
at the Meadowlands Arena
1399
01:00:37,265 --> 01:00:38,517
into a rock and roll carnival
1400
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:40,810
for 20,000 cheering fans.
1401
01:00:40,894 --> 01:00:42,854
I think if I said it was great to be home,
1402
01:00:42,938 --> 01:00:44,439
that would be
the understatement of the year.
1403
01:00:44,523 --> 01:00:45,815
-You know what I mean?
-[crowd cheering]
1404
01:00:45,941 --> 01:00:47,275
[Kurt Loder]
Along with the platinum albums
1405
01:00:47,359 --> 01:00:48,485
{\an8}the group was presented,
1406
01:00:48,568 --> 01:00:50,028
{\an8}a proclamation was also read
1407
01:00:50,111 --> 01:00:52,614
{\an8}proclaiming it Bon Jovi Day statewide.
1408
01:00:52,697 --> 01:00:53,990
{\an8}[crowd cheering]
1409
01:00:54,074 --> 01:00:56,117
{\an8}Yeah, we had a party
for 20,000 of our friends.
1410
01:00:56,201 --> 01:00:57,410
{\an8}Got the key to the city.
1411
01:00:57,494 --> 01:00:58,537
{\an8}Yeah, got keys to the city,
1412
01:00:58,787 --> 01:01:00,121
{\an8}got plaques from the governor.
1413
01:01:00,205 --> 01:01:04,000
{\an8}We've got a probably what,
eight, nine foot cake here.
1414
01:01:04,084 --> 01:01:05,210
{\an8}It was a hell of a party.
1415
01:01:05,293 --> 01:01:07,504
Ten thousand balloons, 20,000 people,
1416
01:01:07,587 --> 01:01:08,880
and a partridge in a pear tree.
1417
01:01:08,964 --> 01:01:09,965
-[glasses clink]
-Cheers.
1418
01:01:10,048 --> 01:01:12,259
It was all the decadence of the '80s.
1419
01:01:12,801 --> 01:01:14,344
It was a kid in a candy store.
1420
01:01:14,427 --> 01:01:17,848
It was whatever you want,
whenever you want it times two,
1421
01:01:17,931 --> 01:01:19,808
without giving away too many secrets
1422
01:01:19,975 --> 01:01:23,186
because anything that every one
of those bands talks about,
1423
01:01:23,270 --> 01:01:25,647
you know, we did it too, and it was fun.
1424
01:01:25,814 --> 01:01:28,066
It was real fun, you know.
1425
01:01:28,149 --> 01:01:30,068
It was not only girls and drugs and booze,
1426
01:01:30,151 --> 01:01:33,530
{\an8}but it was one-upsmanship
with gifts and cars.
1427
01:01:33,613 --> 01:01:34,739
It became silly.
1428
01:01:34,823 --> 01:01:36,741
You buy me a Ferrari
1429
01:01:36,992 --> 01:01:38,159
and I'll buy you a Porsche,
1430
01:01:38,243 --> 01:01:39,661
and you buy this piece of art
1431
01:01:39,744 --> 01:01:41,413
and I'll buy you that house.
1432
01:01:41,496 --> 01:01:45,375
{\an8}It was dumb kid rock and roll star stuff.
1433
01:01:46,585 --> 01:01:48,712
[reporter] No connection
between sex and rock and roll?
1434
01:01:48,795 --> 01:01:50,213
[Alec John Such] Oh, there's a connection.
1435
01:01:50,297 --> 01:01:51,882
I mean, when I was a kid, I played violin.
1436
01:01:51,965 --> 01:01:53,300
Now I play bass guitar.
1437
01:01:53,466 --> 01:01:55,969
-I get laid a lot more now.
-[band laughing]
1438
01:01:57,012 --> 01:01:59,222
[Tico] I think the hardest thing
that for-for-for anybody
1439
01:01:59,306 --> 01:02:00,682
in that situation is that,
1440
01:02:00,765 --> 01:02:02,767
how do you collect your ego
and keep it in check?
1441
01:02:04,186 --> 01:02:05,604
[Jon] Just got to be so ridiculous
1442
01:02:05,687 --> 01:02:07,147
that there was nothing we couldn't do.
1443
01:02:08,523 --> 01:02:12,027
If I want to play 10 nights in New York,
book 'em. We could do it.
1444
01:02:12,110 --> 01:02:14,946
If you want to tell the promoter
1445
01:02:15,030 --> 01:02:18,992
we want five pinball machines...
1446
01:02:19,075 --> 01:02:20,327
[pinball machines ringing]
1447
01:02:20,994 --> 01:02:22,329
...okay.
1448
01:02:22,913 --> 01:02:24,080
-Pool tables?
-[pool balls clacking]
1449
01:02:24,623 --> 01:02:26,166
-Done.
-[fireworks exploding]
1450
01:02:26,249 --> 01:02:28,460
I want a '69 Corvette convertible.
1451
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:31,087
-I got it.
-[car engine roaring]
1452
01:02:31,963 --> 01:02:36,593
We could get away
with anything and we did.
1453
01:02:37,052 --> 01:02:38,803
[interviewer] I mean,
now that you're so successful,
1454
01:02:38,887 --> 01:02:40,305
do you ever feel like sitting back a bit
1455
01:02:40,388 --> 01:02:42,641
and not touring quite so hard
and working quite so hard?
1456
01:02:42,724 --> 01:02:44,851
Uh, it wouldn't be any fun.
1457
01:02:45,644 --> 01:02:47,896
This '80s was pretty tough
1458
01:02:48,396 --> 01:02:51,233
'cause everybody, there was so many drugs.
1459
01:02:51,566 --> 01:02:53,985
I mean, I had a wing of rehab people
1460
01:02:54,319 --> 01:02:58,323
and not that Jonny and them
were even close to any of that stuff.
1461
01:02:58,615 --> 01:03:00,242
[David] We never were the band
that just, you know,
1462
01:03:00,325 --> 01:03:02,118
was so fucked up that
you're supposed to go on
1463
01:03:02,202 --> 01:03:04,371
at nine o'clock and you go
on at two in the morning.
1464
01:03:04,454 --> 01:03:07,249
Like, nobody overdosed.
That's a good thing.
1465
01:03:08,792 --> 01:03:11,336
[Alec] I know I've gone out the next day
and he's just coming in
1466
01:03:11,419 --> 01:03:13,004
and I'm going, "Hey," and he's going,
1467
01:03:13,088 --> 01:03:14,756
"Yeah, see you later."
1468
01:03:15,173 --> 01:03:17,676
I'm very much interested in, uh,
how a bar works.
1469
01:03:17,759 --> 01:03:20,470
I can't get off the stage and be...
1470
01:03:20,554 --> 01:03:22,055
just go to, go to room and relax
1471
01:03:22,138 --> 01:03:24,641
because I'm too hypered up
from doing this marathon.
1472
01:03:25,350 --> 01:03:29,020
So I needed to let my hair down
and have a few drinks, party.
1473
01:03:29,104 --> 01:03:32,399
You know, Tico could
really get outta control.
1474
01:03:32,482 --> 01:03:34,901
He-he wasn't a easy, fun drunk.
1475
01:03:34,985 --> 01:03:36,236
Shit. I put it right the fuck down.
1476
01:03:36,319 --> 01:03:38,446
[Jon] Alec could really get outta control.
1477
01:03:38,530 --> 01:03:41,157
He too was not a easy, fun drunk.
1478
01:03:42,534 --> 01:03:44,744
David and Richie were much easier,
1479
01:03:44,828 --> 01:03:47,122
but they certainly had
more than their fair share
1480
01:03:47,205 --> 01:03:48,790
of too much fun.
1481
01:03:48,874 --> 01:03:51,209
So somebody had to try
to keep it together.
1482
01:03:51,293 --> 01:03:53,837
For whatever and all reasons, it was me.
1483
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,840
In a situation with drugs,
I've been asked often,
1484
01:03:56,923 --> 01:03:59,176
so often that I finally said,
"Look, I don't do 'em.
1485
01:03:59,259 --> 01:04:00,886
I don't like 'em, I don't approve of 'em."
1486
01:04:00,969 --> 01:04:03,221
There's nobody that was more dedicated
1487
01:04:03,889 --> 01:04:07,809
about his voice, his warming up, his...
1488
01:04:07,893 --> 01:04:10,687
I mean, Slippery, we... I mean,
every tour he had troubles,
1489
01:04:10,770 --> 01:04:12,022
but he worked through it.
1490
01:04:12,105 --> 01:04:13,732
He didn't drink, he didn't smoke.
1491
01:04:14,107 --> 01:04:17,903
He was actually pretty boring
when he was doing all this stuff
1492
01:04:17,986 --> 01:04:20,322
because he didn't,
he-he wouldn't do anything
1493
01:04:20,405 --> 01:04:23,408
because he had to try to save his voice.
1494
01:04:25,493 --> 01:04:26,995
Are you still with me?
1495
01:04:28,997 --> 01:04:31,249
[Tico] We just lived on the
road to the point
1496
01:04:31,333 --> 01:04:34,502
of almost the band's demise,
1497
01:04:34,586 --> 01:04:37,088
because if you do anything too much,
you will get a scar.
1498
01:04:37,631 --> 01:04:40,383
[Desmond] Jon was also
the guy that would get up
1499
01:04:40,467 --> 01:04:44,513
at 5:00 in the morning
to make it to a radio station.
1500
01:04:44,971 --> 01:04:48,099
At 5:00 in the morning,
most of the guys in the band
1501
01:04:48,183 --> 01:04:49,935
-were just getting to bed.
-[alarm beeping]
1502
01:04:50,018 --> 01:04:52,437
[Jon] These guys are pissed off
that they're at soundcheck.
1503
01:04:52,521 --> 01:04:54,105
I woke 'em up at 8:30.
1504
01:04:54,773 --> 01:04:56,525
They're still hung over from last night.
1505
01:04:57,025 --> 01:04:58,026
Bribery's not even working.
1506
01:04:58,151 --> 01:04:59,986
We can't wait for the tour to end.
1507
01:05:00,695 --> 01:05:02,322
[David] I was like,
I'm gonna have a lot of fun,
1508
01:05:02,405 --> 01:05:04,824
but I'm gonna make sure
that my love of music
1509
01:05:04,908 --> 01:05:06,701
is more than my love of partying,
1510
01:05:07,285 --> 01:05:09,287
and I think once you turn that corner...
1511
01:05:10,622 --> 01:05:12,707
uh, you've lost it.
1512
01:05:13,667 --> 01:05:16,378
[Jon] We certainly jumped back
in the ring and we're all just,
1513
01:05:16,461 --> 01:05:19,381
you know, haymakers swinging
for any and everything
1514
01:05:19,464 --> 01:05:20,507
that would come our way...
1515
01:05:21,925 --> 01:05:23,009
but it almost killed us.
1516
01:05:24,803 --> 01:05:27,180
{\an8}Good afternoon. We're at Raleigh's
Broughton High School,
1517
01:05:27,264 --> 01:05:29,850
{\an8}where Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi is appearing
1518
01:05:29,933 --> 01:05:32,143
to give a very special anti-drug message
1519
01:05:32,227 --> 01:05:33,895
to thousands of Wake County students.
1520
01:05:33,979 --> 01:05:35,897
[Mike Caplan] Bon Jovi's appearance
is being sponsored
1521
01:05:35,981 --> 01:05:38,984
by a nonprofit group called
the Make a Difference Foundation.
1522
01:05:39,442 --> 01:05:41,611
{\an8}[Doc] When you're a celebrity...
1523
01:05:42,487 --> 01:05:43,738
{\an8}at this point,
1524
01:05:43,947 --> 01:05:45,615
{\an8}comes with a responsibility too
1525
01:05:45,699 --> 01:05:47,909
{\an8}to try to do good things.
1526
01:05:48,869 --> 01:05:50,579
To try to give back a little bit.
1527
01:05:50,662 --> 01:05:52,247
Jon Bon Jovi's appearance is also tied
1528
01:05:52,330 --> 01:05:55,584
to an unusual drug probation
handed down by a judge.
1529
01:05:55,667 --> 01:05:59,462
The manager of the Bon Jovi band
pled guilty last year
1530
01:05:59,546 --> 01:06:00,964
in a marijuana case.
1531
01:06:01,047 --> 01:06:02,174
[Mike] But instead of ordering that
1532
01:06:02,257 --> 01:06:03,341
that manager go to prison,
1533
01:06:03,425 --> 01:06:04,968
{\an8}the judge in the case decided
1534
01:06:05,051 --> 01:06:07,929
{\an8}to let that manager use
his influence in the rock industry
1535
01:06:08,013 --> 01:06:09,973
{\an8}to help spread the drug-free message
1536
01:06:10,056 --> 01:06:11,516
to the nation's teenagers.
1537
01:06:11,808 --> 01:06:13,727
{\an8}[Jon] That was a very difficult place
1538
01:06:13,810 --> 01:06:15,020
{\an8}for a young kid to be,
1539
01:06:15,103 --> 01:06:16,646
{\an8}you know, with the guy that was supposed
1540
01:06:16,730 --> 01:06:18,773
{\an8}to be the grownup in the room
1541
01:06:18,857 --> 01:06:21,401
was now in some kind
of incredible legal trouble.
1542
01:06:21,860 --> 01:06:24,905
{\an8}Your manager, Doc McGhee,
of course, had a few problems
1543
01:06:24,988 --> 01:06:26,531
{\an8}with drugs, an alleged
1544
01:06:26,615 --> 01:06:29,159
{\an8}5,000 tons of grass
he was trying to import.
1545
01:06:29,784 --> 01:06:32,412
[Doc] As you sit and you try to understand
1546
01:06:32,495 --> 01:06:34,873
what you've done so you don't do it again,
1547
01:06:35,290 --> 01:06:37,167
it's just learning from your mistakes.
1548
01:06:37,751 --> 01:06:39,836
We had to do things
to keep McGhee outta jail.
1549
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:41,171
-[glass shattering]
-I'm Jon Bon Jovi.
1550
01:06:41,421 --> 01:06:44,049
{\an8}So you were asked to do things
and you didn't even know why.
1551
01:06:45,842 --> 01:06:47,928
You're thrust into a situation
1552
01:06:48,011 --> 01:06:49,930
that is way above
and beyond your pay grade.
1553
01:06:50,013 --> 01:06:54,434
{\an8}Today, the world looks expectedly
to signs of change,
1554
01:06:54,935 --> 01:06:57,979
steps toward greater freedom
in the Soviet Union.
1555
01:06:58,396 --> 01:07:01,024
{\an8}[Jon] Doc's lawyers came up with a plea,
1556
01:07:01,107 --> 01:07:04,778
{\an8}which led to a concert
in the former Soviet Union
1557
01:07:04,861 --> 01:07:07,531
{\an8}because we were one of the great exports
1558
01:07:07,614 --> 01:07:12,536
{\an8}of American pop culture
to the Iron Curtained countries.
1559
01:07:12,911 --> 01:07:15,956
Now the Soviets are opening their country
to American rock music.
1560
01:07:16,039 --> 01:07:18,750
A number of top rockers,
including New Jersey's own Bon Jovi,
1561
01:07:18,833 --> 01:07:20,710
are getting ready to jet to Moscow.
1562
01:07:20,794 --> 01:07:22,212
[Doc] Nobody played Moscow.
1563
01:07:22,671 --> 01:07:24,506
Nobody with electric guitar did.
1564
01:07:25,257 --> 01:07:26,925
You could play with a piano or something,
1565
01:07:27,008 --> 01:07:29,177
but there's no way you could play
with an electric guitar.
1566
01:07:29,261 --> 01:07:30,846
You couldn't even get an electric guitar.
1567
01:07:31,388 --> 01:07:33,765
[Jon] I did it because
he was my friend first,
1568
01:07:33,849 --> 01:07:35,475
but also because he was the manager.
1569
01:07:35,559 --> 01:07:37,727
So I felt that obligation,
1570
01:07:38,144 --> 01:07:41,773
but I really never had
any idea just how big it was.
1571
01:07:41,857 --> 01:07:44,526
You know, when we grew up in school,
you... that's the bad guys.
1572
01:07:44,609 --> 01:07:46,069
You can't go there, no one goes there.
1573
01:07:46,152 --> 01:07:47,612
There's no records there,
there's none of this there,
1574
01:07:47,696 --> 01:07:49,531
{\an8}and our attitude was, let's go over there.
1575
01:07:49,614 --> 01:07:51,157
{\an8}Let's make this happen.
1576
01:07:51,241 --> 01:07:53,243
{\an8}Welcome to Bon Jovi world, Russian style.
1577
01:07:53,326 --> 01:07:55,036
[reporter] A world which began
back in December
1578
01:07:55,120 --> 01:07:57,497
when Bon Jovi made a quick trip
to the Soviet Union
1579
01:07:57,581 --> 01:07:58,957
to lay the groundwork for the main event.
1580
01:07:59,291 --> 01:08:02,127
I remember going as a band to set it up
1581
01:08:02,544 --> 01:08:04,004
while the Wall was still up.
1582
01:08:04,504 --> 01:08:05,797
Brr! It's freezing.
1583
01:08:05,881 --> 01:08:09,509
[Tico] And snow coming down,
and KGB and CIA,
1584
01:08:09,593 --> 01:08:11,595
and the lady who handled Cuba
right next to me
1585
01:08:11,678 --> 01:08:12,888
and the sleigh horses.
1586
01:08:12,971 --> 01:08:13,972
It was like a movie.
1587
01:08:14,848 --> 01:08:19,769
[Jon] We were very aware
that we were being watched
1588
01:08:19,853 --> 01:08:24,232
and if you had a western
rock and roll record,
1589
01:08:24,357 --> 01:08:25,734
you could be imprisoned.
1590
01:08:26,109 --> 01:08:29,070
The only way that folks had heard of
Bon Jovi is on the black market.
1591
01:08:29,446 --> 01:08:31,573
We were, like, officially sanctioned
by the government
1592
01:08:31,656 --> 01:08:33,825
to come in, although
Billy Joel went, you know,
1593
01:08:33,909 --> 01:08:35,410
and of... and other bands have gone,
1594
01:08:35,493 --> 01:08:37,162
they didn't go there
with the government's...
1595
01:08:37,913 --> 01:08:39,080
blessing, let's say.
1596
01:08:39,164 --> 01:08:40,999
If anything can be said about Bon Jovi,
1597
01:08:41,082 --> 01:08:42,542
it's we make people smile.
1598
01:08:42,626 --> 01:08:44,377
We make 'em a part of what we do,
1599
01:08:44,461 --> 01:08:46,546
and there's no political overtones to it.
1600
01:08:46,630 --> 01:08:49,591
It's just rock and roll music
and entertainment.
1601
01:08:50,008 --> 01:08:52,219
If that's gonna help bring
the world together.
1602
01:08:52,302 --> 01:08:53,720
I'm the first guy over here.
1603
01:08:54,387 --> 01:08:58,600
[all] Peace and my love and rock and roll.
1604
01:08:59,392 --> 01:09:00,644
So we're going to Russia
1605
01:09:00,894 --> 01:09:02,562
and we're gonna introduce them
to rock and roll.
1606
01:09:02,646 --> 01:09:04,272
[♪ "Born To Be My Baby"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1607
01:09:04,356 --> 01:09:07,692
♪ Na na na na na na na na na na na ♪
1608
01:09:07,776 --> 01:09:09,319
♪ Na na na na na na ♪
1609
01:09:09,402 --> 01:09:12,030
{\an8}The message to the youth
will be a little bit different
1610
01:09:12,113 --> 01:09:14,449
{\an8}than it was 20 years ago for Woodstock,
1611
01:09:14,533 --> 01:09:17,953
and I'm really proud that
they've all taken their time and effort
1612
01:09:18,036 --> 01:09:20,914
and their support to help the foundation
1613
01:09:20,997 --> 01:09:24,167
to bring awareness to kids
on drug and alcohol abuse.
1614
01:09:24,626 --> 01:09:26,169
[Jon] I remember parts of the plane ride
1615
01:09:26,253 --> 01:09:30,507
and it was egocentric lunacy.
1616
01:09:30,590 --> 01:09:34,761
There was real debauchery
going on in-in the back
1617
01:09:34,845 --> 01:09:37,430
with booze and drugs,
and we were going there
1618
01:09:37,514 --> 01:09:41,184
to do a anti-drug concert,
and there was...
1619
01:09:41,268 --> 01:09:42,644
{\an8}We're starting to get rowdy at this point.
1620
01:09:42,769 --> 01:09:44,020
{\an8}Yeah, man, we're starting
to get rowdy and you know,
1621
01:09:44,104 --> 01:09:45,230
{\an8}of course there's no alcohol
1622
01:09:45,313 --> 01:09:46,857
{\an8}or anything like that on this plane, so...
1623
01:09:46,940 --> 01:09:48,191
{\an8}Obviously not.
1624
01:09:48,275 --> 01:09:50,235
♪ Beats like a drum all night ♪
1625
01:09:50,318 --> 01:09:51,736
♪ Flesh to flesh ♪
1626
01:09:51,820 --> 01:09:53,738
[Jon] No one's sleeping,
everybody's walking around.
1627
01:09:53,822 --> 01:09:55,949
It's, uh, two o'clock in the morning
1628
01:09:56,032 --> 01:09:57,284
{\an8}and we're all, like, pretty delirious
1629
01:09:57,367 --> 01:09:58,577
{\an8}'cause we've been held up, you know,
1630
01:09:58,660 --> 01:10:00,579
on the runway and in the airport.
1631
01:10:01,621 --> 01:10:03,498
[Doc] Now, did we think it was
gonna change the world?
1632
01:10:03,582 --> 01:10:06,293
Did we think it was gonna...
the Wall was gonna come down
1633
01:10:06,376 --> 01:10:08,211
and that they were gonna let us do this?
1634
01:10:09,212 --> 01:10:10,338
No.
1635
01:10:10,422 --> 01:10:12,007
[helicopter whirring]
1636
01:10:12,090 --> 01:10:15,093
[crowd cheering]
1637
01:10:16,178 --> 01:10:18,430
[Desmond] We went to this stadium
1638
01:10:18,513 --> 01:10:22,601
that was one of the biggest structures
I'd ever seen in my life.
1639
01:10:22,684 --> 01:10:25,437
It was a, um, variety show
1640
01:10:25,937 --> 01:10:27,647
because you had Ozzy Osbourne.
1641
01:10:27,814 --> 01:10:29,900
[Ozzy Osbourne] Go, go, go, go...
1642
01:10:31,568 --> 01:10:34,321
Mötley Crüe was there,
of course, famously.
1643
01:10:34,946 --> 01:10:37,157
[Vince Neil] How many girls
we have in here today?
1644
01:10:39,034 --> 01:10:42,412
And the Scorpions, I just
remember that just so clearly.
1645
01:10:42,495 --> 01:10:44,915
[crowd cheering]
1646
01:10:48,835 --> 01:10:50,712
There were so many people there,
1647
01:10:51,046 --> 01:10:55,217
and you could just feel
that desperation to be free.
1648
01:10:56,468 --> 01:11:00,347
[Tico] There is a magic
to music that curtails
1649
01:11:00,430 --> 01:11:03,266
anything political,
anything bad in the world.
1650
01:11:03,975 --> 01:11:06,269
It's the most spiritual thing
in the world, I believe,
1651
01:11:07,229 --> 01:11:08,271
and we saw it there.
1652
01:11:12,442 --> 01:11:15,737
If you wanna make it a better world,
you start with yourselves.
1653
01:11:18,114 --> 01:11:19,658
And in the name of friendship
1654
01:11:20,575 --> 01:11:22,786
and good God blessed rock and roll,
1655
01:11:23,495 --> 01:11:24,746
this is for you.
1656
01:11:24,829 --> 01:11:26,331
It's called Blood on Blood.
1657
01:11:27,749 --> 01:11:31,211
[♪ "Blood on Blood" by Bon Jovi playing]
1658
01:11:34,714 --> 01:11:36,675
One, two, three, four!
1659
01:11:42,305 --> 01:11:45,308
[David] You're looking like everybody
you thought would be a monster,
1660
01:11:45,392 --> 01:11:46,977
'cause that's all you've ever been taught.
1661
01:11:47,060 --> 01:11:48,478
They kind of looked like us.
1662
01:11:48,562 --> 01:11:49,563
They were humans.
1663
01:11:50,105 --> 01:11:51,273
You know, all this whole thing
1664
01:11:51,356 --> 01:11:52,607
that you've had in your head,
1665
01:11:52,732 --> 01:11:53,859
it was... it's just people.
1666
01:11:55,068 --> 01:11:57,279
[Tico] They were just
like any other crowd.
1667
01:11:57,571 --> 01:11:58,822
They were exuberant.
1668
01:11:58,905 --> 01:12:01,408
Imagine having your first glass of water
1669
01:12:01,533 --> 01:12:03,618
after walking a desert
for your whole life.
1670
01:12:04,035 --> 01:12:05,787
They'd never experienced
anything like that before.
1671
01:12:05,871 --> 01:12:08,748
♪ Blood on blood ♪
1672
01:12:09,207 --> 01:12:10,667
♪ One on one ♪
1673
01:12:13,169 --> 01:12:17,883
♪ We'd still be standing
when all was said and done ♪
1674
01:12:18,592 --> 01:12:20,051
[Richie] I mean, that astounded me
at first.
1675
01:12:20,135 --> 01:12:21,887
I couldn't believe it,
you know what I mean?
1676
01:12:22,179 --> 01:12:23,680
These people couldn't sing English, man,
1677
01:12:23,763 --> 01:12:24,973
but they were singin' our lyrics.
1678
01:12:26,683 --> 01:12:28,894
[Doc] It's that emotional connection.
1679
01:12:28,977 --> 01:12:32,272
It's that honesty that moves
to the heart of the people
1680
01:12:32,355 --> 01:12:35,775
and gave them some hope.
1681
01:12:35,859 --> 01:12:39,905
♪ And I'll be there for you
till kingdom come ♪
1682
01:12:40,488 --> 01:12:43,241
[Jon] The music isn't
dissimilar from sport
1683
01:12:43,325 --> 01:12:45,619
in that it's tribal.
1684
01:12:45,702 --> 01:12:47,787
You're finding that one common thread
1685
01:12:47,871 --> 01:12:50,123
that you have with people
from all different walks of life.
1686
01:12:50,207 --> 01:12:52,709
I've seen that languages don't matter,
1687
01:12:53,418 --> 01:12:55,545
and that to me is something beautiful
1688
01:12:55,629 --> 01:12:57,797
about the power of music.
1689
01:12:58,173 --> 01:12:59,257
It's universal.
1690
01:12:59,799 --> 01:13:04,930
-[♪ rock music playing]
-[crowd cheering]
1691
01:13:26,243 --> 01:13:30,288
[Phil X] There are shows where something
just really magical happens
1692
01:13:30,372 --> 01:13:33,583
with all seven members on stage.
1693
01:13:34,543 --> 01:13:37,462
{\an8}It's on stage, man,
'cause the fans, you know what,
1694
01:13:37,546 --> 01:13:41,007
{\an8}there's kids, kids that know
more lyrics than I do,
1695
01:13:41,508 --> 01:13:43,927
{\an8}and that's, that's good parenting,
1696
01:13:44,177 --> 01:13:45,929
{\an8}but the whole point is...
1697
01:13:46,012 --> 01:13:47,681
[Jon laughing]
1698
01:13:47,764 --> 01:13:49,224
[Phil] ...what we're spreading
this message
1699
01:13:49,307 --> 01:13:51,852
that's been spread for 30-something years
1700
01:13:51,935 --> 01:13:53,228
-and we just keep...
-[Jon] Forty.
1701
01:13:53,311 --> 01:13:54,479
[Phil] Forty years next year.
1702
01:13:54,563 --> 01:13:56,273
I met super fans,
1703
01:13:56,356 --> 01:13:58,608
and it's something about Bon Jovi
1704
01:13:58,692 --> 01:14:00,902
that changed their life for the better
1705
01:14:00,986 --> 01:14:02,612
or saved their life.
1706
01:14:02,696 --> 01:14:04,948
There was a lyric in a song or...
1707
01:14:06,074 --> 01:14:07,617
a Jon Bon Jovi's smile.
1708
01:14:07,701 --> 01:14:10,328
Something did something to them that
1709
01:14:10,412 --> 01:14:12,330
they have to see their band
1710
01:14:12,414 --> 01:14:13,498
as often as possible,
1711
01:14:13,582 --> 01:14:14,875
and I don't think that's crazy.
1712
01:14:14,958 --> 01:14:16,751
I think that everybody has
different passions.
1713
01:14:16,835 --> 01:14:20,213
People build model cars, people parachute.
1714
01:14:20,755 --> 01:14:23,383
These people love ju-just going
to Bon Jovi concerts.
1715
01:14:23,466 --> 01:14:24,593
So that's pretty amazing.
1716
01:14:39,608 --> 01:14:41,067
[Jon] Well, we're not at the end yet.
1717
01:14:41,610 --> 01:14:45,405
I'm not gonna be able to give
you an honest answer for a week or two,
1718
01:14:45,906 --> 01:14:48,283
but where I think I am today,
1719
01:14:48,867 --> 01:14:50,994
when I'm good, I'm great,
1720
01:14:51,745 --> 01:14:55,665
but I don't feel like I got everything
in the arsenal.
1721
01:14:59,878 --> 01:15:01,922
Were you with me then
when I used to do this?
1722
01:15:05,550 --> 01:15:08,845
I'm thinking about starting
the show black.
1723
01:15:08,929 --> 01:15:10,222
[engineer] Okay.
1724
01:15:10,305 --> 01:15:13,642
I jump up, acapella Prayer.
1725
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:20,732
Let them sing it.
Keep just lights on me only.
1726
01:15:20,815 --> 01:15:22,234
No-No black up there.
1727
01:15:22,317 --> 01:15:23,318
[engineer] Okay.
1728
01:15:23,401 --> 01:15:24,694
Me and this fucking audience.
1729
01:15:24,778 --> 01:15:26,446
[engineer] So, house lights go,
and you-you pop up.
1730
01:15:26,530 --> 01:15:28,573
-I walk up there, then you hit me.
-[engineer] Yep.
1731
01:15:28,657 --> 01:15:30,492
You know, I could give you
a thumbs up or something.
1732
01:15:30,575 --> 01:15:33,662
-[engineer] Yep.
-Adulation, adulation for however long.
1733
01:15:33,745 --> 01:15:36,665
-[engineer] Yep.
-Acapella, they start singing it,
1734
01:15:36,748 --> 01:15:38,583
band starts playing, then it's your show.
1735
01:15:38,667 --> 01:15:39,876
[engineer] Then you walk. Awesome.
1736
01:15:40,460 --> 01:15:43,755
[Jon] My speedball's not...
it's not quite there.
1737
01:15:44,506 --> 01:15:46,591
Does that mean it's not coming back?
1738
01:15:47,300 --> 01:15:51,638
Or does that mean I just have
to stick with the plan?
1739
01:15:52,848 --> 01:15:56,518
If somebody could tell me,
factually, the best you can do
1740
01:15:56,601 --> 01:15:58,311
is 100% of 80%,
1741
01:15:59,145 --> 01:16:00,355
then I gotta walk away.
1742
01:16:00,438 --> 01:16:02,482
[inaudible]
1743
01:16:05,861 --> 01:16:08,029
-[David] That's it, motherfucker.
-[clapping]
1744
01:16:08,113 --> 01:16:09,656
-Don't hurt me. [laughs]
-[Tico] Yeah!
1745
01:16:11,032 --> 01:16:12,492
-[Tico] Oh, yeah.
-I'm back, motherfucker.
1746
01:16:12,576 --> 01:16:15,120
-[Tico] I know you are.
-[David] Stand, stand down.
1747
01:16:15,203 --> 01:16:16,746
[indistinct chatter]
1748
01:16:17,205 --> 01:16:18,915
[David] Oh, that's a good one.
1749
01:16:19,624 --> 01:16:21,251
Fuck, he's old.
1750
01:16:22,460 --> 01:16:24,588
[Jon] I don't have a Messiah complex,
1751
01:16:25,172 --> 01:16:27,465
which some guys get stuck in.
1752
01:16:28,842 --> 01:16:30,760
No, I'm not looking for that,
1753
01:16:31,761 --> 01:16:33,972
but I have come to realize...
1754
01:16:35,807 --> 01:16:37,017
[sighs]
1755
01:16:37,100 --> 01:16:39,519
[♪ pensive music playing]
1756
01:16:45,650 --> 01:16:47,527
I am not letting you see me...
1757
01:16:48,111 --> 01:16:49,237
Um...
1758
01:16:51,281 --> 01:16:52,741
I have come to realize that...
1759
01:16:54,201 --> 01:16:55,285
[sighs]
1760
01:16:59,581 --> 01:17:02,334
I used to say to the band, "Just trust me
1761
01:17:04,002 --> 01:17:06,254
"and I'll take us where we need to go,
1762
01:17:07,714 --> 01:17:10,717
"but you gotta put your
whole fucking everything
1763
01:17:11,218 --> 01:17:13,303
into what I'm gonna do."
1764
01:17:17,516 --> 01:17:18,934
Those people who hear that...
1765
01:17:22,604 --> 01:17:23,605
[sighs]
1766
01:17:25,774 --> 01:17:29,069
I never bullshitted them, you know, so...
1767
01:17:29,736 --> 01:17:32,447
[♪ pensive music continues]
1768
01:17:44,751 --> 01:17:47,337
Anyway, that's why the legacy matters,
1769
01:17:47,420 --> 01:17:50,131
'cause they believe it.
1770
01:17:52,717 --> 01:17:54,553
So I believe it.
1771
01:17:56,179 --> 01:17:57,222
I love y'all.
1772
01:17:57,305 --> 01:17:58,431
-Love you back.
-Love you too.
1773
01:17:58,515 --> 01:17:59,766
Play with love tonight.
1774
01:18:02,102 --> 01:18:05,647
[band cheering and applauding]
1775
01:18:12,863 --> 01:18:15,949
-[crowd cheering]
-[♪ solemn music playing]
1776
01:18:24,416 --> 01:18:26,376
♪♪
1777
01:18:39,848 --> 01:18:42,517
[crowd cheering]
1778
01:18:54,446 --> 01:19:01,411
♪ We got to hold on ♪
1779
01:19:02,078 --> 01:19:04,206
♪ To what we've got ♪
1780
01:19:04,289 --> 01:19:08,084
♪ It doesn't make a difference
if we make it or not ♪
1781
01:19:08,168 --> 01:19:13,381
♪ We got each other
and that's a lot for love ♪
1782
01:19:14,216 --> 01:19:16,426
♪ We'll give it a shot ♪
1783
01:19:16,510 --> 01:19:18,094
[♪ "Livin' on a Prayer"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1784
01:19:18,178 --> 01:19:21,348
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1785
01:19:21,431 --> 01:19:24,935
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1786
01:19:25,018 --> 01:19:28,980
♪ Take my hand we'll make it I swear ♪
1787
01:19:29,064 --> 01:19:32,859
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1788
01:19:32,943 --> 01:19:36,655
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1789
01:19:36,738 --> 01:19:40,408
♪♪
1790
01:19:52,963 --> 01:19:57,259
♪ We've gotta hold on you ready or not ♪
1791
01:19:57,342 --> 01:20:01,096
♪ You live for the fight
when that's all that you've got ♪
1792
01:20:01,179 --> 01:20:04,474
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1793
01:20:04,558 --> 01:20:08,520
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1794
01:20:08,603 --> 01:20:12,482
♪ Take my hand, we'll make it, I swear ♪
1795
01:20:12,607 --> 01:20:16,570
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1796
01:20:16,653 --> 01:20:20,240
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1797
01:20:20,323 --> 01:20:24,035
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1798
01:20:24,369 --> 01:20:28,123
[crowd] ♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1799
01:20:28,206 --> 01:20:32,294
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1800
01:20:34,462 --> 01:20:37,215
{\an8}[crowd cheering]
1801
01:20:43,597 --> 01:20:46,224
[♪ downbeat music playing]
1802
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:22,135
Like Humpty Dumpty, man.
1803
01:21:22,219 --> 01:21:24,429
-Aw.
-Back together.
1804
01:21:24,513 --> 01:21:25,764
[Jon] That was really fun.
1805
01:21:26,431 --> 01:21:27,891
-You were amazing.
-[Jon] Thank you.
1806
01:21:28,475 --> 01:21:29,768
Yeah, yeah.
1807
01:21:29,851 --> 01:21:30,852
Ready to drink?
1808
01:21:30,936 --> 01:21:31,937
[Jon] That was fucking awesome.
1809
01:21:32,020 --> 01:21:33,063
[band laughing]
1810
01:21:33,146 --> 01:21:34,231
That's the way to leave 'em.
1811
01:21:34,314 --> 01:21:35,774
-Yeah.
-Wanting more.
1812
01:21:36,900 --> 01:21:40,153
[♪ downbeat music playing]
1813
01:21:47,536 --> 01:21:48,662
[sighs]
1814
01:21:55,627 --> 01:21:58,964
[crowd cheering]
1815
01:22:01,132 --> 01:22:02,884
[Jon] By the end of the New Jersey tour,
1816
01:22:03,635 --> 01:22:04,886
we're in Mexico.
1817
01:22:05,804 --> 01:22:08,640
It's show 239 and 240...
1818
01:22:08,723 --> 01:22:11,434
[crowd chanting in Spanish]
1819
01:22:11,518 --> 01:22:15,021
[Jon] ...and there is
a uprising at a college.
1820
01:22:16,314 --> 01:22:17,357
Riots.
1821
01:22:18,733 --> 01:22:21,111
[crowd] [chanting] Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi,
1822
01:22:21,194 --> 01:22:24,030
Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi...
1823
01:22:24,114 --> 01:22:25,240
Yes, this is the end of it.
1824
01:22:25,323 --> 01:22:27,075
This is the very last show as we're hoping
1825
01:22:27,158 --> 01:22:29,911
that we, uh, we get to have
our last shows here.
1826
01:22:29,995 --> 01:22:33,832
And the students come in
and take over the stadium
1827
01:22:34,457 --> 01:22:38,295
and barricade everybody,
and the band's still at the hotel.
1828
01:22:38,670 --> 01:22:40,547
The band is here. We want to play.
1829
01:22:40,630 --> 01:22:42,966
It's just a matter of them
working out the politics.
1830
01:22:43,049 --> 01:22:45,051
They don't want the show to happen
1831
01:22:45,135 --> 01:22:48,263
because of the disagreement
they're having with the university.
1832
01:22:48,346 --> 01:22:50,265
It's nothing against Bon Jovi.
1833
01:22:50,348 --> 01:22:52,434
[indistinct chatter]
1834
01:22:53,727 --> 01:22:55,979
There's... they're starting
to gather people.
1835
01:22:56,062 --> 01:22:59,107
There's audience with their tickets
that they're getting,
1836
01:22:59,191 --> 01:23:00,942
starting to get a little bit pissed off.
1837
01:23:02,444 --> 01:23:05,071
[Doc] So I have to go
and negotiate with the students
1838
01:23:05,155 --> 01:23:06,865
who are in masks and baseball bats.
1839
01:23:06,948 --> 01:23:12,495
See if we can get the
Juan Carlos and th-the Federation people
1840
01:23:12,579 --> 01:23:14,331
to meet me in my hotel in my room,
1841
01:23:14,414 --> 01:23:15,874
and we'll work,
and we'll work it out there
1842
01:23:15,957 --> 01:23:17,792
because otherwise we're going home.
1843
01:23:17,876 --> 01:23:20,170
[Jon] Although they were
doing their job
1844
01:23:20,253 --> 01:23:23,882
and trying to assure us
that everything would be alright,
1845
01:23:23,965 --> 01:23:27,511
there was, um, a lot of confusion.
1846
01:23:27,594 --> 01:23:31,890
You know, suddenly we were
important men making decisions,
1847
01:23:31,973 --> 01:23:34,434
but really we were just scared boys
with a lot of money.
1848
01:23:40,106 --> 01:23:42,025
[Jon] I'm not rolling. We're not rolling,
just listening.
1849
01:23:42,108 --> 01:23:43,193
[Obie] When you're together like that,
1850
01:23:43,276 --> 01:23:45,195
that becomes your second family.
1851
01:23:45,278 --> 01:23:47,322
Sometimes it's your first family.
1852
01:23:47,614 --> 01:23:49,699
Sometimes families get dysfunctional.
1853
01:23:51,076 --> 01:23:53,703
Was it my favorite time
in the music business?
1854
01:23:53,787 --> 01:23:55,997
No, it wasn't.
1855
01:23:57,374 --> 01:23:59,251
[band member] I love it here,
but get me the fuck out.
1856
01:24:00,335 --> 01:24:03,338
[Richie] That's five men in close quarters
that are not supposed to...
1857
01:24:03,421 --> 01:24:06,842
We took vacations together,
we were idiots.
1858
01:24:06,925 --> 01:24:10,846
It was ri-ridiculous that we did
all that kind of stuff.
1859
01:24:10,929 --> 01:24:12,681
[Tico] If you're on a merry-go-round
and you're still
1860
01:24:12,764 --> 01:24:15,475
on a merry-go-round
for so long, you get dizzy.
1861
01:24:15,559 --> 01:24:17,185
So we got dizzy, you know?
1862
01:24:17,269 --> 01:24:19,396
It was at a point where
it could break up the band.
1863
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:21,231
[Richie] A lot of stuff goes on, you know,
1864
01:24:21,314 --> 01:24:23,608
divorces, deaths, births,
1865
01:24:24,067 --> 01:24:27,320
you know, like the real stuff
that happens to a band also.
1866
01:24:27,404 --> 01:24:29,155
That's what people don't understand,
1867
01:24:29,239 --> 01:24:32,117
how complicated that whole band is,
1868
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:34,369
like, be it the band concept itself.
1869
01:24:41,334 --> 01:24:43,086
[Richie] Imagine abomination number one,
1870
01:24:43,336 --> 01:24:44,671
we're all sick of each other
1871
01:24:44,754 --> 01:24:47,549
and at that point, you know, pff,
1872
01:24:47,632 --> 01:24:49,301
everybody was getting pretty hammered.
1873
01:24:55,098 --> 01:24:56,975
[band member] Make a difference,
yeah, make a difference.
1874
01:25:01,771 --> 01:25:04,774
[David] After Slippery happened,
now you're the biggest thing in the world.
1875
01:25:04,858 --> 01:25:06,067
That's four more years
1876
01:25:06,151 --> 01:25:11,114
of nonstop fame, fortune, and gigs.
1877
01:25:11,198 --> 01:25:14,284
You know, it just was taking a toll on,
you know, a couple of the guys.
1878
01:25:27,923 --> 01:25:29,674
[David laughing]
1879
01:25:30,592 --> 01:25:33,595
[Jon] Alec is a drunk mess.
Tico is a drunk mess.
1880
01:25:33,678 --> 01:25:35,305
I want to get the hell out of there.
1881
01:25:35,555 --> 01:25:36,598
Everybody's seen enough of me.
1882
01:25:36,723 --> 01:25:39,017
My mom's seen me enough,
I seen enough of me.
1883
01:25:39,434 --> 01:25:40,477
Go away.
1884
01:25:44,481 --> 01:25:47,734
[Jon] So we went back to McGhee
and said, "How about this?"
1885
01:25:48,235 --> 01:25:50,820
A matinee and a night show,
1886
01:25:51,363 --> 01:25:53,073
just to get out of here.
1887
01:25:53,949 --> 01:25:55,784
[Richie] Let's do two shows the next day
1888
01:25:55,867 --> 01:25:57,202
and then you'll hit the bricks,
1889
01:25:57,285 --> 01:25:59,079
and, uh, we're all,
1890
01:25:59,162 --> 01:26:00,497
we're gung-ho for that one.
1891
01:26:00,580 --> 01:26:01,748
[Jon] [over radio] [indistinct]
1892
01:26:01,831 --> 01:26:03,083
We're doing two shows tomorrow.
1893
01:26:03,166 --> 01:26:04,417
First one's 11:30 a.m.
1894
01:26:04,501 --> 01:26:07,212
You're saying we open the show,
we play at 11:30?
1895
01:26:07,838 --> 01:26:09,548
[Jon] Yeah. Re-regardless.
1896
01:26:10,507 --> 01:26:11,508
Alright.
1897
01:26:12,968 --> 01:26:15,428
Go ahead. There's nothing new
you could throw at us.
1898
01:26:15,512 --> 01:26:16,513
We-We have it all.
1899
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:18,348
-We've done it all.
-We've done it all.
1900
01:26:18,723 --> 01:26:22,102
I'm not postponing, 'cause
I'm not staying here for another minute.
1901
01:26:23,019 --> 01:26:26,982
Wimp band. Can only do two shows
in one day, not three, right?
1902
01:26:28,191 --> 01:26:29,317
Love that.
1903
01:26:30,443 --> 01:26:31,736
That's why we're here.
1904
01:26:32,571 --> 01:26:33,864
[laughter]
1905
01:26:33,947 --> 01:26:35,365
We have no idea why we're here.
1906
01:26:38,535 --> 01:26:42,622
[crowd chanting]
1907
01:26:45,917 --> 01:26:49,337
[crowd cheering]
1908
01:26:51,715 --> 01:26:56,887
[Jon speaking Spanish]
1909
01:27:00,182 --> 01:27:02,225
[Doc] I don't know how we got
through those two shows,
1910
01:27:02,309 --> 01:27:03,810
but everybody was pretty hammered.
1911
01:27:04,686 --> 01:27:07,147
[Tico] There was
margarita makers on stage.
1912
01:27:07,230 --> 01:27:10,066
All we did was drink through
the whole afternoon show
1913
01:27:10,150 --> 01:27:11,443
and the whole evening show.
1914
01:27:12,694 --> 01:27:14,613
[Doc] It wasn't the fun tour.
1915
01:27:14,696 --> 01:27:18,200
You know, sometimes it's just,
you just move apart,
1916
01:27:18,283 --> 01:27:21,328
and you lose the theme.
1917
01:27:21,828 --> 01:27:23,205
It's not us against the world,
1918
01:27:23,288 --> 01:27:25,332
it's me against the you guys
and everybody.
1919
01:27:25,707 --> 01:27:28,210
Couple more shows. Ah!
1920
01:27:28,960 --> 01:27:33,965
We hang out at the venue
to get the stadium crowd out,
1921
01:27:34,049 --> 01:27:37,802
to get another stadium crowd
in to perform the night show.
1922
01:27:38,303 --> 01:27:41,389
[crowd cheering]
1923
01:27:41,556 --> 01:27:43,183
This is the final show...
1924
01:27:45,685 --> 01:27:47,604
and after 20 countries,
1925
01:27:48,897 --> 01:27:51,149
three million and some odd people,
1926
01:27:53,068 --> 01:27:56,071
a lot of cold beer and warm nights...
1927
01:27:58,406 --> 01:28:00,951
I learned a long time ago
from a guy on TV,
1928
01:28:01,034 --> 01:28:05,121
you never say goodbye,
you just say goodnight.
1929
01:28:07,707 --> 01:28:10,961
[Doc] My job was to make them the best
entertainers in the world...
1930
01:28:12,254 --> 01:28:15,048
and they became some of
the best entertainers in the world.
1931
01:28:17,717 --> 01:28:21,221
[Jon] From inception through 1990
1932
01:28:21,304 --> 01:28:23,890
was that rocket ship to success.
1933
01:28:23,974 --> 01:28:25,976
It was everything you'd ever dreamed of
1934
01:28:26,059 --> 01:28:29,229
and were willing to sacrifice
to get to that place
1935
01:28:29,312 --> 01:28:30,897
that you thought was the it.
1936
01:28:32,399 --> 01:28:36,695
It was being on the precipice of what was
1937
01:28:36,778 --> 01:28:41,074
to become greatness and longevity
1938
01:28:41,575 --> 01:28:45,287
or falling backwards and being the end.
1939
01:28:46,329 --> 01:28:48,081
[Doc] And now there's
nothing else to prove.
1940
01:28:48,164 --> 01:28:51,251
What is it, just another
better record or go tour again,
1941
01:28:51,459 --> 01:28:53,253
you know what I mean? 'Cause you're not
doing anything
1942
01:28:53,336 --> 01:28:54,796
but you're unhappy.
1943
01:28:55,547 --> 01:28:58,592
[Jon] In and of the moment
for the New Jersey album,
1944
01:28:58,675 --> 01:29:02,387
I wish that those in control,
whether it was the managers,
1945
01:29:02,470 --> 01:29:06,224
the lawyers, the agents would've said,
1946
01:29:06,308 --> 01:29:08,768
"Hey, guys, I believe in you.
1947
01:29:09,728 --> 01:29:12,314
We're gonna take another year off,"
1948
01:29:12,856 --> 01:29:15,609
as opposed to, "Get out there
and do it again."
1949
01:29:16,359 --> 01:29:19,321
Just because we said we could
didn't mean that we should.
1950
01:29:22,115 --> 01:29:25,493
I never had the thought
that Jon would ever stop,
1951
01:29:25,577 --> 01:29:27,370
I mean, or Bon Jovi would stop.
1952
01:29:27,454 --> 01:29:28,747
Bon Jovi's forever.
1953
01:29:28,830 --> 01:29:30,874
I didn't care. [chuckling]
1954
01:29:30,957 --> 01:29:32,667
I don't think anybody cared
if the band was over.
1955
01:29:33,710 --> 01:29:35,170
[Richie] Ah, you just wanted to go home
1956
01:29:35,420 --> 01:29:37,797
and have some assemblance
of order in your life.
1957
01:29:37,923 --> 01:29:39,841
You know, it was
one of those moments where,
1958
01:29:39,925 --> 01:29:42,844
"Get me the fuck home."
1959
01:29:43,678 --> 01:29:45,180
[David] We just gotta go the fuck home.
1960
01:29:45,263 --> 01:29:47,057
Everybody's fucking exhausted,
1961
01:29:47,140 --> 01:29:49,601
and then that was the first time
we ever stopped.
1962
01:29:51,102 --> 01:29:54,731
We were done, so I'm like,
"I want to get the fuck outta here,"
1963
01:29:55,607 --> 01:29:59,027
and what I meant was out of Bon Jovi.
1964
01:30:00,028 --> 01:30:01,279
[Doc] Did he work hard?
1965
01:30:01,363 --> 01:30:05,033
Did I book him in a really aggressive way?
1966
01:30:05,742 --> 01:30:06,826
Absolutely.
1967
01:30:07,994 --> 01:30:09,412
This isn't poor Jon.
1968
01:30:10,413 --> 01:30:12,958
This is his gig. This is what he does.
1969
01:30:15,252 --> 01:30:18,797
[Jon] He was working the band against me,
1970
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,341
me against the band, playing all sides,
1971
01:30:21,424 --> 01:30:24,469
and not for the betterment of the band.
1972
01:30:26,888 --> 01:30:28,557
[Doc] I said, "Listen, you got a problem.
1973
01:30:29,641 --> 01:30:30,851
You know, you can always..."
1974
01:30:30,934 --> 01:30:32,310
You know, he was just like my son.
1975
01:30:33,019 --> 01:30:36,439
"You know, you can call me,"
and he said to me,
1976
01:30:36,523 --> 01:30:37,732
"What if you're the problem?"
1977
01:30:39,609 --> 01:30:42,779
[♪ "Wild Is the Wind" by Bon Jovi playing]
1978
01:30:52,372 --> 01:30:55,917
♪ I tried to make you happy ♪
1979
01:30:56,376 --> 01:31:01,298
♪ Lord knows I tried so hard to be ♪
1980
01:31:01,590 --> 01:31:04,593
♪ What you hoped that I would be ♪
1981
01:31:04,676 --> 01:31:07,971
♪ I gave you what you wanted ♪
1982
01:31:08,763 --> 01:31:13,518
♪ God couldn't give you what you need ♪
1983
01:31:13,602 --> 01:31:15,520
♪ You wanted more from me ♪
1984
01:31:15,604 --> 01:31:17,606
♪ Than I could ever be ♪
1985
01:31:17,689 --> 01:31:19,816
♪ You wanted heart and soul ♪
1986
01:31:19,900 --> 01:31:22,485
♪ But you didn't know, baby ♪
1987
01:31:22,569 --> 01:31:25,447
♪ Wild ♪
1988
01:31:25,530 --> 01:31:27,282
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1989
01:31:27,365 --> 01:31:31,578
♪ That takes me away from you ♪
1990
01:31:31,661 --> 01:31:35,207
♪ Cold is the night without your love ♪
1991
01:31:35,290 --> 01:31:38,752
♪ To see me through ♪
1992
01:31:39,502 --> 01:31:43,840
♪ And, baby, wild ♪
1993
01:31:43,924 --> 01:31:45,634
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1994
01:31:45,717 --> 01:31:50,805
♪ That blows through my heart, oh ♪
1995
01:31:51,431 --> 01:31:54,309
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1996
01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:58,146
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1997
01:31:59,231 --> 01:32:03,151
♪ You got to understand, baby ♪
1998
01:32:03,693 --> 01:32:06,655
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1999
01:32:09,991 --> 01:32:13,495
♪ You need someone to hold you ♪
2000
01:32:14,204 --> 01:32:19,000
♪ Somebody to be there night and day ♪
2001
01:32:19,084 --> 01:32:21,920
♪ Someone to kiss your fears away ♪
2002
01:32:22,420 --> 01:32:25,841
♪ I just went on pretending ♪
2003
01:32:26,174 --> 01:32:30,554
♪ Too weak, too proud, too tough to say ♪
2004
01:32:31,179 --> 01:32:33,265
♪ I couldn't be the one ♪
2005
01:32:33,348 --> 01:32:35,308
♪ To make your dreams come true ♪
2006
01:32:35,392 --> 01:32:37,519
♪ That's why I had to run ♪
2007
01:32:37,602 --> 01:32:40,146
♪ Though I needed you, baby ♪
2008
01:32:40,230 --> 01:32:43,191
♪ Wild ♪
2009
01:32:43,275 --> 01:32:45,068
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
2010
01:32:45,151 --> 01:32:49,322
♪ That takes me away from you ♪
2011
01:32:49,406 --> 01:32:52,951
♪ Cold is the night without your love ♪
2012
01:32:53,034 --> 01:32:56,329
♪ To see me through ♪
2013
01:32:57,539 --> 01:33:01,543
♪ Baby, wild ♪
2014
01:33:01,626 --> 01:33:03,336
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
2015
01:33:03,420 --> 01:33:07,507
♪ That blows through my heart tonight ♪
2016
01:33:07,591 --> 01:33:12,721
♪ And tears us apart, whoa... ♪
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