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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, welcome
to the Johnny Rock Show.
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[Jon] [on phone]
Hey, Johnny, my old 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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You know, we're sort of working it out.
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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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It's not fear, but it is an energy
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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.
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[band clapping]
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Oh, you know, I'm so looking forward
to this. Just to walk on that stage.
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You know, we're like race horses
that are 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 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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[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?
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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
and take it to the band
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and then we make records.
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[Richie Sambora] Jon, you said
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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Obviously, everybody has
their own perception
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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.
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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- 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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[Doc McGhee] My job is to 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
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 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
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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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,
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, 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
with a Los Angeles band called Ratt.
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[announcer] LA's newest,
hottest band, Ratt.
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Performances were so raw
and so energetic.
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[Jon] Not bad for a bunch
of kids from New Jersey.
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What do you guys think?
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[Obie O'Brien] And then you hear
the audience responding to them.
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You go, man, th-there's
something happening here,
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and that's early on.
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[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 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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- [Alan] Great.
- [Klaus Meine] California,
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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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00:17:02,731 --> 00:17:03,815
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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As far as the new album's concerned,
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we're gonna do the Japanese tour,
come home for three weeks,
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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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[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
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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00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:50,756
♪ Come on, come on ♪
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♪ Get ready ♪
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00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:54,885
♪ 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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Yeah, fortunately. I'm-I'm glad somebody
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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[Jon]
Doc McGhee took us to Europe.
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We opened for Kiss
in the no-makeup stage.
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[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.
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I am, as you are,
impatient for results.
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00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,121
[Obie] He would do a show
and record it live
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and send it to me,
and I would mix it.
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Then he actually did
his second record at my studio
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in Philadelphia
at The Warehouse.
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[Jon] Last album, uh, was
a feeling of writing songs.
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I was writing a lot from point of view
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of a, a kid in New Jersey.
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You know, you're writing
from only a limited background.
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We write. In fact, David
and I co-wrote the first single,
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and it barely breaks the top 40.
482
00:20:30,981 --> 00:20:33,233
And it was just like, "Oh,
let's go write some more songs quick
483
00:20:33,233 --> 00:20:34,443
because people have heard of us."
484
00:20:34,443 --> 00:20:36,737
Let's get another album
in their face right away.
485
00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:40,240
And instead of taking
our time and thinking it out
486
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,160
and letting the songs really breathe,
487
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,953
we really, really rushed.
488
00:20:44,953 --> 00:20:48,040
Your brand new LP is called
7800 Degrees Fahrenheit.
489
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,668
That, by the way, is the temperature
which rock melts.
490
00:20:51,668 --> 00:20:52,753
Cute, huh?
491
00:20:52,753 --> 00:20:55,005
[Tico]
The second record was not great,
492
00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:58,675
and the band was still going
through a lot of growing pains.
493
00:20:59,218 --> 00:21:02,513
[Jon] If you're smart enough to learn
how to play your instrument, check.
494
00:21:03,472 --> 00:21:07,601
You're incredibly fortunate enough
to have written that song, check.
495
00:21:08,185 --> 00:21:11,146
Now I'm supposed to know
how to make a video?
496
00:21:12,147 --> 00:21:13,732
No check. You know?
[chuckling]
497
00:21:13,732 --> 00:21:17,819
[band members shouting incoherently]
498
00:21:17,819 --> 00:21:19,738
[band member]
Where's the video?
499
00:21:19,738 --> 00:21:20,948
[singer]
Where?
500
00:21:20,948 --> 00:21:22,032
[Jon imitating drumroll]
501
00:21:22,032 --> 00:21:23,700
[host] Tell us about your tape
and then put it in.
502
00:21:24,159 --> 00:21:26,703
This is the first video
of our brand new Mercury album.
503
00:21:26,703 --> 00:21:28,288
This is called Runaway.
504
00:21:30,832 --> 00:21:32,793
It was our first video
and what did we know?
505
00:21:32,793 --> 00:21:34,545
And we saw it and we almost died.
506
00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:37,548
[Richie] We made five videos
in our first two records.
507
00:21:38,423 --> 00:21:40,509
We look at 'em and now we say, "What?"
508
00:21:40,509 --> 00:21:43,011
Man, you sold us out.
509
00:21:43,011 --> 00:21:44,263
[David]
What the hell were we doing?
510
00:21:44,263 --> 00:21:45,722
[Richie] We were very naive,
and we didn't know
511
00:21:45,722 --> 00:21:46,849
what the hell to do.
So we like--
512
00:21:46,849 --> 00:21:47,933
[Jon]
Just have to learn.
513
00:21:47,933 --> 00:21:50,227
[Richie] So people are going, "Okay,
wear this and go over there
514
00:21:50,227 --> 00:21:52,604
and act like that," and you go, sure.
515
00:21:52,604 --> 00:21:55,232
Man, they are not nice people.
516
00:21:55,232 --> 00:21:57,192
[Doc]
I said, "What are you?
517
00:21:57,484 --> 00:21:58,735
"You're a fun rock band.
518
00:21:59,194 --> 00:22:02,698
"It can't be,
you're, uh, selling hot dogs
519
00:22:02,698 --> 00:22:05,158
"and then he comes over
and gets out of the car,
520
00:22:05,158 --> 00:22:07,202
and the other guy's a cab driver."
521
00:22:07,202 --> 00:22:08,620
What the fuck is that?
522
00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:12,207
[Jon] For the first videos that
everybody's seen up until now,
523
00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:16,044
um, I can honestly say that I had
nothing to do with whatsoever
524
00:22:16,044 --> 00:22:18,213
because they hire these directors
and storytellers
525
00:22:18,213 --> 00:22:20,048
who have nothing
to do with our songs.
526
00:22:20,591 --> 00:22:22,092
[Richie]
Plus, we looked like crap.
527
00:22:22,092 --> 00:22:24,803
Basically, our whole outfits
were about $20.
528
00:22:25,304 --> 00:22:28,223
We would just take t-shirts
and cut 'em up.
529
00:22:28,223 --> 00:22:31,143
The West Coast stuff,
they were like rock and roll pirates.
530
00:22:31,643 --> 00:22:33,896
So we're like, "Okay,
tie shit on you like a pirate
531
00:22:33,896 --> 00:22:35,397
and wear, like, a pirate shirt."
532
00:22:35,856 --> 00:22:38,984
So I think bands were formulating,
you know, whatever that look was.
533
00:22:39,401 --> 00:22:41,028
[Richie]
The music is the important thing,
534
00:22:41,028 --> 00:22:43,989
not the pictures, not the
album cover, not the videos.
535
00:22:43,989 --> 00:22:47,075
The music is the thing that
the kids are relating to still.
536
00:22:47,367 --> 00:22:49,620
We had a gold record, you know?
I don't know how.
537
00:22:50,162 --> 00:22:52,164
You know? But I guess
Jon wiggled his ass enough
538
00:22:52,164 --> 00:22:56,376
and we played some loud guitars
and had some decent songs.
539
00:22:57,044 --> 00:22:59,880
[Jon] Not my favorite record,
but it did a little bit better.
540
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,674
We went out again on the road
and worked our asses off.
541
00:23:02,674 --> 00:23:07,262
And every night, we're
establishing ourselves as a live band.
542
00:23:07,262 --> 00:23:10,557
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Richie Sambora.
543
00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:14,186
[♪ playing guitar solo of
"In and Out of Love" by Bon Jovi]
544
00:23:20,275 --> 00:23:22,736
Bands like Bon Jovi, they have a sound.
545
00:23:22,736 --> 00:23:26,198
It sounds like them live,
which is different from the record.
546
00:23:26,573 --> 00:23:28,200
[Tico]
We're starting to gel,
547
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,786
but playing it live
is a different game too.
548
00:23:30,786 --> 00:23:33,539
It comes from time and time
and again, you keep doing it,
549
00:23:33,539 --> 00:23:34,623
where we kept getting better.
550
00:23:35,082 --> 00:23:37,751
[♪ thrilling guitar music playing]
551
00:23:37,751 --> 00:23:39,920
[Richie] You know,
the band was a steamroller,
552
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,632
but it wasn't becoming
the alchemy of the band yet.
553
00:23:43,924 --> 00:23:47,302
♪ In and out of love ♪
554
00:23:48,512 --> 00:23:49,930
We've been out since April.
555
00:23:49,930 --> 00:23:52,349
Uh, we hit Japan first,
you know,
556
00:23:52,349 --> 00:23:54,726
and we did, uh, four weeks
of headlining over there
557
00:23:54,726 --> 00:23:56,645
and then we bopped
over here to Europe
558
00:23:56,645 --> 00:23:58,939
for five weeks,
and then we went straight to America.
559
00:23:58,939 --> 00:24:01,233
[interviewer] Yeah, it looks as though
it's not gonna end as well,
560
00:24:01,233 --> 00:24:02,693
you were saying
a moment ago?
561
00:24:03,193 --> 00:24:04,444
[Jon]
No, it could be.
562
00:24:04,444 --> 00:24:06,113
- This is--
- Rumors, rumors.
563
00:24:06,113 --> 00:24:09,324
This is our manager's, uh,
Count de Monet tour, you know?
564
00:24:09,324 --> 00:24:10,617
- [laughs]
- [interviewer] I do.
565
00:24:10,617 --> 00:24:15,372
[Jon] I think, uh, the idea is to finish
the year out in America
566
00:24:15,372 --> 00:24:18,709
and then sit back and think
about a new producer
567
00:24:18,709 --> 00:24:22,629
and take in a-a-a while
to do the next album.
568
00:24:23,589 --> 00:24:24,840
It could have been worse.
569
00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:28,510
The single-minded focus
as to what the, you know,
570
00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:31,138
the vision was didn't happen
until the third album.
571
00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:37,394
[Dean Grillo]
Let's get you sound.
572
00:24:40,230 --> 00:24:41,607
[sharp exhale]
573
00:24:42,566 --> 00:24:45,402
Still got 26 miles to go
on this marathon.
574
00:24:45,402 --> 00:24:46,528
[Jon]
Yeah.
575
00:24:46,528 --> 00:24:50,324
Jon does a lot of work
preparing himself as a person
576
00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:53,035
and as well as preparing
for, for what this is.
577
00:24:54,328 --> 00:24:56,455
How's the body feel
for those couple of runs?
578
00:24:57,456 --> 00:25:01,210
[Jon] You know, calm
before the storm or a little beat up,
579
00:25:01,210 --> 00:25:02,961
- I can't decide.
- [Dean] Okay.
580
00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:05,214
He's very physical out there,
581
00:25:05,214 --> 00:25:07,591
so his whole body has
to be maintained,
582
00:25:07,591 --> 00:25:10,719
but then specifically muscles
that are involved in singing
583
00:25:10,719 --> 00:25:14,348
have to be constantly
loosened and relaxed.
584
00:25:14,348 --> 00:25:15,432
[Jon exhales deeply]
585
00:25:15,432 --> 00:25:17,893
[Dean] When you're out here,
the mental aspect of performing
586
00:25:17,893 --> 00:25:19,978
at this level takes the forefront.
587
00:25:19,978 --> 00:25:22,481
See, this is much better right now
than it was two days ago.
588
00:25:24,149 --> 00:25:25,984
Once those physical needs are met,
589
00:25:25,984 --> 00:25:29,488
nothing else will work in a connected way
590
00:25:29,488 --> 00:25:33,075
without the mind and the spirit aligned.
591
00:25:33,617 --> 00:25:34,785
[Jon sighs]
592
00:25:35,661 --> 00:25:38,080
[Jon] I was watching TV
a couple of weeks ago,
593
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,499
and the talk was,
is that Tiger was coming back.
594
00:25:40,499 --> 00:25:43,377
[commentator]
Tiger Woods, a winner again.
595
00:25:43,377 --> 00:25:45,712
[Jon] He has a horrific,
most likely career-ending,
596
00:25:45,712 --> 00:25:48,966
maybe, you know,
life-changing car accident.
597
00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:53,136
A year later, he shows up
on the podium of the Masters.
598
00:25:53,136 --> 00:25:56,223
The reporter says,
"Are you intending to win the Masters?"
599
00:25:56,223 --> 00:25:57,474
[reporter]
So the question is simple.
600
00:25:57,474 --> 00:25:59,142
Do you think you can win
the Masters this week?
601
00:25:59,142 --> 00:26:00,227
I do.
602
00:26:00,811 --> 00:26:02,855
[Jon] I looked at the TV screen
and I said,
603
00:26:02,855 --> 00:26:04,773
"Of course he's gonna win the Masters.
604
00:26:04,773 --> 00:26:07,276
Of course I'm going
to be great tonight."
605
00:26:07,943 --> 00:26:10,279
- [golf club whipping]
- [crowd cheering]
606
00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:11,655
[speaker]
Alright, Tiger!
607
00:26:12,906 --> 00:26:14,074
[crowd groans]
608
00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:15,993
[Jon]
He didn't win the Masters.
609
00:26:16,451 --> 00:26:19,037
He played his heart out,
it hurt like hell.
610
00:26:19,705 --> 00:26:21,540
Did he put the clubs away and say,
611
00:26:21,540 --> 00:26:23,500
"Oh, well, I'm done?"
612
00:26:25,252 --> 00:26:26,336
No.
613
00:26:26,336 --> 00:26:28,422
[announcer] Tiger wanted
to get to Mount Everest,
614
00:26:28,422 --> 00:26:30,674
but he definitely got to the base camp.
615
00:26:30,674 --> 00:26:31,842
[crowd applauding]
616
00:26:31,842 --> 00:26:36,555
[Jon] I understand what that is
because I too believed
617
00:26:36,555 --> 00:26:38,390
that I was going to be great.
618
00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:40,642
I've put in the time,
I've put in the effort,
619
00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:45,189
and what could be worse than,
it's still not working out?
620
00:26:45,689 --> 00:26:49,902
- [♪ downbeat music playing]
- [indistinct chatter]
621
00:26:49,902 --> 00:26:52,905
[Jon] Here we are,
tonight's show 10 outta 15.
622
00:26:52,905 --> 00:26:55,657
We started this journey asking
about the question of joy
623
00:26:56,575 --> 00:26:59,536
and on show one in Omaha,
Nebraska, there she was.
624
00:26:59,536 --> 00:27:01,788
[crowd cheering]
625
00:27:01,788 --> 00:27:03,624
I remember coming off
the stage that night
626
00:27:03,624 --> 00:27:06,543
and feeling pure joy,
627
00:27:06,543 --> 00:27:08,587
something I hadn't felt much of
628
00:27:08,587 --> 00:27:10,172
in a number of years.
629
00:27:11,298 --> 00:27:12,925
It got a little bit better
the second night.
630
00:27:12,925 --> 00:27:16,720
Her lipstick may have been a little worn,
but she still looked good.
631
00:27:17,429 --> 00:27:20,933
Day three, it's there,
but in-in truth,
632
00:27:20,933 --> 00:27:22,601
I took a couple body blows,
633
00:27:22,601 --> 00:27:25,354
I read some things,
and I don't often do that.
634
00:27:25,354 --> 00:27:27,773
[reporter]
The legendary rock icon Jon Bon Jovi,
635
00:27:27,773 --> 00:27:30,567
who has been rumored to be losing
his voice in recent years.
636
00:27:30,567 --> 00:27:32,069
[writer]
Sounds like he's super tired.
637
00:27:32,069 --> 00:27:33,862
[columnist] They're not
gonna be able to tour anymore.
638
00:27:33,862 --> 00:27:34,947
There's no way.
639
00:27:35,322 --> 00:27:36,782
[Jon]
And it hurt.
640
00:27:37,783 --> 00:27:40,577
It hurt because I've worked
so hard physically,
641
00:27:40,577 --> 00:27:44,289
mentally, spiritually,
to want to be here again,
642
00:27:44,873 --> 00:27:48,585
and I had to ask myself,
643
00:27:49,378 --> 00:27:52,047
"Is it worth going forward?"
Or is it worth saying,
644
00:27:52,047 --> 00:27:55,259
"Okay, you tried but the body
can't do it anymore?"
645
00:28:03,058 --> 00:28:04,393
[band member]
Same song, from the top.
646
00:28:05,978 --> 00:28:08,814
[Jon] So when I use
these analogies of running
647
00:28:08,814 --> 00:28:12,025
the long race or the sports icons,
648
00:28:12,442 --> 00:28:14,570
it makes the impossible possible.
649
00:28:14,570 --> 00:28:17,489
It helps me remember how hard I've worked
650
00:28:17,489 --> 00:28:21,326
and that all of that training
doesn't get thrown away
651
00:28:21,326 --> 00:28:22,995
because somebody said so.
652
00:28:25,539 --> 00:28:27,291
[singing]
♪ Like this ♪
653
00:28:27,791 --> 00:28:31,628
♪ On a night like this ♪
654
00:28:32,254 --> 00:28:35,549
They don't know what's behind it
and what's gone into it
655
00:28:35,549 --> 00:28:37,885
and what is still left in the tank.
656
00:28:39,094 --> 00:28:42,139
You know, one thing you can't be
in this world is a quitter.
657
00:28:42,139 --> 00:28:44,099
So I'm good.
658
00:28:44,099 --> 00:28:47,019
Me and joy are holding hands.
[chuckling]
659
00:28:50,856 --> 00:28:52,065
Come on, baby.
660
00:28:52,065 --> 00:28:54,902
[band applauding]
661
00:28:57,321 --> 00:29:00,782
[indistinct chatter]
662
00:29:00,782 --> 00:29:05,078
[♪ upbeat music playing]
663
00:29:13,754 --> 00:29:17,090
[crowd cheering]
664
00:29:20,006 --> 00:29:22,971
[crowd cheering]
665
00:29:30,562 --> 00:29:35,067
[♪ downbeat music playing]
666
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:39,988
[Jon sighing]
667
00:29:42,699 --> 00:29:44,034
[interviewer]
You left it out there.
668
00:29:45,077 --> 00:29:46,620
Well, I didn't leave much.
669
00:29:47,162 --> 00:29:48,914
That was by far the worst show.
670
00:29:49,915 --> 00:29:51,083
[interviewer]
Did you feel pooped?
671
00:29:51,083 --> 00:29:52,376
I was exhausted.
672
00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:56,171
I just had no gas.
673
00:29:56,171 --> 00:29:57,923
My eyes are puffy,
674
00:29:57,923 --> 00:30:01,969
just couldn't lift
my arms or my legs.
675
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,055
[sharp exhale]
676
00:30:05,472 --> 00:30:07,516
[♪ tense music playing]
677
00:30:13,146 --> 00:30:16,400
[♪ upbeat music playing]
678
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,402
[Jon]
In my journey
679
00:30:18,902 --> 00:30:22,656
to try to keep
on top of my game,
680
00:30:22,948 --> 00:30:25,826
especially when I was broken vocally,
681
00:30:26,326 --> 00:30:30,789
there wasn't anybody
that was really dealing with this.
682
00:30:32,916 --> 00:30:35,043
So a surgeon, you meet him
and he wants to cut you,
683
00:30:35,752 --> 00:30:38,964
and then he'll tell you things like,
it's extremely risky.
684
00:30:39,381 --> 00:30:41,300
You might not ever sing a note again.
685
00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:44,052
Other ones just want to give you drugs,
686
00:30:44,344 --> 00:30:45,971
and we were reaching.
687
00:30:45,971 --> 00:30:48,390
We were going with sports guys,
talking to them like,
688
00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:50,267
"What do you got? How do you do it?"
689
00:30:50,642 --> 00:30:53,103
None of them could understand
that our economy runs
690
00:30:53,103 --> 00:30:55,355
on something as big
as your thumbnail.
691
00:30:57,357 --> 00:31:02,321
This big runs
the 120-person organization,
692
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,948
but I've had a problem.
693
00:31:27,846 --> 00:31:29,681
I don't mind the humility of it.
694
00:31:29,681 --> 00:31:33,185
The journey has sucked,
but it's made me wiser,
695
00:31:33,185 --> 00:31:36,396
greater appreciation for any
and everyone involved.
696
00:31:36,396 --> 00:31:39,107
The real true understanding
that everyone out here
697
00:31:39,107 --> 00:31:42,611
sacrificed so much to just to be here,
698
00:31:42,611 --> 00:31:44,821
and I mean more than the band, the crew,
699
00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:46,448
th-the team around me...
700
00:31:47,866 --> 00:31:49,826
and I see
when I look in the eyes
701
00:31:49,826 --> 00:31:52,496
of those people that joy.
702
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,831
They don't mind that
I don't hit a high note.
703
00:31:55,332 --> 00:31:57,584
Judging by the reaction I see
in that crowd every night,
704
00:31:57,584 --> 00:31:58,919
I don't think they mind.
705
00:31:58,919 --> 00:32:01,088
But it's the tarring
and feathering
706
00:32:01,088 --> 00:32:03,423
of me on a nightly basis.
707
00:32:03,423 --> 00:32:06,343
You know, this is the real me,
the gray hair, the whole 10 yards.
708
00:32:07,010 --> 00:32:09,304
If I can't be the badass,
then I'm not here.
709
00:32:09,930 --> 00:32:12,099
My legacy is too important.
710
00:32:13,642 --> 00:32:15,394
[film reel whirring and clicking]
711
00:32:15,394 --> 00:32:16,520
[tape clicking]
712
00:32:17,855 --> 00:32:19,773
Shelly, Shecky, are you out there?
713
00:32:25,612 --> 00:32:27,865
[Doc] The best thing that
happened to Bon Jovi was,
714
00:32:27,865 --> 00:32:29,408
he didn't have a hit.
715
00:32:29,408 --> 00:32:33,871
He had mediocre success
for the first two records
716
00:32:34,413 --> 00:32:37,207
and gave us time to play him
717
00:32:37,207 --> 00:32:40,127
about 500 shows around the world.
718
00:32:40,127 --> 00:32:43,589
Every day, Jon got a little bit closer
to where he wanted to be.
719
00:32:48,677 --> 00:32:50,762
[crowd cheering]
720
00:32:50,762 --> 00:32:54,183
[David] The biggest mistake you could do
was try to be big too early.
721
00:32:54,558 --> 00:32:56,727
Like, we're gonna headline
and then have empty seats.
722
00:32:56,727 --> 00:32:58,604
Like, y-y-you have to wait.
723
00:33:00,314 --> 00:33:03,901
[Richie] People liked us,
but they didn't attach themselves
724
00:33:03,901 --> 00:33:07,571
to the most important thing,
the foundation, the song.
725
00:33:07,988 --> 00:33:09,948
I don't give a damn who you are.
726
00:33:10,782 --> 00:33:13,202
You ain't got a song,
you ain't got shit.
727
00:33:13,202 --> 00:33:17,831
It's that famous story
of any big band's third album,
728
00:33:17,831 --> 00:33:18,999
the make-or-break year.
729
00:33:18,999 --> 00:33:21,793
[David] The second record
sold 800,000, not platinum,
730
00:33:21,793 --> 00:33:23,629
and the record company's like,
"Well, if you don't sell
731
00:33:23,629 --> 00:33:24,963
a million,
then we're gonna drop you."
732
00:33:24,963 --> 00:33:26,048
It's like do or die.
733
00:33:26,048 --> 00:33:29,593
[Richie] We were having a hard time
bringing guys in to the audiences
734
00:33:29,593 --> 00:33:31,929
'cause Jon was
a very good looking guy.
735
00:33:31,929 --> 00:33:33,972
So we needed to come up
with something
736
00:33:33,972 --> 00:33:37,184
and that was gonna be
Wanted Dead or Alive,
737
00:33:37,768 --> 00:33:40,604
and so the whole cowboy image
came into that.
738
00:33:41,313 --> 00:33:44,942
I went to the guitar company
and got a double-neck guitar.
739
00:33:44,942 --> 00:33:48,237
[Jon] Wanted Dead or Alive was written
in Richie's mother's basement.
740
00:33:48,237 --> 00:33:51,823
Some of them I wrote in my bedroom
in New Jersey by myself,
741
00:33:52,282 --> 00:33:53,742
and I said to Richie,
742
00:33:53,742 --> 00:33:56,537
"What we need to do
is write a song
743
00:33:56,537 --> 00:33:58,413
for somebody else,"
744
00:33:58,747 --> 00:34:03,752
because I'll never forget
seeing Bryan Adams writing
745
00:34:03,752 --> 00:34:07,840
a song for Tina Turner
and then doing it as a duet.
746
00:34:08,507 --> 00:34:11,301
So we called up Derek Shulman,
who was our A&R guy,
747
00:34:11,301 --> 00:34:14,388
and one of the names
that came up was Desmond Child.
748
00:34:15,013 --> 00:34:17,766
They wrote with me because they thought,
749
00:34:17,766 --> 00:34:22,479
"Well, Desmond could help us
to get cuts with other artists."
750
00:34:22,479 --> 00:34:24,398
[Jon]
I said, "I know who that is.
751
00:34:24,398 --> 00:34:28,527
"I remember a poster
of his band being hung outside
752
00:34:28,527 --> 00:34:30,946
of my dressing room
at the Fast Lane."
753
00:34:30,946 --> 00:34:36,034
And I was all for it 'cause I-I--
we needed a jumpstart
754
00:34:36,368 --> 00:34:39,663
and we already had Wanted Dead or Alive
and Never Say Goodbye.
755
00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:43,000
I walked in to meet them
for the very first time
756
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,920
at Richie's parents' house
where Richie was still living,
757
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,505
started talking this and that.
758
00:34:48,505 --> 00:34:51,300
I said, "Well, you know guys,
I brought a title."
759
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:54,386
And so outta my back pocket
written on a little piece of paper
760
00:34:54,386 --> 00:34:56,096
was You Give Love a Bad Name.
761
00:34:56,096 --> 00:34:57,222
♪ Bad name ♪
762
00:34:57,222 --> 00:35:00,809
And I saw for the first time the smile...
763
00:35:00,809 --> 00:35:02,019
♪ Shot through the heart ♪
764
00:35:02,019 --> 00:35:03,604
[Desmond Child]
... the billion-dollar smile.
765
00:35:04,146 --> 00:35:07,649
Jon threw in, "Shot through
the heart and you're to blame.
766
00:35:08,567 --> 00:35:09,902
You give love a bad name."
767
00:35:10,694 --> 00:35:12,821
Well, holy shit, that sounds like a hit.
768
00:35:13,322 --> 00:35:16,825
[Jon] When we finished it,
we all saw the obvious,
769
00:35:16,825 --> 00:35:20,037
which was, "Oh,
that's too good, we'll keep it."
770
00:35:20,495 --> 00:35:23,832
He knew the next level of writing
771
00:35:23,832 --> 00:35:26,418
that made us better
at what we did.
772
00:35:26,418 --> 00:35:27,961
[Desmond]
When they started writing with me
773
00:35:27,961 --> 00:35:30,964
and I started looking
at telling stories,
774
00:35:30,964 --> 00:35:33,884
let's not just talk
about how hot a babe is,
775
00:35:33,884 --> 00:35:36,178
which is what all
the other bands were doing.
776
00:35:36,637 --> 00:35:38,931
[Richie] Living on a Prayer
was a very important song
777
00:35:38,931 --> 00:35:42,518
'cause it was the first time
we ever used characters
778
00:35:43,143 --> 00:35:47,856
turned into a cinematic
sonic recording at that point.
779
00:35:48,273 --> 00:35:49,942
I remember the day we wrote that,
780
00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:51,902
not thinking much of the song.
781
00:35:51,902 --> 00:35:54,404
It's a piano, an acoustic guitar,
782
00:35:54,404 --> 00:35:56,281
and us sitting there with notebooks.
783
00:35:56,281 --> 00:35:59,243
The entire verse is one chord,
and there's no bass line.
784
00:35:59,243 --> 00:36:01,954
Gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk.
785
00:36:01,954 --> 00:36:04,456
♪ Tommy used to work on the dock ♪
786
00:36:04,456 --> 00:36:05,874
Gonk, gonk, gonk.
787
00:36:05,874 --> 00:36:07,417
There's nothing else there.
788
00:36:07,793 --> 00:36:10,629
So when we walked out of the room,
I went, "Eh, it's okay.
789
00:36:10,629 --> 00:36:12,256
Who knows? It's fine."
790
00:36:12,673 --> 00:36:14,800
♪ Doesn't make a difference ♪
791
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,343
Uh, you guys,
I don't think you're singing.
792
00:36:16,343 --> 00:36:17,886
Maybe "oohs" or anything.
793
00:36:18,637 --> 00:36:20,889
♪ Got each other ♪
794
00:36:21,557 --> 00:36:24,643
♪ And that's a lot for love ♪
795
00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:27,145
Richie and I got on our hands and knees,
796
00:36:27,563 --> 00:36:29,815
half joking, half for real,
797
00:36:29,815 --> 00:36:32,025
and begged him to at least cut it.
798
00:36:32,025 --> 00:36:34,403
Oh, we'll save that
for a movie soundtrack.
799
00:36:34,403 --> 00:36:37,823
I said, "Jon, that's the best song
we've written to date."
800
00:36:38,156 --> 00:36:39,741
And Richie said,
"Boy, you're stupid.
801
00:36:39,741 --> 00:36:41,034
It's gonna be great."
802
00:36:41,034 --> 00:36:42,911
- Something like that.
- Okay, sure.
803
00:36:43,287 --> 00:36:44,621
Now I know everybody wants to know
804
00:36:44,621 --> 00:36:46,373
what's happening with you right now.
805
00:36:46,373 --> 00:36:47,791
When's the new album coming out?
806
00:36:47,791 --> 00:36:50,043
We're working on it right now.
We just started rehearsing.
807
00:36:50,043 --> 00:36:54,173
Uh, we'll be in the studio
mid-March in Vancouver, Canada
808
00:36:54,173 --> 00:36:57,384
with a new producer,
and, uh, hopefully it'll be out
809
00:36:57,384 --> 00:36:59,845
on the streets... June.
810
00:37:00,262 --> 00:37:02,806
[David] It was Jon
helming the ship as he does.
811
00:37:02,806 --> 00:37:06,393
At that point,
he found a, a record producer.
812
00:37:06,393 --> 00:37:10,189
I was in my hotel room one night
listening to some new bands,
813
00:37:10,189 --> 00:37:12,399
and one of 'em happened
to be Black 'N Blue.
814
00:37:12,399 --> 00:37:16,403
So I threw this cassette in,
and it sounded better than the CD.
815
00:37:16,403 --> 00:37:18,947
The background vocal arrangements
816
00:37:18,947 --> 00:37:22,618
and the recording sounded
so interesting to me.
817
00:37:22,993 --> 00:37:24,411
Who produced this?
818
00:37:24,995 --> 00:37:26,538
"Bruce Fairbairn."
819
00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:29,958
We researched this guy,
we tell him who we are,
820
00:37:29,958 --> 00:37:31,919
he obviously knows,
and he's interested enough
821
00:37:31,919 --> 00:37:33,587
to hear some of the songs.
822
00:37:34,046 --> 00:37:37,758
And he says, "I'll do it, but you have
to come to Vancouver, Canada."
823
00:37:39,510 --> 00:37:42,054
[David] We went all the way
over there, away from New Jersey,
824
00:37:42,054 --> 00:37:43,472
away from everything we knew.
825
00:37:43,472 --> 00:37:45,599
Get away from everybody
and just be a rock band.
826
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:47,226
Just concentrate, just do it there.
827
00:37:47,935 --> 00:37:51,813
We came together
and everyone was times 10.
828
00:37:53,065 --> 00:37:55,067
This sonic boom happened,
829
00:37:55,526 --> 00:37:58,570
and we recorded what became
Slippery When Wet.
830
00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:00,405
[♪ "You Give Love a Bad Name"
by Bon Jovi playing]
831
00:38:00,405 --> 00:38:02,157
♪ And you're to blame ♪
832
00:38:02,157 --> 00:38:04,201
♪ Darlin', you give love ♪
833
00:38:04,201 --> 00:38:06,245
And it was the most fun
834
00:38:06,245 --> 00:38:08,872
a rock band could ever have
making a record.
835
00:38:08,872 --> 00:38:10,082
♪ A bad name ♪
836
00:38:10,082 --> 00:38:12,376
♪
837
00:38:16,088 --> 00:38:18,966
[Richie] Vancouver was going
through a resurgence
838
00:38:18,966 --> 00:38:21,969
because it was the year
the World's Fair was there.
839
00:38:21,969 --> 00:38:24,137
So there was a lot to do.
840
00:38:24,388 --> 00:38:26,640
[Jon] There was great rock bars,
there was great strip bars,
841
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,141
there was beautiful women.
842
00:38:28,141 --> 00:38:29,768
It was the Wild West.
843
00:38:29,768 --> 00:38:32,229
You're sitting here before the zeroes
844
00:38:32,771 --> 00:38:34,106
so you can have fun.
845
00:38:34,106 --> 00:38:37,651
You can explore what you wanna be.
846
00:38:38,026 --> 00:38:39,570
[Richie] I remember
the first time we walked
847
00:38:39,570 --> 00:38:44,157
into Little Mountain Sound,
and I heard Bob Rock
848
00:38:44,157 --> 00:38:46,660
and the sound that he got on the drums
849
00:38:46,660 --> 00:38:50,330
and I went, "Oh, yeah,
this is gonna be something."
850
00:38:50,747 --> 00:38:52,624
[Tico]
Recording it, it came easy.
851
00:38:52,624 --> 00:38:53,876
It was magic.
852
00:38:53,876 --> 00:38:56,128
It was, you know,
we did a lot of practicing,
853
00:38:56,128 --> 00:38:57,546
pre-production, let's say,
854
00:38:58,213 --> 00:39:00,591
and we went into the studio,
and I remember doing the rhythm tracks
855
00:39:00,591 --> 00:39:01,967
in three days, four days.
856
00:39:01,967 --> 00:39:05,304
It was just one of those magical moments
that they went in
857
00:39:05,304 --> 00:39:07,639
and just knocked it out without thinking.
858
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:09,558
We didn't even have a name
for the record.
859
00:39:09,558 --> 00:39:11,643
[Dee Snider] You have any idea
of title or anything like that?
860
00:39:11,643 --> 00:39:12,936
Right now,
it's Wanted Dead or Alive.
861
00:39:12,936 --> 00:39:15,355
- I think that's what the beard's for.
- [Dee] Ah-ha!
862
00:39:15,355 --> 00:39:17,608
[Jon] The visionary
must have hit his head,
863
00:39:17,608 --> 00:39:19,860
because I grew a long beard
and a mustache.
864
00:39:19,860 --> 00:39:21,820
We were all wearing dusters,
865
00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:24,114
and we went into a cave
in Vancouver
866
00:39:24,114 --> 00:39:27,492
and took these cowboy pictures
like you get at the Wild West Show.
867
00:39:27,492 --> 00:39:29,578
I go, "You're from fucking New Jersey.
868
00:39:29,578 --> 00:39:31,038
"You're not a cowboy.
869
00:39:31,038 --> 00:39:33,040
"Okay? Get in the car.
870
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,249
This is over with."
871
00:39:34,249 --> 00:39:37,377
This title Slippery When Wet,
could you explain that title?
872
00:39:37,377 --> 00:39:40,547
Well, Slippery When Wet,
it really came from a strip bar.
873
00:39:40,547 --> 00:39:42,591
'Cause there was a, a shower in,
874
00:39:42,591 --> 00:39:44,760
this-this, uh, drinking establishment
875
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,223
where young ladies seemed
to dance to, uh, rock and roll songs.
876
00:39:49,223 --> 00:39:51,767
And a local photographer
in New Jersey by the name
877
00:39:51,767 --> 00:39:55,229
of Mark Weiss
shot an album cover
878
00:39:55,229 --> 00:39:59,650
based on dancers
in the bars in Vancouver.
879
00:39:59,650 --> 00:40:03,654
[Richie] We wanted the album cover
to be this bodacious woman
880
00:40:03,654 --> 00:40:06,949
that we found on the beach
in Jersey, Angela, oh.
881
00:40:07,324 --> 00:40:09,409
[Jon]
PMRC in America, which is like
882
00:40:09,409 --> 00:40:12,371
really, really cracking down
on sexual things,
883
00:40:12,371 --> 00:40:14,414
said they wouldn't shelve it,
they wouldn't rack it.
884
00:40:15,165 --> 00:40:16,875
The record company,
they said, "Too late,
885
00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:19,002
we've printed
a half a million copies."
886
00:40:19,253 --> 00:40:22,297
In a great management moment,
McGhee says to the label,
887
00:40:22,297 --> 00:40:23,590
"We'll get you another cover."
888
00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:25,717
[Doc] It was three o'clock
in the morning, I'm with Jonny
889
00:40:25,717 --> 00:40:27,636
and when we couldn't use it,
890
00:40:27,636 --> 00:40:30,055
we couldn't come up with an album cover.
891
00:40:30,055 --> 00:40:32,474
Finally, Jonny takes a garbage bag,
892
00:40:32,474 --> 00:40:34,601
put-puts it over the garbage can.
893
00:40:35,102 --> 00:40:39,857
I squirted the water bottle
on a black Hefty garbage bag.
894
00:40:40,732 --> 00:40:45,112
Took my fingers, I wrote
"Slippery When Wet."
895
00:40:45,112 --> 00:40:46,613
- Take a picture.
- [camera shutter snaps]
896
00:40:46,613 --> 00:40:49,575
So we said, "Here's a black cover
that says 'Slippery When Wet' on it,"
897
00:40:49,575 --> 00:40:51,285
and let the music do the talking.
898
00:40:51,910 --> 00:40:54,329
[Jon] So, we take the record
back to the label
899
00:40:54,329 --> 00:40:55,998
and shoot Bad Name as a single.
900
00:40:55,998 --> 00:40:59,418
Just going great. We're gonna shoot
our new video this week out in LA,
901
00:40:59,877 --> 00:41:01,879
and it'll be to
You Give Love a Bad Name,
902
00:41:02,421 --> 00:41:05,424
and, uh, right now,
I have decided that any director
903
00:41:05,424 --> 00:41:09,761
who tells me concept and storyline,
I'm not talking to. [laughs]
904
00:41:10,095 --> 00:41:13,265
We knew that we had to be perceived
905
00:41:13,932 --> 00:41:15,976
as being an arena headliner.
906
00:41:15,976 --> 00:41:22,107
Let this, this video be
the infomercial for your live show.
907
00:41:25,903 --> 00:41:29,740
[Jon] We've made a video
that told you what we were like live.
908
00:41:29,740 --> 00:41:32,492
That was a big reason
for the success of it.
909
00:41:32,492 --> 00:41:35,704
[indistinct singing]
910
00:41:35,704 --> 00:41:40,667
[Obie] Jon sent me a cassette tape
to the studio in Philadelphia,
911
00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:43,670
and I went, everyone's life
is gonna change.
912
00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:45,130
♪ I play my part ♪
913
00:41:45,130 --> 00:41:46,715
♪ And you play your game ♪
914
00:41:46,715 --> 00:41:50,219
[Jon] Immediately, the reaction
was through the moon,
915
00:41:50,219 --> 00:41:53,180
and the company was like, "Wow,
916
00:41:53,180 --> 00:41:55,098
I don't know what you've done,
but you've done it."
917
00:41:55,098 --> 00:41:58,143
[host] Whether it's Angela's chest
or a wet Hefty bag,
918
00:41:58,143 --> 00:42:00,729
New Jersey metal has made it to the top.
919
00:42:00,729 --> 00:42:02,064
Our new number one,
920
00:42:02,064 --> 00:42:04,816
You Give Love a Bad Name
from Bon Jovi.
921
00:42:04,816 --> 00:42:08,779
♪ Shot through the heart
and you're to blame ♪
922
00:42:08,779 --> 00:42:12,324
♪ You give love a bad name ♪
923
00:42:12,324 --> 00:42:14,326
[interviewer] Where was Bon Jovi
when, uh, you-you had
924
00:42:14,326 --> 00:42:16,203
your first number one,
was that Living on a Prayer?
925
00:42:16,203 --> 00:42:17,287
Uh, Bad Name.
926
00:42:17,287 --> 00:42:19,373
We were in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
927
00:42:19,373 --> 00:42:21,291
opening up for .38 Special.
928
00:42:21,291 --> 00:42:24,086
[David] We already had contracted
to open up for them.
929
00:42:24,086 --> 00:42:25,254
I think it was like a month.
930
00:42:25,254 --> 00:42:27,631
[Jon]
You know, after our 40 minute set,
931
00:42:27,631 --> 00:42:30,217
we get word that Slippery
is gonna be number one
932
00:42:30,217 --> 00:42:32,010
the following week on Billboard.
933
00:42:32,010 --> 00:42:34,179
Calling everyone we could
on the payphone.
934
00:42:34,179 --> 00:42:36,932
You got telexes from people.
You know, I mean, it was a big deal.
935
00:42:36,932 --> 00:42:39,935
I mean, we did this group hug
at Holiday Inn, man,
936
00:42:39,935 --> 00:42:44,356
the first time we were number one
and, uh, to say, you did it.
937
00:42:44,356 --> 00:42:47,609
And here we are,
we had the number one record
938
00:42:47,609 --> 00:42:49,194
on the planet everywhere.
939
00:42:49,194 --> 00:42:50,821
Number one record, number one album.
940
00:42:50,821 --> 00:42:53,323
You Give Love a Bad Name,
everybody's playing that record
941
00:42:53,323 --> 00:42:55,200
and we're opening up for .38 Special.
942
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,327
So then all of a sudden,
they were making a ton of money
943
00:42:57,327 --> 00:42:59,913
because they were selling out
like crazy because of us.
944
00:43:00,789 --> 00:43:03,333
[Jon] It wasn't long before
their manager was like,
945
00:43:03,333 --> 00:43:06,545
"Anything we gotta do
to keep you on this tour."
946
00:43:07,254 --> 00:43:08,589
And McGhee was, like, saying,
947
00:43:08,589 --> 00:43:11,133
"Thanks, but, you know,
it's time to move on."
948
00:43:11,466 --> 00:43:16,180
In, um, basically a month,
we outsold, you know,
949
00:43:16,555 --> 00:43:17,639
uh, what we did last year.
950
00:43:17,639 --> 00:43:20,809
[♪ "Raise Your Hands" by Bon Jovi playing]
951
00:43:20,809 --> 00:43:23,937
[Jon] Any and everyone
involved in that project
952
00:43:23,937 --> 00:43:26,648
had a multiple of 10 next
to their name after that.
953
00:43:26,648 --> 00:43:28,984
The Slippery phenomenon began.
954
00:43:29,484 --> 00:43:32,321
[reporter] Slippery When Wet became
the fourth heavy metal album ever
955
00:43:32,321 --> 00:43:34,865
to make it
to Billboard's number one.
956
00:43:34,865 --> 00:43:38,327
[Doc] It was a validation
of what they had
957
00:43:38,327 --> 00:43:40,662
put themselves through for five years.
958
00:43:40,662 --> 00:43:44,082
And then once we flipped the headliners,
we sold out everywhere.
959
00:43:44,082 --> 00:43:46,460
There was no more middle fingers,
so that was the nice part.
960
00:43:46,460 --> 00:43:48,378
♪ You got a nasty reputation ♪
961
00:43:48,378 --> 00:43:51,465
[Tico] Now with the ability and funds
to be able to put on a show like that,
962
00:43:51,465 --> 00:43:54,635
it gave Jonny the opportunity
to use the whole arena.
963
00:43:54,635 --> 00:43:58,764
I mean, that's probably what he had
in his mind when he was a kid.
964
00:43:59,223 --> 00:44:01,767
I was like, "Got this motherfucker now."
965
00:44:01,767 --> 00:44:03,101
[imitating rocket whooshing]
966
00:44:03,101 --> 00:44:04,353
That was the rocket ship.
967
00:44:04,353 --> 00:44:06,188
[Kaity Tong] One of the
hottest tickets around tonight,
968
00:44:06,188 --> 00:44:08,857
It was to see the world's
hottest rock group.
969
00:44:08,857 --> 00:44:11,860
Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi
has come a very long way
970
00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:13,362
since growing up
in Sayreville, New Jersey.
971
00:44:13,362 --> 00:44:15,030
[reporter]
The third album from Bon Jovi,
972
00:44:15,030 --> 00:44:17,741
Slippery When Wet, has become
the first number one LP
973
00:44:17,741 --> 00:44:19,868
in their career,
and it looks sure to go down
974
00:44:19,868 --> 00:44:22,829
as one of the biggest selling
heavy rock albums of the year.
975
00:44:22,829 --> 00:44:24,456
♪ Raise your hands ♪
976
00:44:24,456 --> 00:44:25,582
♪ When you want to... ♪
977
00:44:25,582 --> 00:44:29,253
[Doc] This was just
about low IQ, high RPM.
978
00:44:30,045 --> 00:44:32,047
This was about having fun.
979
00:44:33,298 --> 00:44:34,508
It had to be dangerous.
980
00:44:34,508 --> 00:44:35,843
Ooh, yah!
981
00:44:35,843 --> 00:44:38,637
Uncle Richie gotta take his medicine now?
982
00:44:38,637 --> 00:44:41,431
[David] I mean, it really was
from living with my parents
983
00:44:41,431 --> 00:44:42,683
to living the dream.
984
00:44:43,141 --> 00:44:45,185
I went from nowhere to everywhere.
985
00:44:45,185 --> 00:44:46,520
I still say it to this day,
986
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,815
I am like, the luckiest fucking guys
who ever fucking lived.
987
00:44:49,815 --> 00:44:51,400
Get the hell outta here.
988
00:44:51,900 --> 00:44:56,780
[band members speaking incoherently]
989
00:44:57,614 --> 00:45:00,242
[anchor] Your album is still
at number one in the States,
990
00:45:00,242 --> 00:45:03,036
selling over 100,000 copies a day.
991
00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:05,622
[host] Jon, let's say that there are
actually some people out there
992
00:45:05,622 --> 00:45:07,541
who have never heard
heavy metal music,
993
00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:09,293
never heard of Jon Bon Jovi.
994
00:45:09,293 --> 00:45:11,503
- Now what would you say to them?
- Where have you been?
995
00:45:11,503 --> 00:45:13,755
♪ Got to raise your hands ♪
996
00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:15,799
♪ When you want to let it go ♪
997
00:45:15,799 --> 00:45:17,509
If you were to put the music you make
998
00:45:17,509 --> 00:45:20,304
into a certain classification,
what would it be?
999
00:45:20,304 --> 00:45:21,471
Good.
1000
00:45:22,181 --> 00:45:23,640
[David]
But I don't think we changed.
1001
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,434
I think the world's perception
of us changed.
1002
00:45:25,934 --> 00:45:28,353
Everyone goes, "Hey, you're famous."
I'm like, "I don't-- okay."
1003
00:45:28,604 --> 00:45:30,022
[Jon] But when people
ask us about money,
1004
00:45:30,022 --> 00:45:32,107
we say, "Well,
this is our manager,"
1005
00:45:32,107 --> 00:45:33,317
and we point at him and say,
1006
00:45:33,317 --> 00:45:35,152
"He's rich and we're famous."
1007
00:45:35,152 --> 00:45:36,403
[band laughing]
1008
00:45:36,403 --> 00:45:37,779
I adore his looks.
1009
00:45:37,779 --> 00:45:39,698
[fan] Remember the first time
I saw him on a picture.
1010
00:45:39,698 --> 00:45:41,408
[crowd interviewer]
You didn't even hear the music
1011
00:45:41,408 --> 00:45:43,368
- and you knew you loved them?
- [fans screaming]
1012
00:45:43,744 --> 00:45:46,830
[Jon] These stories have been
repeated by others since,
1013
00:45:47,206 --> 00:45:50,501
and it happened from the time
of Elvis and Sinatra
1014
00:45:50,501 --> 00:45:54,171
and The Beatles,
but in our moment in time,
1015
00:45:54,671 --> 00:45:56,673
you know, we were everywhere.
1016
00:45:59,218 --> 00:46:00,886
[Richie]
Now I'm gonna work twice as hard.
1017
00:46:00,886 --> 00:46:03,013
So we weren't out there
messing around,
1018
00:46:03,013 --> 00:46:04,723
but I got a fair amount
of messing around done
1019
00:46:04,723 --> 00:46:06,183
in that time myself,
1020
00:46:06,183 --> 00:46:09,019
you know, with the use
of some other things that I actually--
1021
00:46:09,019 --> 00:46:10,521
well, whatever it was.
1022
00:46:11,813 --> 00:46:14,566
This Tuesday night,
60 minutes of nonstop
1023
00:46:14,566 --> 00:46:16,777
bop-till-you-drop
Bon Jovi sweatshop.
1024
00:46:16,777 --> 00:46:19,821
That's right, we are going
to be your guest VJs.
1025
00:46:19,821 --> 00:46:23,367
[Doc] Back then, we had
the biggest tipping point of all,
1026
00:46:23,867 --> 00:46:25,244
which was MTV.
1027
00:46:25,911 --> 00:46:28,038
[Jon]
We were at the forefront
1028
00:46:28,038 --> 00:46:32,584
of MTV's influence on the world.
1029
00:46:32,584 --> 00:46:35,838
Hi, I'm Jon Bon Jovi,
and I want you to spend a weekend
1030
00:46:35,838 --> 00:46:39,007
of unbridled hedonism
with me and these guys.
1031
00:46:39,007 --> 00:46:40,175
[band]
Hell yes.
1032
00:46:40,175 --> 00:46:41,301
MTV.
1033
00:46:41,301 --> 00:46:44,972
[Doc] If you were good
and you got on MTV,
1034
00:46:44,972 --> 00:46:46,098
that would explode you.
1035
00:46:46,098 --> 00:46:47,933
[all]
Hi, we're Bon Jovi.
1036
00:46:47,933 --> 00:46:50,811
[Jon] Fill in the blank
with five cute guys
1037
00:46:50,811 --> 00:46:54,356
in a rock band,
MTV was all excited...
1038
00:46:54,356 --> 00:46:55,858
Music television.
1039
00:46:55,858 --> 00:47:00,362
[Jon] ...about taking us
to Southeast Asia and Japan.
1040
00:47:00,362 --> 00:47:05,033
We had to start our world tour
right back in Japan
1041
00:47:05,033 --> 00:47:07,786
where all the best things happened, okay?
1042
00:47:07,786 --> 00:47:11,290
We have us a brand new album
and the song
1043
00:47:11,290 --> 00:47:13,959
that you're gonna see on MTV.
1044
00:47:14,543 --> 00:47:16,753
[Richie] We were working so hard
through it, especially Jon and I
1045
00:47:16,753 --> 00:47:18,672
because we were the ones
that were waking up
1046
00:47:18,672 --> 00:47:19,923
and doing early morning radio.
1047
00:47:19,923 --> 00:47:21,967
We were the ones that were waking up
and doing all the press.
1048
00:47:21,967 --> 00:47:23,719
Some-- the people wanted
to talk to us.
1049
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,597
Well, we just left, uh,
Helsinki last night.
1050
00:47:26,597 --> 00:47:29,766
- [Richie] Yeah.
- [Jon] And we stopped here to see you.
1051
00:47:29,766 --> 00:47:32,352
You guys just don't get tired, do you?
1052
00:47:32,352 --> 00:47:33,687
[crowd cheering]
1053
00:47:33,687 --> 00:47:36,773
Is this the rock and roll capital
of England or what?
1054
00:47:37,357 --> 00:47:38,734
So you're having
a good time in Australia.
1055
00:47:38,734 --> 00:47:39,860
- Absolutely.
- You-you had your--
1056
00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:41,403
You've been in Melbourne,
you're in Sydney.
1057
00:47:41,403 --> 00:47:43,572
Good evening, Vancouver, Canada.
1058
00:47:43,572 --> 00:47:45,741
Come on, Tokyo!
1059
00:47:45,741 --> 00:47:47,784
I got three more nights
here in Philadelphia.
1060
00:47:47,784 --> 00:47:49,328
You guys are getting...
[chuckles]
1061
00:47:49,328 --> 00:47:51,580
You're getting
to wear my ass out already.
1062
00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:54,041
The, the key to the band's success
is that we tour,
1063
00:47:54,041 --> 00:47:56,418
tour and tour and tour and when
we're done touring we tour.
1064
00:47:57,544 --> 00:47:59,254
[Richie]
Our philosophy is, is that
1065
00:47:59,922 --> 00:48:01,715
we're not the show,
but the kids are the show.
1066
00:48:01,715 --> 00:48:03,383
We're just the host of the party.
1067
00:48:03,842 --> 00:48:05,636
[Jon]
Are you ready?
1068
00:48:07,179 --> 00:48:09,306
[Obie] If you're there
when they open the gates
1069
00:48:09,306 --> 00:48:12,267
to a stadium show,
you watch how they enter.
1070
00:48:13,018 --> 00:48:16,855
They run top speed
because they want to be
1071
00:48:16,855 --> 00:48:18,774
at that bar up front.
1072
00:48:19,858 --> 00:48:22,444
[Desmond] In those days,
I'd go to a Bon Jovi concert
1073
00:48:22,444 --> 00:48:25,906
and watch Jon
just give it all on stage
1074
00:48:26,615 --> 00:48:29,618
and I'd hear him sing,
like, the highest notes
1075
00:48:29,618 --> 00:48:31,161
with all of his force.
1076
00:48:31,161 --> 00:48:33,830
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1077
00:48:33,830 --> 00:48:34,957
♪ Take my hand ♪
1078
00:48:34,957 --> 00:48:36,708
[Desmond]
Like, wow, that's not just
1079
00:48:36,708 --> 00:48:38,377
in the recording room.
1080
00:48:38,377 --> 00:48:39,878
He can actually deliver that.
1081
00:48:39,878 --> 00:48:42,130
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1082
00:48:42,130 --> 00:48:46,009
[Tico] Jon is, he's feeling something,
and he takes it there.
1083
00:48:46,009 --> 00:48:49,221
We'd follow him,
anywhere he went anytime.
1084
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,809
So that's the key, to be that
on the money as a band,
1085
00:48:53,809 --> 00:48:56,061
and if he wants
to take it to that way,
1086
00:48:56,061 --> 00:48:58,564
and he's never took it there before,
that's where we're going.
1087
00:48:58,564 --> 00:49:00,649
[crowd]
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1088
00:49:00,649 --> 00:49:04,903
[Jon] Being a fan myself,
I've sat in the 99th row
1089
00:49:04,903 --> 00:49:08,323
and every time, swear to God,
the singer was looking right at you.
1090
00:49:08,323 --> 00:49:11,410
What I try to do
is exactly that
1091
00:49:11,410 --> 00:49:13,745
and look at the kid
in the 99th row.
1092
00:49:14,371 --> 00:49:16,832
[Obie] I would go out on the stage
and stand in the wings
1093
00:49:16,832 --> 00:49:20,085
and just look
at that sea of humanity,
1094
00:49:20,085 --> 00:49:23,088
and they're all there
for one reason
1095
00:49:23,088 --> 00:49:25,716
and it's to see this band
and see him perform.
1096
00:49:26,091 --> 00:49:29,761
Bon Jovi was arguably, at that point,
the biggest band in the world.
1097
00:49:29,761 --> 00:49:33,557
♪ Ooh, we gotta hold on ♪
1098
00:49:33,974 --> 00:49:36,143
[Jon] I had blinders on
for Slippery When Wet...
1099
00:49:36,143 --> 00:49:40,063
♪ You live for the fight
when that's all that you've got ♪
1100
00:49:40,397 --> 00:49:44,359
...because 240 shows was
something I had never done.
1101
00:49:44,359 --> 00:49:45,611
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1102
00:49:45,611 --> 00:49:47,487
It was exhausting for me.
1103
00:49:47,487 --> 00:49:49,865
It was fun, but it was exhausting.
1104
00:49:50,574 --> 00:49:52,701
I was completely dead.
I was exhausted.
1105
00:49:52,701 --> 00:49:55,913
I was doing cortisone
to get the cords working.
1106
00:49:56,872 --> 00:50:00,083
We tour so much
that you don't have a, a chance
1107
00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:02,085
to enjoy the luxuries of it.
1108
00:50:03,420 --> 00:50:06,548
It ends in the States in August,
and it's back to, you know, England
1109
00:50:06,548 --> 00:50:07,674
for the Donington Festival.
1110
00:50:07,674 --> 00:50:12,137
From there, Australia,
Japan again, Anchorage, Hawaii,
1111
00:50:12,137 --> 00:50:13,889
and then sleep like a big old bear.
1112
00:50:13,889 --> 00:50:15,098
I'm gonna hibernate.
1113
00:50:16,850 --> 00:50:21,021
[Richie] It's the, the correlation between
the cowboy of yesteryear or whatever
1114
00:50:21,021 --> 00:50:23,649
and the modern day
rock and roller
1115
00:50:23,649 --> 00:50:26,985
because the cowboy would ride
into town on his horse,
1116
00:50:26,985 --> 00:50:30,322
rob a bank, hit the bar,
drink some booze, you know,
1117
00:50:30,322 --> 00:50:33,700
grab the women, take the money and run,
and do the same thing in the next town,
1118
00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:35,118
and we kinda do the same thing
1119
00:50:35,118 --> 00:50:37,371
except we don't rob a bank,
we go play a concert.
1120
00:50:37,371 --> 00:50:38,914
[David]
I mean, it felt like from day one,
1121
00:50:38,914 --> 00:50:40,499
like that first time we got together,
1122
00:50:40,499 --> 00:50:42,918
it felt like five guys against the world.
1123
00:50:45,879 --> 00:50:47,923
[Doc] I think it was
very important to Jonny
1124
00:50:47,923 --> 00:50:51,385
to have that feeling
of family in the early days,
1125
00:50:51,718 --> 00:50:53,095
and that came from Slippery,
1126
00:50:53,554 --> 00:50:55,180
and that was what it was about.
1127
00:50:56,348 --> 00:50:59,351
[Jon] I know that I would
still be back at Kinney's
1128
00:50:59,351 --> 00:51:02,646
had it not been, you know,
for the team of me and Doc
1129
00:51:02,646 --> 00:51:05,357
because, uh, we're best friends,
you know,
1130
00:51:05,357 --> 00:51:06,483
and that's what made it work.
1131
00:51:06,483 --> 00:51:07,901
[Richie]
Bon Jovi is a family.
1132
00:51:07,901 --> 00:51:10,779
We've been doing this now
for four and a half years straight.
1133
00:51:10,779 --> 00:51:11,947
You're brothers, you know.
1134
00:51:11,947 --> 00:51:13,532
[♪ "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1135
00:51:13,532 --> 00:51:14,658
♪ It's all the same ♪
1136
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,120
♪ Only the names have changed ♪
1137
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,582
[Jon] The bond that was created
from that time forward
1138
00:51:21,582 --> 00:51:24,543
was constantly evolving.
1139
00:51:24,543 --> 00:51:27,421
It-It changed our lives,
being in this band.
1140
00:51:27,421 --> 00:51:30,632
It-It-It defined who we became as men.
1141
00:51:30,632 --> 00:51:35,179
The Bon Jovi band is definitely,
um, a family.
1142
00:51:35,179 --> 00:51:38,557
[Tico] The only band I've ever been in
that gets along this well.
1143
00:51:38,557 --> 00:51:40,392
- Family, family, I say.
- Plasma.
1144
00:51:40,392 --> 00:51:43,395
[interviewer] Now is it just another band
or is it more of a family, would you say?
1145
00:51:43,395 --> 00:51:45,772
[Tico] No, it's definitely different.
It's like a family.
1146
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:47,608
Been in a lot of different bands.
1147
00:51:47,608 --> 00:51:49,526
This is like, I don't know,
we get along together.
1148
00:51:49,526 --> 00:51:51,320
We kinda take vacation holidays together.
1149
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,989
[interviewer] You do hang out together
when you're not actually playing on stage?
1150
00:51:53,989 --> 00:51:55,282
Yes.
1151
00:51:55,282 --> 00:51:56,992
[David]
There was that brotherhood.
1152
00:51:56,992 --> 00:51:59,286
It was us five guys
and-- on a bus
1153
00:51:59,286 --> 00:52:01,330
and then five guys in an airplane
1154
00:52:01,747 --> 00:52:03,165
outta seven billion human beings.
1155
00:52:03,165 --> 00:52:05,292
Not a lot of people get
to experience what we did.
1156
00:52:05,292 --> 00:52:09,755
[Jon] And it changed
the face of pop radio.
1157
00:52:09,755 --> 00:52:12,758
Those songs changed the landscape,
1158
00:52:13,383 --> 00:52:15,677
and that was our defining moment
with songs like
1159
00:52:15,677 --> 00:52:18,263
You Give Love a Bad Name,
Livin' On a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive.
1160
00:52:18,263 --> 00:52:20,766
They were all big monster hit songs.
1161
00:52:20,766 --> 00:52:23,101
[reporter] Do you feel like
you're at the top of the ladder?
1162
00:52:23,101 --> 00:52:27,439
No, I think, uh, every time
you get there to the, to the place
1163
00:52:27,439 --> 00:52:29,775
where you think is the top,
you find out that it just,
1164
00:52:29,775 --> 00:52:32,069
there's another extension
on that ladder, you know?
1165
00:52:32,444 --> 00:52:36,907
So we're not, uh satisfied,
and we're not done.
1166
00:52:36,907 --> 00:52:37,991
[crowd cheering]
1167
00:52:37,991 --> 00:52:39,284
[Jon]
Thank you.
1168
00:52:39,284 --> 00:52:40,536
Good night now.
1169
00:52:41,245 --> 00:52:44,915
I was pretty exhausted
but there was no way
1170
00:52:45,666 --> 00:52:46,917
that we were gonna slow down.
1171
00:52:47,501 --> 00:52:48,502
None.
1172
00:52:49,044 --> 00:52:51,547
And I was also very cognizant
1173
00:52:52,422 --> 00:52:53,924
that I had to do it again.
1174
00:52:55,342 --> 00:52:59,304
And... every day,
I was thinking about,
1175
00:52:59,304 --> 00:53:01,890
"How the fuck are we gonna do this again?"
1176
00:53:01,890 --> 00:53:03,976
[jet engine whooshing]
1177
00:53:03,976 --> 00:53:05,894
[♪ tense music playing]
1178
00:53:05,894 --> 00:53:07,104
[tires squealing]
1179
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:14,736
[static crackles]
1180
00:53:16,029 --> 00:53:18,615
[Jon]
This is Little Mountain Sound Studios.
1181
00:53:18,615 --> 00:53:21,118
This is the beginning of our show, folks.
1182
00:53:21,952 --> 00:53:22,995
Fourth album.
1183
00:53:23,996 --> 00:53:26,290
No one's supposed
to know the title but me.
1184
00:53:27,416 --> 00:53:29,418
[chuckles] Guess what
I didn't think of, though?
1185
00:53:29,418 --> 00:53:32,671
I just locked myself out,
and it's nine o'clock at night.
1186
00:53:32,671 --> 00:53:35,674
We went back in
and wrote New Jersey,
1187
00:53:35,674 --> 00:53:38,302
which was initially gonna be
called Sons of Beaches,
1188
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,055
and thank God, you know, even then
we were wise enough to say,
1189
00:53:42,556 --> 00:53:46,560
"Don't be that kind
of cliché rock dude."
1190
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,979
You know, you can get away with that once
with Slippery When Wet.
1191
00:53:48,979 --> 00:53:50,314
I can't believe it.
Come on, follow me.
1192
00:53:50,314 --> 00:53:51,523
[cameraperson]
Okay.
1193
00:53:51,523 --> 00:53:54,610
I'm going to take you now
into the room
1194
00:53:54,610 --> 00:53:57,905
where, where, where this new record
is being made by Bon Jovi.
1195
00:53:57,905 --> 00:54:00,324
Them guys are assholes,
so you gotta watch them.
1196
00:54:00,324 --> 00:54:02,409
This is Bob Rock's House
of Sin, they call it.
1197
00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:04,661
- Come in, come in. A lot of work here.
- [Jon] From the top.
1198
00:54:04,661 --> 00:54:06,955
Hi, I just came here,
and I'm nuts already.
1199
00:54:06,955 --> 00:54:08,040
[laughter]
1200
00:54:08,624 --> 00:54:11,126
[Richie] We had toured
for 16 and a half months
1201
00:54:11,585 --> 00:54:14,046
with a two week break
after eight months.
1202
00:54:14,046 --> 00:54:17,341
Woo-hoo, and back to the grind.
1203
00:54:17,966 --> 00:54:19,968
Whoever's gonna watch this in the future,
1204
00:54:19,968 --> 00:54:21,094
here's one for you.
1205
00:54:21,094 --> 00:54:22,763
Cheers, let's put the fucking thing down.
1206
00:54:23,180 --> 00:54:25,224
[♪ heavy guitar music playing]
1207
00:54:25,224 --> 00:54:26,475
♪ Everybody ♪
1208
00:54:28,644 --> 00:54:29,645
Fuck, missed that one.
1209
00:54:29,645 --> 00:54:33,482
[♪ heavy rock music playing]
1210
00:54:35,025 --> 00:54:37,528
I used to be in this band, Bon Jovi.
1211
00:54:37,528 --> 00:54:40,864
Now I-I'm illiterate
'cause I drank tequila.
1212
00:54:40,864 --> 00:54:41,990
[interviewer]
What did I ask you?
1213
00:54:41,990 --> 00:54:44,868
A band that stays together,
plays together.
1214
00:54:47,871 --> 00:54:50,249
We went right in there,
banged another one,
1215
00:54:50,249 --> 00:54:54,628
and the juices are still flowing again,
kind of recreate the same feeling,
1216
00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:56,505
and let's take it a step further.
1217
00:54:56,505 --> 00:54:58,757
[band] [chanting]
Be like Tico, be like Tico,
1218
00:54:58,757 --> 00:55:00,926
be like Tico, be like Tico.
1219
00:55:00,926 --> 00:55:02,845
[cameraperson]
Oh, no, welcome to Vancouver.
1220
00:55:03,804 --> 00:55:05,681
[Jon] Look at these guys,
can't take them anywhere.
1221
00:55:06,223 --> 00:55:07,474
[Doc]
You're on a roll.
1222
00:55:07,808 --> 00:55:10,185
They've worn out Slippery.
1223
00:55:10,185 --> 00:55:11,687
It's not like Jon goes, "You know,
1224
00:55:11,687 --> 00:55:15,315
I gotta take a year off
and I gotta find myself."
1225
00:55:15,315 --> 00:55:16,942
He's not that guy.
1226
00:55:16,942 --> 00:55:19,278
Jon quit school because there was recess.
1227
00:55:19,278 --> 00:55:21,947
[♪ upbeat rock music playing]
1228
00:55:27,286 --> 00:55:28,495
[screaming]
1229
00:55:28,495 --> 00:55:30,664
[technician] That felt good.
Let's do one more, then we'll have...
1230
00:55:31,456 --> 00:55:32,624
[Jon]
Thanks, guys.
1231
00:55:33,041 --> 00:55:34,168
Working hard.
1232
00:55:34,168 --> 00:55:38,547
[technicians snoring]
1233
00:55:39,506 --> 00:55:42,009
- Bob. Bob.
- Oh, what time is it?
1234
00:55:42,009 --> 00:55:44,469
[Jon] Fuck you, guys.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
1235
00:55:44,469 --> 00:55:45,846
[laughter]
1236
00:55:54,771 --> 00:55:55,898
[cameraperson]
Oh!
1237
00:55:56,565 --> 00:55:57,649
Now that was history.
1238
00:55:57,649 --> 00:55:58,859
[Jon]
There you go.
1239
00:55:59,318 --> 00:56:02,279
We mixed everything until last night,
about one in the morning,
1240
00:56:02,279 --> 00:56:04,990
1:30 or so,
and, uh, that's it.
1241
00:56:04,990 --> 00:56:06,074
We've had enough.
1242
00:56:06,074 --> 00:56:07,701
[interviewer] You know
what your first single is?
1243
00:56:07,701 --> 00:56:08,785
Bad Medicine.
1244
00:56:09,119 --> 00:56:12,372
We were doing some Fuji tape commercial
in Japan, believe it or not,
1245
00:56:12,789 --> 00:56:14,833
and I had found out
that the girl
1246
00:56:14,833 --> 00:56:16,668
I was going out with was a prostitute.
1247
00:56:17,252 --> 00:56:19,421
[laughing]
1248
00:56:19,421 --> 00:56:21,048
I mean, that'll shake you up a little bit,
1249
00:56:21,381 --> 00:56:25,093
and I was just, I was sitting there
in this black water
1250
00:56:25,093 --> 00:56:26,929
that looked like Fuji tape,
1251
00:56:27,387 --> 00:56:28,472
and I just went,
1252
00:56:28,472 --> 00:56:31,642
[sings]
♪ Your love is like bad medicine ♪
1253
00:56:32,059 --> 00:56:34,895
♪ And bad medicine is what I need ♪
1254
00:56:34,895 --> 00:56:38,982
♪ Whoa whoa,
shake it up just like bad medicine ♪
1255
00:56:38,982 --> 00:56:40,484
[♪ "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi playing]
1256
00:56:40,484 --> 00:56:42,402
♪ Bad medicine ♪
1257
00:56:43,070 --> 00:56:45,656
♪ Bad medicine is what I need ♪
1258
00:56:45,656 --> 00:56:46,907
♪ Whoa oh oh, ♪
1259
00:56:46,907 --> 00:56:50,661
[Jon] A year after that
240 show Slippery tour,
1260
00:56:50,661 --> 00:56:53,914
which was as exhausting
as anything I'd ever done,
1261
00:56:53,914 --> 00:56:55,624
we were back on the road.
1262
00:56:55,624 --> 00:56:59,253
You know, I mean Slippery
was everybody's dream come true.
1263
00:56:59,253 --> 00:57:00,879
It, uh, it gave us a job.
1264
00:57:00,879 --> 00:57:03,215
It gave us the opportunity
to tour and play
1265
00:57:03,215 --> 00:57:04,716
whenever and wherever
we want to.
1266
00:57:05,676 --> 00:57:06,760
I want to do that again.
1267
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,347
I mean, we did three on,
one off, two on, one off,
1268
00:57:10,347 --> 00:57:12,474
three on, one off for like a year.
1269
00:57:12,474 --> 00:57:15,936
Went back into the studio,
did another record, did that again.
1270
00:57:15,936 --> 00:57:18,397
[Doc] And he was begging me,
just before he was saying,
1271
00:57:18,397 --> 00:57:21,483
"Doc, can we go out?
Just, let's just do 300 shows."
1272
00:57:21,859 --> 00:57:23,777
- Just 300.
- Just 300 shows.
1273
00:57:23,777 --> 00:57:25,320
We'll take 65 days off.
1274
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,281
I said, "Well, okay."
1275
00:57:27,573 --> 00:57:28,574
[gasps]
1276
00:57:28,574 --> 00:57:29,658
[both laugh]
1277
00:57:29,867 --> 00:57:33,245
There's no relax,
there's never a wasted moment.
1278
00:57:33,245 --> 00:57:35,122
You have to keep pushing it along,
1279
00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:38,917
and especially in those days,
it was conquer the world time.
1280
00:57:39,084 --> 00:57:40,377
[David]
Touring is the whole thing.
1281
00:57:40,377 --> 00:57:42,254
I mean, the whole thing
of playing in front of people,
1282
00:57:42,254 --> 00:57:44,256
making records is fun
and all that kind of stuff,
1283
00:57:44,256 --> 00:57:45,924
but the whole reason
that we happened as a band
1284
00:57:45,924 --> 00:57:48,927
was because we got in front of an audience
1285
00:57:48,927 --> 00:57:50,721
and rocked their asses off.
1286
00:57:50,721 --> 00:57:52,723
[Jon]
Third album comes out, explodes.
1287
00:57:52,723 --> 00:57:55,726
Fourth album comes out
and has to do better, you know,
1288
00:57:55,726 --> 00:57:58,645
so we're there now, right?
1289
00:57:58,645 --> 00:57:59,771
Tough.
1290
00:57:59,771 --> 00:58:01,815
[Richie] A good comparison
is like a prize fighter.
1291
00:58:01,815 --> 00:58:03,650
We have the title,
we have the belt,
1292
00:58:03,650 --> 00:58:06,111
and every time we walk
into the ring with our record,
1293
00:58:06,695 --> 00:58:07,905
you have to defend it.
1294
00:58:07,905 --> 00:58:09,907
- Best concert I've ever been in my life.
- Oh, absolutely.
1295
00:58:09,907 --> 00:58:11,992
- Everything.
- The lights, the music.
1296
00:58:11,992 --> 00:58:13,535
Everything brilliant, everything.
1297
00:58:13,535 --> 00:58:15,078
[all]
We love Bon Jovi.
1298
00:58:15,078 --> 00:58:17,497
[David]
And at that time, as we're gaining
1299
00:58:17,497 --> 00:58:21,376
all this fan appreciation,
if you will, around the planet,
1300
00:58:21,376 --> 00:58:23,504
we were never the critic star.
1301
00:58:23,504 --> 00:58:26,048
Rolling Stone, when
Slippery When Wet came out,
1302
00:58:26,048 --> 00:58:30,052
they called us a "smudgy
third generation copy of Quiet Riot."
1303
00:58:30,385 --> 00:58:35,182
The group Bon Jovi has been riding high
since their album Slippery When Wet
1304
00:58:35,182 --> 00:58:39,269
sold a paltry 14 million copies
around the world.
1305
00:58:39,269 --> 00:58:41,480
Now their new album
hasn't done quite that well.
1306
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,398
It's called New Jersey,
but it's doing just fine
1307
00:58:43,398 --> 00:58:44,566
and it's selling in the millions.
1308
00:58:44,566 --> 00:58:47,277
[Jon] When New Jersey came,
we had gotten to that point
1309
00:58:47,277 --> 00:58:48,904
where everybody says,
"Okay, I'm sick of them."
1310
00:58:48,904 --> 00:58:50,656
You know, "Get lost,"
1311
00:58:51,031 --> 00:58:54,326
and we were the brunt of, you know,
a lot of finger pointing.
1312
00:58:54,826 --> 00:58:58,539
The Grammys didn't even nominate
Livin' on a Prayer,
1313
00:58:58,539 --> 00:59:00,457
You Give Love a Bad Name,
Wanted Dead or Alive.
1314
00:59:01,166 --> 00:59:03,126
It was hysterical and ridiculous.
1315
00:59:03,126 --> 00:59:04,586
But who cares, you know what I mean?
1316
00:59:04,586 --> 00:59:07,256
With people, we were always
the people's choice,
1317
00:59:07,256 --> 00:59:09,424
and that's who you're playing for.
1318
00:59:09,424 --> 00:59:13,178
[all singing]
♪ Your love is like bad medicine ♪
1319
00:59:13,178 --> 00:59:16,098
- ♪ Bad medicine is what I need ♪
- [fan] Woo!
1320
00:59:17,182 --> 00:59:18,308
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
1321
00:59:18,308 --> 00:59:20,185
[David] We were
the chip-on-our-shoulder guys,
1322
00:59:20,185 --> 00:59:22,437
especially Jon, and it was a motivator.
1323
00:59:22,437 --> 00:59:24,815
Fuck 'em, you know,
if they don't like us.
1324
00:59:24,815 --> 00:59:26,441
The people love us,
that's all that matters.
1325
00:59:34,324 --> 00:59:36,201
[band cheering]
1326
00:59:36,201 --> 00:59:39,538
♪ Words can't say
what love can do ♪
1327
00:59:39,538 --> 00:59:42,207
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
1328
00:59:42,207 --> 00:59:45,878
And the winner is Bon Jovi.
1329
00:59:46,545 --> 00:59:47,838
[Jon]
What we need to do is, um,
1330
00:59:48,338 --> 00:59:50,132
to give this one to all the critics
1331
00:59:50,132 --> 00:59:52,801
who said that Bon Jovi
was a flash in the pan,
1332
00:59:52,801 --> 00:59:54,720
who said that Bon Jovi was nothing.
1333
00:59:55,512 --> 00:59:57,222
This was the dream, this was the goal.
1334
00:59:57,222 --> 01:00:00,225
If it's all over now, it doesn't matter.
1335
01:00:00,225 --> 01:00:01,852
We made it to the dance.
1336
01:00:03,061 --> 01:00:05,731
Giants Stadium, it's like the biggest gig
we ever played, you know.
1337
01:00:06,190 --> 01:00:07,941
[Richie] We're going
to have 80,000 people tonight.
1338
01:00:08,734 --> 01:00:10,152
Couldn't be happier if I was twins.
1339
01:00:10,152 --> 01:00:11,820
♪ Whoa oh oh ♪
1340
01:00:13,614 --> 01:00:17,034
[Jon] No one's ever done this, man.
The Stones, the Who, the... no one.
1341
01:00:19,536 --> 01:00:22,039
We were just crushing it,
doing as many shows
1342
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:23,624
anywhere where we wanted,
1343
01:00:24,082 --> 01:00:26,793
and we had five top 10 hits
on that record.
1344
01:00:27,794 --> 01:00:30,589
We were absolutely the guys of the moment.
1345
01:00:30,923 --> 01:00:33,300
Jon Bon Jovi and his band
returned to their native state
1346
01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:34,760
of New Jersey Wednesday night
1347
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,179
and turned the group's sold out show
at the Meadowlands Arena
1348
01:00:37,179 --> 01:00:40,807
into a rock and roll carnival
for 20,000 cheering fans.
1349
01:00:40,807 --> 01:00:42,851
I think if I said
it was great to be home,
1350
01:00:42,851 --> 01:00:44,478
that would be
the understatement of the year.
1351
01:00:44,478 --> 01:00:45,896
- You know what I mean?
- [crowd cheering]
1352
01:00:46,188 --> 01:00:48,482
[Kurt Loder] Along with the platinum
albums the group was presented,
1353
01:00:48,482 --> 01:00:52,611
a proclamation was also read
proclaiming it Bon Jovi Day statewide.
1354
01:00:52,611 --> 01:00:53,987
[crowd cheering]
1355
01:00:53,987 --> 01:00:56,281
Yeah, we had a party
for 20,000 of our friends.
1356
01:00:56,281 --> 01:00:57,407
Got the key to the city.
1357
01:00:57,407 --> 01:01:00,118
Yeah, got keys to the city,
got plaques from the governor.
1358
01:01:00,118 --> 01:01:03,997
We've got a probably what,
eight, nine foot cake here.
1359
01:01:03,997 --> 01:01:05,207
It was a hell of a party.
1360
01:01:05,207 --> 01:01:07,501
Ten thousand balloons,
20,000 people,
1361
01:01:07,501 --> 01:01:08,877
and a partridge in a pear tree.
1362
01:01:08,877 --> 01:01:09,962
- [glasses clink]
- Cheers.
1363
01:01:09,962 --> 01:01:12,256
It was all the decadence of the '80s.
1364
01:01:12,798 --> 01:01:14,341
It was a kid in a candy store.
1365
01:01:14,341 --> 01:01:17,845
It was whatever you want,
whenever you want it times two,
1366
01:01:17,845 --> 01:01:19,847
without giving away
too many secrets
1367
01:01:19,847 --> 01:01:23,183
because anything that every one
of those bands talks about,
1368
01:01:23,183 --> 01:01:25,727
you know, we did it too,
and it was fun.
1369
01:01:25,727 --> 01:01:28,063
It was real fun, you know.
1370
01:01:28,063 --> 01:01:30,065
It was not only girls
and drugs and booze,
1371
01:01:30,065 --> 01:01:33,527
but it was one-upsmanship
with gifts and cars.
1372
01:01:33,527 --> 01:01:34,653
It became silly.
1373
01:01:34,653 --> 01:01:38,156
You buy me a Ferrari
and I'll buy you a Porsche,
1374
01:01:38,156 --> 01:01:41,410
and you buy this piece of art
and I'll buy you that house.
1375
01:01:41,410 --> 01:01:45,372
It was dumb kid
rock and roll star stuff.
1376
01:01:46,874 --> 01:01:48,709
[reporter] No connection
between sex and rock and roll?
1377
01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:51,879
[Alec John Such] Oh, there's a connection.
I mean, when I was a kid, I played violin.
1378
01:01:52,212 --> 01:01:53,213
Now I play bass guitar.
1379
01:01:53,213 --> 01:01:55,966
- I get laid a lot more now.
- [band laughing]
1380
01:01:57,009 --> 01:01:59,219
[Tico] I think the hardest thing
that for-for-for anybody
1381
01:01:59,219 --> 01:02:00,679
in that situation is that,
1382
01:02:00,679 --> 01:02:02,764
how do you collect your ego
and keep it in check?
1383
01:02:04,183 --> 01:02:07,144
[Jon] Just got to be so ridiculous
that there was nothing we couldn't do.
1384
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:12,024
If I want to play 10 nights in New York,
book 'em. We could do it.
1385
01:02:12,024 --> 01:02:14,943
If you want to tell the promoter
1386
01:02:14,943 --> 01:02:18,989
we want five pinball machines...
1387
01:02:18,989 --> 01:02:20,199
[pinball machines ringing]
1388
01:02:20,991 --> 01:02:22,326
...okay.
1389
01:02:22,910 --> 01:02:24,077
- Pool tables?
- [pool balls clacking]
1390
01:02:24,620 --> 01:02:26,163
- Done.
- [fireworks exploding]
1391
01:02:26,163 --> 01:02:28,457
I want a '69 Corvette convertible.
1392
01:02:28,999 --> 01:02:31,084
- I got it.
- [car engine roaring]
1393
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:36,418
We could get away
with anything and we did.
1394
01:02:37,409 --> 01:02:38,800
[interviewer] I mean,
now that you're so successful,
1395
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:40,260
do you ever feel like sitting back a bit
1396
01:02:40,260 --> 01:02:42,638
and not touring quite so hard
and working quite so hard?
1397
01:02:42,638 --> 01:02:44,848
Uh, it wouldn't be any fun.
1398
01:02:45,641 --> 01:02:47,893
This '80s was pretty tough
1399
01:02:48,393 --> 01:02:51,230
'cause everybody,
there was so many drugs.
1400
01:02:51,563 --> 01:02:53,982
I mean, I had a wing
of rehab people
1401
01:02:54,316 --> 01:02:58,320
and not that Jonny and them
were even close to any of that stuff.
1402
01:02:58,529 --> 01:03:00,239
[David] We never were the band
that just, you know,
1403
01:03:00,239 --> 01:03:02,115
was so fucked up that
you're supposed to go on
1404
01:03:02,115 --> 01:03:04,368
at nine o'clock and you go
on at two in the morning.
1405
01:03:04,368 --> 01:03:07,246
Like, nobody overdosed.
That's a good thing.
1406
01:03:08,789 --> 01:03:11,333
[Alec] I know I've gone out the next day
and he's just coming in
1407
01:03:11,333 --> 01:03:13,001
and I'm going, "Hey,"
and he's going,
1408
01:03:13,001 --> 01:03:14,753
"Yeah, see you later."
1409
01:03:15,170 --> 01:03:17,673
I'm very much interested
in, uh, how a bar works.
1410
01:03:17,673 --> 01:03:20,467
I can't get off the stage
and be--
1411
01:03:20,467 --> 01:03:22,052
just go to, go to room and relax
1412
01:03:22,052 --> 01:03:24,638
because I'm too hypered up
from doing this marathon.
1413
01:03:25,347 --> 01:03:29,017
So I needed to let my hair down
and have a few drinks, party.
1414
01:03:29,017 --> 01:03:32,354
You know, Tico could
really get outta control.
1415
01:03:32,354 --> 01:03:34,898
He-he wasn't a easy, fun drunk.
1416
01:03:34,898 --> 01:03:36,233
Shit. I put it right the fuck down.
1417
01:03:36,233 --> 01:03:38,443
[Jon]
Alec could really get outta control.
1418
01:03:38,443 --> 01:03:41,154
He too was not a easy, fun drunk.
1419
01:03:42,531 --> 01:03:44,741
David and Richie were much easier,
1420
01:03:44,741 --> 01:03:47,119
but they certainly had
more than their fair share
1421
01:03:47,119 --> 01:03:48,787
of too much fun.
1422
01:03:48,787 --> 01:03:51,206
So somebody had to try
to keep it together.
1423
01:03:51,206 --> 01:03:53,834
For whatever and all reasons, it was me.
1424
01:03:53,834 --> 01:03:56,837
In a situation with drugs,
I've been asked often,
1425
01:03:56,837 --> 01:03:59,173
so often that I finally said,
"Look, I don't do 'em.
1426
01:03:59,173 --> 01:04:00,883
I don't like 'em,
I don't approve of 'em."
1427
01:04:00,883 --> 01:04:03,218
There's nobody
that was more dedicated
1428
01:04:03,886 --> 01:04:07,806
about his voice,
his warming up, his--
1429
01:04:07,806 --> 01:04:10,684
I mean, Slippery, we-- I mean,
every tour he had troubles,
1430
01:04:10,684 --> 01:04:12,019
but he worked through it.
1431
01:04:12,019 --> 01:04:13,687
He didn't drink, he didn't smoke.
1432
01:04:14,062 --> 01:04:17,900
He was actually pretty boring
when he was doing all this stuff
1433
01:04:17,900 --> 01:04:20,319
because he didn't,
he-he wouldn't do anything
1434
01:04:20,319 --> 01:04:23,405
because he had to try
to save his voice.
1435
01:04:25,490 --> 01:04:26,992
Are you still with me?
1436
01:04:28,994 --> 01:04:31,246
[Tico]
We just lived on the road to the point
1437
01:04:31,246 --> 01:04:34,499
of almost the band's demise,
1438
01:04:34,499 --> 01:04:37,127
because if you do anything too much,
you will get a scar.
1439
01:04:37,628 --> 01:04:40,380
[Desmond] Jon was also
the guy that would get up
1440
01:04:40,380 --> 01:04:44,510
at 5:00 in the morning
to make it to a radio station.
1441
01:04:44,968 --> 01:04:48,096
At 5:00 in the morning,
most of the guys in the band
1442
01:04:48,096 --> 01:04:49,932
- were just getting to bed.
- [alarm beeping]
1443
01:04:49,932 --> 01:04:52,434
[Jon] These guys are pissed off
that they're at soundcheck.
1444
01:04:52,434 --> 01:04:54,102
I woke 'em up at 8:30.
1445
01:04:54,728 --> 01:04:56,563
They're still hung over from last night.
1446
01:04:56,897 --> 01:04:58,023
Bribery's not even working.
1447
01:04:58,023 --> 01:04:59,942
We can't wait for the tour to end.
1448
01:05:00,692 --> 01:05:02,319
[David] I was like,
I'm gonna have a lot of fun,
1449
01:05:02,319 --> 01:05:04,821
but I'm gonna make sure
that my love of music
1450
01:05:04,821 --> 01:05:06,698
is more than my love
of partying,
1451
01:05:07,282 --> 01:05:09,284
and I think
once you turn that corner...
1452
01:05:10,619 --> 01:05:12,704
uh, you've lost it.
1453
01:05:13,664 --> 01:05:16,375
[Jon] We certainly jumped back
in the ring and we're all just,
1454
01:05:16,375 --> 01:05:19,378
you know, haymakers swinging
for any and everything
1455
01:05:19,378 --> 01:05:20,504
that would come our way...
1456
01:05:21,922 --> 01:05:23,006
but it almost killed us.
1457
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,177
Good afternoon.
We're at Raleigh's Broughton High School,
1458
01:05:27,177 --> 01:05:29,847
where Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi is appearing
1459
01:05:29,847 --> 01:05:32,140
to give a very special
anti-drug message
1460
01:05:32,140 --> 01:05:33,892
to thousands of Wake County students.
1461
01:05:33,892 --> 01:05:35,894
[Mike Caplan] Bon Jovi's appearance
is being sponsored
1462
01:05:35,894 --> 01:05:38,981
by a nonprofit group called
the Make a Difference Foundation.
1463
01:05:39,439 --> 01:05:41,608
[Doc]
When you're a celebrity...
1464
01:05:42,484 --> 01:05:43,735
at this point,
1465
01:05:43,735 --> 01:05:47,781
comes with a responsibility too
to try to do good things.
1466
01:05:48,866 --> 01:05:50,576
To try to give back a little bit.
1467
01:05:50,576 --> 01:05:52,244
Jon Bon Jovi's appearance is also tied
1468
01:05:52,244 --> 01:05:55,581
to an unusual drug probation
handed down by a judge.
1469
01:05:55,581 --> 01:05:59,459
The manager of the Bon Jovi band
pled guilty last year
1470
01:05:59,459 --> 01:06:00,961
in a marijuana case.
1471
01:06:00,961 --> 01:06:03,338
[Mike] But instead of ordering that
that manager go to prison,
1472
01:06:03,338 --> 01:06:04,965
the judge in the case decided
1473
01:06:04,965 --> 01:06:07,926
to let that manager use
his influence in the rock industry
1474
01:06:07,926 --> 01:06:11,471
to help spread the drug-free message
to the nation's teenagers.
1475
01:06:11,805 --> 01:06:15,017
[Jon] That was a very
difficult place for a young kid to be,
1476
01:06:15,017 --> 01:06:16,643
you know, with the guy
that was supposed
1477
01:06:16,643 --> 01:06:18,729
to be the grownup in the room
1478
01:06:18,729 --> 01:06:21,398
was now in some kind
of incredible legal trouble.
1479
01:06:21,857 --> 01:06:24,902
Your manager, Doc McGhee,
of course, had a few problems
1480
01:06:24,902 --> 01:06:29,156
with drugs, an alleged 5,000 tons
of grass he was trying to import.
1481
01:06:29,781 --> 01:06:32,409
[Doc] As you sit
and you try to understand
1482
01:06:32,409 --> 01:06:34,870
what you've done
so you don't do it again,
1483
01:06:35,287 --> 01:06:37,164
it's just learning from your mistakes.
1484
01:06:37,748 --> 01:06:39,833
We had to do things
to keep McGhee outta jail.
1485
01:06:39,833 --> 01:06:41,168
- [glass shattering]
- I'm Jon Bon Jovi.
1486
01:06:41,168 --> 01:06:43,879
So you were asked to do things
and you didn't even know why.
1487
01:06:45,839 --> 01:06:47,925
You're thrust into a situation
1488
01:06:47,925 --> 01:06:49,927
that is way above
and beyond your pay grade.
1489
01:06:49,927 --> 01:06:54,431
Today, the world looks expectedly
to signs of change,
1490
01:06:54,932 --> 01:06:57,976
steps toward greater freedom
in the Soviet Union.
1491
01:06:58,393 --> 01:07:01,021
[Jon] Doc's lawyers
came up with a plea,
1492
01:07:01,021 --> 01:07:04,775
which led to a concert
in the former Soviet Union
1493
01:07:04,775 --> 01:07:07,528
because we were one
of the great exports
1494
01:07:07,528 --> 01:07:12,533
of American pop culture
to the Iron Curtained countries.
1495
01:07:12,908 --> 01:07:15,953
Now the Soviets are opening their country
to American rock music.
1496
01:07:15,953 --> 01:07:18,747
A number of top rockers,
including New Jersey's own Bon Jovi,
1497
01:07:18,747 --> 01:07:20,707
are getting ready to jet to Moscow.
1498
01:07:20,707 --> 01:07:22,209
[Doc]
Nobody played Moscow.
1499
01:07:22,668 --> 01:07:24,503
Nobody with electric guitar did.
1500
01:07:25,254 --> 01:07:26,922
You could play with a piano
or something,
1501
01:07:26,922 --> 01:07:29,174
but there's no way you could play
with an electric guitar.
1502
01:07:29,174 --> 01:07:30,843
You couldn't even get an electric guitar.
1503
01:07:31,343 --> 01:07:33,762
[Jon] I did it because
he was my friend first,
1504
01:07:33,762 --> 01:07:35,472
but also because he was the manager.
1505
01:07:35,472 --> 01:07:37,724
So I felt that obligation,
1506
01:07:38,141 --> 01:07:41,728
but I really never had
any idea just how big it was.
1507
01:07:41,728 --> 01:07:44,690
You know, when we grew up in school,
you-- that's the bad guys.
1508
01:07:44,690 --> 01:07:46,024
You can't go there,
no one goes there.
1509
01:07:46,024 --> 01:07:47,818
There's no records there,
there's none of this there,
1510
01:07:47,818 --> 01:07:49,528
and our attitude was, let's go over there.
1511
01:07:49,528 --> 01:07:51,154
Let's make this happen.
1512
01:07:51,154 --> 01:07:53,240
Welcome to Bon Jovi world,
Russian style.
1513
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,033
[reporter] A world which began
back in December
1514
01:07:55,033 --> 01:07:57,494
when Bon Jovi made a quick trip
to the Soviet Union
1515
01:07:57,494 --> 01:07:58,954
to lay the groundwork for the main event.
1516
01:07:59,288 --> 01:08:02,124
I remember going as a band to set it up
1517
01:08:02,541 --> 01:08:04,001
while the Wall was still up.
1518
01:08:04,501 --> 01:08:05,794
Brr! It's freezing.
1519
01:08:05,794 --> 01:08:09,506
[Tico] And snow coming down,
and KGB and CIA,
1520
01:08:09,506 --> 01:08:11,592
and the lady who handled Cuba
right next to me
1521
01:08:11,592 --> 01:08:12,885
and the sleigh horses.
1522
01:08:12,885 --> 01:08:13,969
It was like a movie.
1523
01:08:14,845 --> 01:08:19,766
[Jon] We were very aware
that we were being watched
1524
01:08:19,766 --> 01:08:24,229
and if you had a western
rock and roll record,
1525
01:08:24,229 --> 01:08:25,731
you could be imprisoned.
1526
01:08:26,106 --> 01:08:29,067
The only way that folks had heard
of Bon Jovi is on the black market.
1527
01:08:29,443 --> 01:08:31,570
We were, like, officially sanctioned
by the government
1528
01:08:31,570 --> 01:08:33,822
to come in, although
Billy Joel went, you know,
1529
01:08:33,822 --> 01:08:35,407
and of--
and other bands have gone,
1530
01:08:35,407 --> 01:08:39,077
they didn't go there
with the government's blessing, let's say.
1531
01:08:39,077 --> 01:08:40,996
If anything can be said about Bon Jovi,
1532
01:08:40,996 --> 01:08:42,539
it's we make people smile.
1533
01:08:42,539 --> 01:08:44,374
We make 'em a part of what we do,
1534
01:08:44,374 --> 01:08:46,543
and there's no political overtones to it.
1535
01:08:46,543 --> 01:08:49,588
It's just rock and roll music
and entertainment.
1536
01:08:50,005 --> 01:08:52,216
If that's gonna help bring
the world together.
1537
01:08:52,216 --> 01:08:53,717
I'm the first guy over here.
1538
01:08:54,384 --> 01:08:58,597
[all] Peace and my love
and rock and roll.
1539
01:08:59,681 --> 01:09:00,807
So we're going to Russia
1540
01:09:00,807 --> 01:09:02,559
and we're gonna introduce them
to rock and roll.
1541
01:09:02,559 --> 01:09:04,269
[♪ "Born To Be My Baby"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1542
01:09:04,269 --> 01:09:07,689
♪ Na na na na na na
na na na na na ♪
1543
01:09:07,689 --> 01:09:09,316
♪ Na na na na na na ♪
1544
01:09:09,316 --> 01:09:12,027
The message to the youth
will be a little bit different
1545
01:09:12,027 --> 01:09:14,446
than it was 20 years ago for Woodstock,
1546
01:09:14,446 --> 01:09:17,950
and I'm really proud that
they've all taken their time and effort
1547
01:09:17,950 --> 01:09:20,911
and their support
to help the foundation
1548
01:09:20,911 --> 01:09:24,164
to bring awareness to kids
on drug and alcohol abuse.
1549
01:09:24,623 --> 01:09:26,166
[Jon] I remember parts
of the plane ride
1550
01:09:26,166 --> 01:09:30,504
and it was egocentric lunacy.
1551
01:09:30,504 --> 01:09:34,758
There was real debauchery
going on in-in the back
1552
01:09:34,758 --> 01:09:37,427
with booze and drugs,
and we were going there
1553
01:09:37,427 --> 01:09:41,181
to do a anti-drug concert,
and there was...
1554
01:09:41,181 --> 01:09:42,641
We're starting
to get rowdy at this point.
1555
01:09:42,641 --> 01:09:44,434
Yeah, man, we're starting
to get rowdy and you know,
1556
01:09:44,434 --> 01:09:46,812
of course there's no alcohol or anything
like that on this plane, so...
1557
01:09:46,812 --> 01:09:48,188
Obviously not.
1558
01:09:48,188 --> 01:09:50,858
♪ Beats like a drum all night ♪
1559
01:09:50,858 --> 01:09:51,942
♪ Flesh to flesh ♪
1560
01:09:51,942 --> 01:09:53,735
[Jon] No one's sleeping,
everybody's walking around.
1561
01:09:53,735 --> 01:09:55,863
It's, uh, two o'clock in the morning
1562
01:09:55,863 --> 01:09:58,574
and we're all, like, pretty delirious
'cause we've been held up, you know,
1563
01:09:58,574 --> 01:10:00,576
on the runway and in the airport.
1564
01:10:01,618 --> 01:10:03,495
[Doc] Now, did we think it was
gonna change the world?
1565
01:10:03,495 --> 01:10:06,290
Did we think it was gonna--
the Wall was gonna come down
1566
01:10:06,290 --> 01:10:08,208
and that they were gonna let us do this?
1567
01:10:09,209 --> 01:10:10,335
No.
1568
01:10:10,335 --> 01:10:12,004
[helicopter whirring]
1569
01:10:12,004 --> 01:10:15,090
[crowd cheering]
1570
01:10:16,175 --> 01:10:18,427
[Desmond]
We went to this stadium
1571
01:10:18,427 --> 01:10:22,598
that was one of the biggest structures
I'd ever seen in my life.
1572
01:10:22,598 --> 01:10:25,434
It was a, um,
variety show
1573
01:10:25,934 --> 01:10:27,686
because you had
Ozzy Osbourne.
1574
01:10:27,686 --> 01:10:29,771
[Ozzy Osbourne]
Go, go, go, go...
1575
01:10:31,565 --> 01:10:34,318
Mötley Crüe was there,
of course, famously.
1576
01:10:34,943 --> 01:10:37,154
[Vince Neil] How many girls
we have in here today?
1577
01:10:39,031 --> 01:10:42,409
And the Scorpions, I just
remember that just so clearly.
1578
01:10:42,409 --> 01:10:44,912
[crowd cheering]
1579
01:10:48,832 --> 01:10:50,709
There were
so many people there,
1580
01:10:51,043 --> 01:10:55,214
and you could just feel
that desperation to be free.
1581
01:10:56,465 --> 01:11:00,344
[Tico] There is a magic
to music that curtails
1582
01:11:00,344 --> 01:11:03,263
anything political,
anything bad in the world.
1583
01:11:03,972 --> 01:11:06,266
It's the most spiritual thing
in the world, I believe,
1584
01:11:07,226 --> 01:11:08,268
and we saw it there.
1585
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:15,734
If you wanna make it a better world,
you start with yourselves.
1586
01:11:18,111 --> 01:11:22,783
And in the name of friendship
and good God blessed rock and roll,
1587
01:11:23,492 --> 01:11:24,743
this is for you.
1588
01:11:24,743 --> 01:11:26,328
It's called Blood on Blood.
1589
01:11:27,746 --> 01:11:31,208
[♪ "Blood on Blood" by Bon Jovi playing]
1590
01:11:34,711 --> 01:11:36,672
One, two, three, four!
1591
01:11:42,302 --> 01:11:45,305
[David] You're looking like everybody
you thought would be a monster,
1592
01:11:45,305 --> 01:11:46,890
'cause that's all
you've ever been taught.
1593
01:11:46,890 --> 01:11:48,475
They kind of looked like us.
1594
01:11:48,475 --> 01:11:49,560
They were humans.
1595
01:11:50,102 --> 01:11:52,604
You know, all this whole thing
that you've had in your head,
1596
01:11:52,604 --> 01:11:53,856
it was-- it's just people.
1597
01:11:55,065 --> 01:11:57,276
[Tico] They were just
like any other crowd.
1598
01:11:57,568 --> 01:11:58,819
They were exuberant.
1599
01:11:58,819 --> 01:12:01,405
Imagine having your first glass of water
1600
01:12:01,405 --> 01:12:03,615
after walking a desert
for your whole life.
1601
01:12:04,032 --> 01:12:05,784
They'd never experienced
anything like that before.
1602
01:12:05,784 --> 01:12:08,745
♪ Blood on blood ♪
1603
01:12:09,204 --> 01:12:10,664
♪ One on one ♪
1604
01:12:13,166 --> 01:12:17,880
♪ We'd still be standing
when all was said and done ♪
1605
01:12:18,589 --> 01:12:19,965
[Richie] I mean,
that astounded me at first.
1606
01:12:19,965 --> 01:12:21,884
I couldn't believe it,
you know what I mean?
1607
01:12:22,176 --> 01:12:24,970
These people couldn't sing English, man,
but they were singin' our lyrics.
1608
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,891
[Doc]
It's that emotional connection.
1609
01:12:28,891 --> 01:12:32,269
It's that honesty that moves
to the heart of the people
1610
01:12:32,269 --> 01:12:35,772
and gave them some hope.
1611
01:12:35,772 --> 01:12:39,902
♪ And I'll be there for you
till kingdom come ♪
1612
01:12:40,485 --> 01:12:43,238
[Jon] The music isn't
dissimilar from sport
1613
01:12:43,238 --> 01:12:45,616
in that it's tribal.
1614
01:12:45,616 --> 01:12:47,784
You're finding
that one common thread
1615
01:12:47,784 --> 01:12:50,120
that you have with people
from all different walks of life.
1616
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,706
I've seen that languages don't matter,
1617
01:12:53,415 --> 01:12:55,542
and that to me is something beautiful
1618
01:12:55,542 --> 01:12:57,836
about the power of music.
1619
01:12:58,170 --> 01:12:59,254
It's universal.
1620
01:12:59,796 --> 01:13:04,927
- [♪ rock music playing]
- [crowd cheering]
1621
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:30,285
[Phil X] There are shows where
something just really magical happens
1622
01:13:30,285 --> 01:13:33,580
with all seven members on stage.
1623
01:13:34,540 --> 01:13:37,459
It's on stage, man,
'cause the fans, you know what,
1624
01:13:37,459 --> 01:13:41,004
there's kids, kids that know
more lyrics than I do,
1625
01:13:41,505 --> 01:13:43,924
and that's, that's good parenting,
1626
01:13:44,174 --> 01:13:45,926
but the whole point is...
1627
01:13:45,926 --> 01:13:47,678
[Jon laughing]
1628
01:13:47,678 --> 01:13:49,221
[Phil]
...what we're spreading this message
1629
01:13:49,221 --> 01:13:51,849
that's been spread
for 30-something years
1630
01:13:52,015 --> 01:13:53,225
- and we just keep--
- [Jon] Forty.
1631
01:13:53,225 --> 01:13:54,476
[Phil]
Forty years next year.
1632
01:13:54,476 --> 01:13:58,605
I met super fans, and it's
something about Bon Jovi
1633
01:13:58,605 --> 01:14:02,609
that changed their life
for the better or saved their life.
1634
01:14:02,609 --> 01:14:04,945
There was a lyric
in a song or...
1635
01:14:06,071 --> 01:14:07,614
a Jon Bon Jovi's smile.
1636
01:14:07,614 --> 01:14:10,325
Something did something
to them that
1637
01:14:10,325 --> 01:14:13,620
they have to see their band
as often as possible,
1638
01:14:13,620 --> 01:14:14,788
and I don't think that's crazy.
1639
01:14:14,788 --> 01:14:16,748
I think that everybody has
different passions.
1640
01:14:16,748 --> 01:14:20,210
People build model cars,
people parachute.
1641
01:14:20,752 --> 01:14:23,380
These people love ju-just going
to Bon Jovi concerts.
1642
01:14:23,380 --> 01:14:24,590
So that's pretty amazing.
1643
01:14:39,605 --> 01:14:41,064
[Jon]
Well, we're not at the end yet.
1644
01:14:41,607 --> 01:14:45,402
I'm not gonna be able to give you
an honest answer for a week or two,
1645
01:14:45,903 --> 01:14:48,280
but where I think I am today,
1646
01:14:48,864 --> 01:14:50,991
when I'm good, I'm great,
1647
01:14:51,742 --> 01:14:55,662
but I don't feel like
I got everything in the arsenal.
1648
01:14:59,875 --> 01:15:01,919
Were you with me then
when I used to do this?
1649
01:15:05,422 --> 01:15:08,842
I'm thinking about starting
the show black.
1650
01:15:08,842 --> 01:15:10,219
[engineer]
Okay.
1651
01:15:10,219 --> 01:15:13,722
I jump up, acapella Prayer.
1652
01:15:17,476 --> 01:15:20,687
Let them sing it.
Keep just lights on me only.
1653
01:15:20,687 --> 01:15:22,231
No-No black up there.
1654
01:15:22,231 --> 01:15:23,315
[engineer]
Okay.
1655
01:15:23,315 --> 01:15:24,525
Me and this fucking audience.
1656
01:15:24,525 --> 01:15:26,443
[engineer] So, house lights go,
and you-you pop up.
1657
01:15:26,443 --> 01:15:28,570
- I walk up there, then you hit me.
- [engineer] Yep.
1658
01:15:28,570 --> 01:15:30,489
You know, I could give you
a thumbs up or something.
1659
01:15:30,489 --> 01:15:33,659
- [engineer] Yep.
- Adulation, adulation for however long.
1660
01:15:33,659 --> 01:15:36,662
- [engineer] Yep.
- Acapella, they start singing it,
1661
01:15:36,662 --> 01:15:38,580
band starts playing, then it's your show.
1662
01:15:38,580 --> 01:15:39,873
[engineer]
Then you walk. Awesome.
1663
01:15:40,457 --> 01:15:43,752
[Jon] My speedball's not...
it's not quite there.
1664
01:15:44,503 --> 01:15:46,588
Does that mean it's not coming back?
1665
01:15:47,297 --> 01:15:51,635
Or does that mean I just have
to stick with the plan?
1666
01:15:52,845 --> 01:15:56,515
If somebody could tell me,
factually, the best you can do
1667
01:15:56,515 --> 01:15:58,308
is 100% of 80%,
1668
01:15:59,142 --> 01:16:00,352
then I gotta walk away.
1669
01:16:00,352 --> 01:16:02,479
[inaudible]
1670
01:16:05,858 --> 01:16:08,026
- [David] That's it, motherfucker.
- [clapping]
1671
01:16:08,026 --> 01:16:09,653
- Don't hurt me. [laughs]
- [Tico] Yeah!
1672
01:16:11,029 --> 01:16:12,489
- [Tico] Oh, yeah.
- I'm back, motherfucker.
1673
01:16:12,489 --> 01:16:15,117
- [Tico] I know you are.
- [David] Stand, stand down.
1674
01:16:15,117 --> 01:16:16,743
[indistinct chatter]
1675
01:16:17,202 --> 01:16:18,912
[David]
Oh, that's a good one.
1676
01:16:19,621 --> 01:16:21,248
Fuck, he's old.
1677
01:16:22,457 --> 01:16:24,585
[Jon] I don't have
a Messiah complex,
1678
01:16:25,169 --> 01:16:27,462
which some guys get stuck in.
1679
01:16:28,839 --> 01:16:30,757
No, I'm not looking for that,
1680
01:16:31,758 --> 01:16:33,969
but I have come to realize...
1681
01:16:35,804 --> 01:16:37,014
[sighs]
1682
01:16:37,014 --> 01:16:39,516
[♪ pensive music playing]
1683
01:16:45,647 --> 01:16:47,524
I am not letting you see me--
1684
01:16:48,108 --> 01:16:49,234
Um...
1685
01:16:51,278 --> 01:16:52,738
I have come to realize that...
1686
01:16:54,198 --> 01:16:55,282
[sighs]
1687
01:16:59,578 --> 01:17:02,331
I used to say to the band,
"Just trust me
1688
01:17:03,999 --> 01:17:06,251
"and I'll take us
where we need to go,
1689
01:17:07,711 --> 01:17:10,714
"but you gotta put your
whole fucking everything
1690
01:17:11,215 --> 01:17:13,300
into what I'm gonna do."
1691
01:17:17,513 --> 01:17:18,931
Those people who hear that...
1692
01:17:22,601 --> 01:17:23,602
[sighs]
1693
01:17:25,729 --> 01:17:29,066
I never bullshitted them,
you know, so...
1694
01:17:29,733 --> 01:17:32,444
[♪ pensive music continues]
1695
01:17:44,748 --> 01:17:47,334
Anyway, that's why
the legacy matters,
1696
01:17:47,334 --> 01:17:50,128
'cause they believe it.
1697
01:17:52,714 --> 01:17:54,550
So I believe it.
1698
01:17:56,176 --> 01:17:57,219
I love y'all.
1699
01:17:57,219 --> 01:17:58,428
- Love you back.
- Love you too.
1700
01:17:58,428 --> 01:17:59,763
Play with love tonight.
1701
01:18:02,099 --> 01:18:05,644
[band cheering and applauding]
1702
01:18:12,901 --> 01:18:15,946
- [crowd cheering]
- [♪ solemn music playing]
1703
01:18:24,413 --> 01:18:26,373
♪
1704
01:18:39,845 --> 01:18:42,514
[crowd cheering]
1705
01:18:54,443 --> 01:19:01,408
♪ We got to hold on ♪
1706
01:19:02,075 --> 01:19:04,203
♪ To what we've got ♪
1707
01:19:04,203 --> 01:19:08,081
♪ It doesn't make a difference
if we make it or not ♪
1708
01:19:08,081 --> 01:19:13,378
♪ We got each other
and that's a lot for love ♪
1709
01:19:14,213 --> 01:19:16,423
♪ We'll give it a shot ♪
1710
01:19:16,423 --> 01:19:18,091
[♪ "Livin’ on a Prayer"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1711
01:19:18,091 --> 01:19:21,345
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1712
01:19:21,345 --> 01:19:24,932
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1713
01:19:24,932 --> 01:19:28,977
♪ Take my hand we'll make it I swear ♪
1714
01:19:28,977 --> 01:19:32,856
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1715
01:19:32,856 --> 01:19:36,652
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1716
01:19:36,652 --> 01:19:40,405
♪
1717
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:57,256
♪ We've gotta hold on
you ready or not ♪
1718
01:19:57,256 --> 01:20:01,093
♪ You live for the fight
when that's all that you've got ♪
1719
01:20:01,093 --> 01:20:04,471
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1720
01:20:04,471 --> 01:20:08,517
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1721
01:20:08,517 --> 01:20:12,479
♪ Take my hand,
we'll make it, I swear ♪
1722
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:16,567
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1723
01:20:16,567 --> 01:20:20,237
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1724
01:20:20,237 --> 01:20:24,032
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1725
01:20:24,366 --> 01:20:28,120
[crowd]
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1726
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:32,291
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1727
01:20:34,459 --> 01:20:37,212
[crowd cheering]
1728
01:20:43,594 --> 01:20:46,221
[♪ downbeat music playing]
1729
01:21:20,797 --> 01:21:22,132
Like Humpty Dumpty, man.
1730
01:21:22,132 --> 01:21:24,426
- Aw.
- Back together.
1731
01:21:24,426 --> 01:21:25,761
[Jon]
That was really fun.
1732
01:21:26,428 --> 01:21:27,888
- You were amazing.
- [Jon] Thank you.
1733
01:21:28,472 --> 01:21:29,765
Yeah, yeah.
1734
01:21:29,765 --> 01:21:30,849
Ready to drink?
1735
01:21:30,849 --> 01:21:31,934
[Jon]
That was fucking awesome.
1736
01:21:31,934 --> 01:21:33,060
[band laughing]
1737
01:21:33,060 --> 01:21:34,228
That's the way to leave 'em.
1738
01:21:34,228 --> 01:21:35,729
- Yeah.
- Wanting more.
1739
01:21:36,897 --> 01:21:40,150
[♪ downbeat music playing]
1740
01:21:47,533 --> 01:21:48,659
[sighs]
1741
01:21:55,624 --> 01:21:58,961
[crowd cheering]
1742
01:22:01,129 --> 01:22:02,923
[Jon] By the end
of the New Jersey tour,
1743
01:22:03,757 --> 01:22:04,883
we're in Mexico.
1744
01:22:05,801 --> 01:22:08,637
It's show 239 and 240...
1745
01:22:08,637 --> 01:22:11,431
[crowd chanting in Spanish]
1746
01:22:11,431 --> 01:22:15,018
[Jon] ...and there is
a uprising at a college.
1747
01:22:16,311 --> 01:22:17,312
Riots.
1748
01:22:18,730 --> 01:22:21,108
[crowd] [chanting]
Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi,
1749
01:22:21,108 --> 01:22:24,027
Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi...
1750
01:22:24,027 --> 01:22:25,237
Yes, this is the end of it.
1751
01:22:25,237 --> 01:22:27,072
This is the very last show
as we're hoping
1752
01:22:27,072 --> 01:22:29,908
that we, uh, we get to have
our last shows here.
1753
01:22:29,908 --> 01:22:33,829
And the students come in
and take over the stadium
1754
01:22:34,454 --> 01:22:38,292
and barricade everybody,
and the band's still at the hotel.
1755
01:22:38,667 --> 01:22:40,544
The band is here.
We want to play.
1756
01:22:40,544 --> 01:22:42,963
It's just a matter of them
working out the politics.
1757
01:22:42,963 --> 01:22:45,048
They don't want
the show to happen
1758
01:22:45,048 --> 01:22:48,260
because of the disagreement
they're having with the university.
1759
01:22:48,260 --> 01:22:50,262
It's nothing against Bon Jovi.
1760
01:22:50,262 --> 01:22:52,431
[indistinct chatter]
1761
01:22:53,724 --> 01:22:55,976
There's-- they're starting
to gather people.
1762
01:22:55,976 --> 01:22:59,062
There's audience with their tickets
that they're getting,
1763
01:22:59,062 --> 01:23:00,939
starting to get a little bit pissed off.
1764
01:23:02,441 --> 01:23:05,068
[Doc] So I have to go
and negotiate with the students
1765
01:23:05,068 --> 01:23:06,862
who are in masks and baseball bats.
1766
01:23:06,862 --> 01:23:12,492
See if we can get the Juan Carlos
and th-the Federation people
1767
01:23:12,492 --> 01:23:14,328
to meet me in my hotel
in my room,
1768
01:23:14,328 --> 01:23:15,871
and we'll work,
and we'll work it out there
1769
01:23:15,871 --> 01:23:17,789
because otherwise we're going home.
1770
01:23:17,789 --> 01:23:20,167
[Jon]
Although they were doing their job
1771
01:23:20,167 --> 01:23:23,879
and trying to assure us
that everything would be alright,
1772
01:23:23,879 --> 01:23:27,508
there was, um,
a lot of confusion.
1773
01:23:27,508 --> 01:23:31,887
You know, suddenly we were
important men making decisions,
1774
01:23:31,887 --> 01:23:34,431
but really we were just scared boys
with a lot of money.
1775
01:23:40,103 --> 01:23:42,022
[Jon] I'm not rolling.
We're not rolling, just listening.
1776
01:23:42,022 --> 01:23:45,192
[Obie] When you're together like that,
that becomes your second family.
1777
01:23:45,192 --> 01:23:47,319
Sometimes it's your first family.
1778
01:23:47,611 --> 01:23:49,696
Sometimes families get dysfunctional.
1779
01:23:51,156 --> 01:23:53,700
Was it my favorite time
in the music business?
1780
01:23:53,700 --> 01:23:55,994
No, it wasn't.
1781
01:23:57,246 --> 01:23:59,248
[band member] I love it here,
but get me the fuck out.
1782
01:24:00,415 --> 01:24:03,335
[Richie] That's five men in close quarters
that are not supposed to--
1783
01:24:03,335 --> 01:24:06,839
We took vacations together,
we were idiots.
1784
01:24:06,839 --> 01:24:10,843
It was ri-ridiculous that we did
all that kind of stuff.
1785
01:24:10,843 --> 01:24:12,678
[Tico] If you're on a merry-go-round
and you're still
1786
01:24:12,678 --> 01:24:15,472
on a merry-go-round
for so long, you get dizzy.
1787
01:24:15,472 --> 01:24:17,182
So we got dizzy, you know?
1788
01:24:17,182 --> 01:24:19,393
It was at a point where
it could break up the band.
1789
01:24:19,393 --> 01:24:23,605
[Richie] A lot of stuff goes on,
you know, divorces, deaths, births,
1790
01:24:24,064 --> 01:24:27,317
you know, like the real stuff
that happens to a band also.
1791
01:24:27,317 --> 01:24:29,152
That's what people
don't understand,
1792
01:24:29,152 --> 01:24:32,114
how complicated
that whole band is,
1793
01:24:32,114 --> 01:24:34,366
like, be it the band concept itself.
1794
01:24:41,331 --> 01:24:43,083
[Richie] Imagine
abomination number one,
1795
01:24:43,083 --> 01:24:44,668
we're all sick of each other
1796
01:24:44,668 --> 01:24:47,546
and at that point,
you know, pff,
1797
01:24:47,546 --> 01:24:49,298
everybody was getting
pretty hammered.
1798
01:24:55,137 --> 01:24:56,972
[band member] Make a difference,
yeah, make a difference.
1799
01:25:01,768 --> 01:25:04,771
[David] After Slippery happened,
now you're the biggest thing in the world.
1800
01:25:04,771 --> 01:25:06,064
That's four more years
1801
01:25:06,064 --> 01:25:11,111
of nonstop fame,
fortune, and gigs.
1802
01:25:11,111 --> 01:25:14,281
You know, it just was taking a toll on,
you know, a couple of the guys.
1803
01:25:27,878 --> 01:25:29,671
[David laughing]
1804
01:25:30,589 --> 01:25:33,592
[Jon] Alec is a drunk mess.
Tico is a drunk mess.
1805
01:25:33,592 --> 01:25:35,344
I want to get the hell out of there.
1806
01:25:35,344 --> 01:25:36,595
Everybody's seen enough of me.
1807
01:25:36,595 --> 01:25:38,972
My mom's seen me enough,
I seen enough of me.
1808
01:25:39,431 --> 01:25:40,474
Go away.
1809
01:25:44,478 --> 01:25:47,731
[Jon] So we went back to McGhee
and said, "How about this?"
1810
01:25:48,232 --> 01:25:50,817
A matinee and a night show,
1811
01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:53,070
just to get out of here.
1812
01:25:53,946 --> 01:25:55,781
[Richie] Let's do two shows
the next day
1813
01:25:55,781 --> 01:25:57,199
and then you'll hit the bricks,
1814
01:25:57,199 --> 01:25:59,076
and, uh, we're all,
1815
01:25:59,076 --> 01:26:00,494
we're gung-ho for that one.
1816
01:26:00,494 --> 01:26:01,745
[Jon] [over radio]
[indistinct]
1817
01:26:01,745 --> 01:26:04,414
We're doing two shows tomorrow.
First one's 11:30 a.m.
1818
01:26:04,414 --> 01:26:07,209
You're saying we open the show,
we play at 11:30?
1819
01:26:07,835 --> 01:26:09,545
[Jon]
Yeah. Re-regardless.
1820
01:26:10,504 --> 01:26:11,505
Alright.
1821
01:26:12,965 --> 01:26:15,425
Go ahead. There's nothing new
you could throw at us.
1822
01:26:15,425 --> 01:26:16,510
We-We have it all.
1823
01:26:16,510 --> 01:26:18,262
- We've done it all.
- We've done it all.
1824
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:22,099
I'm not postponing, 'cause I'm not
staying here for another minute.
1825
01:26:23,016 --> 01:26:26,937
Wimp band. Can only do two shows
in one day, not three, right?
1826
01:26:28,188 --> 01:26:29,189
Love that.
1827
01:26:30,482 --> 01:26:31,733
That's why we're here.
1828
01:26:32,568 --> 01:26:33,861
[laughter]
1829
01:26:33,861 --> 01:26:35,445
We have no idea why we're here.
1830
01:26:38,532 --> 01:26:42,828
[crowd chanting]
1831
01:26:45,998 --> 01:26:49,209
[crowd cheering]
1832
01:26:51,837 --> 01:26:56,884
[Jon speaking Spanish]
1833
01:27:00,179 --> 01:27:02,222
[Doc] I don't know how we got
through those two shows,
1834
01:27:02,222 --> 01:27:03,807
but everybody was pretty hammered.
1835
01:27:04,641 --> 01:27:07,144
[Tico] There was
margarita makers on stage.
1836
01:27:07,144 --> 01:27:10,063
All we did was drink through
the whole afternoon show
1837
01:27:10,063 --> 01:27:11,440
and the whole evening show.
1838
01:27:12,691 --> 01:27:14,610
[Doc]
It wasn't the fun tour.
1839
01:27:14,610 --> 01:27:18,197
You know, sometimes it's just,
you just move apart,
1840
01:27:18,197 --> 01:27:21,325
and you lose the theme.
1841
01:27:21,825 --> 01:27:23,202
It's not us against the world,
1842
01:27:23,202 --> 01:27:25,329
it's me against the you guys
and everybody.
1843
01:27:25,704 --> 01:27:28,207
Couple more shows. Ah!
1844
01:27:28,957 --> 01:27:33,962
We hang out at the venue
to get the stadium crowd out,
1845
01:27:33,962 --> 01:27:37,841
to get another stadium crowd in
to perform the night show.
1846
01:27:38,300 --> 01:27:41,428
[crowd cheering]
1847
01:27:41,428 --> 01:27:43,180
This is the final show...
1848
01:27:45,724 --> 01:27:47,601
and after 20 countries,
1849
01:27:48,769 --> 01:27:50,979
three million and some odd people,
1850
01:27:52,981 --> 01:27:56,068
a lot of cold beer and warm nights...
1851
01:27:58,403 --> 01:28:00,948
I learned a long time ago
from a guy on TV,
1852
01:28:00,948 --> 01:28:05,118
you never say goodbye,
you just say goodnight.
1853
01:28:07,704 --> 01:28:10,958
[Doc] My job was to make them
the best entertainers in the world...
1854
01:28:12,251 --> 01:28:15,045
and they became some of
the best entertainers in the world.
1855
01:28:17,714 --> 01:28:21,218
[Jon]
From inception through 1990
1856
01:28:21,218 --> 01:28:23,887
was that rocket ship to success.
1857
01:28:23,887 --> 01:28:25,973
It was everything
you'd ever dreamed of
1858
01:28:25,973 --> 01:28:29,226
and were willing to sacrifice
to get to that place
1859
01:28:29,226 --> 01:28:30,978
that you thought was the it.
1860
01:28:32,396 --> 01:28:36,692
It was being on the precipice
of what was
1861
01:28:36,692 --> 01:28:41,071
to become greatness and longevity
1862
01:28:41,572 --> 01:28:45,284
or falling backwards and being the end.
1863
01:28:46,326 --> 01:28:48,078
[Doc] And now there's
nothing else to prove.
1864
01:28:48,078 --> 01:28:51,248
What is it, just another
better record or go tour again,
1865
01:28:51,456 --> 01:28:53,250
you know what I mean?
'Cause you're not doing anything
1866
01:28:53,250 --> 01:28:54,793
but you're unhappy.
1867
01:28:55,544 --> 01:28:58,589
[Jon] In and of the moment
for the New Jersey album,
1868
01:28:58,589 --> 01:29:02,384
I wish that those in control,
whether it was the managers,
1869
01:29:02,384 --> 01:29:06,221
the lawyers, the agents would've said,
1870
01:29:06,221 --> 01:29:08,765
"Hey, guys, I believe in you.
1871
01:29:09,725 --> 01:29:12,311
We're gonna take
another year off,"
1872
01:29:12,853 --> 01:29:15,606
as opposed to, "Get out there
and do it again."
1873
01:29:16,356 --> 01:29:19,318
Just because we said we could
didn't mean that we should.
1874
01:29:22,112 --> 01:29:25,490
I never had the thought
that Jon would ever stop,
1875
01:29:25,490 --> 01:29:27,367
I mean, or Bon Jovi would stop.
1876
01:29:27,367 --> 01:29:28,744
Bon Jovi's forever.
1877
01:29:28,744 --> 01:29:30,871
I didn't care.
[chuckling]
1878
01:29:30,871 --> 01:29:32,664
I don't think anybody cared
if the band was over.
1879
01:29:33,624 --> 01:29:35,250
[Richie]
Ah, you just wanted to go home
1880
01:29:35,250 --> 01:29:37,836
and have some assemblance
of order in your life.
1881
01:29:37,836 --> 01:29:39,838
You know, it was
one of those moments where,
1882
01:29:39,838 --> 01:29:42,841
"Get me the fuck home."
1883
01:29:43,675 --> 01:29:45,177
[David] We just gotta go
the fuck home.
1884
01:29:45,177 --> 01:29:47,054
Everybody's fucking exhausted,
1885
01:29:47,054 --> 01:29:49,598
and then that was the first time
we ever stopped.
1886
01:29:51,099 --> 01:29:54,728
We were done, so I'm like,
"I want to get the fuck outta here,"
1887
01:29:55,562 --> 01:29:59,024
and what I meant was out of Bon Jovi.
1888
01:30:00,025 --> 01:30:01,276
[Doc]
Did he work hard?
1889
01:30:01,276 --> 01:30:05,030
Did I book him
in a really aggressive way?
1890
01:30:05,739 --> 01:30:06,823
Absolutely.
1891
01:30:07,991 --> 01:30:09,409
This isn't poor Jon.
1892
01:30:10,410 --> 01:30:12,955
This is his gig.
This is what he does.
1893
01:30:15,249 --> 01:30:18,794
[Jon] He was working
the band against me,
1894
01:30:18,794 --> 01:30:21,338
me against the band, playing all sides,
1895
01:30:21,338 --> 01:30:24,466
and not for the betterment of the band.
1896
01:30:26,885 --> 01:30:28,554
[Doc] I said,
"Listen, you got a problem.
1897
01:30:29,638 --> 01:30:30,848
You know, you can always..."
1898
01:30:30,848 --> 01:30:32,307
You know, he was just like my son.
1899
01:30:33,016 --> 01:30:36,436
"You know, you can call me,"
and he said to me,
1900
01:30:36,436 --> 01:30:37,729
"What if you're the problem?"
1901
01:30:39,606 --> 01:30:42,776
[♪ "Wild Is the Wind" by Bon Jovi playing]
1902
01:30:52,369 --> 01:30:55,914
♪ I tried to make you happy ♪
1903
01:30:56,373 --> 01:31:01,295
♪ Lord knows I tried so hard to be ♪
1904
01:31:01,587 --> 01:31:04,590
♪ What you hoped that I would be ♪
1905
01:31:04,590 --> 01:31:07,968
♪ I gave you what you wanted ♪
1906
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:13,515
♪ God couldn't give you what you need ♪
1907
01:31:13,515 --> 01:31:15,517
♪ You wanted more from me ♪
1908
01:31:15,517 --> 01:31:17,603
♪ Than I could ever be ♪
1909
01:31:17,603 --> 01:31:19,813
♪ You wanted heart and soul ♪
1910
01:31:19,813 --> 01:31:22,482
♪ But you didn't know, baby ♪
1911
01:31:22,482 --> 01:31:25,444
♪ Wild ♪
1912
01:31:25,444 --> 01:31:27,279
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1913
01:31:27,279 --> 01:31:31,575
♪ That takes me away from you ♪
1914
01:31:31,575 --> 01:31:35,204
♪ Cold is the night
without your love ♪
1915
01:31:35,204 --> 01:31:38,749
♪ To see me through ♪
1916
01:31:39,499 --> 01:31:43,837
♪ And, baby, wild ♪
1917
01:31:43,837 --> 01:31:45,631
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1918
01:31:45,631 --> 01:31:50,802
♪ That blows through my heart, oh ♪
1919
01:31:51,428 --> 01:31:54,306
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1920
01:31:55,557 --> 01:31:58,143
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1921
01:31:59,228 --> 01:32:03,148
♪ You got to understand, baby ♪
1922
01:32:03,690 --> 01:32:06,652
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1923
01:32:09,988 --> 01:32:13,492
♪ You need someone to hold you ♪
1924
01:32:14,201 --> 01:32:18,997
♪ Somebody to be there night and day ♪
1925
01:32:18,997 --> 01:32:21,917
♪ Someone to kiss your fears away ♪
1926
01:32:22,417 --> 01:32:25,838
♪ I just went on pretending ♪
1927
01:32:26,171 --> 01:32:30,551
♪ Too weak, too proud,
too tough to say ♪
1928
01:32:31,176 --> 01:32:33,262
♪ I couldn't be the one ♪
1929
01:32:33,262 --> 01:32:35,305
♪ To make your dreams come true ♪
1930
01:32:35,305 --> 01:32:37,516
♪ That's why I had to run ♪
1931
01:32:37,516 --> 01:32:40,143
♪ Though I needed you, baby ♪
1932
01:32:40,143 --> 01:32:43,188
♪ Wild ♪
1933
01:32:43,188 --> 01:32:45,065
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1934
01:32:45,065 --> 01:32:49,319
♪ That takes me away from you ♪
1935
01:32:49,319 --> 01:32:52,948
♪ Cold is the night
without your love ♪
1936
01:32:52,948 --> 01:32:56,326
♪ To see me through ♪
1937
01:32:57,536 --> 01:33:01,540
♪ Baby, wild ♪
1938
01:33:01,540 --> 01:33:03,333
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1939
01:33:03,333 --> 01:33:07,504
♪ That blows through my heart tonight ♪
1940
01:33:07,504 --> 01:33:12,718
♪ And tears us apart, whoa... ♪
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