![]() ![]() The Slippery… tour, for all its glory and fanfare, was also a tough one for the band, and cracks were already starting to appear before they even got off the road. ![]() I was determined that people wouldn’t be able to say that Slippery… was a fluke. We were determined to make that album work, too. Jon recalled at the time: “The turnaround was incredible. As a result of (and no doubt boosting the success of) Slippery…, Bon Jovi remained on the road for nearly 18 of those 24 months, finally bringing the tour to a close in January 1988. To the untrained eye a two-year gap had elapsed since the release of Slippery…, but really it wasn’t like that. Who knows how many people got their introduction to the harder side of the rock spectrum via bands like Jovi? I know I did.įast forward to summer of 1988 and the release of Bon Jovi’s New Jersey album. Bon Jovi were a long-haired rock’n’roll band that didn’t scare your parents, craftily bridging the gap between teenage pop and harder rock. No, Bon Jovi were, by their own admission, a glorified bar band who wanted to entertain, but in an honest, blue-collar way that had more in common with fellow New Jersey boy Bruce Springsteen than with the sex, drugs, then more sex ’n’ drugs and a little bit of rock’n’roll of the Mötley Crüe gang. Not for them the socio-political rhetoric of U2’s Bono or the wit and wisdom of Bob Dylan. Bon Jovi worked on the myth that they were buddies, a good-time band. The album had gone stratospheric, no doubt helped by the heavy MTV rotation of slick videos that accompanied Livin’ On A Prayer and You Give Love A Bad Name, and the frontman’s charismatic good looks – tailor-made for posters that would adorn the bedroom walls of countless teenage girls. ![]()
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