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Johnny.
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How are you, buddy?
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I'm well.
It's good to hear your voice.
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Are you ready to take
the world by storm once again?
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How's Omaha?
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Omaha is wonderful.
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Have a little reunion
to get you ready.
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Yeah, buddy.
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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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Hey, Johnny, my old dear friend.
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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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Right on.
Okay, the tour, what can we expect?
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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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Alright, listen,
you knock 'em dead,
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uh, opening night
and we will see you Sunday night.
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Thank you very much, buddy.
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Proof that this story was true.
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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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So it, you know, you're torn.
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- Yes, yes.
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Ah-ha!
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Yes, yes, yes!
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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.
- Kill it. Woo!
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Alright, come on.
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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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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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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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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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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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♪ 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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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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Jon, you said
you're not married, man.
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- 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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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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Runaway.
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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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"...what a great fucking day
for rock and roll."
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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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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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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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Richie was meant to start a song,
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one that we had written together.
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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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The crowd went from polite applause
to silence to, "ZZ Top."
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"ZZ Top, ZZ Top."
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And I'm thinking, "Oh, Christ,
this is over before it starts."
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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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Oh, that was horrible.
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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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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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- ♪ Get ready ♪
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We were scared shitless.
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Good enough to get by.
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The magic of denial.
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We thought we did a great job.
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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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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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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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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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And I was just enamored,
and I signed a deal with him.
250
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Had a lot of adventures with that guy.
251
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We-we signed with Doc,
this is all in '83, right?
252
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So this is after the ZZ thing,
253
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and we got from September
'til January
254
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before our record comes out,
255
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but we're not ready
to sit home.
256
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We want to be on the road, you know?
257
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And he says,
"Well, you know, you got a road crew,
258
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you got a bus, you got this,
you got that?" We says, "Nah!"
259
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Let's throw it on a station wagon,
260
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hooked it up in a U-Haul,
and we drove, right?
261
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After we recorded that in '83,
262
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and in '84 we went out to tour.
263
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That first tour was amazing.
264
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It was the American wet dream.
265
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They were really,
really a good solid band.
266
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They could sing, they could play,
267
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and they had that attitude
and the more confidence
268
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that they built up, the better they were.
269
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You only get that by being out there.
270
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We were gonna do, I don't know,
271
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25 clubs in 30 days kind of thing,
272
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and, uh, I was the first one
to show up on the bus
273
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because oh, my God,
we had our own tour bus.
274
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We were so excited.
275
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When you get your first tour bus,
276
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you think you died and gone to heaven.
277
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♪ No Romeos who'll love and leave you... ♪
278
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My house is 20 grand.
The tour bus is like 500 grand.
279
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I'd never seen anything
that nice in my life.
280
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I mean, I was there so early,
I just kept walking in
281
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and around it and on it
282
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and in the bunks
and out of the bunks.
283
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All the neighbors
came out, you know, in their curlers
284
00:12:55,442 --> 00:12:57,194
and smocks on and everything going,
285
00:12:57,194 --> 00:12:58,820
"Oh, your kid made it, look at this."
286
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And sure as fuck, David shows up
287
00:13:00,864 --> 00:13:03,784
with a bowling ball...
288
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fishing pole.
289
00:13:04,868 --> 00:13:06,954
Basketballs, every-- Like...
290
00:13:06,954 --> 00:13:08,580
Alec had a gun.
291
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I mean, it was the stupidest thing.
292
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Everybody had 13 pieces of luggage.
293
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Who knew?
We didn't know what this was about.
294
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Like we were
gonna have time to do
295
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any of that kind of stuff.
296
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Then we couldn't fit
all the shit in the bus.
297
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So then we had to go back
to each of our houses
298
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and drop the bowling ball back off,
299
00:13:24,388 --> 00:13:25,973
'cause we didn't have any fuckin' room.
300
00:13:27,975 --> 00:13:30,018
So the adventure began.
301
00:13:30,018 --> 00:13:33,522
Doc always believed in playing
the band live everywhere.
302
00:13:33,522 --> 00:13:35,899
I mean, what we would do
one stop in a state now,
303
00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,694
we would do six, seven, eight stops.
304
00:13:39,152 --> 00:13:42,072
I believe that you have to take
the bands to the people,
305
00:13:42,072 --> 00:13:43,574
not the people to the bands.
306
00:13:43,991 --> 00:13:47,286
I remember playing
in Texas places where,
307
00:13:47,286 --> 00:13:49,121
you know, like, the Blues Brothers
should have played
308
00:13:49,121 --> 00:13:51,248
with the chicken wire
and them looking at us
309
00:13:51,248 --> 00:13:54,334
with our long hair and the cowboys
thinking we was cute,
310
00:13:54,334 --> 00:13:57,004
'cause we were probably
cuter than their girlfriends.
311
00:13:57,004 --> 00:13:59,256
We looked better than half
the girls we ended up with.
312
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I thought that was kind of funny.
313
00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:05,053
I remember the bus
breaking down in the desert.
314
00:14:06,180 --> 00:14:08,765
I remember going
to California for the first time
315
00:14:08,765 --> 00:14:11,101
as a band pulling down the Sunset Strip,
316
00:14:12,269 --> 00:14:16,899
playing some little theaters
with a Los Angeles band called Ratt.
317
00:14:16,899 --> 00:14:19,818
LA's newest,
hottest band, Ratt.
318
00:14:20,569 --> 00:14:24,656
Performances were so raw
and so energetic.
319
00:14:25,115 --> 00:14:27,534
Not bad for a bunch
of kids from New Jersey.
320
00:14:27,534 --> 00:14:28,952
What do you guys think?
321
00:14:28,952 --> 00:14:31,496
And then you hear
the audience responding to them.
322
00:14:31,496 --> 00:14:33,999
You go, man, th-there's
something happening here,
323
00:14:33,999 --> 00:14:35,667
and that's early on.
324
00:14:36,376 --> 00:14:39,129
It's fun, it's chicks, it's rock and roll.
325
00:14:39,129 --> 00:14:40,714
It's the whole thing.
326
00:14:40,714 --> 00:14:41,798
It was about playing.
327
00:14:41,798 --> 00:14:43,842
It wasn't about how much money you made.
328
00:14:43,842 --> 00:14:46,887
It's a thing that I love
about the music business.
329
00:14:46,887 --> 00:14:50,307
It's called before the zeroes,
when it was fun.
330
00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:53,060
Yeah, so the key was never to play
331
00:14:53,060 --> 00:14:56,980
while under any influence,
you know, by not drinking.
332
00:14:56,980 --> 00:14:58,982
I never did, that was never my thing,
333
00:14:59,441 --> 00:15:00,943
'cause you should get high off the music.
334
00:15:00,943 --> 00:15:02,778
We were always about the music.
335
00:15:03,237 --> 00:15:04,988
We never walked on that stage fucked up.
336
00:15:04,988 --> 00:15:07,324
Here I'm standing with Jon Bon Jovi
337
00:15:07,324 --> 00:15:09,576
and the band Bon Jovi.
338
00:15:10,911 --> 00:15:12,746
You guys have opened
for Hall & Oates...
339
00:15:12,746 --> 00:15:14,122
- Yeah.
- ...and, uh, ZZ Top,
340
00:15:14,122 --> 00:15:15,832
and, uh, things are going real well.
341
00:15:15,832 --> 00:15:18,961
Well, we're on tour right now in support
of our new album on Mercury Records.
342
00:15:18,961 --> 00:15:20,546
- Mm-hmm.
- Uh, we're doing
343
00:15:20,546 --> 00:15:22,506
a headlining tour right now,
and then we'll be out
344
00:15:22,506 --> 00:15:24,174
with the Scorpions
doing the arenas.
345
00:15:24,174 --> 00:15:26,885
- Great.
- California,
346
00:15:26,885 --> 00:15:30,305
there is no one like you!
347
00:15:32,307 --> 00:15:34,726
So we did that first month
playing the bars.
348
00:15:34,726 --> 00:15:37,354
The Scorpions, the German band,
take us out on the road
349
00:15:37,354 --> 00:15:38,814
to open for them in arenas.
350
00:15:39,231 --> 00:15:42,276
So we graduate to playing
as an opening act.
351
00:15:42,276 --> 00:15:44,820
You have 35 minutes,
and you have to cut your teeth,
352
00:15:44,820 --> 00:15:46,113
you have to win a crowd over.
353
00:15:46,113 --> 00:15:48,574
We went out and learned
a lot from the Scorpions.
354
00:15:48,574 --> 00:15:50,701
I thank them very much to this day.
355
00:15:50,701 --> 00:15:52,536
They were a great live band,
356
00:15:52,536 --> 00:15:53,829
taught me a lot of tricks.
357
00:15:54,288 --> 00:15:57,708
We call them, like,
the Panzer tank, just ride, rolled on.
358
00:15:58,083 --> 00:16:01,336
There was no such thing
as less than 120% every night.
359
00:16:03,046 --> 00:16:07,384
I wanted to tour
with The Cars or Bryan Adams,
360
00:16:07,384 --> 00:16:10,596
and Doc McGhee said to me,
"You have to go out there
361
00:16:10,596 --> 00:16:14,641
and earn an audience," by touring
362
00:16:14,641 --> 00:16:17,436
with what he called
the black t-shirt crowd.
363
00:16:18,395 --> 00:16:20,606
When Doc had told me
that we were slated to go out
364
00:16:20,606 --> 00:16:22,900
with the Scorpions
and we're singing...
365
00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,360
♪ Ooh, she's a little runaway ♪
366
00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,237
You know, I'm going, "Oh, shit."
367
00:16:27,571 --> 00:16:30,115
Jonny would say,
"They're gonna throw shit at us,"
368
00:16:30,115 --> 00:16:32,159
because, you know,
he was kind of a pop band
369
00:16:32,159 --> 00:16:34,119
compared to what the rock bands were.
370
00:16:34,119 --> 00:16:36,330
We couldn't be
categorized so easily
371
00:16:36,330 --> 00:16:38,790
because we weren't
heavy metal
372
00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:40,417
and we weren't pop.
373
00:16:40,751 --> 00:16:43,545
And people fucking hated us.
374
00:16:43,545 --> 00:16:45,589
Every night was a fucking war.
375
00:16:46,173 --> 00:16:49,343
I remember Tico wearing
a plastic baseball helmet
376
00:16:50,219 --> 00:16:52,763
from the quarters that were
pinging off of his head.
377
00:16:52,763 --> 00:16:55,015
I'd be hearing...
378
00:16:55,015 --> 00:16:57,267
quarters, nickels, this
and that, and the other thing
379
00:16:57,267 --> 00:16:59,019
'cause people wanted
to hear some heavy stuff.
380
00:16:59,019 --> 00:17:00,687
'Cause you never know
what they'd fly out.
381
00:17:00,687 --> 00:17:02,731
- Oh, when they, when the lights went out.
- Put the head down.
382
00:17:02,731 --> 00:17:03,815
Oh, let's hit the drummer.
383
00:17:03,815 --> 00:17:05,108
- I like that.
- Touch the chin.
384
00:17:05,108 --> 00:17:08,070
Definitely, uh,
made our skin thick.
385
00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:11,406
Kind of forced them
into going to that direction
386
00:17:11,406 --> 00:17:12,824
of being that rock band.
387
00:17:13,158 --> 00:17:16,411
You know, we started
to, to make a bit of progress,
388
00:17:16,411 --> 00:17:19,540
and we went out and worked harder
than anybody else did.
389
00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:21,291
Used to be the worst guy in the world
390
00:17:21,291 --> 00:17:23,961
you ever wanted opening your show, me.
391
00:17:24,670 --> 00:17:27,589
The worst motherfucker
you ever wanted to see,
392
00:17:27,589 --> 00:17:30,926
because I'd do anything
to upstage the headliner
393
00:17:30,926 --> 00:17:33,011
to try to win that audience over.
394
00:17:33,011 --> 00:17:35,305
As far as the new album's concerned,
395
00:17:35,305 --> 00:17:38,183
we're gonna do the Japanese tour,
come home for three weeks,
396
00:17:38,183 --> 00:17:40,769
and then we're doing
our European tour with Kiss.
397
00:17:40,769 --> 00:17:44,231
So, uh, we're lucky enough that
our first album is a world tour.
398
00:17:44,231 --> 00:17:46,400
♪ Are you ready Tokyo ♪
399
00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,735
Then when we went to Japan
400
00:17:48,735 --> 00:17:51,572
and the record company,
they were building Jon
401
00:17:51,572 --> 00:17:53,615
like an idol band,
they called it.
402
00:17:53,615 --> 00:17:55,576
[♪ "She Don't Know Me"
by Bon Jovi playing]
403
00:17:55,576 --> 00:17:57,536
We're like, great, where's Japan?
404
00:17:58,287 --> 00:18:00,831
I think, you know, at that point,
I drove with my parents
405
00:18:00,831 --> 00:18:02,541
in a station wagon to Florida.
406
00:18:02,541 --> 00:18:05,335
I think it was the most
I ever made it outta New Jersey.
407
00:18:06,211 --> 00:18:08,172
We played all through Japan.
408
00:18:08,964 --> 00:18:10,883
They were like
the Beatles there at the time.
409
00:18:11,675 --> 00:18:14,595
♪ What more can I do ♪
410
00:18:15,053 --> 00:18:17,514
♪ There's nothing that I haven't tried ♪
411
00:18:17,514 --> 00:18:20,100
Kids were lined up singing songs,
412
00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:22,311
500 in front of the hotel.
413
00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:25,772
We weren't used to it.
I mean, we were barely getting on radio.
414
00:18:26,398 --> 00:18:28,150
Oh, yeah, well,
we were the Beatles there.
415
00:18:28,150 --> 00:18:30,444
It was the most unbelievable thing.
416
00:18:30,444 --> 00:18:34,156
It was thousands of kids waiting
at the airport and screaming.
417
00:18:34,156 --> 00:18:36,033
Had little dolls of you
and stuff, you know?
418
00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:37,576
It was hu--
You're like, "Really?"
419
00:18:43,123 --> 00:18:45,042
Hello, Tokyo.
420
00:18:46,376 --> 00:18:47,628
Here we go.
421
00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:50,756
♪ Come on, come on ♪
422
00:18:50,756 --> 00:18:52,799
♪ Get ready ♪
423
00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:54,885
♪ Come on, come on ♪
424
00:18:57,095 --> 00:18:58,764
Give yourselves
a nice hand, Tokyo.
425
00:18:58,764 --> 00:19:00,057
We'll see you all again.
426
00:19:01,892 --> 00:19:03,977
We are back and talking
with Jon Bon Jovi.
427
00:19:03,977 --> 00:19:06,688
- Hey.
- Second visit to MTV for Jon.
428
00:19:07,064 --> 00:19:09,525
- A Jersey kid goes to Japan.
- That's what it is.
429
00:19:09,525 --> 00:19:11,318
- How was it for you?
- Oh, it was amazing.
430
00:19:11,318 --> 00:19:13,820
Uh, th-the kids are amazing.
431
00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:15,197
So they love Bon Jovi over there.
432
00:19:15,197 --> 00:19:18,867
Yeah, fortunately. I'm-I'm glad somebody
does besides my mother, you know?
433
00:19:22,663 --> 00:19:24,373
We really went
around the world
434
00:19:24,373 --> 00:19:26,333
and played lots and lots
and lots of countries.
435
00:19:27,084 --> 00:19:28,669
Doc McGhee took us to Europe.
436
00:19:28,669 --> 00:19:32,673
We opened for Kiss
in the no-makeup stage.
437
00:19:32,673 --> 00:19:34,049
Taught us a lot, you know,
438
00:19:34,049 --> 00:19:36,093
being on the road
for two years now,
439
00:19:36,093 --> 00:19:39,054
it kind of gives you an education,
what the world is about.
440
00:19:39,388 --> 00:19:41,765
Singing their solid
gold classic, Runaway,
441
00:19:41,765 --> 00:19:44,643
here's a band everybody's
talking about, Bon Jovi.
442
00:19:46,228 --> 00:19:49,273
The first album comes and goes.
We have a nice little run.
443
00:19:49,731 --> 00:19:51,733
You have your whole life
to write your first record.
444
00:19:52,860 --> 00:19:54,987
You have six or seven weeks
to write the second.
445
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,783
I am, as you are,
impatient for results.
446
00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:04,121
He would do a show
and record it live
447
00:20:04,121 --> 00:20:05,789
and send it to me,
and I would mix it.
448
00:20:06,164 --> 00:20:09,626
Then he actually did
his second record at my studio
449
00:20:09,626 --> 00:20:11,253
in Philadelphia
at The Warehouse.
450
00:20:12,212 --> 00:20:16,633
Last album, uh, was
a feeling of writing songs.
451
00:20:16,633 --> 00:20:18,969
I was writing a lot from point of view
452
00:20:18,969 --> 00:20:21,305
of a, a kid in New Jersey.
453
00:20:21,305 --> 00:20:23,849
You know, you're writing
from only a limited background.
454
00:20:24,474 --> 00:20:27,603
We write. In fact, David
and I co-wrote the first single,
455
00:20:27,603 --> 00:20:30,981
and it barely breaks the top 40.
456
00:20:30,981 --> 00:20:33,233
And it was just like, "Oh,
let's go write some more songs quick
457
00:20:33,233 --> 00:20:34,443
because people have heard of us."
458
00:20:34,443 --> 00:20:36,737
Let's get another album
in their face right away.
459
00:20:37,112 --> 00:20:40,240
And instead of taking
our time and thinking it out
460
00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,160
and letting the songs really breathe,
461
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:44,953
we really, really rushed.
462
00:20:44,953 --> 00:20:48,040
Your brand new LP is called
7800 Degrees Fahrenheit.
463
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:51,668
That, by the way, is the temperature
which rock melts.
464
00:20:51,668 --> 00:20:52,753
Cute, huh?
465
00:20:52,753 --> 00:20:55,005
The second record was not great,
466
00:20:55,005 --> 00:20:58,675
and the band was still going
through a lot of growing pains.
467
00:20:59,218 --> 00:21:02,513
If you're smart enough to learn
how to play your instrument, check.
468
00:21:03,472 --> 00:21:07,601
You're incredibly fortunate enough
to have written that song, check.
469
00:21:08,185 --> 00:21:11,146
Now I'm supposed to know
how to make a video?
470
00:21:12,147 --> 00:21:13,732
No check. You know?
471
00:21:17,819 --> 00:21:19,738
Where's the video?
472
00:21:19,738 --> 00:21:20,948
Where?
473
00:21:22,032 --> 00:21:23,700
Tell us about your tape
and then put it in.
474
00:21:24,159 --> 00:21:26,703
This is the first video
of our brand new Mercury album.
475
00:21:26,703 --> 00:21:28,288
This is called Runaway.
476
00:21:30,832 --> 00:21:32,793
It was our first video
and what did we know?
477
00:21:32,793 --> 00:21:34,545
And we saw it and we almost died.
478
00:21:35,337 --> 00:21:37,548
We made five videos
in our first two records.
479
00:21:38,423 --> 00:21:40,509
We look at 'em and now we say, "What?"
480
00:21:40,509 --> 00:21:43,011
Man, you sold us out.
481
00:21:43,011 --> 00:21:44,263
What the hell were we doing?
482
00:21:44,263 --> 00:21:45,722
We were very naive,
and we didn't know
483
00:21:45,722 --> 00:21:46,849
what the hell to do.
So we like--
484
00:21:46,849 --> 00:21:47,933
Just have to learn.
485
00:21:47,933 --> 00:21:50,227
So people are going, "Okay,
wear this and go over there
486
00:21:50,227 --> 00:21:52,604
and act like that," and you go, sure.
487
00:21:52,604 --> 00:21:55,232
Man, they are not nice people.
488
00:21:55,232 --> 00:21:57,192
I said, "What are you?
489
00:21:57,484 --> 00:21:58,735
"You're a fun rock band.
490
00:21:59,194 --> 00:22:02,698
"It can't be,
you're, uh, selling hot dogs
491
00:22:02,698 --> 00:22:05,158
"and then he comes over
and gets out of the car,
492
00:22:05,158 --> 00:22:07,202
and the other guy's a cab driver."
493
00:22:07,202 --> 00:22:08,620
What the fuck is that?
494
00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:12,207
For the first videos that
everybody's seen up until now,
495
00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:16,044
um, I can honestly say that I had
nothing to do with whatsoever
496
00:22:16,044 --> 00:22:18,213
because they hire these directors
and storytellers
497
00:22:18,213 --> 00:22:20,048
who have nothing
to do with our songs.
498
00:22:20,591 --> 00:22:22,092
Plus, we looked like crap.
499
00:22:22,092 --> 00:22:24,803
Basically, our whole outfits
were about $20.
500
00:22:25,304 --> 00:22:28,223
We would just take t-shirts
and cut 'em up.
501
00:22:28,223 --> 00:22:31,143
The West Coast stuff,
they were like rock and roll pirates.
502
00:22:31,643 --> 00:22:33,896
So we're like, "Okay,
tie shit on you like a pirate
503
00:22:33,896 --> 00:22:35,397
and wear, like, a pirate shirt."
504
00:22:35,856 --> 00:22:38,984
So I think bands were formulating,
you know, whatever that look was.
505
00:22:39,401 --> 00:22:41,028
The music is the important thing,
506
00:22:41,028 --> 00:22:43,989
not the pictures, not the
album cover, not the videos.
507
00:22:43,989 --> 00:22:47,075
The music is the thing that
the kids are relating to still.
508
00:22:47,367 --> 00:22:49,620
We had a gold record, you know?
I don't know how.
509
00:22:50,162 --> 00:22:52,164
You know? But I guess
Jon wiggled his ass enough
510
00:22:52,164 --> 00:22:56,376
and we played some loud guitars
and had some decent songs.
511
00:22:57,044 --> 00:22:59,880
Not my favorite record,
but it did a little bit better.
512
00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:02,674
We went out again on the road
and worked our asses off.
513
00:23:02,674 --> 00:23:07,262
And every night, we're
establishing ourselves as a live band.
514
00:23:07,262 --> 00:23:10,557
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Richie Sambora.
515
00:23:10,557 --> 00:23:14,186
[♪ playing guitar solo of
"In and Out of Love" by Bon Jovi]
516
00:23:20,275 --> 00:23:22,736
Bands like Bon Jovi, they have a sound.
517
00:23:22,736 --> 00:23:26,198
It sounds like them live,
which is different from the record.
518
00:23:26,573 --> 00:23:28,200
We're starting to gel,
519
00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,786
but playing it live
is a different game too.
520
00:23:30,786 --> 00:23:33,539
It comes from time and time
and again, you keep doing it,
521
00:23:33,539 --> 00:23:34,623
where we kept getting better.
522
00:23:37,751 --> 00:23:39,920
You know,
the band was a steamroller,
523
00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:43,632
but it wasn't becoming
the alchemy of the band yet.
524
00:23:43,924 --> 00:23:47,302
♪ In and out of love ♪
525
00:23:48,512 --> 00:23:49,930
We've been out since April.
526
00:23:49,930 --> 00:23:52,349
Uh, we hit Japan first,
you know,
527
00:23:52,349 --> 00:23:54,726
and we did, uh, four weeks
of headlining over there
528
00:23:54,726 --> 00:23:56,645
and then we bopped
over here to Europe
529
00:23:56,645 --> 00:23:58,939
for five weeks,
and then we went straight to America.
530
00:23:58,939 --> 00:24:01,233
Yeah, it looks as though
it's not gonna end as well,
531
00:24:01,233 --> 00:24:02,693
you were saying
a moment ago?
532
00:24:03,193 --> 00:24:04,444
No, it could be.
533
00:24:04,444 --> 00:24:06,113
- This is--
- Rumors, rumors.
534
00:24:06,113 --> 00:24:09,324
This is our manager's, uh,
Count de Monet tour, you know?
535
00:24:09,324 --> 00:24:10,617
- I do.
536
00:24:10,617 --> 00:24:15,372
I think, uh, the idea is to finish
the year out in America
537
00:24:15,372 --> 00:24:18,709
and then sit back and think
about a new producer
538
00:24:18,709 --> 00:24:22,629
and take in a-a-a while
to do the next album.
539
00:24:23,589 --> 00:24:24,840
It could have been worse.
540
00:24:25,340 --> 00:24:28,510
The single-minded focus
as to what the, you know,
541
00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:31,138
the vision was didn't happen
until the third album.
542
00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:37,394
Let's get you sound.
543
00:24:42,566 --> 00:24:45,402
Still got 26 miles to go
on this marathon.
544
00:24:45,402 --> 00:24:46,528
Yeah.
545
00:24:46,528 --> 00:24:50,324
Jon does a lot of work
preparing himself as a person
546
00:24:50,324 --> 00:24:53,035
and as well as preparing
for, for what this is.
547
00:24:54,328 --> 00:24:56,455
How's the body feel
for those couple of runs?
548
00:24:57,456 --> 00:25:01,210
You know, calm
before the storm or a little beat up,
549
00:25:01,210 --> 00:25:02,961
- I can't decide.
- Okay.
550
00:25:03,545 --> 00:25:05,214
He's very physical out there,
551
00:25:05,214 --> 00:25:07,591
so his whole body has
to be maintained,
552
00:25:07,591 --> 00:25:10,719
but then specifically muscles
that are involved in singing
553
00:25:10,719 --> 00:25:14,348
have to be constantly
loosened and relaxed.
554
00:25:15,432 --> 00:25:17,893
When you're out here,
the mental aspect of performing
555
00:25:17,893 --> 00:25:19,978
at this level takes the forefront.
556
00:25:19,978 --> 00:25:22,481
See, this is much better right now
than it was two days ago.
557
00:25:24,149 --> 00:25:25,984
Once those physical needs are met,
558
00:25:25,984 --> 00:25:29,488
nothing else will work in a connected way
559
00:25:29,488 --> 00:25:33,075
without the mind and the spirit aligned.
560
00:25:35,661 --> 00:25:38,080
I was watching TV
a couple of weeks ago,
561
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,499
and the talk was,
is that Tiger was coming back.
562
00:25:40,499 --> 00:25:43,377
Tiger Woods, a winner again.
563
00:25:43,377 --> 00:25:45,712
He has a horrific,
most likely career-ending,
564
00:25:45,712 --> 00:25:48,966
maybe, you know,
life-changing car accident.
565
00:25:49,550 --> 00:25:53,136
A year later, he shows up
on the podium of the Masters.
566
00:25:53,136 --> 00:25:56,223
The reporter says,
"Are you intending to win the Masters?"
567
00:25:56,223 --> 00:25:57,474
So the question is simple.
568
00:25:57,474 --> 00:25:59,142
Do you think you can win
the Masters this week?
569
00:25:59,142 --> 00:26:00,227
I do.
570
00:26:00,811 --> 00:26:02,855
I looked at the TV screen
and I said,
571
00:26:02,855 --> 00:26:04,773
"Of course he's gonna win the Masters.
572
00:26:04,773 --> 00:26:07,276
Of course I'm going
to be great tonight."
573
00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:11,655
Alright, Tiger!
574
00:26:14,616 --> 00:26:15,993
He didn't win the Masters.
575
00:26:16,451 --> 00:26:19,037
He played his heart out,
it hurt like hell.
576
00:26:19,705 --> 00:26:21,540
Did he put the clubs away and say,
577
00:26:21,540 --> 00:26:23,500
"Oh, well, I'm done?"
578
00:26:25,252 --> 00:26:26,336
No.
579
00:26:26,336 --> 00:26:28,422
Tiger wanted
to get to Mount Everest,
580
00:26:28,422 --> 00:26:30,674
but he definitely got to the base camp.
581
00:26:31,842 --> 00:26:36,555
I understand what that is
because I too believed
582
00:26:36,555 --> 00:26:38,390
that I was going to be great.
583
00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:40,642
I've put in the time,
I've put in the effort,
584
00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:45,189
and what could be worse than,
it's still not working out?
585
00:26:49,902 --> 00:26:52,905
Here we are,
tonight's show 10 outta 15.
586
00:26:52,905 --> 00:26:55,657
We started this journey asking
about the question of joy
587
00:26:56,575 --> 00:26:59,536
and on show one in Omaha,
Nebraska, there she was.
588
00:27:01,788 --> 00:27:03,624
I remember coming off
the stage that night
589
00:27:03,624 --> 00:27:06,543
and feeling pure joy,
590
00:27:06,543 --> 00:27:08,587
something I hadn't felt much of
591
00:27:08,587 --> 00:27:10,172
in a number of years.
592
00:27:11,298 --> 00:27:12,925
It got a little bit better
the second night.
593
00:27:12,925 --> 00:27:16,720
Her lipstick may have been a little worn,
but she still looked good.
594
00:27:17,429 --> 00:27:20,933
Day three, it's there,
but in-in truth,
595
00:27:20,933 --> 00:27:22,601
I took a couple body blows,
596
00:27:22,601 --> 00:27:25,354
I read some things,
and I don't often do that.
597
00:27:25,354 --> 00:27:27,773
The legendary rock icon Jon Bon Jovi,
598
00:27:27,773 --> 00:27:30,567
who has been rumored to be losing
his voice in recent years.
599
00:27:30,567 --> 00:27:32,069
Sounds like he's super tired.
600
00:27:32,069 --> 00:27:33,862
They're not
gonna be able to tour anymore.
601
00:27:33,862 --> 00:27:34,947
There's no way.
602
00:27:35,322 --> 00:27:36,782
And it hurt.
603
00:27:37,783 --> 00:27:40,577
It hurt because I've worked
so hard physically,
604
00:27:40,577 --> 00:27:44,289
mentally, spiritually,
to want to be here again,
605
00:27:44,873 --> 00:27:48,585
and I had to ask myself,
606
00:27:49,378 --> 00:27:52,047
"Is it worth going forward?"
Or is it worth saying,
607
00:27:52,047 --> 00:27:55,259
"Okay, you tried but the body
can't do it anymore?"
608
00:28:03,058 --> 00:28:04,393
Same song, from the top.
609
00:28:05,978 --> 00:28:08,814
So when I use
these analogies of running
610
00:28:08,814 --> 00:28:12,025
the long race or the sports icons,
611
00:28:12,442 --> 00:28:14,570
it makes the impossible possible.
612
00:28:14,570 --> 00:28:17,489
It helps me remember how hard I've worked
613
00:28:17,489 --> 00:28:21,326
and that all of that training
doesn't get thrown away
614
00:28:21,326 --> 00:28:22,995
because somebody said so.
615
00:28:25,539 --> 00:28:27,291
♪ Like this ♪
616
00:28:27,791 --> 00:28:31,628
♪ On a night like this ♪
617
00:28:32,254 --> 00:28:35,549
They don't know what's behind it
and what's gone into it
618
00:28:35,549 --> 00:28:37,885
and what is still left in the tank.
619
00:28:39,094 --> 00:28:42,139
You know, one thing you can't be
in this world is a quitter.
620
00:28:42,139 --> 00:28:44,099
So I'm good.
621
00:28:44,099 --> 00:28:47,019
Me and joy are holding hands.
622
00:28:50,856 --> 00:28:52,065
Come on, baby.
623
00:29:42,699 --> 00:29:44,034
You left it out there.
624
00:29:45,077 --> 00:29:46,620
Well, I didn't leave much.
625
00:29:47,162 --> 00:29:48,914
That was by far the worst show.
626
00:29:49,915 --> 00:29:51,083
Did you feel pooped?
627
00:29:51,083 --> 00:29:52,376
I was exhausted.
628
00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:56,171
I just had no gas.
629
00:29:56,171 --> 00:29:57,923
My eyes are puffy,
630
00:29:57,923 --> 00:30:01,969
just couldn't lift
my arms or my legs.
631
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,402
In my journey
632
00:30:18,902 --> 00:30:22,656
to try to keep
on top of my game,
633
00:30:22,948 --> 00:30:25,826
especially when I was broken vocally,
634
00:30:26,326 --> 00:30:30,789
there wasn't anybody
that was really dealing with this.
635
00:30:32,916 --> 00:30:35,043
So a surgeon, you meet him
and he wants to cut you,
636
00:30:35,752 --> 00:30:38,964
and then he'll tell you things like,
it's extremely risky.
637
00:30:39,381 --> 00:30:41,300
You might not ever sing a note again.
638
00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:44,052
Other ones just want to give you drugs,
639
00:30:44,344 --> 00:30:45,971
and we were reaching.
640
00:30:45,971 --> 00:30:48,390
We were going with sports guys,
talking to them like,
641
00:30:48,390 --> 00:30:50,267
"What do you got? How do you do it?"
642
00:30:50,642 --> 00:30:53,103
None of them could understand
that our economy runs
643
00:30:53,103 --> 00:30:55,355
on something as big
as your thumbnail.
644
00:30:57,357 --> 00:31:02,321
This big runs
the 120-person organization,
645
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:04,948
but I've had a problem.
646
00:31:27,846 --> 00:31:29,681
I don't mind the humility of it.
647
00:31:29,681 --> 00:31:33,185
The journey has sucked,
but it's made me wiser,
648
00:31:33,185 --> 00:31:36,396
greater appreciation for any
and everyone involved.
649
00:31:36,396 --> 00:31:39,107
The real true understanding
that everyone out here
650
00:31:39,107 --> 00:31:42,611
sacrificed so much to just to be here,
651
00:31:42,611 --> 00:31:44,821
and I mean more than the band, the crew,
652
00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:46,448
th-the team around me...
653
00:31:47,866 --> 00:31:49,826
and I see
when I look in the eyes
654
00:31:49,826 --> 00:31:52,496
of those people that joy.
655
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,831
They don't mind that
I don't hit a high note.
656
00:31:55,332 --> 00:31:57,584
Judging by the reaction I see
in that crowd every night,
657
00:31:57,584 --> 00:31:58,919
I don't think they mind.
658
00:31:58,919 --> 00:32:01,088
But it's the tarring
and feathering
659
00:32:01,088 --> 00:32:03,423
of me on a nightly basis.
660
00:32:03,423 --> 00:32:06,343
You know, this is the real me,
the gray hair, the whole 10 yards.
661
00:32:07,010 --> 00:32:09,304
If I can't be the badass,
then I'm not here.
662
00:32:09,930 --> 00:32:12,099
My legacy is too important.
663
00:32:17,855 --> 00:32:19,773
Shelly, Shecky, are you out there?
664
00:32:25,612 --> 00:32:27,865
The best thing that
happened to Bon Jovi was,
665
00:32:27,865 --> 00:32:29,408
he didn't have a hit.
666
00:32:29,408 --> 00:32:33,871
He had mediocre success
for the first two records
667
00:32:34,413 --> 00:32:37,207
and gave us time to play him
668
00:32:37,207 --> 00:32:40,127
about 500 shows around the world.
669
00:32:40,127 --> 00:32:43,589
Every day, Jon got a little bit closer
to where he wanted to be.
670
00:32:50,762 --> 00:32:54,183
The biggest mistake you could do
was try to be big too early.
671
00:32:54,558 --> 00:32:56,727
Like, we're gonna headline
and then have empty seats.
672
00:32:56,727 --> 00:32:58,604
Like, y-y-you have to wait.
673
00:33:00,314 --> 00:33:03,901
People liked us,
but they didn't attach themselves
674
00:33:03,901 --> 00:33:07,571
to the most important thing,
the foundation, the song.
675
00:33:07,988 --> 00:33:09,948
I don't give a damn who you are.
676
00:33:10,782 --> 00:33:13,202
You ain't got a song,
you ain't got shit.
677
00:33:13,202 --> 00:33:17,831
It's that famous story
of any big band's third album,
678
00:33:17,831 --> 00:33:18,999
the make-or-break year.
679
00:33:18,999 --> 00:33:21,793
The second record
sold 800,000, not platinum,
680
00:33:21,793 --> 00:33:23,629
and the record company's like,
"Well, if you don't sell
681
00:33:23,629 --> 00:33:24,963
a million,
then we're gonna drop you."
682
00:33:24,963 --> 00:33:26,048
It's like do or die.
683
00:33:26,048 --> 00:33:29,593
We were having a hard time
bringing guys in to the audiences
684
00:33:29,593 --> 00:33:31,929
'cause Jon was
a very good looking guy.
685
00:33:31,929 --> 00:33:33,972
So we needed to come up
with something
686
00:33:33,972 --> 00:33:37,184
and that was gonna be
Wanted Dead or Alive,
687
00:33:37,768 --> 00:33:40,604
and so the whole cowboy image
came into that.
688
00:33:41,313 --> 00:33:44,942
I went to the guitar company
and got a double-neck guitar.
689
00:33:44,942 --> 00:33:48,237
Wanted Dead or Alive was written
in Richie's mother's basement.
690
00:33:48,237 --> 00:33:51,823
Some of them I wrote in my bedroom
in New Jersey by myself,
691
00:33:52,282 --> 00:33:53,742
and I said to Richie,
692
00:33:53,742 --> 00:33:56,537
"What we need to do
is write a song
693
00:33:56,537 --> 00:33:58,413
for somebody else,"
694
00:33:58,747 --> 00:34:03,752
because I'll never forget
seeing Bryan Adams writing
695
00:34:03,752 --> 00:34:07,840
a song for Tina Turner
and then doing it as a duet.
696
00:34:08,507 --> 00:34:11,301
So we called up Derek Shulman,
who was our A&R guy,
697
00:34:11,301 --> 00:34:14,388
and one of the names
that came up was Desmond Child.
698
00:34:15,013 --> 00:34:17,766
They wrote with me because they thought,
699
00:34:17,766 --> 00:34:22,479
"Well, Desmond could help us
to get cuts with other artists."
700
00:34:22,479 --> 00:34:24,398
I said, "I know who that is.
701
00:34:24,398 --> 00:34:28,527
"I remember a poster
of his band being hung outside
702
00:34:28,527 --> 00:34:30,946
of my dressing room
at the Fast Lane."
703
00:34:30,946 --> 00:34:36,034
And I was all for it 'cause I-I--
we needed a jumpstart
704
00:34:36,368 --> 00:34:39,663
and we already had Wanted Dead or Alive
and Never Say Goodbye.
705
00:34:40,205 --> 00:34:43,000
I walked in to meet them
for the very first time
706
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,920
at Richie's parents' house
where Richie was still living,
707
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:48,505
started talking this and that.
708
00:34:48,505 --> 00:34:51,300
I said, "Well, you know guys,
I brought a title."
709
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:54,386
And so outta my back pocket
written on a little piece of paper
710
00:34:54,386 --> 00:34:56,096
was You Give Love a Bad Name.
711
00:34:56,096 --> 00:34:57,222
♪ Bad name ♪
712
00:34:57,222 --> 00:35:00,809
And I saw for the first time the smile...
713
00:35:00,809 --> 00:35:02,019
♪ Shot through the heart ♪
714
00:35:02,019 --> 00:35:03,604
... the billion-dollar smile.
715
00:35:04,146 --> 00:35:07,649
Jon threw in, "Shot through
the heart and you're to blame.
716
00:35:08,567 --> 00:35:09,902
You give love a bad name."
717
00:35:10,694 --> 00:35:12,821
Well, holy shit, that sounds like a hit.
718
00:35:13,322 --> 00:35:16,825
When we finished it,
we all saw the obvious,
719
00:35:16,825 --> 00:35:20,037
which was, "Oh,
that's too good, we'll keep it."
720
00:35:20,495 --> 00:35:23,832
He knew the next level of writing
721
00:35:23,832 --> 00:35:26,418
that made us better
at what we did.
722
00:35:26,418 --> 00:35:27,961
When they started writing with me
723
00:35:27,961 --> 00:35:30,964
and I started looking
at telling stories,
724
00:35:30,964 --> 00:35:33,884
let's not just talk
about how hot a babe is,
725
00:35:33,884 --> 00:35:36,178
which is what all
the other bands were doing.
726
00:35:36,637 --> 00:35:38,931
Living on a Prayer
was a very important song
727
00:35:38,931 --> 00:35:42,518
'cause it was the first time
we ever used characters
728
00:35:43,143 --> 00:35:47,856
turned into a cinematic
sonic recording at that point.
729
00:35:48,273 --> 00:35:49,942
I remember the day we wrote that,
730
00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:51,902
not thinking much of the song.
731
00:35:51,902 --> 00:35:54,404
It's a piano, an acoustic guitar,
732
00:35:54,404 --> 00:35:56,281
and us sitting there with notebooks.
733
00:35:56,281 --> 00:35:59,243
The entire verse is one chord,
and there's no bass line.
734
00:35:59,243 --> 00:36:01,954
Gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk, gonk.
735
00:36:01,954 --> 00:36:04,456
♪ Tommy used to work on the dock ♪
736
00:36:04,456 --> 00:36:05,874
Gonk, gonk, gonk.
737
00:36:05,874 --> 00:36:07,417
There's nothing else there.
738
00:36:07,793 --> 00:36:10,629
So when we walked out of the room,
I went, "Eh, it's okay.
739
00:36:10,629 --> 00:36:12,256
Who knows? It's fine."
740
00:36:12,673 --> 00:36:14,800
♪ Doesn't make a difference ♪
741
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,343
Uh, you guys,
I don't think you're singing.
742
00:36:16,343 --> 00:36:17,886
Maybe "oohs" or anything.
743
00:36:18,637 --> 00:36:20,889
♪ Got each other ♪
744
00:36:21,557 --> 00:36:24,643
♪ And that's a lot for love ♪
745
00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:27,145
Richie and I got on our hands and knees,
746
00:36:27,563 --> 00:36:29,815
half joking, half for real,
747
00:36:29,815 --> 00:36:32,025
and begged him to at least cut it.
748
00:36:32,025 --> 00:36:34,403
Oh, we'll save that
for a movie soundtrack.
749
00:36:34,403 --> 00:36:37,823
I said, "Jon, that's the best song
we've written to date."
750
00:36:38,156 --> 00:36:39,741
And Richie said,
"Boy, you're stupid.
751
00:36:39,741 --> 00:36:41,034
It's gonna be great."
752
00:36:41,034 --> 00:36:42,911
- Something like that.
- Okay, sure.
753
00:36:43,287 --> 00:36:44,621
Now I know everybody wants to know
754
00:36:44,621 --> 00:36:46,373
what's happening with you right now.
755
00:36:46,373 --> 00:36:47,791
When's the new album coming out?
756
00:36:47,791 --> 00:36:50,043
We're working on it right now.
We just started rehearsing.
757
00:36:50,043 --> 00:36:54,173
Uh, we'll be in the studio
mid-March in Vancouver, Canada
758
00:36:54,173 --> 00:36:57,384
with a new producer,
and, uh, hopefully it'll be out
759
00:36:57,384 --> 00:36:59,845
on the streets... June.
760
00:37:00,262 --> 00:37:02,806
It was Jon
helming the ship as he does.
761
00:37:02,806 --> 00:37:06,393
At that point,
he found a, a record producer.
762
00:37:06,393 --> 00:37:10,189
I was in my hotel room one night
listening to some new bands,
763
00:37:10,189 --> 00:37:12,399
and one of 'em happened
to be Black 'N Blue.
764
00:37:12,399 --> 00:37:16,403
So I threw this cassette in,
and it sounded better than the CD.
765
00:37:16,403 --> 00:37:18,947
The background vocal arrangements
766
00:37:18,947 --> 00:37:22,618
and the recording sounded
so interesting to me.
767
00:37:22,993 --> 00:37:24,411
Who produced this?
768
00:37:24,995 --> 00:37:26,538
"Bruce Fairbairn."
769
00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:29,958
We researched this guy,
we tell him who we are,
770
00:37:29,958 --> 00:37:31,919
he obviously knows,
and he's interested enough
771
00:37:31,919 --> 00:37:33,587
to hear some of the songs.
772
00:37:34,046 --> 00:37:37,758
And he says, "I'll do it, but you have
to come to Vancouver, Canada."
773
00:37:39,510 --> 00:37:42,054
We went all the way
over there, away from New Jersey,
774
00:37:42,054 --> 00:37:43,472
away from everything we knew.
775
00:37:43,472 --> 00:37:45,599
Get away from everybody
and just be a rock band.
776
00:37:45,599 --> 00:37:47,226
Just concentrate, just do it there.
777
00:37:47,935 --> 00:37:51,813
We came together
and everyone was times 10.
778
00:37:53,065 --> 00:37:55,067
This sonic boom happened,
779
00:37:55,526 --> 00:37:58,570
and we recorded what became
Slippery When Wet.
780
00:37:58,570 --> 00:38:00,405
[♪ "You Give Love a Bad Name"
by Bon Jovi playing]
781
00:38:00,405 --> 00:38:02,157
♪ And you're to blame ♪
782
00:38:02,157 --> 00:38:04,201
♪ Darlin', you give love ♪
783
00:38:04,201 --> 00:38:06,245
And it was the most fun
784
00:38:06,245 --> 00:38:08,872
a rock band could ever have
making a record.
785
00:38:08,872 --> 00:38:10,082
♪ A bad name ♪
786
00:38:16,088 --> 00:38:18,966
Vancouver was going
through a resurgence
787
00:38:18,966 --> 00:38:21,969
because it was the year
the World's Fair was there.
788
00:38:21,969 --> 00:38:24,137
So there was a lot to do.
789
00:38:24,388 --> 00:38:26,640
There was great rock bars,
there was great strip bars,
790
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,141
there was beautiful women.
791
00:38:28,141 --> 00:38:29,768
It was the Wild West.
792
00:38:29,768 --> 00:38:32,229
You're sitting here before the zeroes
793
00:38:32,771 --> 00:38:34,106
so you can have fun.
794
00:38:34,106 --> 00:38:37,651
You can explore what you wanna be.
795
00:38:38,026 --> 00:38:39,570
I remember
the first time we walked
796
00:38:39,570 --> 00:38:44,157
into Little Mountain Sound,
and I heard Bob Rock
797
00:38:44,157 --> 00:38:46,660
and the sound that he got on the drums
798
00:38:46,660 --> 00:38:50,330
and I went, "Oh, yeah,
this is gonna be something."
799
00:38:50,747 --> 00:38:52,624
Recording it, it came easy.
800
00:38:52,624 --> 00:38:53,876
It was magic.
801
00:38:53,876 --> 00:38:56,128
It was, you know,
we did a lot of practicing,
802
00:38:56,128 --> 00:38:57,546
pre-production, let's say,
803
00:38:58,213 --> 00:39:00,591
and we went into the studio,
and I remember doing the rhythm tracks
804
00:39:00,591 --> 00:39:01,967
in three days, four days.
805
00:39:01,967 --> 00:39:05,304
It was just one of those magical moments
that they went in
806
00:39:05,304 --> 00:39:07,639
and just knocked it out without thinking.
807
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:09,558
We didn't even have a name
for the record.
808
00:39:09,558 --> 00:39:11,643
You have any idea
of title or anything like that?
809
00:39:11,643 --> 00:39:12,936
Right now,
it's Wanted Dead or Alive.
810
00:39:12,936 --> 00:39:15,355
- I think that's what the beard's for.
- Ah-ha!
811
00:39:15,355 --> 00:39:17,608
The visionary
must have hit his head,
812
00:39:17,608 --> 00:39:19,860
because I grew a long beard
and a mustache.
813
00:39:19,860 --> 00:39:21,820
We were all wearing dusters,
814
00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:24,114
and we went into a cave
in Vancouver
815
00:39:24,114 --> 00:39:27,492
and took these cowboy pictures
like you get at the Wild West Show.
816
00:39:27,492 --> 00:39:29,578
I go, "You're from fucking New Jersey.
817
00:39:29,578 --> 00:39:31,038
"You're not a cowboy.
818
00:39:31,038 --> 00:39:33,040
"Okay? Get in the car.
819
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,249
This is over with."
820
00:39:34,249 --> 00:39:37,377
This title Slippery When Wet,
could you explain that title?
821
00:39:37,377 --> 00:39:40,547
Well, Slippery When Wet,
it really came from a strip bar.
822
00:39:40,547 --> 00:39:42,591
'Cause there was a, a shower in,
823
00:39:42,591 --> 00:39:44,760
this-this, uh, drinking establishment
824
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,223
where young ladies seemed
to dance to, uh, rock and roll songs.
825
00:39:49,223 --> 00:39:51,767
And a local photographer
in New Jersey by the name
826
00:39:51,767 --> 00:39:55,229
of Mark Weiss
shot an album cover
827
00:39:55,229 --> 00:39:59,650
based on dancers
in the bars in Vancouver.
828
00:39:59,650 --> 00:40:03,654
We wanted the album cover
to be this bodacious woman
829
00:40:03,654 --> 00:40:06,949
that we found on the beach
in Jersey, Angela, oh.
830
00:40:07,324 --> 00:40:09,409
PMRC in America, which is like
831
00:40:09,409 --> 00:40:12,371
really, really cracking down
on sexual things,
832
00:40:12,371 --> 00:40:14,414
said they wouldn't shelve it,
they wouldn't rack it.
833
00:40:15,165 --> 00:40:16,875
The record company,
they said, "Too late,
834
00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:19,002
we've printed
a half a million copies."
835
00:40:19,253 --> 00:40:22,297
In a great management moment,
McGhee says to the label,
836
00:40:22,297 --> 00:40:23,590
"We'll get you another cover."
837
00:40:23,590 --> 00:40:25,717
It was three o'clock
in the morning, I'm with Jonny
838
00:40:25,717 --> 00:40:27,636
and when we couldn't use it,
839
00:40:27,636 --> 00:40:30,055
we couldn't come up with an album cover.
840
00:40:30,055 --> 00:40:32,474
Finally, Jonny takes a garbage bag,
841
00:40:32,474 --> 00:40:34,601
put-puts it over the garbage can.
842
00:40:35,102 --> 00:40:39,857
I squirted the water bottle
on a black Hefty garbage bag.
843
00:40:40,732 --> 00:40:45,112
Took my fingers, I wrote
"Slippery When Wet."
844
00:40:45,112 --> 00:40:46,613
- Take a picture.
845
00:40:46,613 --> 00:40:49,575
So we said, "Here's a black cover
that says 'Slippery When Wet' on it,"
846
00:40:49,575 --> 00:40:51,285
and let the music do the talking.
847
00:40:51,910 --> 00:40:54,329
So, we take the record
back to the label
848
00:40:54,329 --> 00:40:55,998
and shoot Bad Name as a single.
849
00:40:55,998 --> 00:40:59,418
Just going great. We're gonna shoot
our new video this week out in LA,
850
00:40:59,877 --> 00:41:01,879
and it'll be to
You Give Love a Bad Name,
851
00:41:02,421 --> 00:41:05,424
and, uh, right now,
I have decided that any director
852
00:41:05,424 --> 00:41:09,761
who tells me concept and storyline,
I'm not talking to.
853
00:41:10,095 --> 00:41:13,265
We knew that we had to be perceived
854
00:41:13,932 --> 00:41:15,976
as being an arena headliner.
855
00:41:15,976 --> 00:41:22,107
Let this, this video be
the infomercial for your live show.
856
00:41:25,903 --> 00:41:29,740
We've made a video
that told you what we were like live.
857
00:41:29,740 --> 00:41:32,492
That was a big reason
for the success of it.
858
00:41:35,704 --> 00:41:40,667
Jon sent me a cassette tape
to the studio in Philadelphia,
859
00:41:41,084 --> 00:41:43,670
and I went, everyone's life
is gonna change.
860
00:41:43,670 --> 00:41:45,130
♪ I play my part ♪
861
00:41:45,130 --> 00:41:46,715
♪ And you play your game ♪
862
00:41:46,715 --> 00:41:50,219
Immediately, the reaction
was through the moon,
863
00:41:50,219 --> 00:41:53,180
and the company was like, "Wow,
864
00:41:53,180 --> 00:41:55,098
I don't know what you've done,
but you've done it."
865
00:41:55,098 --> 00:41:58,143
Whether it's Angela's chest
or a wet Hefty bag,
866
00:41:58,143 --> 00:42:00,729
New Jersey metal has made it to the top.
867
00:42:00,729 --> 00:42:02,064
Our new number one,
868
00:42:02,064 --> 00:42:04,816
You Give Love a Bad Name
from Bon Jovi.
869
00:42:04,816 --> 00:42:08,779
♪ Shot through the heart
and you're to blame ♪
870
00:42:08,779 --> 00:42:12,324
♪ You give love a bad name ♪
871
00:42:12,324 --> 00:42:14,326
Where was Bon Jovi
when, uh, you-you had
872
00:42:14,326 --> 00:42:16,203
your first number one,
was that Living on a Prayer?
873
00:42:16,203 --> 00:42:17,287
Uh, Bad Name.
874
00:42:17,287 --> 00:42:19,373
We were in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
875
00:42:19,373 --> 00:42:21,291
opening up for .38 Special.
876
00:42:21,291 --> 00:42:24,086
We already had contracted
to open up for them.
877
00:42:24,086 --> 00:42:25,254
I think it was like a month.
878
00:42:25,254 --> 00:42:27,631
You know, after our 40 minute set,
879
00:42:27,631 --> 00:42:30,217
we get word that Slippery
is gonna be number one
880
00:42:30,217 --> 00:42:32,010
the following week on Billboard.
881
00:42:32,010 --> 00:42:34,179
Calling everyone we could
on the payphone.
882
00:42:34,179 --> 00:42:36,932
You got telexes from people.
You know, I mean, it was a big deal.
883
00:42:36,932 --> 00:42:39,935
I mean, we did this group hug
at Holiday Inn, man,
884
00:42:39,935 --> 00:42:44,356
the first time we were number one
and, uh, to say, you did it.
885
00:42:44,356 --> 00:42:47,609
And here we are,
we had the number one record
886
00:42:47,609 --> 00:42:49,194
on the planet everywhere.
887
00:42:49,194 --> 00:42:50,821
Number one record, number one album.
888
00:42:50,821 --> 00:42:53,323
You Give Love a Bad Name,
everybody's playing that record
889
00:42:53,323 --> 00:42:55,200
and we're opening up for .38 Special.
890
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:57,327
So then all of a sudden,
they were making a ton of money
891
00:42:57,327 --> 00:42:59,913
because they were selling out
like crazy because of us.
892
00:43:00,789 --> 00:43:03,333
It wasn't long before
their manager was like,
893
00:43:03,333 --> 00:43:06,545
"Anything we gotta do
to keep you on this tour."
894
00:43:07,254 --> 00:43:08,589
And McGhee was, like, saying,
895
00:43:08,589 --> 00:43:11,133
"Thanks, but, you know,
it's time to move on."
896
00:43:11,466 --> 00:43:16,180
In, um, basically a month,
we outsold, you know,
897
00:43:16,555 --> 00:43:17,639
uh, what we did last year.
898
00:43:20,809 --> 00:43:23,937
Any and everyone
involved in that project
899
00:43:23,937 --> 00:43:26,648
had a multiple of 10 next
to their name after that.
900
00:43:26,648 --> 00:43:28,984
The Slippery phenomenon began.
901
00:43:29,484 --> 00:43:32,321
Slippery When Wet became
the fourth heavy metal album ever
902
00:43:32,321 --> 00:43:34,865
to make it
to Billboard's number one.
903
00:43:34,865 --> 00:43:38,327
It was a validation
of what they had
904
00:43:38,327 --> 00:43:40,662
put themselves through for five years.
905
00:43:40,662 --> 00:43:44,082
And then once we flipped the headliners,
we sold out everywhere.
906
00:43:44,082 --> 00:43:46,460
There was no more middle fingers,
so that was the nice part.
907
00:43:46,460 --> 00:43:48,378
♪ You got a nasty reputation ♪
908
00:43:48,378 --> 00:43:51,465
Now with the ability and funds
to be able to put on a show like that,
909
00:43:51,465 --> 00:43:54,635
it gave Jonny the opportunity
to use the whole arena.
910
00:43:54,635 --> 00:43:58,764
I mean, that's probably what he had
in his mind when he was a kid.
911
00:43:59,223 --> 00:44:01,767
I was like, "Got this motherfucker now."
912
00:44:03,101 --> 00:44:04,353
That was the rocket ship.
913
00:44:04,353 --> 00:44:06,188
One of the
hottest tickets around tonight,
914
00:44:06,188 --> 00:44:08,857
It was to see the world's
hottest rock group.
915
00:44:08,857 --> 00:44:11,860
Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi
has come a very long way
916
00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:13,362
since growing up
in Sayreville, New Jersey.
917
00:44:13,362 --> 00:44:15,030
The third album from Bon Jovi,
918
00:44:15,030 --> 00:44:17,741
Slippery When Wet, has become
the first number one LP
919
00:44:17,741 --> 00:44:19,868
in their career,
and it looks sure to go down
920
00:44:19,868 --> 00:44:22,829
as one of the biggest selling
heavy rock albums of the year.
921
00:44:22,829 --> 00:44:24,456
♪ Raise your hands ♪
922
00:44:24,456 --> 00:44:25,582
♪ When you want to... ♪
923
00:44:25,582 --> 00:44:29,253
This was just
about low IQ, high RPM.
924
00:44:30,045 --> 00:44:32,047
This was about having fun.
925
00:44:33,298 --> 00:44:34,508
It had to be dangerous.
926
00:44:34,508 --> 00:44:35,843
Ooh, yah!
927
00:44:35,843 --> 00:44:38,637
Uncle Richie gotta take his medicine now?
928
00:44:38,637 --> 00:44:41,431
I mean, it really was
from living with my parents
929
00:44:41,431 --> 00:44:42,683
to living the dream.
930
00:44:43,141 --> 00:44:45,185
I went from nowhere to everywhere.
931
00:44:45,185 --> 00:44:46,520
I still say it to this day,
932
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,815
I am like, the luckiest fucking guys
who ever fucking lived.
933
00:44:49,815 --> 00:44:51,400
Get the hell outta here.
934
00:44:57,614 --> 00:45:00,242
Your album is still
at number one in the States,
935
00:45:00,242 --> 00:45:03,036
selling over 100,000 copies a day.
936
00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:05,622
Jon, let's say that there are
actually some people out there
937
00:45:05,622 --> 00:45:07,541
who have never heard
heavy metal music,
938
00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:09,293
never heard of Jon Bon Jovi.
939
00:45:09,293 --> 00:45:11,503
- Now what would you say to them?
- Where have you been?
940
00:45:11,503 --> 00:45:13,755
♪ Got to raise your hands ♪
941
00:45:13,755 --> 00:45:15,799
♪ When you want to let it go ♪
942
00:45:15,799 --> 00:45:17,509
If you were to put the music you make
943
00:45:17,509 --> 00:45:20,304
into a certain classification,
what would it be?
944
00:45:20,304 --> 00:45:21,471
Good.
945
00:45:22,181 --> 00:45:23,640
But I don't think we changed.
946
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,434
I think the world's perception
of us changed.
947
00:45:25,934 --> 00:45:28,353
Everyone goes, "Hey, you're famous."
I'm like, "I don't-- okay."
948
00:45:28,604 --> 00:45:30,022
But when people
ask us about money,
949
00:45:30,022 --> 00:45:32,107
we say, "Well,
this is our manager,"
950
00:45:32,107 --> 00:45:33,317
and we point at him and say,
951
00:45:33,317 --> 00:45:35,152
"He's rich and we're famous."
952
00:45:36,403 --> 00:45:37,779
I adore his looks.
953
00:45:37,779 --> 00:45:39,698
Remember the first time
I saw him on a picture.
954
00:45:39,698 --> 00:45:41,408
You didn't even hear the music
955
00:45:41,408 --> 00:45:43,368
- and you knew you loved them?
956
00:45:43,744 --> 00:45:46,830
These stories have been
repeated by others since,
957
00:45:47,206 --> 00:45:50,501
and it happened from the time
of Elvis and Sinatra
958
00:45:50,501 --> 00:45:54,171
and The Beatles,
but in our moment in time,
959
00:45:54,671 --> 00:45:56,673
you know, we were everywhere.
960
00:45:59,218 --> 00:46:00,886
Now I'm gonna work twice as hard.
961
00:46:00,886 --> 00:46:03,013
So we weren't out there
messing around,
962
00:46:03,013 --> 00:46:04,723
but I got a fair amount
of messing around done
963
00:46:04,723 --> 00:46:06,183
in that time myself,
964
00:46:06,183 --> 00:46:09,019
you know, with the use
of some other things that I actually--
965
00:46:09,019 --> 00:46:10,521
well, whatever it was.
966
00:46:11,813 --> 00:46:14,566
This Tuesday night,
60 minutes of nonstop
967
00:46:14,566 --> 00:46:16,777
bop-till-you-drop
Bon Jovi sweatshop.
968
00:46:16,777 --> 00:46:19,821
That's right, we are going
to be your guest VJs.
969
00:46:19,821 --> 00:46:23,367
Back then, we had
the biggest tipping point of all,
970
00:46:23,867 --> 00:46:25,244
which was MTV.
971
00:46:25,911 --> 00:46:28,038
We were at the forefront
972
00:46:28,038 --> 00:46:32,584
of MTV's influence on the world.
973
00:46:32,584 --> 00:46:35,838
Hi, I'm Jon Bon Jovi,
and I want you to spend a weekend
974
00:46:35,838 --> 00:46:39,007
of unbridled hedonism
with me and these guys.
975
00:46:39,007 --> 00:46:40,175
Hell yes.
976
00:46:41,301 --> 00:46:44,972
If you were good
and you got on MTV,
977
00:46:44,972 --> 00:46:46,098
that would explode you.
978
00:46:46,098 --> 00:46:47,933
Hi, we're Bon Jovi.
979
00:46:47,933 --> 00:46:50,811
Fill in the blank
with five cute guys
980
00:46:50,811 --> 00:46:54,356
in a rock band,
MTV was all excited...
981
00:46:54,356 --> 00:46:55,858
Music television.
982
00:46:55,858 --> 00:47:00,362
...about taking us
to Southeast Asia and Japan.
983
00:47:00,362 --> 00:47:05,033
We had to start our world tour
right back in Japan
984
00:47:05,033 --> 00:47:07,786
where all the best things happened, okay?
985
00:47:07,786 --> 00:47:11,290
We have us a brand new album
and the song
986
00:47:11,290 --> 00:47:13,959
that you're gonna see on MTV.
987
00:47:14,543 --> 00:47:16,753
We were working so hard
through it, especially Jon and I
988
00:47:16,753 --> 00:47:18,672
because we were the ones
that were waking up
989
00:47:18,672 --> 00:47:19,923
and doing early morning radio.
990
00:47:19,923 --> 00:47:21,967
We were the ones that were waking up
and doing all the press.
991
00:47:21,967 --> 00:47:23,719
Some-- the people wanted
to talk to us.
992
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:26,597
Well, we just left, uh,
Helsinki last night.
993
00:47:26,597 --> 00:47:29,766
- Yeah.
- And we stopped here to see you.
994
00:47:29,766 --> 00:47:32,352
You guys just don't get tired, do you?
995
00:47:33,687 --> 00:47:36,773
Is this the rock and roll capital
of England or what?
996
00:47:37,357 --> 00:47:38,734
So you're having
a good time in Australia.
997
00:47:38,734 --> 00:47:39,860
- Absolutely.
- You-you had your--
998
00:47:39,860 --> 00:47:41,403
You've been in Melbourne,
you're in Sydney.
999
00:47:41,403 --> 00:47:43,572
Good evening, Vancouver, Canada.
1000
00:47:43,572 --> 00:47:45,741
Come on, Tokyo!
1001
00:47:45,741 --> 00:47:47,784
I got three more nights
here in Philadelphia.
1002
00:47:47,784 --> 00:47:49,328
You guys are getting...
1003
00:47:49,328 --> 00:47:51,580
You're getting
to wear my ass out already.
1004
00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:54,041
The, the key to the band's success
is that we tour,
1005
00:47:54,041 --> 00:47:56,418
tour and tour and tour and when
we're done touring we tour.
1006
00:47:57,544 --> 00:47:59,254
Our philosophy is, is that
1007
00:47:59,922 --> 00:48:01,715
we're not the show,
but the kids are the show.
1008
00:48:01,715 --> 00:48:03,383
We're just the host of the party.
1009
00:48:03,842 --> 00:48:05,636
Are you ready?
1010
00:48:07,179 --> 00:48:09,306
If you're there
when they open the gates
1011
00:48:09,306 --> 00:48:12,267
to a stadium show,
you watch how they enter.
1012
00:48:13,018 --> 00:48:16,855
They run top speed
because they want to be
1013
00:48:16,855 --> 00:48:18,774
at that bar up front.
1014
00:48:19,858 --> 00:48:22,444
In those days,
I'd go to a Bon Jovi concert
1015
00:48:22,444 --> 00:48:25,906
and watch Jon
just give it all on stage
1016
00:48:26,615 --> 00:48:29,618
and I'd hear him sing,
like, the highest notes
1017
00:48:29,618 --> 00:48:31,161
with all of his force.
1018
00:48:31,161 --> 00:48:33,830
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1019
00:48:33,830 --> 00:48:34,957
♪ Take my hand ♪
1020
00:48:34,957 --> 00:48:36,708
Like, wow, that's not just
1021
00:48:36,708 --> 00:48:38,377
in the recording room.
1022
00:48:38,377 --> 00:48:39,878
He can actually deliver that.
1023
00:48:39,878 --> 00:48:42,130
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1024
00:48:42,130 --> 00:48:46,009
Jon is, he's feeling something,
and he takes it there.
1025
00:48:46,009 --> 00:48:49,221
We'd follow him,
anywhere he went anytime.
1026
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:53,809
So that's the key, to be that
on the money as a band,
1027
00:48:53,809 --> 00:48:56,061
and if he wants
to take it to that way,
1028
00:48:56,061 --> 00:48:58,564
and he's never took it there before,
that's where we're going.
1029
00:48:58,564 --> 00:49:00,649
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1030
00:49:00,649 --> 00:49:04,903
Being a fan myself,
I've sat in the 99th row
1031
00:49:04,903 --> 00:49:08,323
and every time, swear to God,
the singer was looking right at you.
1032
00:49:08,323 --> 00:49:11,410
What I try to do
is exactly that
1033
00:49:11,410 --> 00:49:13,745
and look at the kid
in the 99th row.
1034
00:49:14,371 --> 00:49:16,832
I would go out on the stage
and stand in the wings
1035
00:49:16,832 --> 00:49:20,085
and just look
at that sea of humanity,
1036
00:49:20,085 --> 00:49:23,088
and they're all there
for one reason
1037
00:49:23,088 --> 00:49:25,716
and it's to see this band
and see him perform.
1038
00:49:26,091 --> 00:49:29,761
Bon Jovi was arguably, at that point,
the biggest band in the world.
1039
00:49:29,761 --> 00:49:33,557
♪ Ooh, we gotta hold on ♪
1040
00:49:33,974 --> 00:49:36,143
I had blinders on
for Slippery When Wet...
1041
00:49:36,143 --> 00:49:40,063
♪ You live for the fight
when that's all that you've got ♪
1042
00:49:40,397 --> 00:49:44,359
...because 240 shows was
something I had never done.
1043
00:49:44,359 --> 00:49:45,611
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1044
00:49:45,611 --> 00:49:47,487
It was exhausting for me.
1045
00:49:47,487 --> 00:49:49,865
It was fun, but it was exhausting.
1046
00:49:50,574 --> 00:49:52,701
I was completely dead.
I was exhausted.
1047
00:49:52,701 --> 00:49:55,913
I was doing cortisone
to get the cords working.
1048
00:49:56,872 --> 00:50:00,083
We tour so much
that you don't have a, a chance
1049
00:50:00,083 --> 00:50:02,085
to enjoy the luxuries of it.
1050
00:50:03,420 --> 00:50:06,548
It ends in the States in August,
and it's back to, you know, England
1051
00:50:06,548 --> 00:50:07,674
for the Donington Festival.
1052
00:50:07,674 --> 00:50:12,137
From there, Australia,
Japan again, Anchorage, Hawaii,
1053
00:50:12,137 --> 00:50:13,889
and then sleep like a big old bear.
1054
00:50:13,889 --> 00:50:15,098
I'm gonna hibernate.
1055
00:50:16,850 --> 00:50:21,021
It's the, the correlation between
the cowboy of yesteryear or whatever
1056
00:50:21,021 --> 00:50:23,649
and the modern day
rock and roller
1057
00:50:23,649 --> 00:50:26,985
because the cowboy would ride
into town on his horse,
1058
00:50:26,985 --> 00:50:30,322
rob a bank, hit the bar,
drink some booze, you know,
1059
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,
1060
00:50:33,700 --> 00:50:35,118
and we kinda do the same thing
1061
00:50:35,118 --> 00:50:37,371
except we don't rob a bank,
we go play a concert.
1062
00:50:37,371 --> 00:50:38,914
I mean, it felt like from day one,
1063
00:50:38,914 --> 00:50:40,499
like that first time we got together,
1064
00:50:40,499 --> 00:50:42,918
it felt like five guys against the world.
1065
00:50:45,879 --> 00:50:47,923
I think it was
very important to Jonny
1066
00:50:47,923 --> 00:50:51,385
to have that feeling
of family in the early days,
1067
00:50:51,718 --> 00:50:53,095
and that came from Slippery,
1068
00:50:53,554 --> 00:50:55,180
and that was what it was about.
1069
00:50:56,348 --> 00:50:59,351
I know that I would
still be back at Kinney's
1070
00:50:59,351 --> 00:51:02,646
had it not been, you know,
for the team of me and Doc
1071
00:51:02,646 --> 00:51:05,357
because, uh, we're best friends,
you know,
1072
00:51:05,357 --> 00:51:06,483
and that's what made it work.
1073
00:51:06,483 --> 00:51:07,901
Bon Jovi is a family.
1074
00:51:07,901 --> 00:51:10,779
We've been doing this now
for four and a half years straight.
1075
00:51:10,779 --> 00:51:11,947
You're brothers, you know.
1076
00:51:11,947 --> 00:51:13,532
[♪ "Wanted Dead Or Alive"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1077
00:51:13,532 --> 00:51:14,658
♪ It's all the same ♪
1078
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,120
♪ Only the names have changed ♪
1079
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,582
The bond that was created
from that time forward
1080
00:51:21,582 --> 00:51:24,543
was constantly evolving.
1081
00:51:24,543 --> 00:51:27,421
It-It changed our lives,
being in this band.
1082
00:51:27,421 --> 00:51:30,632
It-It-It defined who we became as men.
1083
00:51:30,632 --> 00:51:35,179
The Bon Jovi band is definitely,
um, a family.
1084
00:51:35,179 --> 00:51:38,557
The only band I've ever been in
that gets along this well.
1085
00:51:38,557 --> 00:51:40,392
- Family, family, I say.
- Plasma.
1086
00:51:40,392 --> 00:51:43,395
Now is it just another band
or is it more of a family, would you say?
1087
00:51:43,395 --> 00:51:45,772
No, it's definitely different.
It's like a family.
1088
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:47,608
Been in a lot of different bands.
1089
00:51:47,608 --> 00:51:49,526
This is like, I don't know,
we get along together.
1090
00:51:49,526 --> 00:51:51,320
We kinda take vacation holidays together.
1091
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:53,989
You do hang out together
when you're not actually playing on stage?
1092
00:51:53,989 --> 00:51:55,282
Yes.
1093
00:51:55,282 --> 00:51:56,992
There was that brotherhood.
1094
00:51:56,992 --> 00:51:59,286
It was us five guys
and-- on a bus
1095
00:51:59,286 --> 00:52:01,330
and then five guys in an airplane
1096
00:52:01,747 --> 00:52:03,165
outta seven billion human beings.
1097
00:52:03,165 --> 00:52:05,292
Not a lot of people get
to experience what we did.
1098
00:52:05,292 --> 00:52:09,755
And it changed
the face of pop radio.
1099
00:52:09,755 --> 00:52:12,758
Those songs changed the landscape,
1100
00:52:13,383 --> 00:52:15,677
and that was our defining moment
with songs like
1101
00:52:15,677 --> 00:52:18,263
You Give Love a Bad Name,
Livin' On a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive.
1102
00:52:18,263 --> 00:52:20,766
They were all big monster hit songs.
1103
00:52:20,766 --> 00:52:23,101
Do you feel like
you're at the top of the ladder?
1104
00:52:23,101 --> 00:52:27,439
No, I think, uh, every time
you get there to the, to the place
1105
00:52:27,439 --> 00:52:29,775
where you think is the top,
you find out that it just,
1106
00:52:29,775 --> 00:52:32,069
there's another extension
on that ladder, you know?
1107
00:52:32,444 --> 00:52:36,907
So we're not, uh satisfied,
and we're not done.
1108
00:52:37,991 --> 00:52:39,284
Thank you.
1109
00:52:39,284 --> 00:52:40,536
Good night now.
1110
00:52:41,245 --> 00:52:44,915
I was pretty exhausted
but there was no way
1111
00:52:45,666 --> 00:52:46,917
that we were gonna slow down.
1112
00:52:47,501 --> 00:52:48,502
None.
1113
00:52:49,044 --> 00:52:51,547
And I was also very cognizant
1114
00:52:52,422 --> 00:52:53,924
that I had to do it again.
1115
00:52:55,342 --> 00:52:59,304
And... every day,
I was thinking about,
1116
00:52:59,304 --> 00:53:01,890
"How the fuck are we gonna do this again?"
1117
00:53:16,029 --> 00:53:18,615
This is Little Mountain Sound Studios.
1118
00:53:18,615 --> 00:53:21,118
This is the beginning of our show, folks.
1119
00:53:21,952 --> 00:53:22,995
Fourth album.
1120
00:53:23,996 --> 00:53:26,290
No one's supposed
to know the title but me.
1121
00:53:27,416 --> 00:53:29,418
Guess what
I didn't think of, though?
1122
00:53:29,418 --> 00:53:32,671
I just locked myself out,
and it's nine o'clock at night.
1123
00:53:32,671 --> 00:53:35,674
We went back in
and wrote New Jersey,
1124
00:53:35,674 --> 00:53:38,302
which was initially gonna be
called Sons of Beaches,
1125
00:53:38,719 --> 00:53:42,055
and thank God, you know, even then
we were wise enough to say,
1126
00:53:42,556 --> 00:53:46,560
"Don't be that kind
of cliché rock dude."
1127
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:48,979
You know, you can get away with that once
with Slippery When Wet.
1128
00:53:48,979 --> 00:53:50,314
I can't believe it.
Come on, follow me.
1129
00:53:50,314 --> 00:53:51,523
Okay.
1130
00:53:51,523 --> 00:53:54,610
I'm going to take you now
into the room
1131
00:53:54,610 --> 00:53:57,905
where, where, where this new record
is being made by Bon Jovi.
1132
00:53:57,905 --> 00:54:00,324
Them guys are assholes,
so you gotta watch them.
1133
00:54:00,324 --> 00:54:02,409
This is Bob Rock's House
of Sin, they call it.
1134
00:54:02,409 --> 00:54:04,661
- Come in, come in. A lot of work here.
- From the top.
1135
00:54:04,661 --> 00:54:06,955
Hi, I just came here,
and I'm nuts already.
1136
00:54:08,624 --> 00:54:11,126
We had toured
for 16 and a half months
1137
00:54:11,585 --> 00:54:14,046
with a two week break
after eight months.
1138
00:54:14,046 --> 00:54:17,341
Woo-hoo, and back to the grind.
1139
00:54:17,966 --> 00:54:19,968
Whoever's gonna watch this in the future,
1140
00:54:19,968 --> 00:54:21,094
here's one for you.
1141
00:54:21,094 --> 00:54:22,763
Cheers, let's put the fucking thing down.
1142
00:54:25,224 --> 00:54:26,475
♪ Everybody ♪
1143
00:54:28,644 --> 00:54:29,645
Fuck, missed that one.
1144
00:54:35,025 --> 00:54:37,528
I used to be in this band, Bon Jovi.
1145
00:54:37,528 --> 00:54:40,864
Now I-I'm illiterate
'cause I drank tequila.
1146
00:54:40,864 --> 00:54:41,990
What did I ask you?
1147
00:54:41,990 --> 00:54:44,868
A band that stays together,
plays together.
1148
00:54:47,871 --> 00:54:50,249
We went right in there,
banged another one,
1149
00:54:50,249 --> 00:54:54,628
and the juices are still flowing again,
kind of recreate the same feeling,
1150
00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:56,505
and let's take it a step further.
1151
00:54:56,505 --> 00:54:58,757
Be like Tico, be like Tico,
1152
00:54:58,757 --> 00:55:00,926
be like Tico, be like Tico.
1153
00:55:00,926 --> 00:55:02,845
Oh, no, welcome to Vancouver.
1154
00:55:03,804 --> 00:55:05,681
Look at these guys,
can't take them anywhere.
1155
00:55:06,223 --> 00:55:07,474
You're on a roll.
1156
00:55:07,808 --> 00:55:10,185
They've worn out Slippery.
1157
00:55:10,185 --> 00:55:11,687
It's not like Jon goes, "You know,
1158
00:55:11,687 --> 00:55:15,315
I gotta take a year off
and I gotta find myself."
1159
00:55:15,315 --> 00:55:16,942
He's not that guy.
1160
00:55:16,942 --> 00:55:19,278
Jon quit school because there was recess.
1161
00:55:28,495 --> 00:55:30,664
That felt good.
Let's do one more, then we'll have...
1162
00:55:31,456 --> 00:55:32,624
Thanks, guys.
1163
00:55:33,041 --> 00:55:34,168
Working hard.
1164
00:55:39,506 --> 00:55:42,009
- Bob. Bob.
- Oh, what time is it?
1165
00:55:42,009 --> 00:55:44,469
Fuck you, guys.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
1166
00:55:54,771 --> 00:55:55,898
Oh!
1167
00:55:56,565 --> 00:55:57,649
Now that was history.
1168
00:55:57,649 --> 00:55:58,859
There you go.
1169
00:55:59,318 --> 00:56:02,279
We mixed everything until last night,
about one in the morning,
1170
00:56:02,279 --> 00:56:04,990
1:30 or so,
and, uh, that's it.
1171
00:56:04,990 --> 00:56:06,074
We've had enough.
1172
00:56:06,074 --> 00:56:07,701
You know
what your first single is?
1173
00:56:07,701 --> 00:56:08,785
Bad Medicine.
1174
00:56:09,119 --> 00:56:12,372
We were doing some Fuji tape commercial
in Japan, believe it or not,
1175
00:56:12,789 --> 00:56:14,833
and I had found out
that the girl
1176
00:56:14,833 --> 00:56:16,668
I was going out with was a prostitute.
1177
00:56:19,421 --> 00:56:21,048
I mean, that'll shake you up a little bit,
1178
00:56:21,381 --> 00:56:25,093
and I was just, I was sitting there
in this black water
1179
00:56:25,093 --> 00:56:26,929
that looked like Fuji tape,
1180
00:56:27,387 --> 00:56:28,472
and I just went,
1181
00:56:28,472 --> 00:56:31,642
♪ Your love is like bad medicine ♪
1182
00:56:32,059 --> 00:56:34,895
♪ And bad medicine is what I need ♪
1183
00:56:34,895 --> 00:56:38,982
♪ Whoa whoa,
shake it up just like bad medicine ♪
1184
00:56:40,484 --> 00:56:42,402
♪ Bad medicine ♪
1185
00:56:43,070 --> 00:56:45,656
♪ Bad medicine is what I need ♪
1186
00:56:45,656 --> 00:56:46,907
♪ Whoa oh oh, ♪
1187
00:56:46,907 --> 00:56:50,661
A year after that
240 show Slippery tour,
1188
00:56:50,661 --> 00:56:53,914
which was as exhausting
as anything I'd ever done,
1189
00:56:53,914 --> 00:56:55,624
we were back on the road.
1190
00:56:55,624 --> 00:56:59,253
You know, I mean Slippery
was everybody's dream come true.
1191
00:56:59,253 --> 00:57:00,879
It, uh, it gave us a job.
1192
00:57:00,879 --> 00:57:03,215
It gave us the opportunity
to tour and play
1193
00:57:03,215 --> 00:57:04,716
whenever and wherever
we want to.
1194
00:57:05,676 --> 00:57:06,760
I want to do that again.
1195
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,347
I mean, we did three on,
one off, two on, one off,
1196
00:57:10,347 --> 00:57:12,474
three on, one off for like a year.
1197
00:57:12,474 --> 00:57:15,936
Went back into the studio,
did another record, did that again.
1198
00:57:15,936 --> 00:57:18,397
And he was begging me,
just before he was saying,
1199
00:57:18,397 --> 00:57:21,483
"Doc, can we go out?
Just, let's just do 300 shows."
1200
00:57:21,859 --> 00:57:23,777
- Just 300.
- Just 300 shows.
1201
00:57:23,777 --> 00:57:25,320
We'll take 65 days off.
1202
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,281
I said, "Well, okay."
1203
00:57:29,867 --> 00:57:33,245
There's no relax,
there's never a wasted moment.
1204
00:57:33,245 --> 00:57:35,122
You have to keep pushing it along,
1205
00:57:35,747 --> 00:57:38,917
and especially in those days,
it was conquer the world time.
1206
00:57:39,084 --> 00:57:40,377
Touring is the whole thing.
1207
00:57:40,377 --> 00:57:42,254
I mean, the whole thing
of playing in front of people,
1208
00:57:42,254 --> 00:57:44,256
making records is fun
and all that kind of stuff,
1209
00:57:44,256 --> 00:57:45,924
but the whole reason
that we happened as a band
1210
00:57:45,924 --> 00:57:48,927
was because we got in front of an audience
1211
00:57:48,927 --> 00:57:50,721
and rocked their asses off.
1212
00:57:50,721 --> 00:57:52,723
Third album comes out, explodes.
1213
00:57:52,723 --> 00:57:55,726
Fourth album comes out
and has to do better, you know,
1214
00:57:55,726 --> 00:57:58,645
so we're there now, right?
1215
00:57:58,645 --> 00:57:59,771
Tough.
1216
00:57:59,771 --> 00:58:01,815
A good comparison
is like a prize fighter.
1217
00:58:01,815 --> 00:58:03,650
We have the title,
we have the belt,
1218
00:58:03,650 --> 00:58:06,111
and every time we walk
into the ring with our record,
1219
00:58:06,695 --> 00:58:07,905
you have to defend it.
1220
00:58:07,905 --> 00:58:09,907
- Best concert I've ever been in my life.
- Oh, absolutely.
1221
00:58:09,907 --> 00:58:11,992
- Everything.
- The lights, the music.
1222
00:58:11,992 --> 00:58:13,535
Everything brilliant, everything.
1223
00:58:13,535 --> 00:58:15,078
We love Bon Jovi.
1224
00:58:15,078 --> 00:58:17,497
And at that time, as we're gaining
1225
00:58:17,497 --> 00:58:21,376
all this fan appreciation,
if you will, around the planet,
1226
00:58:21,376 --> 00:58:23,504
we were never the critic star.
1227
00:58:23,504 --> 00:58:26,048
Rolling Stone, when
Slippery When Wet came out,
1228
00:58:26,048 --> 00:58:30,052
they called us a "smudgy
third generation copy of Quiet Riot."
1229
00:58:30,385 --> 00:58:35,182
The group Bon Jovi has been riding high
since their album Slippery When Wet
1230
00:58:35,182 --> 00:58:39,269
sold a paltry 14 million copies
around the world.
1231
00:58:39,269 --> 00:58:41,480
Now their new album
hasn't done quite that well.
1232
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,398
It's called New Jersey,
but it's doing just fine
1233
00:58:43,398 --> 00:58:44,566
and it's selling in the millions.
1234
00:58:44,566 --> 00:58:47,277
When New Jersey came,
we had gotten to that point
1235
00:58:47,277 --> 00:58:48,904
where everybody says,
"Okay, I'm sick of them."
1236
00:58:48,904 --> 00:58:50,656
You know, "Get lost,"
1237
00:58:51,031 --> 00:58:54,326
and we were the brunt of, you know,
a lot of finger pointing.
1238
00:58:54,826 --> 00:58:58,539
The Grammys didn't even nominate
Livin' on a Prayer,
1239
00:58:58,539 --> 00:59:00,457
You Give Love a Bad Name,
Wanted Dead or Alive.
1240
00:59:01,166 --> 00:59:03,126
It was hysterical and ridiculous.
1241
00:59:03,126 --> 00:59:04,586
But who cares, you know what I mean?
1242
00:59:04,586 --> 00:59:07,256
With people, we were always
the people's choice,
1243
00:59:07,256 --> 00:59:09,424
and that's who you're playing for.
1244
00:59:09,424 --> 00:59:13,178
♪ Your love is like bad medicine ♪
1245
00:59:13,178 --> 00:59:16,098
- ♪ Bad medicine is what I need ♪
- Woo!
1246
00:59:17,182 --> 00:59:18,308
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
1247
00:59:18,308 --> 00:59:20,185
We were
the chip-on-our-shoulder guys,
1248
00:59:20,185 --> 00:59:22,437
especially Jon, and it was a motivator.
1249
00:59:22,437 --> 00:59:24,815
Fuck 'em, you know,
if they don't like us.
1250
00:59:24,815 --> 00:59:26,441
The people love us,
that's all that matters.
1251
00:59:36,201 --> 00:59:39,538
♪ Words can't say
what love can do ♪
1252
00:59:39,538 --> 00:59:42,207
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
1253
00:59:42,207 --> 00:59:45,878
And the winner is Bon Jovi.
1254
00:59:46,545 --> 00:59:47,838
What we need to do is, um,
1255
00:59:48,338 --> 00:59:50,132
to give this one to all the critics
1256
00:59:50,132 --> 00:59:52,801
who said that Bon Jovi
was a flash in the pan,
1257
00:59:52,801 --> 00:59:54,720
who said that Bon Jovi was nothing.
1258
00:59:55,512 --> 00:59:57,222
This was the dream, this was the goal.
1259
00:59:57,222 --> 01:00:00,225
If it's all over now, it doesn't matter.
1260
01:00:00,225 --> 01:00:01,852
We made it to the dance.
1261
01:00:03,061 --> 01:00:05,731
Giants Stadium, it's like the biggest gig
we ever played, you know.
1262
01:00:06,190 --> 01:00:07,941
We're going
to have 80,000 people tonight.
1263
01:00:08,734 --> 01:00:10,152
Couldn't be happier if I was twins.
1264
01:00:10,152 --> 01:00:11,820
♪ Whoa oh oh ♪
1265
01:00:13,614 --> 01:00:17,034
No one's ever done this, man.
The Stones, the Who, the... no one.
1266
01:00:19,536 --> 01:00:22,039
We were just crushing it,
doing as many shows
1267
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:23,624
anywhere where we wanted,
1268
01:00:24,082 --> 01:00:26,793
and we had five top 10 hits
on that record.
1269
01:00:27,794 --> 01:00:30,589
We were absolutely the guys of the moment.
1270
01:00:30,923 --> 01:00:33,300
Jon Bon Jovi and his band
returned to their native state
1271
01:00:33,300 --> 01:00:34,760
of New Jersey Wednesday night
1272
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,179
and turned the group's sold out show
at the Meadowlands Arena
1273
01:00:37,179 --> 01:00:40,807
into a rock and roll carnival
for 20,000 cheering fans.
1274
01:00:40,807 --> 01:00:42,851
I think if I said
it was great to be home,
1275
01:00:42,851 --> 01:00:44,478
that would be
the understatement of the year.
1276
01:00:44,478 --> 01:00:45,896
- You know what I mean?
1277
01:00:46,188 --> 01:00:48,482
Along with the platinum
albums the group was presented,
1278
01:00:48,482 --> 01:00:52,611
a proclamation was also read
proclaiming it Bon Jovi Day statewide.
1279
01:00:53,987 --> 01:00:56,281
Yeah, we had a party
for 20,000 of our friends.
1280
01:00:56,281 --> 01:00:57,407
Got the key to the city.
1281
01:00:57,407 --> 01:01:00,118
Yeah, got keys to the city,
got plaques from the governor.
1282
01:01:00,118 --> 01:01:03,997
We've got a probably what,
eight, nine foot cake here.
1283
01:01:03,997 --> 01:01:05,207
It was a hell of a party.
1284
01:01:05,207 --> 01:01:07,501
Ten thousand balloons,
20,000 people,
1285
01:01:07,501 --> 01:01:08,877
and a partridge in a pear tree.
1286
01:01:08,877 --> 01:01:09,962
- Cheers.
1287
01:01:09,962 --> 01:01:12,256
It was all the decadence of the '80s.
1288
01:01:12,798 --> 01:01:14,341
It was a kid in a candy store.
1289
01:01:14,341 --> 01:01:17,845
It was whatever you want,
whenever you want it times two,
1290
01:01:17,845 --> 01:01:19,847
without giving away
too many secrets
1291
01:01:19,847 --> 01:01:23,183
because anything that every one
of those bands talks about,
1292
01:01:23,183 --> 01:01:25,727
you know, we did it too,
and it was fun.
1293
01:01:25,727 --> 01:01:28,063
It was real fun, you know.
1294
01:01:28,063 --> 01:01:30,065
It was not only girls
and drugs and booze,
1295
01:01:30,065 --> 01:01:33,527
but it was one-upsmanship
with gifts and cars.
1296
01:01:33,527 --> 01:01:34,653
It became silly.
1297
01:01:34,653 --> 01:01:38,156
You buy me a Ferrari
and I'll buy you a Porsche,
1298
01:01:38,156 --> 01:01:41,410
and you buy this piece of art
and I'll buy you that house.
1299
01:01:41,410 --> 01:01:45,372
It was dumb kid
rock and roll star stuff.
1300
01:01:46,874 --> 01:01:48,709
No connection
between sex and rock and roll?
1301
01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:51,879
Oh, there's a connection.
I mean, when I was a kid, I played violin.
1302
01:01:52,212 --> 01:01:53,213
Now I play bass guitar.
1303
01:01:53,213 --> 01:01:55,966
- I get laid a lot more now.
1304
01:01:57,009 --> 01:01:59,219
I think the hardest thing
that for-for-for anybody
1305
01:01:59,219 --> 01:02:00,679
in that situation is that,
1306
01:02:00,679 --> 01:02:02,764
how do you collect your ego
and keep it in check?
1307
01:02:04,183 --> 01:02:07,144
Just got to be so ridiculous
that there was nothing we couldn't do.
1308
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:12,024
If I want to play 10 nights in New York,
book 'em. We could do it.
1309
01:02:12,024 --> 01:02:14,943
If you want to tell the promoter
1310
01:02:14,943 --> 01:02:18,989
we want five pinball machines...
1311
01:02:20,991 --> 01:02:22,326
...okay.
1312
01:02:22,910 --> 01:02:24,077
- Pool tables?
1313
01:02:24,620 --> 01:02:26,163
- Done.
1314
01:02:26,163 --> 01:02:28,457
I want a '69 Corvette convertible.
1315
01:02:28,999 --> 01:02:31,084
- I got it.
1316
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:36,418
We could get away
with anything and we did.
1317
01:02:37,409 --> 01:02:38,800
I mean,
now that you're so successful,
1318
01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:40,260
do you ever feel like sitting back a bit
1319
01:02:40,260 --> 01:02:42,638
and not touring quite so hard
and working quite so hard?
1320
01:02:42,638 --> 01:02:44,848
Uh, it wouldn't be any fun.
1321
01:02:45,641 --> 01:02:47,893
This '80s was pretty tough
1322
01:02:48,393 --> 01:02:51,230
'cause everybody,
there was so many drugs.
1323
01:02:51,563 --> 01:02:53,982
I mean, I had a wing
of rehab people
1324
01:02:54,316 --> 01:02:58,320
and not that Jonny and them
were even close to any of that stuff.
1325
01:02:58,529 --> 01:03:00,239
We never were the band
that just, you know,
1326
01:03:00,239 --> 01:03:02,115
was so fucked up that
you're supposed to go on
1327
01:03:02,115 --> 01:03:04,368
at nine o'clock and you go
on at two in the morning.
1328
01:03:04,368 --> 01:03:07,246
Like, nobody overdosed.
That's a good thing.
1329
01:03:08,789 --> 01:03:11,333
I know I've gone out the next day
and he's just coming in
1330
01:03:11,333 --> 01:03:13,001
and I'm going, "Hey,"
and he's going,
1331
01:03:13,001 --> 01:03:14,753
"Yeah, see you later."
1332
01:03:15,170 --> 01:03:17,673
I'm very much interested
in, uh, how a bar works.
1333
01:03:17,673 --> 01:03:20,467
I can't get off the stage
and be--
1334
01:03:20,467 --> 01:03:22,052
just go to, go to room and relax
1335
01:03:22,052 --> 01:03:24,638
because I'm too hypered up
from doing this marathon.
1336
01:03:25,347 --> 01:03:29,017
So I needed to let my hair down
and have a few drinks, party.
1337
01:03:29,017 --> 01:03:32,354
You know, Tico could
really get outta control.
1338
01:03:32,354 --> 01:03:34,898
He-he wasn't a easy, fun drunk.
1339
01:03:34,898 --> 01:03:36,233
Shit. I put it right the fuck down.
1340
01:03:36,233 --> 01:03:38,443
Alec could really get outta control.
1341
01:03:38,443 --> 01:03:41,154
He too was not a easy, fun drunk.
1342
01:03:42,531 --> 01:03:44,741
David and Richie were much easier,
1343
01:03:44,741 --> 01:03:47,119
but they certainly had
more than their fair share
1344
01:03:47,119 --> 01:03:48,787
of too much fun.
1345
01:03:48,787 --> 01:03:51,206
So somebody had to try
to keep it together.
1346
01:03:51,206 --> 01:03:53,834
For whatever and all reasons, it was me.
1347
01:03:53,834 --> 01:03:56,837
In a situation with drugs,
I've been asked often,
1348
01:03:56,837 --> 01:03:59,173
so often that I finally said,
"Look, I don't do 'em.
1349
01:03:59,173 --> 01:04:00,883
I don't like 'em,
I don't approve of 'em."
1350
01:04:00,883 --> 01:04:03,218
There's nobody
that was more dedicated
1351
01:04:03,886 --> 01:04:07,806
about his voice,
his warming up, his--
1352
01:04:07,806 --> 01:04:10,684
I mean, Slippery, we-- I mean,
every tour he had troubles,
1353
01:04:10,684 --> 01:04:12,019
but he worked through it.
1354
01:04:12,019 --> 01:04:13,687
He didn't drink, he didn't smoke.
1355
01:04:14,062 --> 01:04:17,900
He was actually pretty boring
when he was doing all this stuff
1356
01:04:17,900 --> 01:04:20,319
because he didn't,
he-he wouldn't do anything
1357
01:04:20,319 --> 01:04:23,405
because he had to try
to save his voice.
1358
01:04:25,490 --> 01:04:26,992
Are you still with me?
1359
01:04:28,994 --> 01:04:31,246
We just lived on the road to the point
1360
01:04:31,246 --> 01:04:34,499
of almost the band's demise,
1361
01:04:34,499 --> 01:04:37,127
because if you do anything too much,
you will get a scar.
1362
01:04:37,628 --> 01:04:40,380
Jon was also
the guy that would get up
1363
01:04:40,380 --> 01:04:44,510
at 5:00 in the morning
to make it to a radio station.
1364
01:04:44,968 --> 01:04:48,096
At 5:00 in the morning,
most of the guys in the band
1365
01:04:48,096 --> 01:04:49,932
- were just getting to bed.
1366
01:04:49,932 --> 01:04:52,434
These guys are pissed off
that they're at soundcheck.
1367
01:04:52,434 --> 01:04:54,102
I woke 'em up at 8:30.
1368
01:04:54,728 --> 01:04:56,563
They're still hung over from last night.
1369
01:04:56,897 --> 01:04:58,023
Bribery's not even working.
1370
01:04:58,023 --> 01:04:59,942
We can't wait for the tour to end.
1371
01:05:00,692 --> 01:05:02,319
I was like,
I'm gonna have a lot of fun,
1372
01:05:02,319 --> 01:05:04,821
but I'm gonna make sure
that my love of music
1373
01:05:04,821 --> 01:05:06,698
is more than my love
of partying,
1374
01:05:07,282 --> 01:05:09,284
and I think
once you turn that corner...
1375
01:05:10,619 --> 01:05:12,704
uh, you've lost it.
1376
01:05:13,664 --> 01:05:16,375
We certainly jumped back
in the ring and we're all just,
1377
01:05:16,375 --> 01:05:19,378
you know, haymakers swinging
for any and everything
1378
01:05:19,378 --> 01:05:20,504
that would come our way...
1379
01:05:21,922 --> 01:05:23,006
but it almost killed us.
1380
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,177
Good afternoon.
We're at Raleigh's Broughton High School,
1381
01:05:27,177 --> 01:05:29,847
where Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi is appearing
1382
01:05:29,847 --> 01:05:32,140
to give a very special
anti-drug message
1383
01:05:32,140 --> 01:05:33,892
to thousands of Wake County students.
1384
01:05:33,892 --> 01:05:35,894
Bon Jovi's appearance
is being sponsored
1385
01:05:35,894 --> 01:05:38,981
by a nonprofit group called
the Make a Difference Foundation.
1386
01:05:39,439 --> 01:05:41,608
When you're a celebrity...
1387
01:05:42,484 --> 01:05:43,735
at this point,
1388
01:05:43,735 --> 01:05:47,781
comes with a responsibility too
to try to do good things.
1389
01:05:48,866 --> 01:05:50,576
To try to give back a little bit.
1390
01:05:50,576 --> 01:05:52,244
Jon Bon Jovi's appearance is also tied
1391
01:05:52,244 --> 01:05:55,581
to an unusual drug probation
handed down by a judge.
1392
01:05:55,581 --> 01:05:59,459
The manager of the Bon Jovi band
pled guilty last year
1393
01:05:59,459 --> 01:06:00,961
in a marijuana case.
1394
01:06:00,961 --> 01:06:03,338
But instead of ordering that
that manager go to prison,
1395
01:06:03,338 --> 01:06:04,965
the judge in the case decided
1396
01:06:04,965 --> 01:06:07,926
to let that manager use
his influence in the rock industry
1397
01:06:07,926 --> 01:06:11,471
to help spread the drug-free message
to the nation's teenagers.
1398
01:06:11,805 --> 01:06:15,017
That was a very
difficult place for a young kid to be,
1399
01:06:15,017 --> 01:06:16,643
you know, with the guy
that was supposed
1400
01:06:16,643 --> 01:06:18,729
to be the grownup in the room
1401
01:06:18,729 --> 01:06:21,398
was now in some kind
of incredible legal trouble.
1402
01:06:21,857 --> 01:06:24,902
Your manager, Doc McGhee,
of course, had a few problems
1403
01:06:24,902 --> 01:06:29,156
with drugs, an alleged 5,000 tons
of grass he was trying to import.
1404
01:06:29,781 --> 01:06:32,409
As you sit
and you try to understand
1405
01:06:32,409 --> 01:06:34,870
what you've done
so you don't do it again,
1406
01:06:35,287 --> 01:06:37,164
it's just learning from your mistakes.
1407
01:06:37,748 --> 01:06:39,833
We had to do things
to keep McGhee outta jail.
1408
01:06:39,833 --> 01:06:41,168
- I'm Jon Bon Jovi.
1409
01:06:41,168 --> 01:06:43,879
So you were asked to do things
and you didn't even know why.
1410
01:06:45,839 --> 01:06:47,925
You're thrust into a situation
1411
01:06:47,925 --> 01:06:49,927
that is way above
and beyond your pay grade.
1412
01:06:49,927 --> 01:06:54,431
Today, the world looks expectedly
to signs of change,
1413
01:06:54,932 --> 01:06:57,976
steps toward greater freedom
in the Soviet Union.
1414
01:06:58,393 --> 01:07:01,021
Doc's lawyers
came up with a plea,
1415
01:07:01,021 --> 01:07:04,775
which led to a concert
in the former Soviet Union
1416
01:07:04,775 --> 01:07:07,528
because we were one
of the great exports
1417
01:07:07,528 --> 01:07:12,533
of American pop culture
to the Iron Curtained countries.
1418
01:07:12,908 --> 01:07:15,953
Now the Soviets are opening their country
to American rock music.
1419
01:07:15,953 --> 01:07:18,747
A number of top rockers,
including New Jersey's own Bon Jovi,
1420
01:07:18,747 --> 01:07:20,707
are getting ready to jet to Moscow.
1421
01:07:20,707 --> 01:07:22,209
Nobody played Moscow.
1422
01:07:22,668 --> 01:07:24,503
Nobody with electric guitar did.
1423
01:07:25,254 --> 01:07:26,922
You could play with a piano
or something,
1424
01:07:26,922 --> 01:07:29,174
but there's no way you could play
with an electric guitar.
1425
01:07:29,174 --> 01:07:30,843
You couldn't even get an electric guitar.
1426
01:07:31,343 --> 01:07:33,762
I did it because
he was my friend first,
1427
01:07:33,762 --> 01:07:35,472
but also because he was the manager.
1428
01:07:35,472 --> 01:07:37,724
So I felt that obligation,
1429
01:07:38,141 --> 01:07:41,728
but I really never had
any idea just how big it was.
1430
01:07:41,728 --> 01:07:44,690
You know, when we grew up in school,
you-- that's the bad guys.
1431
01:07:44,690 --> 01:07:46,024
You can't go there,
no one goes there.
1432
01:07:46,024 --> 01:07:47,818
There's no records there,
there's none of this there,
1433
01:07:47,818 --> 01:07:49,528
and our attitude was, let's go over there.
1434
01:07:49,528 --> 01:07:51,154
Let's make this happen.
1435
01:07:51,154 --> 01:07:53,240
Welcome to Bon Jovi world,
Russian style.
1436
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:55,033
A world which began
back in December
1437
01:07:55,033 --> 01:07:57,494
when Bon Jovi made a quick trip
to the Soviet Union
1438
01:07:57,494 --> 01:07:58,954
to lay the groundwork for the main event.
1439
01:07:59,288 --> 01:08:02,124
I remember going as a band to set it up
1440
01:08:02,541 --> 01:08:04,001
while the Wall was still up.
1441
01:08:04,501 --> 01:08:05,794
Brr! It's freezing.
1442
01:08:05,794 --> 01:08:09,506
And snow coming down,
and KGB and CIA,
1443
01:08:09,506 --> 01:08:11,592
and the lady who handled Cuba
right next to me
1444
01:08:11,592 --> 01:08:12,885
and the sleigh horses.
1445
01:08:12,885 --> 01:08:13,969
It was like a movie.
1446
01:08:14,845 --> 01:08:19,766
We were very aware
that we were being watched
1447
01:08:19,766 --> 01:08:24,229
and if you had a western
rock and roll record,
1448
01:08:24,229 --> 01:08:25,731
you could be imprisoned.
1449
01:08:26,106 --> 01:08:29,067
The only way that folks had heard
of Bon Jovi is on the black market.
1450
01:08:29,443 --> 01:08:31,570
We were, like, officially sanctioned
by the government
1451
01:08:31,570 --> 01:08:33,822
to come in, although
Billy Joel went, you know,
1452
01:08:33,822 --> 01:08:35,407
and of--
and other bands have gone,
1453
01:08:35,407 --> 01:08:39,077
they didn't go there
with the government's blessing, let's say.
1454
01:08:39,077 --> 01:08:40,996
If anything can be said about Bon Jovi,
1455
01:08:40,996 --> 01:08:42,539
it's we make people smile.
1456
01:08:42,539 --> 01:08:44,374
We make 'em a part of what we do,
1457
01:08:44,374 --> 01:08:46,543
and there's no political overtones to it.
1458
01:08:46,543 --> 01:08:49,588
It's just rock and roll music
and entertainment.
1459
01:08:50,005 --> 01:08:52,216
If that's gonna help bring
the world together.
1460
01:08:52,216 --> 01:08:53,717
I'm the first guy over here.
1461
01:08:54,384 --> 01:08:58,597
Peace and my love
and rock and roll.
1462
01:08:59,681 --> 01:09:00,807
So we're going to Russia
1463
01:09:00,807 --> 01:09:02,559
and we're gonna introduce them
to rock and roll.
1464
01:09:02,559 --> 01:09:04,269
[♪ "Born To Be My Baby"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1465
01:09:04,269 --> 01:09:07,689
♪ Na na na na na na
na na na na na ♪
1466
01:09:07,689 --> 01:09:09,316
♪ Na na na na na na ♪
1467
01:09:09,316 --> 01:09:12,027
The message to the youth
will be a little bit different
1468
01:09:12,027 --> 01:09:14,446
than it was 20 years ago for Woodstock,
1469
01:09:14,446 --> 01:09:17,950
and I'm really proud that
they've all taken their time and effort
1470
01:09:17,950 --> 01:09:20,911
and their support
to help the foundation
1471
01:09:20,911 --> 01:09:24,164
to bring awareness to kids
on drug and alcohol abuse.
1472
01:09:24,623 --> 01:09:26,166
I remember parts
of the plane ride
1473
01:09:26,166 --> 01:09:30,504
and it was egocentric lunacy.
1474
01:09:30,504 --> 01:09:34,758
There was real debauchery
going on in-in the back
1475
01:09:34,758 --> 01:09:37,427
with booze and drugs,
and we were going there
1476
01:09:37,427 --> 01:09:41,181
to do a anti-drug concert,
and there was...
1477
01:09:41,181 --> 01:09:42,641
We're starting
to get rowdy at this point.
1478
01:09:42,641 --> 01:09:44,434
Yeah, man, we're starting
to get rowdy and you know,
1479
01:09:44,434 --> 01:09:46,812
of course there's no alcohol or anything
like that on this plane, so...
1480
01:09:46,812 --> 01:09:48,188
Obviously not.
1481
01:09:48,188 --> 01:09:50,858
♪ Beats like a drum all night ♪
1482
01:09:50,858 --> 01:09:51,942
♪ Flesh to flesh ♪
1483
01:09:51,942 --> 01:09:53,735
No one's sleeping,
everybody's walking around.
1484
01:09:53,735 --> 01:09:55,863
It's, uh, two o'clock in the morning
1485
01:09:55,863 --> 01:09:58,574
and we're all, like, pretty delirious
'cause we've been held up, you know,
1486
01:09:58,574 --> 01:10:00,576
on the runway and in the airport.
1487
01:10:01,618 --> 01:10:03,495
Now, did we think it was
gonna change the world?
1488
01:10:03,495 --> 01:10:06,290
Did we think it was gonna--
the Wall was gonna come down
1489
01:10:06,290 --> 01:10:08,208
and that they were gonna let us do this?
1490
01:10:09,209 --> 01:10:10,335
No.
1491
01:10:16,175 --> 01:10:18,427
We went to this stadium
1492
01:10:18,427 --> 01:10:22,598
that was one of the biggest structures
I'd ever seen in my life.
1493
01:10:22,598 --> 01:10:25,434
It was a, um,
variety show
1494
01:10:25,934 --> 01:10:27,686
because you had
Ozzy Osbourne.
1495
01:10:27,686 --> 01:10:29,771
Go, go, go, go...
1496
01:10:31,565 --> 01:10:34,318
Mötley Crüe was there,
of course, famously.
1497
01:10:34,943 --> 01:10:37,154
How many girls
we have in here today?
1498
01:10:39,031 --> 01:10:42,409
And the Scorpions, I just
remember that just so clearly.
1499
01:10:48,832 --> 01:10:50,709
There were
so many people there,
1500
01:10:51,043 --> 01:10:55,214
and you could just feel
that desperation to be free.
1501
01:10:56,465 --> 01:11:00,344
There is a magic
to music that curtails
1502
01:11:00,344 --> 01:11:03,263
anything political,
anything bad in the world.
1503
01:11:03,972 --> 01:11:06,266
It's the most spiritual thing
in the world, I believe,
1504
01:11:07,226 --> 01:11:08,268
and we saw it there.
1505
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:15,734
If you wanna make it a better world,
you start with yourselves.
1506
01:11:18,111 --> 01:11:22,783
And in the name of friendship
and good God blessed rock and roll,
1507
01:11:23,492 --> 01:11:24,743
this is for you.
1508
01:11:24,743 --> 01:11:26,328
It's called Blood on Blood.
1509
01:11:34,711 --> 01:11:36,672
One, two, three, four!
1510
01:11:42,302 --> 01:11:45,305
You're looking like everybody
you thought would be a monster,
1511
01:11:45,305 --> 01:11:46,890
'cause that's all
you've ever been taught.
1512
01:11:46,890 --> 01:11:48,475
They kind of looked like us.
1513
01:11:48,475 --> 01:11:49,560
They were humans.
1514
01:11:50,102 --> 01:11:52,604
You know, all this whole thing
that you've had in your head,
1515
01:11:52,604 --> 01:11:53,856
it was-- it's just people.
1516
01:11:55,065 --> 01:11:57,276
They were just
like any other crowd.
1517
01:11:57,568 --> 01:11:58,819
They were exuberant.
1518
01:11:58,819 --> 01:12:01,405
Imagine having your first glass of water
1519
01:12:01,405 --> 01:12:03,615
after walking a desert
for your whole life.
1520
01:12:04,032 --> 01:12:05,784
They'd never experienced
anything like that before.
1521
01:12:05,784 --> 01:12:08,745
♪ Blood on blood ♪
1522
01:12:09,204 --> 01:12:10,664
♪ One on one ♪
1523
01:12:13,166 --> 01:12:17,880
♪ We'd still be standing
when all was said and done ♪
1524
01:12:18,589 --> 01:12:19,965
I mean,
that astounded me at first.
1525
01:12:19,965 --> 01:12:21,884
I couldn't believe it,
you know what I mean?
1526
01:12:22,176 --> 01:12:24,970
These people couldn't sing English, man,
but they were singin' our lyrics.
1527
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,891
It's that emotional connection.
1528
01:12:28,891 --> 01:12:32,269
It's that honesty that moves
to the heart of the people
1529
01:12:32,269 --> 01:12:35,772
and gave them some hope.
1530
01:12:35,772 --> 01:12:39,902
♪ And I'll be there for you
till kingdom come ♪
1531
01:12:40,485 --> 01:12:43,238
The music isn't
dissimilar from sport
1532
01:12:43,238 --> 01:12:45,616
in that it's tribal.
1533
01:12:45,616 --> 01:12:47,784
You're finding
that one common thread
1534
01:12:47,784 --> 01:12:50,120
that you have with people
from all different walks of life.
1535
01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,706
I've seen that languages don't matter,
1536
01:12:53,415 --> 01:12:55,542
and that to me is something beautiful
1537
01:12:55,542 --> 01:12:57,836
about the power of music.
1538
01:12:58,170 --> 01:12:59,254
It's universal.
1539
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:30,285
There are shows where
something just really magical happens
1540
01:13:30,285 --> 01:13:33,580
with all seven members on stage.
1541
01:13:34,540 --> 01:13:37,459
It's on stage, man,
'cause the fans, you know what,
1542
01:13:37,459 --> 01:13:41,004
there's kids, kids that know
more lyrics than I do,
1543
01:13:41,505 --> 01:13:43,924
and that's, that's good parenting,
1544
01:13:44,174 --> 01:13:45,926
but the whole point is...
1545
01:13:47,678 --> 01:13:49,221
...what we're spreading this message
1546
01:13:49,221 --> 01:13:51,849
that's been spread
for 30-something years
1547
01:13:52,015 --> 01:13:53,225
- and we just keep--
- Forty.
1548
01:13:53,225 --> 01:13:54,476
Forty years next year.
1549
01:13:54,476 --> 01:13:58,605
I met super fans, and it's
something about Bon Jovi
1550
01:13:58,605 --> 01:14:02,609
that changed their life
for the better or saved their life.
1551
01:14:02,609 --> 01:14:04,945
There was a lyric
in a song or...
1552
01:14:06,071 --> 01:14:07,614
a Jon Bon Jovi's smile.
1553
01:14:07,614 --> 01:14:10,325
Something did something
to them that
1554
01:14:10,325 --> 01:14:13,620
they have to see their band
as often as possible,
1555
01:14:13,620 --> 01:14:14,788
and I don't think that's crazy.
1556
01:14:14,788 --> 01:14:16,748
I think that everybody has
different passions.
1557
01:14:16,748 --> 01:14:20,210
People build model cars,
people parachute.
1558
01:14:20,752 --> 01:14:23,380
These people love ju-just going
to Bon Jovi concerts.
1559
01:14:23,380 --> 01:14:24,590
So that's pretty amazing.
1560
01:14:39,605 --> 01:14:41,064
Well, we're not at the end yet.
1561
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,
1562
01:14:45,903 --> 01:14:48,280
but where I think I am today,
1563
01:14:48,864 --> 01:14:50,991
when I'm good, I'm great,
1564
01:14:51,742 --> 01:14:55,662
but I don't feel like
I got everything in the arsenal.
1565
01:14:59,875 --> 01:15:01,919
Were you with me then
when I used to do this?
1566
01:15:05,422 --> 01:15:08,842
I'm thinking about starting
the show black.
1567
01:15:08,842 --> 01:15:10,219
Okay.
1568
01:15:10,219 --> 01:15:13,722
I jump up, acapella Prayer.
1569
01:15:17,476 --> 01:15:20,687
Let them sing it.
Keep just lights on me only.
1570
01:15:20,687 --> 01:15:22,231
No-No black up there.
1571
01:15:22,231 --> 01:15:23,315
Okay.
1572
01:15:23,315 --> 01:15:24,525
Me and this fucking audience.
1573
01:15:24,525 --> 01:15:26,443
So, house lights go,
and you-you pop up.
1574
01:15:26,443 --> 01:15:28,570
- I walk up there, then you hit me.
- Yep.
1575
01:15:28,570 --> 01:15:30,489
You know, I could give you
a thumbs up or something.
1576
01:15:30,489 --> 01:15:33,659
- Yep.
- Adulation, adulation for however long.
1577
01:15:33,659 --> 01:15:36,662
- Yep.
- Acapella, they start singing it,
1578
01:15:36,662 --> 01:15:38,580
band starts playing, then it's your show.
1579
01:15:38,580 --> 01:15:39,873
Then you walk. Awesome.
1580
01:15:40,457 --> 01:15:43,752
My speedball's not...
it's not quite there.
1581
01:15:44,503 --> 01:15:46,588
Does that mean it's not coming back?
1582
01:15:47,297 --> 01:15:51,635
Or does that mean I just have
to stick with the plan?
1583
01:15:52,845 --> 01:15:56,515
If somebody could tell me,
factually, the best you can do
1584
01:15:56,515 --> 01:15:58,308
is 100% of 80%,
1585
01:15:59,142 --> 01:16:00,352
then I gotta walk away.
1586
01:16:05,858 --> 01:16:08,026
- That's it, motherfucker.
1587
01:16:08,026 --> 01:16:09,653
- Don't hurt me.
- Yeah!
1588
01:16:11,029 --> 01:16:12,489
- Oh, yeah.
- I'm back, motherfucker.
1589
01:16:12,489 --> 01:16:15,117
- I know you are.
- Stand, stand down.
1590
01:16:17,202 --> 01:16:18,912
Oh, that's a good one.
1591
01:16:19,621 --> 01:16:21,248
Fuck, he's old.
1592
01:16:22,457 --> 01:16:24,585
I don't have
a Messiah complex,
1593
01:16:25,169 --> 01:16:27,462
which some guys get stuck in.
1594
01:16:28,839 --> 01:16:30,757
No, I'm not looking for that,
1595
01:16:31,758 --> 01:16:33,969
but I have come to realize...
1596
01:16:45,647 --> 01:16:47,524
I am not letting you see me--
1597
01:16:48,108 --> 01:16:49,234
Um...
1598
01:16:51,278 --> 01:16:52,738
I have come to realize that...
1599
01:16:59,578 --> 01:17:02,331
I used to say to the band,
"Just trust me
1600
01:17:03,999 --> 01:17:06,251
"and I'll take us
where we need to go,
1601
01:17:07,711 --> 01:17:10,714
"but you gotta put your
whole fucking everything
1602
01:17:11,215 --> 01:17:13,300
into what I'm gonna do."
1603
01:17:17,513 --> 01:17:18,931
Those people who hear that...
1604
01:17:25,729 --> 01:17:29,066
I never bullshitted them,
you know, so...
1605
01:17:44,748 --> 01:17:47,334
Anyway, that's why
the legacy matters,
1606
01:17:47,334 --> 01:17:50,128
'cause they believe it.
1607
01:17:52,714 --> 01:17:54,550
So I believe it.
1608
01:17:56,176 --> 01:17:57,219
I love y'all.
1609
01:17:57,219 --> 01:17:58,428
- Love you back.
- Love you too.
1610
01:17:58,428 --> 01:17:59,763
Play with love tonight.
1611
01:18:54,443 --> 01:19:01,408
♪ We got to hold on ♪
1612
01:19:02,075 --> 01:19:04,203
♪ To what we've got ♪
1613
01:19:04,203 --> 01:19:08,081
♪ It doesn't make a difference
if we make it or not ♪
1614
01:19:08,081 --> 01:19:13,378
♪ We got each other
and that's a lot for love ♪
1615
01:19:14,213 --> 01:19:16,423
♪ We'll give it a shot ♪
1616
01:19:16,423 --> 01:19:18,091
[♪ "Livin’ on a Prayer"
by Bon Jovi playing]
1617
01:19:18,091 --> 01:19:21,345
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1618
01:19:21,345 --> 01:19:24,932
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1619
01:19:24,932 --> 01:19:28,977
♪ Take my hand we'll make it I swear ♪
1620
01:19:28,977 --> 01:19:32,856
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1621
01:19:32,856 --> 01:19:36,652
♪ Livin' on a prayer ♪
1622
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:57,256
♪ We've gotta hold on
you ready or not ♪
1623
01:19:57,256 --> 01:20:01,093
♪ You live for the fight
when that's all that you've got ♪
1624
01:20:01,093 --> 01:20:04,471
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1625
01:20:04,471 --> 01:20:08,517
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1626
01:20:08,517 --> 01:20:12,479
♪ Take my hand,
we'll make it, I swear ♪
1627
01:20:12,479 --> 01:20:16,567
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1628
01:20:16,567 --> 01:20:20,237
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1629
01:20:20,237 --> 01:20:24,032
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1630
01:20:24,366 --> 01:20:28,120
♪ Whoa, we're half way there ♪
1631
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:32,291
♪ Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer ♪
1632
01:21:20,797 --> 01:21:22,132
Like Humpty Dumpty, man.
1633
01:21:22,132 --> 01:21:24,426
- Aw.
- Back together.
1634
01:21:24,426 --> 01:21:25,761
That was really fun.
1635
01:21:26,428 --> 01:21:27,888
- You were amazing.
- Thank you.
1636
01:21:28,472 --> 01:21:29,765
Yeah, yeah.
1637
01:21:29,765 --> 01:21:30,849
Ready to drink?
1638
01:21:30,849 --> 01:21:31,934
That was fucking awesome.
1639
01:21:33,060 --> 01:21:34,228
That's the way to leave 'em.
1640
01:21:34,228 --> 01:21:35,729
- Yeah.
- Wanting more.
1641
01:22:01,129 --> 01:22:02,923
By the end
of the New Jersey tour,
1642
01:22:03,757 --> 01:22:04,883
we're in Mexico.
1643
01:22:05,801 --> 01:22:08,637
It's show 239 and 240...
1644
01:22:11,431 --> 01:22:15,018
...and there is
a uprising at a college.
1645
01:22:16,311 --> 01:22:17,312
Riots.
1646
01:22:18,730 --> 01:22:21,108
Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi,
1647
01:22:21,108 --> 01:22:24,027
Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi...
1648
01:22:24,027 --> 01:22:25,237
Yes, this is the end of it.
1649
01:22:25,237 --> 01:22:27,072
This is the very last show
as we're hoping
1650
01:22:27,072 --> 01:22:29,908
that we, uh, we get to have
our last shows here.
1651
01:22:29,908 --> 01:22:33,829
And the students come in
and take over the stadium
1652
01:22:34,454 --> 01:22:38,292
and barricade everybody,
and the band's still at the hotel.
1653
01:22:38,667 --> 01:22:40,544
The band is here.
We want to play.
1654
01:22:40,544 --> 01:22:42,963
It's just a matter of them
working out the politics.
1655
01:22:42,963 --> 01:22:45,048
They don't want
the show to happen
1656
01:22:45,048 --> 01:22:48,260
because of the disagreement
they're having with the university.
1657
01:22:48,260 --> 01:22:50,262
It's nothing against Bon Jovi.
1658
01:22:53,724 --> 01:22:55,976
There's-- they're starting
to gather people.
1659
01:22:55,976 --> 01:22:59,062
There's audience with their tickets
that they're getting,
1660
01:22:59,062 --> 01:23:00,939
starting to get a little bit pissed off.
1661
01:23:02,441 --> 01:23:05,068
So I have to go
and negotiate with the students
1662
01:23:05,068 --> 01:23:06,862
who are in masks and baseball bats.
1663
01:23:06,862 --> 01:23:12,492
See if we can get the Juan Carlos
and th-the Federation people
1664
01:23:12,492 --> 01:23:14,328
to meet me in my hotel
in my room,
1665
01:23:14,328 --> 01:23:15,871
and we'll work,
and we'll work it out there
1666
01:23:15,871 --> 01:23:17,789
because otherwise we're going home.
1667
01:23:17,789 --> 01:23:20,167
Although they were doing their job
1668
01:23:20,167 --> 01:23:23,879
and trying to assure us
that everything would be alright,
1669
01:23:23,879 --> 01:23:27,508
there was, um,
a lot of confusion.
1670
01:23:27,508 --> 01:23:31,887
You know, suddenly we were
important men making decisions,
1671
01:23:31,887 --> 01:23:34,431
but really we were just scared boys
with a lot of money.
1672
01:23:40,103 --> 01:23:42,022
I'm not rolling.
We're not rolling, just listening.
1673
01:23:42,022 --> 01:23:45,192
When you're together like that,
that becomes your second family.
1674
01:23:45,192 --> 01:23:47,319
Sometimes it's your first family.
1675
01:23:47,611 --> 01:23:49,696
Sometimes families get dysfunctional.
1676
01:23:51,156 --> 01:23:53,700
Was it my favorite time
in the music business?
1677
01:23:53,700 --> 01:23:55,994
No, it wasn't.
1678
01:23:57,246 --> 01:23:59,248
I love it here,
but get me the fuck out.
1679
01:24:00,415 --> 01:24:03,335
That's five men in close quarters
that are not supposed to--
1680
01:24:03,335 --> 01:24:06,839
We took vacations together,
we were idiots.
1681
01:24:06,839 --> 01:24:10,843
It was ri-ridiculous that we did
all that kind of stuff.
1682
01:24:10,843 --> 01:24:12,678
If you're on a merry-go-round
and you're still
1683
01:24:12,678 --> 01:24:15,472
on a merry-go-round
for so long, you get dizzy.
1684
01:24:15,472 --> 01:24:17,182
So we got dizzy, you know?
1685
01:24:17,182 --> 01:24:19,393
It was at a point where
it could break up the band.
1686
01:24:19,393 --> 01:24:23,605
A lot of stuff goes on,
you know, divorces, deaths, births,
1687
01:24:24,064 --> 01:24:27,317
you know, like the real stuff
that happens to a band also.
1688
01:24:27,317 --> 01:24:29,152
That's what people
don't understand,
1689
01:24:29,152 --> 01:24:32,114
how complicated
that whole band is,
1690
01:24:32,114 --> 01:24:34,366
like, be it the band concept itself.
1691
01:24:41,331 --> 01:24:43,083
Imagine
abomination number one,
1692
01:24:43,083 --> 01:24:44,668
we're all sick of each other
1693
01:24:44,668 --> 01:24:47,546
and at that point,
you know, pff,
1694
01:24:47,546 --> 01:24:49,298
everybody was getting
pretty hammered.
1695
01:24:55,137 --> 01:24:56,972
Make a difference,
yeah, make a difference.
1696
01:25:01,768 --> 01:25:04,771
After Slippery happened,
now you're the biggest thing in the world.
1697
01:25:04,771 --> 01:25:06,064
That's four more years
1698
01:25:06,064 --> 01:25:11,111
of nonstop fame,
fortune, and gigs.
1699
01:25:11,111 --> 01:25:14,281
You know, it just was taking a toll on,
you know, a couple of the guys.
1700
01:25:30,589 --> 01:25:33,592
Alec is a drunk mess.
Tico is a drunk mess.
1701
01:25:33,592 --> 01:25:35,344
I want to get the hell out of there.
1702
01:25:35,344 --> 01:25:36,595
Everybody's seen enough of me.
1703
01:25:36,595 --> 01:25:38,972
My mom's seen me enough,
I seen enough of me.
1704
01:25:39,431 --> 01:25:40,474
Go away.
1705
01:25:44,478 --> 01:25:47,731
So we went back to McGhee
and said, "How about this?"
1706
01:25:48,232 --> 01:25:50,817
A matinee and a night show,
1707
01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:53,070
just to get out of here.
1708
01:25:53,946 --> 01:25:55,781
Let's do two shows
the next day
1709
01:25:55,781 --> 01:25:57,199
and then you'll hit the bricks,
1710
01:25:57,199 --> 01:25:59,076
and, uh, we're all,
1711
01:25:59,076 --> 01:26:00,494
we're gung-ho for that one.
1712
01:26:01,745 --> 01:26:04,414
We're doing two shows tomorrow.
First one's 11:30 a.m.
1713
01:26:04,414 --> 01:26:07,209
You're saying we open the show,
we play at 11:30?
1714
01:26:07,835 --> 01:26:09,545
Yeah. Re-regardless.
1715
01:26:10,504 --> 01:26:11,505
Alright.
1716
01:26:12,965 --> 01:26:15,425
Go ahead. There's nothing new
you could throw at us.
1717
01:26:15,425 --> 01:26:16,510
We-We have it all.
1718
01:26:16,510 --> 01:26:18,262
- We've done it all.
- We've done it all.
1719
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:22,099
I'm not postponing, 'cause I'm not
staying here for another minute.
1720
01:26:23,016 --> 01:26:26,937
Wimp band. Can only do two shows
in one day, not three, right?
1721
01:26:28,188 --> 01:26:29,189
Love that.
1722
01:26:30,482 --> 01:26:31,733
That's why we're here.
1723
01:26:33,861 --> 01:26:35,445
We have no idea why we're here.
1724
01:27:00,179 --> 01:27:02,222
I don't know how we got
through those two shows,
1725
01:27:02,222 --> 01:27:03,807
but everybody was pretty hammered.
1726
01:27:04,641 --> 01:27:07,144
There was
margarita makers on stage.
1727
01:27:07,144 --> 01:27:10,063
All we did was drink through
the whole afternoon show
1728
01:27:10,063 --> 01:27:11,440
and the whole evening show.
1729
01:27:12,691 --> 01:27:14,610
It wasn't the fun tour.
1730
01:27:14,610 --> 01:27:18,197
You know, sometimes it's just,
you just move apart,
1731
01:27:18,197 --> 01:27:21,325
and you lose the theme.
1732
01:27:21,825 --> 01:27:23,202
It's not us against the world,
1733
01:27:23,202 --> 01:27:25,329
it's me against the you guys
and everybody.
1734
01:27:25,704 --> 01:27:28,207
Couple more shows. Ah!
1735
01:27:28,957 --> 01:27:33,962
We hang out at the venue
to get the stadium crowd out,
1736
01:27:33,962 --> 01:27:37,841
to get another stadium crowd in
to perform the night show.
1737
01:27:41,428 --> 01:27:43,180
This is the final show...
1738
01:27:45,724 --> 01:27:47,601
and after 20 countries,
1739
01:27:48,769 --> 01:27:50,979
three million and some odd people,
1740
01:27:52,981 --> 01:27:56,068
a lot of cold beer and warm nights...
1741
01:27:58,403 --> 01:28:00,948
I learned a long time ago
from a guy on TV,
1742
01:28:00,948 --> 01:28:05,118
you never say goodbye,
you just say goodnight.
1743
01:28:07,704 --> 01:28:10,958
My job was to make them
the best entertainers in the world...
1744
01:28:12,251 --> 01:28:15,045
and they became some of
the best entertainers in the world.
1745
01:28:17,714 --> 01:28:21,218
From inception through 1990
1746
01:28:21,218 --> 01:28:23,887
was that rocket ship to success.
1747
01:28:23,887 --> 01:28:25,973
It was everything
you'd ever dreamed of
1748
01:28:25,973 --> 01:28:29,226
and were willing to sacrifice
to get to that place
1749
01:28:29,226 --> 01:28:30,978
that you thought was the it.
1750
01:28:32,396 --> 01:28:36,692
It was being on the precipice
of what was
1751
01:28:36,692 --> 01:28:41,071
to become greatness and longevity
1752
01:28:41,572 --> 01:28:45,284
or falling backwards and being the end.
1753
01:28:46,326 --> 01:28:48,078
And now there's
nothing else to prove.
1754
01:28:48,078 --> 01:28:51,248
What is it, just another
better record or go tour again,
1755
01:28:51,456 --> 01:28:53,250
you know what I mean?
'Cause you're not doing anything
1756
01:28:53,250 --> 01:28:54,793
but you're unhappy.
1757
01:28:55,544 --> 01:28:58,589
In and of the moment
for the New Jersey album,
1758
01:28:58,589 --> 01:29:02,384
I wish that those in control,
whether it was the managers,
1759
01:29:02,384 --> 01:29:06,221
the lawyers, the agents would've said,
1760
01:29:06,221 --> 01:29:08,765
"Hey, guys, I believe in you.
1761
01:29:09,725 --> 01:29:12,311
We're gonna take
another year off,"
1762
01:29:12,853 --> 01:29:15,606
as opposed to, "Get out there
and do it again."
1763
01:29:16,356 --> 01:29:19,318
Just because we said we could
didn't mean that we should.
1764
01:29:22,112 --> 01:29:25,490
I never had the thought
that Jon would ever stop,
1765
01:29:25,490 --> 01:29:27,367
I mean, or Bon Jovi would stop.
1766
01:29:27,367 --> 01:29:28,744
Bon Jovi's forever.
1767
01:29:28,744 --> 01:29:30,871
I didn't care.
1768
01:29:30,871 --> 01:29:32,664
I don't think anybody cared
if the band was over.
1769
01:29:33,624 --> 01:29:35,250
Ah, you just wanted to go home
1770
01:29:35,250 --> 01:29:37,836
and have some assemblance
of order in your life.
1771
01:29:37,836 --> 01:29:39,838
You know, it was
one of those moments where,
1772
01:29:39,838 --> 01:29:42,841
"Get me the fuck home."
1773
01:29:43,675 --> 01:29:45,177
We just gotta go
the fuck home.
1774
01:29:45,177 --> 01:29:47,054
Everybody's fucking exhausted,
1775
01:29:47,054 --> 01:29:49,598
and then that was the first time
we ever stopped.
1776
01:29:51,099 --> 01:29:54,728
We were done, so I'm like,
"I want to get the fuck outta here,"
1777
01:29:55,562 --> 01:29:59,024
and what I meant was out of Bon Jovi.
1778
01:30:00,025 --> 01:30:01,276
Did he work hard?
1779
01:30:01,276 --> 01:30:05,030
Did I book him
in a really aggressive way?
1780
01:30:05,739 --> 01:30:06,823
Absolutely.
1781
01:30:07,991 --> 01:30:09,409
This isn't poor Jon.
1782
01:30:10,410 --> 01:30:12,955
This is his gig.
This is what he does.
1783
01:30:15,249 --> 01:30:18,794
He was working
the band against me,
1784
01:30:18,794 --> 01:30:21,338
me against the band, playing all sides,
1785
01:30:21,338 --> 01:30:24,466
and not for the betterment of the band.
1786
01:30:26,885 --> 01:30:28,554
I said,
"Listen, you got a problem.
1787
01:30:29,638 --> 01:30:30,848
You know, you can always..."
1788
01:30:30,848 --> 01:30:32,307
You know, he was just like my son.
1789
01:30:33,016 --> 01:30:36,436
"You know, you can call me,"
and he said to me,
1790
01:30:36,436 --> 01:30:37,729
"What if you're the problem?"
1791
01:30:52,369 --> 01:30:55,914
♪ I tried to make you happy ♪
1792
01:30:56,373 --> 01:31:01,295
♪ Lord knows I tried so hard to be ♪
1793
01:31:01,587 --> 01:31:04,590
♪ What you hoped that I would be ♪
1794
01:31:04,590 --> 01:31:07,968
♪ I gave you what you wanted ♪
1795
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:13,515
♪ God couldn't give you what you need ♪
1796
01:31:13,515 --> 01:31:15,517
♪ You wanted more from me ♪
1797
01:31:15,517 --> 01:31:17,603
♪ Than I could ever be ♪
1798
01:31:17,603 --> 01:31:19,813
♪ You wanted heart and soul ♪
1799
01:31:19,813 --> 01:31:22,482
♪ But you didn't know, baby ♪
1800
01:31:22,482 --> 01:31:25,444
♪ Wild ♪
1801
01:31:25,444 --> 01:31:27,279
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1802
01:31:27,279 --> 01:31:31,575
♪ That takes me away from you ♪
1803
01:31:31,575 --> 01:31:35,204
♪ Cold is the night
without your love ♪
1804
01:31:35,204 --> 01:31:38,749
♪ To see me through ♪
1805
01:31:39,499 --> 01:31:43,837
♪ And, baby, wild ♪
1806
01:31:43,837 --> 01:31:45,631
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1807
01:31:45,631 --> 01:31:50,802
♪ That blows through my heart, oh ♪
1808
01:31:51,428 --> 01:31:54,306
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1809
01:31:55,557 --> 01:31:58,143
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1810
01:31:59,228 --> 01:32:03,148
♪ You got to understand, baby ♪
1811
01:32:03,690 --> 01:32:06,652
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1812
01:32:09,988 --> 01:32:13,492
♪ You need someone to hold you ♪
1813
01:32:14,201 --> 01:32:18,997
♪ Somebody to be there night and day ♪
1814
01:32:18,997 --> 01:32:21,917
♪ Someone to kiss your fears away ♪
1815
01:32:22,417 --> 01:32:25,838
♪ I just went on pretending ♪
1816
01:32:26,171 --> 01:32:30,551
♪ Too weak, too proud,
too tough to say ♪
1817
01:32:31,176 --> 01:32:33,262
♪ I couldn't be the one ♪
1818
01:32:33,262 --> 01:32:35,305
♪ To make your dreams come true ♪
1819
01:32:35,305 --> 01:32:37,516
♪ That's why I had to run ♪
1820
01:32:37,516 --> 01:32:40,143
♪ Though I needed you, baby ♪
1821
01:32:40,143 --> 01:32:43,188
♪ Wild ♪
1822
01:32:43,188 --> 01:32:45,065
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1823
01:32:45,065 --> 01:32:49,319
♪ That takes me away from you ♪
1824
01:32:49,319 --> 01:32:52,948
♪ Cold is the night
without your love ♪
1825
01:32:52,948 --> 01:32:56,326
♪ To see me through ♪
1826
01:32:57,536 --> 01:33:01,540
♪ Baby, wild ♪
1827
01:33:01,540 --> 01:33:03,333
♪ Wild is the wind ♪
1828
01:33:03,333 --> 01:33:07,504
♪ That blows through my heart tonight ♪
1829
01:33:07,504 --> 01:33:12,718
♪ And tears us apart, whoa... ♪
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