|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
 Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:45 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:46 pm
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:52 pm
Ok, I can't make him look bald. Paint sucks...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:55 pm
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:15 am
I thought I'd post these here. This one had me laughing quite a bit!!
Graham Norton emerges from a dry ice smokescreen to the intro of "Livin' On A Prayer".
GRAHAM: He's slippery when wet, he's a true king of rock star, please give a huge welcome, ladies and gentlemen for Mr. Jon Bon Jovi. Jon escorted down steps thru seated audience with two young ladies. Bows, waves, sits down.
GRAHAM: makes comment to woman in audience about her getting excited - to Jon "Thank you very much for joining us."
JON: It's my pleasure.
GRAHAM: You have now sold over 100 million records
JON: Yeah.
GRAHAM: When did that happen?
JON: This year, we have crossed it with this record - we're like McDonalds.
GRAHAM: Well done (audience applauds). How did you know?
JON: The record company accounted for 100 million, so we probably sold 150 million. .... you go back and get a large fries and say thank you, it's pretty neat.
GRAHAM: It's very neat. You took a bit of a break, you had a bit of a hiatus, but you are back now
JON: Yeah
GRAHAM: And now that's it, Bon Jovi, you want to turn into the Rolling Stones and you want to just keep going.
JON: But just better looking, without all the wrinkles (laughs, audience applauds).
GRAHAM: You have learned a lesson there, you won't make that mistake. And 31 million people have been to your concerts.
JON: I don't know, it's probably the same 31 people who have been to see us a million times - ask that girl over there (camera pans to same girl that Graham teased earlier) she ..... in her seat and just comes again.
GRAHAM: You were touring in Japan and Michael Jackson, was he touring at the same time?
Jon, Oh yeah, back in the mid 80s, 1987, we were in the same hotel and they told us he was there and we were told we could go and meet him if we liked. He wasn't as freaky as he is now.
GRAHAM: That is hard to maintain.
JON: Pretty freaky, it takes a lot of practice. An entire wing of the hotel was cordoned off just for him, and we went to meet him; and his manager fixes his hair and puts on a cigar and checked his breath, and me and Richie are looking at each other like what - we are these kids from Jersey ...... And he comes out and your eyes are like this big - cartoon - and he comes in with the whole belt buckle and bandero things on , red shirt, satin and Bubbles the chimp. As a token gesture he sends us Bubbles the chimp. And Bubbles puts on a show for us - comes in does a whole..
GRAHAM: Bubbles does a show?
JON: Comes in, jumps on the bed, does a whole routine, moonwalks across the room and splits (laughs).
GRAHAM: I don't believe you.
JON: It's the story that no-one wants to hear or see. True story.
GRAHAM: When you got the new haircut, was it on CNN? Was it a news item?
JON sad nods yes) So they say, yeah.
GRAHAM: But I thought, I mean you are an incredibly handsome man, but it made you look incredibly pretty.
JON: (Laughs, eyebrows raise) He's picking me up here.
GRAHAM: (jumps back in his chair) NO. Is this rude, I hope it's not rude. I just talked to someone yesterday who was very New Yorky, and I was saying Jon Bon Jovi was going to be on the show today and we were talking about Bon Jovi, and he said "yeah, I couldn't be a fan of a band that has a lead singer who was prettier than my sister". Did you get that, was there some resistance from men?
JON: The girlfriends would come and drag the guys along with them and the guys would come to see all the pretty girls at the show, see we won. But then again if you think about it, we could have been AC/DC, but the truth of the matter is do I really want to see 90,000 ugly sweaty guys or do I want to see their girlfriends? Truthfully, I got into this for the girls, what do you think I got into it for? A bunch of all this (raises arm in air and waves it), no.... this (pretends to raise his sweater). Laughs. Audience applauds. What do you think I got into this for?
GRAHAM: And it's working.
JON: Yeah, it works.
GRAHAM I need your help with something. There is all this talk about gay marriages. The thing is it's a worry, even if they do get married, it might not go well, it might go wrong, and you might need some marriage counseling. So we have found a... for a number that offers marriage counseling, and they don't mind, they don't care who is doing this, if you could pretend to be my partner, just pretend, just pretend. (to audience) Don't get jealous I don't want a cat fight, it's just pretend. We are going to ring up to see if we can arrange to get an appointment. But there is one complication, when we are ringing the place, we want to get as many of your song titles as we can into the conversation. So I have got a lovely easel here
JON: OK
GRAHAM: And I will reveal them as we go through - I will do one and you will do one. Dials number.
BARBARA: Hello, Barbara (last name omitted) Counseling.
GRAHAM: Hello I was wondering whether it was possible for me to make an appointment for me and my partner.
BARBARA: Yes, I have just a few questions. Is your partner there with you?
GRAHAM: Yes, you are on the speaker, my name is Graham, his name is Jon.
BARBARA: OK, great. So Graham what would you say is the main problem in your relationship?
GRAHAM: (looks at first card) I think, I think, ultimately, it's my life.
BARBARA: OK, OK, and Jon, how do you feel about this? (next card turned by Graham)
JON: It's difficult this, it seems that he is, reaching, he is sort of livin' on a prayer (audience laughs)
BARBARA: OK, Graham, what do you feel that you have got out of the relationship?
(Jon and audience laugh Graham turns next card) GRAHAM: Well,. I'm finding it difficult, em
JON: say it
GRAHAM: I just find it difficult to mix, it's almost like (mutters a few words) social disease.
BARBARA: OK Jon, how do you feel about it? next card turned by Graham
JON: I just wish he would believe and keep the faith.
BARBARA: So Graham, how does that make you feel? (next card turned)
GRAHAM: Sometimes I look at Jon and I say you give love a bad name. (audience laughs, Graham puts hand to his mouth in quiet shhh). Next card turned.
BARBARA: And Jon, what would you like to say to Graham?
JON: I just love him so much I want to say lay your hands on me and it's hard (audience laughs, Graham and Jon laugh quietly).
BARBARA hangs up the phone.
GRAHAM: She is supposed to help us.
JON: That's the problem, that's the problem.
(Done about 2 years ago)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:16 am
This one pissed me off quite a bit. I don't like the Richie comments.
This is a Bon Jovi Article in an Irish Mag:- Jon Bon Jovi tells Eddie Rowley about his priorities and his love for Ireland.
Headline:- I've no time for a Hollywood Affair, I'm too proud of my family.
He's a good looking multi-millionaire rock star lusted after by besoted women of all ages, yet he remains happily married and a doting dad; he's even realised most men's dream of owning his own football team.
Is Jon Bon Jovi the lckiest man alive? And is his life really as charmed as the perception?
"It's better", Bon Jovi laughs without a hint of smugness when SWM catches up with the super fit rock god, who looks a decade younger than his 44 years. He throws his leg up on a bench in a dressing room back stage before a sellout Bon Jovi show and adds: "I would envy me" This is a man whose group bearing his name has sold a staggering 100 million albums and is still a top live attration selling out venues like Croke Park after more than 20 years in the business, yet Jon Bon Jovi is the most grounded star you'll meet. Sambora leads a cliched rock star existence by ditching his women for younger models - he recently split with Heather Locklear (45) and is now with actor Charlie Sheen's ex Denise Richards (35) - Jon is still married to his childhood sweetheart Doretha.
The rocker with the boyish looks dotes on his four children, Stephanie (13), Jesse James (11) Jake (4) and Romeo Jon (2).
So what is the secret of his happy marriage? "I'm not a big fan of change," Jon reflects. "I like progress, but I don't like change and I just felt I got a good think and I held on tight. I could **** right now", Jon admits, "but it becomes a lot more than that and I've learned that along the way. Somehow I've become a poster boy for happily married rock stars, but Bono is married just as long asI am and his mariage is still going. I became a poster boy, but I'll take that one because I'm proud of my family; so it's a good thing, there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah it plays againts the cliche. If you want that, go see the guitar player (Sambora) who has got this weeks movie star (Richards) here. That's just not what I do"
It's obvious from our conversation that Jon has enormous respect for his wife, Dorothea, whose family originally came from Ireland.
"I started out as a kid singing in the bars and she's been with me since I was in those bars," he points out. "She's been the whole roadshow. She knows what happens out here. She's like 'Live your life but don't be stupid'. "She's not the possessive kind: 'You can't do that.' She's not like that because then you do it. The fact that she's seen the whole thing, neither of us is impressed by the size of venues. It just happens to be what I do for a living and its great, it's wonderful".
Before his recent performance at Croke Park, Jon was in an excited state - not because 80,000 people had snapped up tickets to see the show, it would be the frst time his son Jake would se Dad performing live.
"My two older kids have seen me perform, but this is the first time Jake is old enough to get what I do, Bon Jovi reveals. "I just can't wait to se his face and get his reaction after the show" Despite his star status and icredible wealth, Bon Jovi is striving to give his kids a normal existence.
"I keep them out of the limelight and the paparazzi leave them alone" he says. "If I go to a premiere I expect my picture to be taken. If I'm in a bar and I get sh*tfaced drunk I have no problem having my picture taken.
"The only situation I've drawn a line is when I'm with my children. That's the only thing I ask and, for some reason I get"
A politically aware star, Jon Bon Jovi stuck his neck out when he campaigned against Bush in the U.S. Presidential elections. "I'm ridi****usly on the opposite side of this (Bush) administration in every way, shape and form. I agree with nothing they stand for," he tells me. "I dont ever say anything negative about the man simply out of respect for the office of the President. "Having known the prior President (Clinton) and having know Gore and campaigning as hard as I did for him, I still believe to the core of my being the world would be a different place if Al Gore was President. "That said, am I embarrassed to live in America? No, it's quite an incredible country. It's full of a lot of good people. It's what I know. Who I am. I have been an ambassador for Americn pop culture for 20 years plus.
But I have jokingly said 100,000 times I'd trade all my heritage to be Irish. I love it in Ireland. I love the genuine heart of the people. It's the only place I ever take my kids on tour abroad. I must have been Irish in my last life." "My wife is Irish in descent but I have no Irish blood in me. I want to be adopted. I've got it all fgured out. The name will be Jon Bon O' Jovi."
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 2:27 pm
Quote: "but it becomes a lot more than that and I've learned that along the way. Somehow I've become a poster boy for happily married rock stars, but Bono is married just as long asI am and his mariage is still going. I became a poster boy, but I'll take that one because I'm proud of my family; so it's a good thing, there's nothing wrong with that. Yeah it plays againts the cliche. If you want that, go see the guitar player (Sambora) who has got this weeks movie star (Richards) here. That's just not what I do"
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:24 pm
Me too. If he really did say that, I'm quite upset. You'd think he'd be a little more supportive of his "brother" then to criticize him like that.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:53 pm
Yeah, let's hope he was kidding or mis-quoted...
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:39 pm
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 2:42 pm
Here's a REALLY funny interview with Jon on the Frank Skinner Show. Here's the Jon I know and love. xD
Jonny Boy
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 3:47 pm
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:18 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:22 am
Awesome!
"What are you doing?"
"What does it look like?"
"Uhh, living in the past?"
"It's better then living on a prayer!"
" rolleyes "
|
|
|
|
|
|
Roses and Revolvers Captain
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Beautiful Sin Vice Captain
|
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:17 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
