brywool wrote:"Capt. Crash"- God, what a crappy lyric that has. That song is embarrassing.
Disagree, ya the lyrics may be a little hokie, but overall a great upbeat song especially live.
brywool wrote:Saw Bon Jovi on the Bounce tour and while the show was good, I find him hard to watch. He's a rock star caricature. It's like watching Keith Partridge in front of a rock band. He's so VERY corny with his stage banter and his moves. There's no ROCK in Jon, it's just kind of posed. Richie on the other hand is one of my favorite guitarists. VERY bluesy feel. His first solo album is excellent. Pick it up.
Agree and disagree here. Lots of ROCK left in Jon, witnessed it a couple days ago. But I have to somewhat agree with you on the moves. Comparing his moves to JSS's now they actually do look a little corny, but I just don't think he's got that natural groove like JSS and Jon tries a little too hard to look fluidly sexy in his moves. But hey, I ain't complaining.
brywool wrote:Rather than Jon trying to kind of 'go country' or 'go mellower'- why the F doesn't he go more ROCK? The rock tunes on Bounce and Have a Nice Day were great as are most of their rock tracks. Where BJ always stumbles (ALWAYS) is when he tries to be too middle of the road, or too ballady. Songs like "You had me at Hello" and "Joey Keys" are the STUPIDEST songs for these guys. Very cliche lyrics (not to mention ripped off from, of all things, Tom Cruise) and nothing great musically. Put those up against Undivided/Let it Rock/Tokyo Road/Hey God and those songs come off as songs that might've been written for the Archies. Terrible.
Some of their ballads ARE great- "Bed of Roses", "I'll Be There For You" are amazingly good tracks, but the newer MOR stuff is total crap. WHO is telling the band these are good tracks for them? They used to do the Pizza Party deal where they'd take their new tracks and play them for their fans before releasing them and the fans would say "This is good" or "This is bad". They need to do that again to regain their credibility.
Seriously- Jon, pull your head out and make your band the GREAT rock band that it used to be or could be again. Get Richie sober, let Tico bash, quit with the male modelnosejobsbotox stuff and just be a great ROCK band. I don't wanna hear you do anything like "This Left Feels Right" EVER again.
Agree, for the most part. But have to say some of those new more country(ish) songs came across great LIVE.
brywool wrote:That underwear photo-- gawd. See you in 16 Magazine Jon! It's not the body that makes me cringe, it's the calven klien 'male modelly-ness' of the shot that makes the guys squirm. It looks like something out of an International Male Manties catalog. Just too gay. Props to the guy for staying in shape, but jeez, pick a photographer that doesn't make you look like a candidate for Broke Back Mountain II.
Cut the guy some slack, he's supposed to be posed. It was a modelling gig for Versace.
Jon doesn't go for the real high vocals of years ago. Example was Runaway, which was fabulous..........but instead of the high vocals at the end, it turned into a guitar duet with Jon and Richie. It was Richie's birthday so everybody (15 to 20 thousand) sang Happy Birthday too him. After reading about it they mentioned coming a day or so earlier to check out the Calgary Stampede! They played about 5 or 6 new songs off of Lost Highway and IMO they come across much better LIVE than on the cd. 'We got it going on' didn't do much for me on first listen on the cd, but was definately a great rocker LIVE. 2 favorites of mine were Runaway and Saturday Night, haven't lost a thing! Even the little Alberta band Tupelo Honey that opened for them was a nice melodic rock treat. 
chicks dig that!
I have more where that came from, lots.......more.
