![]() Whatever successes or short comings I had were of my own making, but it was real. I was a self made true rocker from the streets to the stage to the studio to the stores, with no help from daddy's friends & relatives and we rocked without the posing. We were in no way similar to each other and strongly resented any comparison.I wasn't pop singer, I was a rock singer and I wasn't a self righteous frosted hair perm boy with relatives who paved my way so I could steal songs from real artists and get rich off of ripping them off. I hated when people would note the resemblance between Jon Bon Jovi and me at the time and I didn't want to give the world any other reasons to compare me to the Golden Boy Johnny. My manager at the time wanted to sue his ass but we were doing well and were very busy with all the Atlantic developments going on that I didn't want to cause problems for our momentum that we had going at the time. A short time later we heard the chorus for our song "I'll be theeerrre for youuuu" as JBJs next big hit. ![]() I somehow felt like I was going to regret that, but we agreed to take a chance and trust him, so we gave Jon Bon Jovi the cassette that night and we never heard back from him. Johnny gave us this line of BS that if we gave him this tape he would take it to his uncle at Polydor Records and try to get us out on tour with him. So while our tape was playing, we sat at the table in the back with Sam, Jon Bon Jovi, Peter Aykroyd (Dan's brother) and Doc McGee, etc. I ran into Sam Kinison who asked me to come back to his table and hang out. The place was definitely digging the songs that night. We'd always pop on the song and listen for the sounds then we would watch to see if people were digging the songs. When we got there we gave the tape to Michael to put on the Bar's sound system, it was the classic "Is It Worthy" test for demos and mixes that a lot of bands used to gage their nights work. We left Paramount Studios in Hollywood with a cassette tape of rough mixes and headed straight for The Rainbow Bar & Grill on Sunset. We had just finished tracking a studio session that included our original song "I'll Be There For You". "It was back in the 1980's when Denny Holan and I were recording our pre-production demos for Atlantic Records with Merri Hoaxx. Joel's email can be read in its entirety below: On March 12, 2013, Bon Jovi released their 12th studio album, What About Now.ANOTHER MUSICIAN ACCUSES BON JOVI OF PLAGIARISM:Īfter posting a report by Chris Faraone of Boston Magazine in which Bart Steele accused Bon Jovi of ripping off one of his songs, Sleaze Roxx received an email from former Cats In Boots and Heavy Bones vocalist Joel Ellis claiming that a similar thing happened to him. Bon Jovi have been known to use different styles in their music, which has included country for their 2007 album Lost Highway. Their 2000 single "It's My Life", which followed a second hiatus, successfully introduced the band to a younger audience. In 1992, the band returned with the album Keep the Faith. After touring and recording non-stop during the late 1980s, the band went on hiatus following the New Jersey Tour in 1990, during which time Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora both released successful solo albums. The band's fourth album, New Jersey was equally successful in 1988. In 1986, Bon Jovi achieved widespread global recognition with their third album, Slippery When Wet. Phil X and McDonald both become official members in 2016. The band's lineup has remained mostly static during its history, with the only exceptions being the 1994 dismissal of bass player Alec John Such, who was unofficially replaced by Hugh McDonald, and the departure of longtime guitarist and co-songwriter Richie Sambora in 2013. Formed in 1983, Bon Jovi consists of lead singer and namesake Jon Bon Jovi (born John Francis Bongiovi, Jr.), pianist and keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, lead guitarist Phil X, and bassist Hugh McDonald. Bon Jovi is an American rock band from Sayreville, New Jersey.
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