Bon Jovi documentary

Bon Jovi has commissioned Academy Award-winning director Barbara Kopple to make a documentary about the band, which she's started working on as the New Jersey rockers prepare for a U.S. tour to promote their latest album, "Lost Highway."

"We just realized that (over) all the years, we really didn't document enough stuff," guitarist Ritchie Sambora explained today (Feb. 13) in a conference call with reporters. "Musically we documented things pretty well; we put out a box set (2004's "100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong") a few years ago, but we look at other bands, contemporaries like U2, even Tom Petty and Aerosmith, and they had cameras rolling all the time. We didn't have a lot of footage like that going on."

Sambora says Bon Jovi has charged Kopple -- whose work includes the Oscar-winning "Harlan County, USA" and the Dixie Chicks' "Shut Up & Sing" -- to "capture the story about our success and the anomaly of our success, and then some of the trials and tribulations and stories and back stories."

The documentary will include both new and some archival material, including interviews and performance footage, but there's no title or tentative release date yet. "We're conceptualizing it at this point," Sambora said. "It's a work in progress ... I don't think it's gonna rear it's head for awhile."

source:billboard.com

Thanks for posting. Sounds good!

Wouldn't it be perferct if they made a documentary from their biggest ever tours... Slippery or The Jersey Syndicate tour ??? Accompanied with some live footage from that era ??? Or even better some whole live perfomances from 1986-1989 era ?

let's hope that sometime....

yes i might say have seen it some thousand times....

the thing is I was thinking a documentary with some live footage from that era.
I would welcome any documentary from Bon Jovi, even from the Lost Highway tour. The thing is that i prefer older stuff.

Even the boxset was very 90's orientated.

Aloha !

And that was because the best demo's from the eighties are already out there.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Don't think that is the reason.

Edge of the broken heart was in the boxset and it's been so many times out there, with most recent i believe in the single of " Always "

Bon Jovi could have easily put in the box set some New Jersey or Slippery demos that haven't been out there for a long long time.
Borderline, I'd die for you (alt version), Rosie, Love is War, Lonely is the Night are some that come into my mind very quick. Or if you want to make it real special why not some 80's recorded covers they 've been playing ??? like Boys are Back In Town, or Seven days, or Drift Away.

It is clear i believe that they wanted to make a 90's sounding Boxset. And don't get me wrong, I liked the box set.

This not a re-post?

http://drycounty.com/jovitalk/showthread.php?t=44182

14 February 2008
Bon Jovi: The film

Bon Jovi have announced plans for a band documentary, appointing an acclaimed director to helm the project.

Barbara Kopple will put together the movie, as the veteran rockers prepare to embark on their upcoming world tour.

The Oscar-winning film-maker is expected to cut old and new footage together for the currently untitled documentary, which was revealed this week by the band.

Guitarist Richie Sambora said Bon Jovi were eager to be seen in the same widescreen light as some of their rock'n'roll peers.

"We just realized that (over) all the years, we really didn't document enough stuff", Sambora told Billboard of the plan.

"We put out a box set a few years ago, but we look at other bands, contemporaries like U2, even Tom Petty and Aerosmith, and they had cameras rolling all the time.

"We didn't have a lot of footage like that going on", said the star, who admitted the project was "a work in progress", with no official release date.

Source: Yahoo! Music News



EDIT: Damn.....can someone merge this with the other thread please?

Aloha !

But they didn't because all those tracks are already out there, unlike most of the demo's recorded in the nineties. The box set was supposed to have songs on it no one had ever heard, and they succeeded into that with only 12 songs on it that we had heard before. Edge Of A Broken Heart was on the boxset because whenever they asked which previously released song should be on the boxset, that one was mentioned.

No covers are included. It was supposed to be a Bon Jovi boxset. Songs recorded by Bon Jovi that nobody had ever heard before.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan