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Old 05-23-2018, 12:22 PM
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DA was a great era, a different sound but MTV, TV and radio were still hugely into BJ after These Days so it was huge. JBJ weekend on MTV a highlight, how I'd love that these days. Well any music on MTV/VH1 obvs.

It took a while to not slip into singing the sha-la-las from Monaco's "What do you want from me" that was out at the same time as Midnight In Chelsea. It's a shame that Jon never went back a did something different in this vein again, working with Dave Stewart, Steve Lironi etc.. in some ways BJ like but in other ways a completely fresh take.

It's really annoying that Jon never properly toured his solo stuff after that. The forum show in 97 was the day before my GCSE English exam so I couldn't go, haven't to spend the night cribbing up my Lord Of The Flies book instead. A theatre tour with songs from Blaze/DA/Covers & BJ would have been great in the same way that Richie's solo tours in 98 and 2012 were.
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