Jon's future...

perfectly-well said!!!

don't forget the shorter tours... and acting (jon at different ends of country etc to richie) means more and more songs have just been placed on the table by jon rather than ones that have been worked on as a "band"

it REALLY is Jon Bon Jovi and his backing band these days... with guest appearance by Richie Sambora

he still could have written and recorded songs in the mean time

But it's hypocritical to say Jon should stop acting and NOT say that Richie and Dave should stop making solo music and Tico should stop painting. Jon always puts out equal numbers of solo albums to Richie, so no one can say he's not producing music. And while it takes Richie so long to do one album, Jon does an album and so much more. Had the record company not been bought out there might have been two JBJ solo albums in the last band break. If you look at the big picture, his acting does not interrupt the flow of music.

Becky

He already had 40 written and doing U-571 meant that Richie got to be involved in the writing process rather than just having a album full of JBJ solo written songs. Remember--Richie and Jon wrote while Jon was in Italy. Had they gone straight into the studio when Richie was ready, it would have been all JON'S solo songs and then fans would bitch about that too.

Becky

i'd be perfectly happy if dave stopped making solo albums - same with richie - i absolutely love his solo albums and want to see another solo tour more than anything, but overall i'd still rather see the band...

tico can stop painting - but you can paint and be a drummer simultaneously you know... just as you can tour and write songs simultanesously... you don;t HAVE to stop a tour to get "inspired", "take a break and then write a solo album"

quality not quantity - DA was a travesty

true - the big picture suggests it's also just the fact that he is the only one having any say in the band and that is what interrupts the flow of music

if jon just said... i don't want to tour anymore but the rest did Bon Jovi would be no more, if Dave or Hugh said they don't want to tour but the rest of the band did they'd replace them

that is the bigger picture

They ALL are in favor of shorter tours. Apparantly the tours of the 80's gave them all post-traumatic stress and NONE of them want to go through that kind of hell again. And I just commented on the songwriting issue. Again, Jon's acting in Ally gave them time to write songs together on Richie's side of the country. Bounce wouldn't have gotten out any sooner had Jon not done Ally. They still had songwriting to do and they did it while he was acting.

Becky

that's virtually happened anyway... richie's writing on last 2 albums has been attrocious also i'm not hiding that

and look what it brought us

So forget their personal artistic satisifaction because it's all about what YOU want?

Sure if you want 15 "on the road again" songs.


That's a matter of opinion. I thought DA was brilliant and US was a bore.


No, the bigger picture is that JON AND RICHIE are the ones in control. I suggest you look more closely. They're the ones who write things and if Richie wants to do a solo album, there's a break. Richie has a lot of sayso in the band, but you people who want to blame Jon for everything don't want to see it because you want to think of Jon as a dictator--until, of course, there's something you like and then you credit it to the other guys.

Becky

I want just MUSIC