Next Album

I don't think they'd go with him to promote an album they didn't play on. It just won't be a Bon Jovi tour if it's a Jon released album.

I don't think a Bon Jovi album will happen without Richie, but if by any chance it does happen and Phil has a hand in writing, keep that guy as far away from the lyrics as possible.

I think we'll see a Jon solo album before any reunion though. In fact, if sometime in the next year or so Jon has a change of heart about recording covers, we could get the songs he regularly plays with the KOS recorded and overproduces! Boy it's a very good time to be a fan of these guys!!

Who knows, they might even play on some of the songs and it's not like they've had so much involvement on recent albums anyway.

To play a few new JBJ solo songs mixed with 80% band songs and the right amount of money could make sense to anyone.

This album/tour could be a little outside the box because it's not like JBJ would do a solo album by choice. He's doing it cause he lost his lead guitar player so why not release an album under JBJ but still do a Bon Jovi tour with Phil?

That's basically what WAN was anyway, just being released under Bon Jovi.

The quality of the next release from Jon could go either way. I'm personally very much looking forward to the prospect of a solo album. But it could very easily end up as What About Now 2.0 - a safe, catchy, mediocre album

I hope we don't have a new Bon Jovi record for a couple of years. BWC was rushed beyond belief and the supporting tour was, quite honestly, a sham.

I'm happy for it to take whatever it has to for them to get that spark back; a couple of solo projects, movies, Broadway productions, football teams, whatever.

It's time for them to step back and thing about the legacy of this band. Compared to so many bands of their era Bon Jovi always had something special, some sort of credibility, but they are slowly losing that credibility, heavily based on that last project.

No way there will be another BJ album . Its done, Richie has left the band . Hopefully a good jbj solo record but not with KOS . I cant stand the lame brass and 3 chick backing vocals springsteen style garbage but i think thats all that we will get ...... Thank god Richie is still havin a go .

Aloha !

Meh, I feel the only people saying Bon Jovi have credibility are desillusioned fans who think this hair band is better than anything else from that era, because Bon Jovi "matured" and "evolved". Bon Jovi never had any credibility. Their strength was their hitsingles and live act. Considering how there's no more hitsingles and they've either saturated or outpriced pretty much every market on this planet it's going to take a few years before there's time for a new Bon Jovi album/era. Bon Jovi have turned into a "know when to stop" kind of band, and I think Jon knows it too.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

It's all open to interpretation but disillusioned fan, I am not. Up until crush you always knew that you were going to get quality from Bon Jovi. A quality record with honest promotion and a solid tour to boot. They talked a good game and produced the goods - the sign of a credible act, no?

That credibility has been on a steep decline over the past decade and a half for sure, the odd decent release in between some duffers and their 'believability' as a good honest rock band that have done the right thing by their fans, etc, has been in question since Bounce. After BWC I've no doubt that last bit of credibility is on a knife edge. Calling it a day would be the sensible thing to do in order to maintain some of that legacy, releasing a new album next year would only confirm to me that this band has lost the plot.

I disagree. For me it come down to this: Richie making a return, and the musical direction of the album. NOT when the next project is released. Hell, if Richie and Jon had secretly been working on a killer catchy, hard-rocking masterpiece produced by Bob Rock, and released it tomorrow, I wouldn't give two s**ts about it being too soon.

If 2015 is the year for the reunion and return-to-form record, then so be it!

Ah young, new fans...so hopeful, fresh and...naive