Sambora: No freedom in Bon Jovi

This crap has much more passion and illusion that all WAN album and subsequent tour. It is easy, Jon takes pounding Richie for several years, and Richie said enough, I need a break. When Jon stop treating they band musicians as expendables, then we have something to believe.

I think that they are fair comments by Richie and something that we have all been saying for many years now. This has probably been a big eye opener for him and it is allowing him to write how he wants and I guess play how he wants. The only problem is that AOTL didn't have the epic solos we all used to know and love apart from one or two songs. Maybe with Orianthi it will be different.

I do not want to burden this item again.

Big Riff and good solos: Burn The Candle Down, Learning How To Fly With A Broken Wing, Seven Years Gone, Backseat Driver.

These songs have more guitars than the last albums Jovi. It's pretty much what I look for in an album of this band, in fact AOTL is more like an album of Bon Jovi that WAN has done for me.

Again, the album is not perfect, but a good effort.

You don't need to burden anything. I love AOTL. What I'm saying is that it wasn't what we expected. That's not to say it isn't good.

Ok, but it is easy to expect something different when you have spent 14 years and 5 albums of Bon Jovi. What I mean is that AOTL is a touchdown, it was not what I expected from Richie at first, but I'm glad he made ​​the effort, believe me, has not been in vain. But I can not say the same about WAN, is a completely forgettable for me. Of course it's just my opinion. If AOTL had the voice of Jon, it would have been even more awesome for me.

What I get most from that interview is how Richie really does believe in his own hype. Man, he was one of the greatest guitar players in the world, and his history and recorded songs will always keep his name amongst the top, but does he really think that the "extended jamming" on Aftermath is artistic?? Does he really believe that people are going "Whoa that extended jamming at the end of those songs all sound basically the same in a different key, that's what music has been missing all these years yeah! Rock on Richie!" It seems lazy, it sounds lazy, and even though there are a few licks that kick ass in between those solos, it's nothing we haven't heard before countless of times, so he's really not doing anything different with that "opportunity"....

Aloha !

I think Richie's way too illiterate to even know what artistic means.

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Sebastiaan

Not everything has to be artistic, but at least it's more fun that What About Now, where the absence of art and guitar solo, shine for absent. In AOTL, you have at least 4 major artistic songs, 4 fun songs of rock n roll and 4 other filler songs that are at least pleasant. This is not perfect, nor the most artistic album in history, but it is more acceptable that WAN.

However it is not enough for you, because that old drunk can do better.

Aaaannd here ya go again defending blindly without even reading through what you're criticizing. Richie is mentioning those specific moments on the album as artistic and as letting loose and doing something he hasn't been able to do for years. Yet, what I criticize is that he HAS been doing that same thing for years, and there's nothing new there. Now go ahead, try to make a point without mentioning WAN and evil devil dictator Jon Bon Jovi, which I never mentioned and have no idea why you even brought up. I get that English may not be your first language, it's not mine either, but try not to sound like a 5 year old when debating a topic....

Sorry, but no. Not only the production is awful but the songs aren't that good. The only one that I like a lot is Seven Years Gone but one song doesn't make a good record. And Every Road Leads Home To You is supposed to be the pop-single song in the record an I think that every album from 2000 to 2010 had a better lead single.

Richie thinks he's a super rock and roll star, that he's bigger than the band and better lead singer than Jon. The truth is he's not. He's not rocking at all, the sales of his albums are almost nule, if he gets in the news is because of the band and his voice wouldn't be able to live for one Bon Jovi tour, playing 21 songs minimum per night and over 150 shows. His voice from the Aftermath of the Lowdown tour to now started to go down, and I'm not talking even about his 90's voice (that was great). He's just an old man with a midlife crisis.

In my opinion, Richie can go **** himself. The fact that he speaks about Bon Jovi on every single interview he gives shows you what a little sad man he is. I used to have a lot of respect for the man, but I lost it. I'll keep the good memories like the 2010 Argentina gig (though he seemed to be high or something and not even enjoying).