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Jovian · 09-23-2002, 09:15 PM

First of all, thank you Cavi for taking the time to respond to this thread. It's always good to hear from the people behind the websites, such as you yourself.

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Originally Posted by cavi

but while we startet our work on the site we contacted the germany online promotors (Kai and Per) if we can get informations from time to time from them, especially tour informations etc.

due to this (and some other reasons) we made a cooperation with the german bon jovi label .... but this doesn't mean we get paid for what we do or that the site is official ......

i don't know how renate at dedicated-to-bonjovi-com or the italian guys and girls handle it but we asked for the tiny cooperation to have someone to contact, before all those touring rumours start and get a right feedback from them .... that's all ...

I understand what you mean...but I'm not sure if I agree with it.

It's always great to have a website where various fans from around the world can post their reviews, pics and concert memories of the shows they've been to. If I wasn't gonna put up a website that basically centers around my own personal Jovi experiences (some day, when I'll finally have time to learn to play around with Dreamweaver, LOL), I wouldn't mind sharing my pics or reviews on your site as well.

It's a great, professional-looking site, and I really hope you'd at least think about making the entire site bilingual with German and English.

The thing I'd like to ask you, though, is that don't you think you're kinda "over-stepping your boundaries" as a fan with the website? I mean, the Oompas and Backstage have stated repeatedly that fans should not contact the record company, the concert promotors or BJM in order to find out or scoop information about new releases or tour dates -- yet that is exactly what you seem to be doing with the website. Don't you think you're "stepping on the band's toes", so to speak? You're saying that you want to get "right feedback" from the record company and concert promotors before rumours about tour dates start spreading around -- isn't that what the Info Headquarters at www.bonjovi.com is all about? They're there to provide information about the band -- the kind of information that can be shared -- and to kill the rumours that spread so very easily in this day and age of the Internet.

If the band doesn't want some particular pieces of information to be shared at some given point in time, it's most certainly not right for the fans to dig that info up on their own from their local record company branches or concert promotors... And it's most certainly not right for those record company branches and concert promotors to share that info with the fans. So as much as I appreciate your efforts to create a complete Bon Jovi Tour Archive, with complete tour dates, set lists, pics and reviews (for as many shows as you can get them), I cannot support your attempts to create a website that could end up releasing pieces of information against the band's wishes.