Here's the interview (courtesy of Google translate):
Bon Jovi have confirmed shows in Rock in Rio and Sao Paulo in September, but no one knows if the guitarist and faithful companion of Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, away for "personal problems", will also come. Prior to removal, he assured PLAYBOY had never felt so close to Jon ...
Jardel Sebba 16/05/2013 16h41
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Think of great partnerships in the world of rock'n'roll and try to ignore Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. Will be impossible. Alongside Jagger and Richards, Lennon and McCartney and Tyler Perry and always, of course, mutatis mutandis, Jon and Richie have created a signature in the world of hard rock. Guitarist inspired, creative, and virtuoso key part of the personality of the band baptized with the surname of his singer, Sambora is, like him or not, one of the great musicians of his generation. Three solo albums, released in 1991, 1998 and last year, give a clearer picture of its contribution to the band's music and its conception as a composer. During the release of the latest Aftermath of the Lowdown, and before the release of What About Now, thirteenth studio album from Bon Jovi, and the subsequent tour Because We Can, passing through Brazil in September, I spoke with Richie. He told about the motivations that led to another solo album, born to exorcise demons related to their addiction to drugs and alcohol. Supposedly the same demons were also responsible for the unprecedented removal of Richie's band's tour, announced last month and officially credited to "personal problems". The guitarist is out of shows in Europe, replaced by Canadian studio musician Phil X, and it is unclear whether he will be back on stage at concerts in Brazil. Before the turmoil, however, Richie spoke of women, life on the road and made sure that he had never felt so close to Jon. Check out.
Aftermath of the Lowdown, released late last year, is his third solo album. What motivates you to release a solo album, take time to do this, have a bunch of new songs or have the desire to do something different than Bon Jovi?
I think it's a bit of each one of these things. Happened to me over the years, have gone through all the good things we have achieved with Bon Jovi and at the same time, have had ups and downs in my life. I think, beyond all this, what motivates me is being able to have an individual artistic expression, have songs that are just mine, you know?
Many people say that a solo often born of songs that just do not fit in the main band. Something similar happened to you?
No, because I had these songs, they came after my last work concludes with the band. These songs tell stories of my life, but somehow, when I write about my experiences, my feelings, I always had the chance to connect with people from these stories. We generally more in common with each other as human beings than we imagine. When you write about your life experiences, you're at the bottom talking about the experiences of everyone.
You get comfortable being the leader, singer and main attraction on stage after so many years sharing the spotlight with Jon?
Is there any special preparation for this? Yes, I do my best to take care, take better care of my voice. Hired a new vocal coach, who taught me to keep my voice intact. I spent some time on the road in Europe doing my solo tour and had four shows in the first four nights, and it still amounted to travel, the comings and goings of Los Angeles, the jet lag and all that stuff, then you need to prepare to be fit. But I feel very comfortable with the role of lead singer, played this role in most of the bands I was in before Bon Jovi. I like being the leader. Even miss it when I'm with the band.
Bon Jovi began this year touring Because We Can. You want to find dates to their solo shows between the dates of the band?
I hope so! It is what we are trying to achieve now, even if it is just me playing with the guitar, or just two guys playing in small places, doing intimate sets. But the band should let me play one or two songs from my hard every night to promote it - Bon Jovi can almost be a platform for the release of my album. I want to play one or two songs a night of it, let's see if the band let me do it.
Bon Jovi was one of the few hard rock bands that managed to survive the grunge era in the early 1990s, and today launched a very hard celebrated in 1992, Keep the Faith. His memory is of a time that was really difficult for you or not that bad?
We feel a difficulty at this time, yes, but we always knew that we needed to be ourselves, you know? Needed to change artistically to continue. And Keep the Faith was a great evolution for us, we started talking about politics, family. Were older at the time we were in our thirty years - in our twenties, we were basically animals of rock'n'roll. When we get a little older, we started talking about different things in the lyrics and their meaning. But honestly, your bid grunge was only really felt in the United States, not anywhere else. And we become, at that time a major band in all other parts of the world, and Keep the Fait h became at that time the biggest tour of our history, and the album sold 10 million copies. Soon, it was a great time. But I think the band that did not make the changes we made and not evolved and not kept true to who they were as musicians, they went out of circulation at that time, as happened with many.
His partnership as musician and composer with Jon Bon Jovi is one of the most enduring and successful rock. Can see one main reason for this success?
It's a great question. I think there are a lot of reasons for this, though I do not actually know the exact answer. Jon and I grew close to many of the other, although I am a little older than him, and come from the same middle-class, hard-working, our families have the same origin. So we always had a lot in common. We grew up together in the show, and you do not **** with each other in such a situation. And all this has much to do with the band, of course. When you continue to fill stadiums around the world for all these years, there is a magnetism which you can not resist.
Biographers of famous musicians often indicate that two guys who live all that is right on the road for many years can hardly keep real friends. Do you agree?
No, because, on many levels, Jon and I are much closer now than we were when we had twenty or thirty years [Richie is 53 and Jon, 51]. What happens is that friends come and go, but family is forever, and when you have a brother, he's your brother forever. And this band became a family, we go through births, deaths, divorces, marriages, always together. I think there is no end to this band.
You came to Brazil with the band several times since 1992. Have any particular memories of seasons here?
Audiences are always extremely passionate and enthusiastic public always impressed me. It is as if we were at a football game, I love this weather, this energy.
And the Brazilian woman, you have the chance to meet?
Yes, I had that chance, and it was great. It was very good ...
In the last twenty five years have you lived all that a guy who plays guitar always dreamed succeed, recognition, money, played to packed arenas with a lot of women harassing you. After so many years living it gives, from time to time, miss something of his life before the fame, the common man?
Not much (laughs). I've lived it, had fun, did not change anything in the past but I like where I am today, and especially like to be an older man. I think men are more comfortable as they become older. They are more comfortable with themselves. When you're young, you spend time hunting almost to himself. Older, it becomes even more you than ever before. I'm fine where I am today.
Jon is the singer, the band's name, the icon. But, somewhere in the world, fans Sambora are more numerous than the fans of Jon
I think you always been a balance of women in devotion to me and Jon. I had fantastic women, I was married to a sensational girls. I've always been very happy with women. Jon is the same woman since he was 17 years old, so I was the guy who took all the other ... (laughs)
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