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Originally Posted by semigoodlooking
I don't think he would do similar results if he toured under Jon Bon Jovi. The nuance is important. However, he would if he toured as Bon Jovi and the band was completely different. My wife actively likes Bon Jovi, has bought their music and seen them live. She does not know the name of "the keyboard" player, for example.
People who think he needs Tico and David - at least from least from a business perspective - are mistaken.
Jackie asked why Jon doesn't sell out areans under JBJ and the Kings of Suburbia. Aside from the reason above, he has never tried to do it.
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Good point. I don't know the demand and ticket sales when he does that lineup but because they're smaller venues I have to....imagine they do well? Seems for the most part to be corporate gigs and charity functions. If he tried to sell an arena tour under JBJ and the Kings of Suburbia he'd fall flat on his face. If he did it as Jon Bon Jovi, I think he'd pull in very similar numbers in America. We're all just hypothesizing here but if it's not billed as "playing songs from his new solo album" and you see a poster that says Jon Bon Jovi with his picture, that's most of the way there for a person who knows only the hit songs and remembers a few others from radio and MTV etc.