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Originally Posted by JackieBlue
...My be quiet now.
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Ok, I lied.
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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
He carefully built this brand on loyalty and togetherness and then started to drift away from that mentality. Yes, the success is because of the band, the band's input mattered less and less as time went on (at least I'd like to think that's the case).
Regardless of how or why he got there he's created an audience that I don't think would be too fussed with whether it's called Bon Jovi or Jon Bon Jovi. He wouldn't dream of calling it that when Richie was there but with no RS it's more realistic of an option. The line between solo songs and band songs blurred as soon as his Sex Sells demos were Crush b-sides. That changed EVERYTHING to me. One could argue releasing Drive as a D.A. b-side started it too.
People are still coming even though Richie is gone. If they're able to pull off tours without someone who was integral to the sound with his playing and signing and it doesn't crash the tour, it's not about the band experience anymore to such a large percentage of the people going.
I'm naive enough to think they were a band until 2000 but for all I know it could have been just as bad behind the scenes prior. According to Bob Rock it almost was.
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Well, yeah, according to Bob Rock, it seems like it was at least
headed in that direction as far back as KTF.
You may be right and the atttendance might be similar if he promoted it as JBJ; but I doubt it. If that's the case, there are a couple of points you make that I still don't understand. In your previous post you said if it isn't promoted as "playing songs from his new solo album"... If it's all the same to most fans, why that would that be an issue? Wouldn't they likely be just as excited about a tour supporting a new solo album by Jon Bon Jovi as they would about a new album from the band?
Also, I'm not sure why you think calling it Jon Bon Jovi would be more of an option now than it was when Richie was still in the band. If it's been about Jon since 2000, why would that make a difference?