Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi

A curious guy. It's not about him, but he doesn't need anyone but himself.


The cover looks like an election poster. What if he became president?
JBJ; «I would speak of" we ", a word we are losing from the vocabulary, and not of" me ". America today is all a "me", we are divided and I fear that from here to the elections we will be even more, but there is an opportunity for someone among the Democrats to give life to a platform that unites ».

Are you getting used to working without Sambora, guitarist and his historical partner?
JBJ; «I'm on my third album and about 180 concerts without him. It was not easy. I discovered that I have the strength of two men and the wild nature of ten. I wrote songs on my own even before, what I missed was friendship. It helped me to see here in London a concert organized by Mick Fleetwood to pay homage to Peter Green, the old partner in Fleetwood Mac. With him on stage there were Pete Townshend who saw Moon and Entwistle die, Gilmour who no longer talks to Waters, Steven Tyler who had his ups and downs with Joe Perry: all went from what I experienced and yet I saw them still having fun ».

Did it bother you that you had never been considered cool by music critics?
JBJ; «Today we surpassed it and we are respected, but in the 80s there was a moment in which in the Grammy hard rock category Jethro Tull won and not" Slippery When Wet ", our 20 million copies album ... That's why with "New Jersey" I wanted to demonstrate what we were capable of doing. Now I feel I don't have to prove anything anymore. In the past few months I have invited Springsteen and McCartney to my studio to make them feel "Lower the Flag", like that, voice and guitar. I speak of music face to face with my myths: we did it ».


Hey Jon, if you're reading this: No guitar solos, no party. Call Sambora, because without Richie this is not much fun.