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Originally Posted by Faceman
Generally speaking: Yes!
But for nowadays' Bon Jovi? I don't know...
The last decade touring was the only possibility for them to earn money, their album sales didn't bring much / if even any profit. And the record companies know that, too, otherwise there wouldn't have been that kind of trouble when his last contract expired in 2015.
So even if he has a "licensed" contract now, I don't know if a record company is still willing to release Bon Jovi albums if they don't have the chance to make some serious bucks by getting a cut of their tour profits.
And besides that I highly doubt that Jon is that much of an artists who enjoys releasing unsuccessful albums without getting any money from it.
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This x10000000
The albums are made to promote the tour. If he had the desire to make an introspective, inward album then for sure. But the paint by numbers, live your love shlock is designed to be universal to sell the tour. There's no ROI if there's no tour and if there's no tour who is it all for?
Metallica and U2 didn't completely burn out their audience, still have the spectacle to their show and the voices to back it up and sell, it's not a fair argument.
That being said I think Jon will still make music but hitting 50 years of touring with the band, apart from a one off show when we get there, I can't see it. They're touring so seldom these days and it's rough. Going any less is throwing money away.