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Originally Posted by bonjovi90
I'm always amused when people talk about Jon going back to his roots and then cite album like SWW, NJ or KTF. Those albums were the path that lead them to glory, but Jon never had been a hard rocker to begin with. His roots are down the Jersey shore, bar band stuff like Springsteen or Southside Johnny. Listen to the Powerstation recordings or at what material he selected for the KOS shows in the past and you get an idea of the kind of music he wants to play.
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Yeah, this too!
He's also talked about how when the band first started touring he was kinda "thrown off" (not sure what his actual words here were, but it was something along those lines) by the fact that they got booked to support bands like KISS and Ratt, because he had rather envisioned them opening for artists like Rick Springfield or Bryan Adams. The band kinda got swept into that 80s hard rock/"glam metal" scene because they had the looks and enough edge for it, but it was clearly never Jon's goal to be the hard rock guy.