Bon Jovi, This House Is Not For Sale, 2016
There was an image that Jon Bon Jovi has been pursuing for a long time. It just went to him not from the head. It was a black and white photo of Jerry Uelsmann: The artist had combined a picture of an old stone house with strong roots, apparently let it take root. For Jon now told "this exact picture of our history - and now it has become our album cover," he says today.
In fact, he had this in mind as he gave the title song the 14th century. Studio album by Bon Jovi wrote: The album is called "This House Is Not For Sale", and it marks a homecoming - and a return to that label, in which he once signed his first (and only!) Recording contract. Produced by Jon Shanks and Jon Bon Jovi, much of the new longplayer in New York City were taken, in that studio, the Avatar (formerly Power Station), where the band had in 1983 received her very first album. Other recordings took place in the Electric Lady Studios.
"Because of all the things we have gone through in recent years, we are as a band today even sworn than before," says the singer, "and fortunately everything has indeed finally worked with the label. Now we have a fantastic album that says something and at the same time prove nothing must. " The title track "This House Is Not For Sale" occurs in a way the door when the text states: "These four walls have got a story to tell, the door is off the hinges, there's no wish in the well." The four walls, at issue here are for the band members, and Jon refers to his legacy: "I set each stone, I hammered each nail," reads the text continues. "Yes, the title song is about honesty, integrity I process because all kinds of things that I have experienced in the last three years, and as the text says:. This heart, this soul, this house just is not for sale! "
With this message the curtain goes up for the latest work of a band that for over three decades with unparalleled success are not always quiet surfs the music industry has to go through. Worldwide these gentlemen have sold over 130 million albums. They always have catapulted decades new hymns in the charts on the radio playlists. And worldwide tours completed, which should always bring them new audience and sales records. Unique achievements, besides the foundation of "This House Is Not For Sale" was the exact opposite: it originated from and in a period of change, the uncertainty. The twelve tracks of the LP record three turbulent years in which Jon had to decide on a new direction. For Bon Jovi's, however, has always been only one answer to such situations: the gas. And true.
That was after the massive chart success of " Slippery When Wet " and " New Jersey happens" when the band was then in a blind alley. Jon had a (supposed) "time-out" taken - and answered in exactly this time with "Blaze of Glory" back, for which he should win a Golden Globe and moreover conceded an Oscar nomination in 1992 the band crisis was thus over.: "Keep The Faith" was released and they were on top again. A decade later, at the beginning of the new millennium, it was "Crush" (2000) - and the Grammy-nominated hit "It's My Life" they laid back as a hymn to ...
"This House Is Not For Sale" kicks in exactly this hack: Bon Jovi sounded never been greater, but never self-critical. Although the series of sold-out tours, albums and radio hits until last ever continued after the last stadium shows in 2013 the band was no longer the same: The chemistry, the cast had changed, the label situation was in limbo , By January 2015, it is now really took time off, only wrote no new songs. why the new songs really like - but when he reciting then, the emotions that had been building up in this difficult period, in sincere, compelling songs that Jon his anger, his sorrow, eventually even could bring his acceptance expresses transformed a kind of rebirth sound.
On a clear message of the title track follows the track "Living With The Ghost", in which Jon Bon Jovi addressed the issue of loss: A man tries to wash his feet in the holy water of the church, then makes but continued - "then he worked up to his knees from his arms to his neck and said I'm in over my head. Hey what crying trying to get some relief, I'm just trying to get some relief. I had this dream. that one was me. " A touching dream, a cry for help, and Jon admits, "People hardly know me as Storyteller yes this vulnerable side Finally, we often sang hymns about a dignified life, through integration into society.."
A more familiar theme that this time plays a role, is the struggle: "Knockout" is a head-high breast Raus anthem, as they are known by Bon Jovi. Let's go with the back against the wall - "every day I wake up with my back against the wall", only to end with the knockout, so that the lights of the other person out, "here comes the knock out, my time is right now, turning your lights out, I'm throwing down. " "The song is about the struggle for their own hope," said Jon. "It's about that spirit, we all feel -. In very different situations"
The song "Labor of Love" then actually feels as if you together with the band in the studio: recorded live, the guitar track and Jons voice feel here much deeper, really incredibly close and intimate. And of course, you go here to love: The rock star who is known to his relationship to last, alludes to exactly this gang, who do not want to tear even decades.
Would you do it all over again the same way, or at least change something - "relive every moment" vs. "tear out any page" - that is the subject of "Born Again Tomorrow", a song with which Jon "decisions, the answers that you yourself have found dedicated,". Following impressive lines like "? Bones grow stronger Where They break, who says scars do not fade", his own answer could clearly not be: "I would not have it any other way." He wants to miss a single moment. Even the "Rollercoaster" is a metaphor for his own life, the love, the low blows on the way: Life is not a children's carousel, but rather a roller coaster - only one may precisely because the eyes do not close: "time flies by .. . do not close your eyes. "
The theme of time and the same Carpe-Diem message plays well with "New Year's Day" a role: "Let's toast to new beginnings, raise up a glass and say, 'for all of our tomorrows, and what was yesterday'." At the same time an ode to the cohesion of the band, this track was initially in a 6/8-time, so to speak as planned waltz. In the studio, there was then quite different after Tico the beat had been counted and the band then began at once: "It was just fantastic, the band so to see together," Jon remembers. "This is such a piece, that's just arisen at the moment -. And the whole band was involved"
The changes in the music industry finally addressed openly and bluntly with "The Devils In The Temple": "There are thieves at the altar, a snake wears the crown, handing you coal, swearing it's gold Look what they've done to. this house of love. It's too late to turn the river to blood, the savior's come and gone, we're out of time, the devil's in the temple, he is not no friend of mine. " "Yes, because when I'm talking about a former church, then I mean the label," says Jon. "I ended up getting only had one dream:. To write songs and to present them in this church, it was not easy to put away the changes in the industry, which have led to that we our relationship with this former hometown after 33 years had to change. Fortunately, we have now brought this chapter behind us. "
As a songwriter, who has spent a third of a century on tour, Jon joins "Scars On This Guitar" to the microphone: "Another Friday night I'm somewhere, a little drunk and worn out from the show," he begins the text on the Tour existence , "It's a hallway to a hotel room, the truck's already rolling down the road", and then she comes, his guitar: "she's been with me late at night when i was drowning in the dark, she heard my every word When I Was . pouring out my heart So I thank my lucky stars for every crack, scratch and scar on this guitar ... "If there is one thing that really stood the test of time, then it is: His scarred guitar.
Other scars and cracks are the subject of "God Bless This Mess", which begins as Jon acapella -Stück: "I got some blood under my nails, I got some mud on my face," he sings, and together with the band goes its report even further - the voice is gone, the hair turns gray, the muscles hurt. And while many simply hope to survive a storm, others just go in such situations: This is the mess that Bon Jovi celebrate here because they are not alone, they can rely on each other. To the spirit of discovery turns the track "Reunion" when Jon even linked to his speech, which he delivered before graduates, when he took his doctorate at Rutgers University in reception: At the time, he gave the audience the advice, their lives dear "in pencil "to design, so provisionally, because there are still other variants:" this is not how the story ends, my friend, it's just a fork along the road.
"Come On Up To Our House" is the final track of the album, and also Jon obviously knew exactly when the new album was finished: "I just knew that nothing is missing, as the songs with an I, a ' I 'begin, finally with a we, a' We 'ended. " The text line "All Are Welcome at Our Table" originates even from one of the Soul Kitchen restaurants that operates its own foundation: "Inclusion is me just incredibly important," says the head of the band. Ever have inclusion, community spirit and involvement a key element of this success story, which now lasts for over three decades and now connects generations. "This House Is Not For Sale" is the latest chapter of this story, which is now going to entirely new roots in the next round ...
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08-23-2016, 04:57 PM
