There's a lenghty interview on an Spanish magazine, nothing new but a couple interesting things that I don't remembered mentioned in other THINFS interviews. It's not online so I don't know if I'll have the time to translate and it's really nothing groundbreaking. Here are a couple highlights (keep in mind that it's translated from the original interview in English to Spanish by the magazine and back to English by me pretty loosely and I'm quite rusty at translating so don't consider this gospel).
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Interviewer: There's a song about the music industry. And it's not an optimistic view...
Jon: No. I don't think there's grounds for optimism. We hit a rough patch with the record company; they didn't promote our records, no videos, no pictures, nothing. They almost threw the album in a bag and said "screw you"
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Smart move Jon getting back at them by delivering BB in a brown paper bag hehe. Was this already discussed? I know it's been speculated but I don't remember Jon actually saying it.
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Interviewer: You've been accused of leading your band in almost dictatorial way
Jon: I love team effort but I'm the leader. Always have, always been. I don't mind making mistakes but it's my vision, I don't think I could have done it any other way
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Actually, the dictatorial part is my interpretation because that's what they discussed in the WWWB documentary, but the question is basically the same.
BTW, he acknlowledges a couple of times that whatever he went through in the past three years,
it's not that bad. There are worse things in life, way worse. I'm pointing this because I've read many people (not here) basically go "cry me a river" and negate his *right* to hit rock bottom because he's so privileged.
Oh and Jon doesn't say anything about Richie, only that Living With The Ghost is obviously about him (the obviously is his, not mine), but the texts in the magazine refer to Richie's alcoholism and almost link it to his leaving the band: "One day Richie Sambora, famous for both his solos and his alcoholism, left on a concert day and never returned". There are no more references or questions about Richie