Originally Posted by TheseDaysEra (Post 1239600)

so I've watched BOR and KTF. Seriously guys, I don't mean to be a prick... but where do you see/hear the improvements ? Aren't a lot of you simply suffering from nostalgia and wishful thinking ? I'm not blasting Jon in any way, the man's voice is shot and that's that. Kudos to him for trying to to carry on but in all honesty, I'd much rather have them STOP after this US leg. Even if they don't announce, officially, that they're splitting up, in reality that's what they should do, at least live.

Let them record their mediocre albums, nobody's obliged to buy them or listen to them. We all have streaming services nowadays, you listen to it once, dislike it, don't buy it. I haven't bought a BJ album since Bounce (which I don't like) and there hasn't been one that made me change my mind - not saying that there aren't good individual songs on the following albums. I simply chose not to buy what I don't dig. I still went to see them live in 2008 and 2011 and I wish they'd stop after Lisbon and, perhaps, come back in 2016/17. Maybe none of the Richie bullshit would have happened, may it would, who knows.

This band deserves the HOF induction, it deserves recognition and praise from non-fans to hardcore fans. But it's clearly a time to let it rest and gracefully let it die. Anything but THIS. Just my 2 cents.

Originally Posted by steel_horse75 (Post 1239633)

Where I am as well.

I dont even bother watching the YouTube videos anymore.

Im not really interested in the sets.

The Bon Jovi I love is finished.

It makes me cherrish those first 6 albums even more and I damn proud to say Im a Bon Jovi fan when I think of those records.

You dont know what youve got until its gone!