Keep in mind it's a totally different market. All these bands stem from the hayday where you could still make money off album sales. Touring is all a lot of these bands have, no one cares about the new music.

I think people really need to keep in mind concerts aren't 100 percent on how the singer sounds or the same setlist tour after to tour. I'd wager 80 percent of the people at shows are there to have a good time and I'm starting to feel like it's so weird we actively try to take that away from people.

Keep completely in mind Jon sounds like shit and I agree but there has to be reason there is a good amount of people still having fun at the show past Jon's looks.

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/ar...-current-tour/


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There's this guy called Ken Tamplin who recently discussed Jon's voice then and now. If there's anyone who could help Jon, it's Ken Tamplin and I wish Jon called him asap. Here's the video I'm talking about, if anyone here's interested. I for one would be glad to hear your opinion, though.

http://https://youtu.be/teZ00SKmxPs

What recent interview. Where can i read or listen to this?

I was just remembering that Hyde Park 2011 gig, with Jon with a broken leg.

One of the best post-2000 Bon Jovi concert, if it's not the better. The highest modern-Bon Jovi point.

10 years later, we just have a comical parody of Jon, with a cover band. He said himself.

I remember with good feeling the 2017 concert in Chile. Jon sounded bad, but at least he was trying to prove to the audience that he can still mount a decent show.

Now, he is an international newspaper headline because he simply CANNOT sing anymore and he is still doing shows. The problem isn't that he cannot sing anymore. The problem is that, anyway, he is still doing shows.

Sometimes I think this is all about money, and ego. I frankly believe it is all about Richie. Jon's frontman quality started to decline after RS departure. At the end of the BWC tour he already started to sing with problems.

He is STILL trying to prove (probably for himself and nobody else) that he can continue without RS. And sure he can, because his last name on a poster is what sells stadiums.

But he lost every possible die-hard fan respect, including me.

He just hasn't dignity. Going gray isn't a way to show that. It is knowing when and where you have to STOP.

Aaaand...

There's also responsability from David Bryan and Tico Torres on this catastrophe.

Both know the man from 35+ years ago.

I am pretty sure they aren't deaf and they can listen clearly a man that can't sing anymore.

The just could talk to the man and say to him: "Hey Jon, please, stop."

Unless they simply don't care and got their checks and the end of the tour, for keeping doing Broadway shows and playing golf.

The rest of the cover band are just session musicians that are just flooding their pockets with money while they can.

This is looking worse and worse.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2022/04/1...-raleigh-show/


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For the past decade boards like this one were the only people acknowledging Jon's issues.

Now the press and casual fans started talking.

You brought up a good point. I'm a 100% sure his issues are mainly physical but the psychological part plays a major role for him. Just oay attention to These Days in Sao Paulo in 2019. He botched half of the song but when he noticed how crazy the reaction to the song was he managed to make the last half of the song at least good.

Since Richie departed he looks vulnerable on stage.


****These Days was in 2017

I wonder what Jon thinks about all the latest press articles regarding the condition of his voice. He's likely ignoring the reports and acting like nothings wrong or his ego is badly bruised.

Jon is well aware of his current situation, it has to be affecting him to a certain degree, it's a long shot but maybe all the bad reviews and articles about his voice finally lit a fire under his ass to consider getting a new vocal coach or pursing a stricter vocal re-training regime before the 40th anniversary tour.