Baba O'Reilly / Teenage Wasteland (Bobby Bandiera on vocals)

Bobby has a better voice than Jon. :eek:

And Jon's doing Townsend windmills! Jon should be lead guitar from here on in.

More from the Poly Prep benefit:

The Letter -
Old Time Rock N Roll -
Chain of Fools -
House Party -
Help/So You Want to be a Rock N Roll Star -
The person who posted those has most (or maybe all - I didn't check) of the show up now.

Aww, little Jonny boys guitar solo on Sympathy, he tried real hard bless him. Still sounded like a 5yr old. But he is getting better!


andi

probably most people have watched this video before but I want to share it anyway, the best I believe ever I think, jon's whooas at the end was amazing

go slap yourself with a wet fish.

It's nice to see Jon being up on stage and just enjoying playing some music instead of seeming to feel the pressure to carry his brand as a CEO. Gives me hope for a nice solo album.

thanks for posting these :)

Brilliant. Great song, tremendous performance.

was at this show, brings back memories. indeed a tremendous performance.

acoustic formally owned by Richie at norms guitars..worth $70,000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...r4nyvys#t=127s

Jon performing Wanted in Orlando - 17th October. Don't know where this is or what it's for.

thanks for posting!

bad name from orlando

Thank you for posting those videos ..I had no idea there were more videos out there beside juliedreamon ones ...to me that show was better than the last jbj and friends at starland in 2011 because all those songs talk to me more than the older ones done in NJ ...it was a gig for his kids school so you would think maybe he didn't want to make it a bj show by some sort of humility but I loved the songs he picked

Pretty Woman from the Orlando show - 17th October.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=XFJ5zXXPTgw

It looks like it was in conjunction with this in some way - http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-live-orlando/

More from the Orlando House of Blues -

Not as bad as I feared. They keyboard in the beginning sounds like on the record, unlike when the band plays it live. But he should truly focus on JBJ and cover tunes during the solo shows and not butcher too many tunes of the band.

Jon on Monday at the House of Blues in Florida: opening the show with "So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star"

And Bad Name afterwards which is a dreadful performance, terrible guitar playing and the vocals aren't that good either. Bah, I hate these Jon solo shows.

I guess I don't hate them - but I don't like them enough to go. I went last year and was less than impressed and decided to stay home this time.

Really like when he does Help. Even better on the 1993 tour when Richie sang a verse!

He should start taking his guitar lessons a bit more seriously though, he still doesn't have any feel for any of the lead parts he plays. It's weird... :?

Performing In and Out of Love in 1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=44kK2NuOwkI

Wows.... excelent video quality.

not strictly bon jovi, but felt id post it as it shows that bobby can play guitar in the right band and has got one hell of a voice on him. The vid is southside johnny by the way.

It's a mystery why he won't play like that in BJ. That solo was actually pretty decent!
Nice blues guitar playing by Bobby... I can't believe it :)

I've been saying this for years (and years). I always defend Bobby - and it comes back to bite me on the ass when he tries to play a solo in the Bon Jovi band.

Bobby's a good musician, but his place in Bon Jovi is as a rhythm guitarist. And it should stay as that.

Aloha !

He's not really playing anything special there either, and is pretty much playing the same riffs and chords over and over again, the same things he does when playing in Bon Jovi. When listening to his guitar solo in that song you linked it's clear he does the same thing over and over again, just like when he plays lead on Treat Her Right or Twist & Shout. His voice is incredible, but his guitar playing really is poor. As soon as he gets slightly out of his comfort zone he messes up big time, and not just in Bon Jovi but judging from the bootlegs and youTube vids, in Southside as well.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Is it possible for you to be positive, Seb? I don't think anybody was saying he was brilliant or as good as Richie, but what was in that video was pretty good.

Aloha !

Sure I can, and I just did so by saying his voice is incredible. But I don't get the praise for Bobby's guitar work, period. This is a man that's been playing guitar for a good 30 years now and still is only capable of copying other man's riffs and hasn't gotten any further than the basics.

Working Too Hard is a song you can go absolutely berserk on, it's got the most standard blues and rock & roll scales and yet all he comes up with are a few D and E chords played over the neck multiple times, either strumming or picking, as in the most standard rock & roll solo-ing but done in a quite average way. There's no tension or feel in his solo's, it's just going through the motions.

Listen to him play Treat Her Right or Twist & Shout and you'll hear him do the same stuff. It's just average and it might sound great to an average or non guitar player but it sounds uninspired to me, and even when he does play a small lick to finish a solo it's quite often the same one. It's exactly that reason why he can't play Bon Jovi solo's, or any guitar solo's at all, and repeating yourself is exactly why fans call Richie lazy nowadays.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Great performance by the band.

I maintain, Bobby was aked to join Bon Jovi as a live musician mainly because Jon realized that their vocal sound needed reinforcement (rightly so) and he is given the odd guitar solo out of gratitude and to justify his presence on stage. His guitar skills are a nice add-on and can enrich the sound here and there.

The Letter and Under Pressure from the HOB show in Orlando

I dont get why Bobby is even in the band anyway. Good singer/bad singer, good guitarist/bad guitarist. Bon Jovi did pretty well without him for donkeys years.

Have to agree with Seb, good voice, bad guitarist. Having said that, I do think he should play live with Bon Jovi, his voice adds weight to the vocals and his guitar the same (for instance, Blaze of Glory live with his added electric sounds much better). Just don't give him a solo, for god's sake.

and that Workin' Too Hard video is the first time I've ever seen him use a nice guitar, they're usually shite.

If that were the case, why not just hire an additional backing singer?

That would be borderline corny. Plus, that's not Bon Jovi's style.

Bobby is a long time friend of Jons. They've played the Jersey scene way before DA was released.

I'm not sure why Bobby & Jeff Kazee started playing with Bon Jovi on the HAND tour. If I was to take a guess and give the choice of two, I'd say……

1 The HAND tour was the start of the Country thing and they brought in these guys for Who Says. Jon saw the vision of LH and needed these guys for that project.
Or
2. HAND was so overproduce, with so many tracks, they needed extra musicians to fill in the vocals, guitars, and whatever additional sounds.

Or maybe even a combination of the 2.

I think after that, Jon liked what he heard, needed Bobby for LH, and gave him a job. They are good friends. I think Jon's doing a favor for Bobby and Bobby's doing a favor to Jon.

Interesting take on it. I'd say it's far far far far more likely it's number than it is 1. Bringing two guys on for a country thing that early seems too implausible but I buy that it was to fill out the sound. The weird thing is I didn't find HAND needed Jeff there. Vocally, MAYBE, but even that's a stretch. The Bounce tour was riddled with constant overdubs/extra guitar samples played through Dave's keyboards. But since the majority of the Bounce tracks were dropped by the HAND tour, it seemed kind of pointless.

The Circle tour could have used Jeff BIG time.