I was 15 when I first heard them and I have followed them ever since. We even did the big hair era together......scary eh!!!

My favorite concert was KTF as I saw them in a small venue and I was on the side of the stage, I could have touched them if I wanted to.....sigh. Jon was wearing the torn jeans and looked very hot :oops: Richi did a tribute to Jimmy Hendricks that gave me goosebumps. My husband laughed at me all night as I am not a gal that has her head turned very easily and couldn't believe how enthralled I was, I even got mad when he tried to talk to me during the concert,hee,hee. Needless to say my energy from the concert was directed at him :wink: He will now take me to any BJ concert I want to go to :lol:


That's my short story

just older...

The Slippery When Wet album was when I became a fan. Livin' On A Prayer, Bad Name, & Wanted Dead Or Alive were getting tons of MTV airplay. I even remember seeing Bon Jovi win Nick Kid's Choice Awards.

Yo!!I first bought the Crush Cd in may of 2001...then..i was hooked...i even bought the 2000 crush tour dvd..and i cant stop watchin it...i love the new song "everyday" i also bought "7800 farenheit" and "slippery when wet" Bon Jovi is the best damn band eva...i love richie!! :D

I've been a fan as long as I can remember, actually. My father had the cassette Bon Jovi and I used to listen to Runaway when I was a child. I got Slippery as my birthday present when I turned 8 in 1987 and the rest is history! I was not so much a fan in 90-91 (bought Blaze of course ) but KTF brought me back :D

Taija

my sotry is that of a weird one. ummmm i guess. so it all started back when crush came out and i heard the single IML, i thought wow, thats a great song. i never thought about it much after that, i just liked the song. but that same year i was headin up to the cottage and they were counting down the top 100 party songsof all time. livin on a prayer came on and i was hooked. i came home downloaded it figured out who the hell sang it and i was an instant fan! so i guess that makes me the newest fan on this board....... cya round,

brijovi, oooooooooooya.

well, at first i heard 'always' and i liked it. then a friend gave me a cassette with 'these days' on it and it was a horrible quality and i gave it back thinking 'what was that???'

a few days later, bon jovi played their concert in wels, austria. i remember it was on june 21st, 1996. i was sitting at home and when i openend the window, i could here them play and it was really awesome. the next day, i headed to a cd store and bought a bon jovi cd ... since that day, i am a HUGE fan.

1990´s Blaze of Glory
 

1990 a little boy from Europe got on a US-vacation and got hooked up by Blaze of Glory-video. After buying BoG, SWW and NJ the boy returned home as a man. (Well sorta) 1992 when my classmates got in some KTF-hype, I enjoyed being one of the BJ-veterans. Still hanging on, though the pop-album CRUSH! :roll:

My mother is a big fan!! She always used to listen to them so I guess I kinda grew up listening to them. And fell in love with them too.

Short Version:

Missed Slippery...
Heard Runaway for the first time in (probably) 1987 -> Loved it.
88 or 89 a friend recorded Jersey for me -> Loved it even more.
For Christmas I got Blaze from relatives -> Loved it.
If my memory serves me right I bought the whole catalogue after that.
So I listened to it on a regular basis but wouldn't consider myself a diehard fan.
Not until the friend who recorded Jersey for me bought tickets for himself and his girlfriend for a KTF concert. (I owned KTF already but was not really interested in concerts back then... stupid.. huh?) Anyway. The girlfriend couldn't go and the friend gave the ticket to me. I went instead of his girlfriend and ever since I'm addicted.
It still pisses me off that I didn't go see them live in the 80s. Stupid me...

Hey Krisi, you could hear the BJ concert from your window?????????????? AMAZING!!!! Well, I always saw the videos of Always, In These Arms, Bed Of Roses and Blaze Of Glory and TV around 1993, 1994 and I liked the music. Then in 1995 I always saw Hey God and Love Song on TV. One day I was at a friend's who actually isn't a BJ fan. He had borrowed Crossroad from another friend. He said Always, Bad Name and Bed Of Roses were cool songs, the other ones weren't that great. I think he didn't even give them a try :wink: unfortunately, neither did i...i recorded these 3 songs on tape and went home. I listened to them 24/7 until i started disliking Bed Of Roses (now it's one of my faves again). Someday, I was at a store with my mom, I bought These Days because I liked Hey God and TAALS (as mentioned above). I only listened to these songs, gave all other songs a try of maybe 5 seconds each and thought: Not that great. Later that year, I think at Chritmas, I got Crossroad. I think having it made me more feeling "cool" than happy to have such a great cd. I hated Prayer then because I only listened to the bginning and thought: Sounds like a monkey....lol....One day, I was bored, I and decided to listen to all songs on TD and Crossroad. And suddenly I was hooked up. From that moment I loved the band. But I didn't care for the other albums, I had my Best Of and the latest record. Should be enough I thought. In 1997 I bought Jon's solo album DA and that was all for the next 3 years. Someday in that 3 years I bought the Live From London video...Then, with the release of Crush I got back into Bon Jovi (by that time I was huge Nirvana, Bryan Adams and especially Oasis fan and didn't listen to BJ that much anymore). Crush made BJ being my favourite band again and to get some "new" songs (BJ songs I didn't know then) I bought all the other albums plus Blaze Of Glory. Last year I bought Stranger In This Town and of course OWN live. That's my story, boring, isn't it? :wink:

ktf, Johannes