After finally getting the girl i had pined for, for 2 years..she introduced me to Bon Jovi, i knew of them they were a rock band, i sort of new the classics prayer bad name always.

We were in her room, and i'll never forget her putting on These Days album, and the song My Guitar Lies Bleeding In My Arms came on. I was blown away by that whole album. The power, and emotion was overwhelming, These Days didn't sound like the other bon jovi stuff (which i also love but for diferent reasons).

Went on vacation with my parents a week after hearing TD, and found a copy of the TD tape in a souvenier store. It stayed in my walkman the whole time.

I love bon jovi the big party rock band, but i also love the incredible song writing that was ALL through TD album, and is shown in bits over on most of their albums.

Since I was 8.
Than I listen Alwasy for the first time, and I became a BJ fan
I bought New Jersey, after Cross Roads, These days, Keep the faith, Crush, OWN, 7800º Farenheit. !!!!!!

Well, I had always thought that they were ok, but then I went to their concert last year in Melbourne, and ever since I've been absolutely hooked and they are now my favourite band by a street! :D

My aunt was a huge Bon Jovi fan when Slippery When Wet came out. I'd must have been 9 years old and my aunt used to write the lyrics down while listening to the songs and I used to press stop on the tape when she told me so she could write the words down. So it was not hard to like the band in the end. When my aunty got married and had children she gave me all her Bon Jovi belongings so I've got heaps of magazine clippings and full magazines just on Bon Jovi.

Well I just saw an mtv weekend with BJ in '96 I think. I thought, hey let's see what they're about...I watched the first part and just kept watching and taped everything after!! Instant favorites were Bad medicine and I Believe (I can't listen to bad medicine any more, but I Believe has stayed my favorite). Anyway my brother also liked them by then and he borrowed Keep the Faith from a friend of mine. After listening to that record for a year (haha, we borrowed that cd for a whole year!!!), I thought it was time for something new and since then bought every album,
and have been a diehard fan ever since.

many years ago i went to see KISS at the brighton centre (england).
bon jovi were the support group and played for about 40 mins. i believe it was their first ever concert in england.
it was about the time the first album was out. so really we all have to give kiss credit for giving bon jovi the chance to play to us fans.
i can tell you kiss/bon jovi on the same bill made for some show

how did I become a fan?
 

One day I just went and bought Cross Road. I don't know why I did that, I had barely heard Livin On A Prayer before! And no-one told me to buy the record either. I became a fan before Crush, but didn't really care about the tour or anything. Not before I read that they'd been to Finland, summer 2000. :?

M.

I'm a die hard Bon Jovi fan since I heard Them (1986).
I think I simply was born to be a Bon Jovi fan.

KTF, Nat

1986, 13 years old. I was in the living room at my house and "Bad Name" came on MTV. I remember just standing there staring in awe at the television. I bought the "Slippery" cassette within days and have been hooked ever since. :D

I was sitting in my cousin's bedroom one day about 4 and a half years ago, and she had Crossroad on tape. I listened to it and realised I recognised 3 or 4 of the songs (LOAP, Always and YGLABN, I think). It was from then, that I was hooked.

I took the tape on holiday to Italy with me and listened to it for ages on end. Then I bought the CD, followed by Crush, and gradually built up my collection over the next year until I finally completed my collection last month (with the exception of Destination Anywhere, so technically, I haven't quite completed it - but you know what I mean!!)

During that time, I went to see them at Milton Keynes Bowl (England), and they were truly fantastic! I can't wait for the new material and their prospective tour next year - nothing's gonna keep me down!

Thanks.

Tom.