How Did You Become A Bon Jovi Fan????
 

I'd like to know, how and when did you become a Bon Jovi fan!!!!!!!!
Maybe you can tell us a little story????

About me: I watched TV, and saw a film (a film that I liked) and suddenly I heard in the background some beautiful music. It was: "this romeo is bleeding..........". http://www.plaudersmilies.de/nopity.gif And I loved this song from the first moment on: http://www.plaudersmilies.de/love/arrow-thru-heart.gif! But I didn't know from whom it was!! :oops: And some time later I saw in TV the video clip!! (of Always) And I was so happy, because now I knew who sang this beautiful song!!!! I recorded the clip and watched it very very often! And then I went to a shop and wanted to bye a CD. So I bought Crossroad, and I loved it also very much, the whole CD. And so it went on, I bought another BJ- CD, and another and liked them all!!!! http://www.plaudersmilies.de/party/ylsuper.gif And I went to a concert, and to another one.... and they were great!! http://www.plaudersmilies.de/party/dance.gif And this is how I became a fan!!

So you see, I'm not a fan for a very long time! Since 1998, I think!!! But now I'm still a fan, and I hope it wil go on forever!!!!! http://www.plaudersmilies.de/party/luxhello.gif

since I heard livin on a prayer on the radio in 1986.

In 1986, I didn't know the words to "Bad Name" and my two best friends teased me about it. I listened to the radio all weekend one weekend to catch the song and when I heard it I loved it. Needless to say, those two friends think they created a monster and eventually came to regret ever teasing me for not knowing that song.

Becky

I saw or heard Bad Name in fall 1986 and that was it.

My friend introduced me to the music with a casette of Keep the faith! She used to have her walls covered with posters of Jon in the early 90s. But now times have changed and I'm the fan and she isn't anymore... :?
-- Sara

I think it was in 1989, when I've heard "I'll be there for you". I loved it so much, that I bought the vynil of "New Jersey" at once. And it rocked. :twisted: So I became fan imediatly.
NJ is still one of my favourite BJ albums (together with KTF) and I still have that vynil recording in my collection. :mrgreen:

Actually everything started out in one of my band´s rehearsals in 1999. I started to sing a song I´d written and one of the guitar players said something like: "Hey... do that again, it sounds very much like Bon Jovi."

At that time I thought Bon Jovi was "Ugly", "Janie Don´t Take Your Love To Town" and "Always" :oops:

But then I found the Fahrenheit record one day and bought it. I just loved that. I asked myself if that was the same Bon Jovi I think I knew. Then I bought Keep The Faith which is my fav album and it touched me deeply http://www.plauder-smilies.de/poke.gif

By that time I was already a BJ admirer, but then I bought Crossroads and became a huge fan. These Days, Crush and OWN were next and now here I am ready for Bounce http://www.plauder-smilies.de/party/ylsuper.gif

at first i HATED bon jovi from my deepest inside... but a friend of mine tortured me at parties with them- actually we had a lot of fun with him turning the music on- i'd switch it off within two seconds :-) then they wouldn't let me come near the stereo again and i had obviously lost... then they always played prayer and i hated the beginning (with the ice cubes falling into the glass)- so it went on and when i heard lay your hands i "liked" it (<-- should mean it didn't drive me nuts)- then after ten parties i really started liking this song and a few others- and after ten more i decided to buy their new album thence (these days)- i heard hey god...not bad... i heard sth for the pain and that was it- since then i'm a bj fan :-)

I became a fan in 1992 when I first heard KTF. I loved it immidately.
But the funny thing is, that back in 1986 I LOVED Raise your hands (then I didn't know that it was from BJ), and after I became a fan in 1992 I bought SWW....I heard Raise your hands and thought "I know this song from somewhere, yes, it's this song I used to hear back in 1986...omg, it's BJ!" Since then I'm a die-hard fan.

Interesting story here...

I was digging through casette tapes that were piled up in my family's entertainment center. This was back in, I guess 1993

Well, I stumbled upon a copy of "Keep The Faith." I asked who's it was, and my mother said it was hers. She let me listen to it and I liked it.

However, after a few weeks of listening to it, my mom told me she wanted it back so she could listen. From there on, I completely forgot about it. Then...

It wasn't until 1997 when I found a copy of "These Days" that belonged to my mother as well, that I became a "true" fan. I wore that tape out!

So thanks to my "hard-rockin mama" for turning me into a Jovi Fan! I love you ma!!!

Take Care,
Norm

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

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.

I am a young fan but in 2000 I was not really a Bon Jovi fan with IML but when I saw the commercial for One Wild Night Live I knew I needed that cd so I bought it and then I have bought almost every one of there cds!

in 1995, i saw SOMETHING FOT THE PAIN video on tv, i liked that song, i also heard the name of bonjovi from my friends, but i dont love him too much, i just like SFTP, then in 2000, i saw IT'S MY LIFE vide on tv, it was 5 years that i didnt have any news from the band, i saw IML for times, then i love the band, so i downloaded this song, then bought CRUSH album, then all of the albums! so now im a huge fan!!!

My absolute first exposure to the band was via 7 11, in a Aurora, Colorado. They had a promotional thing where you would get these tabs/buttons with various rock groups on it when you purchased a Slurpee or Drink. Dio was one of them..Bon Jovi was another. I remember both because I thougth the names were so strange. I was into KISS. I didn't get the Bon Jovi button though. It was 1985. There was also a friend of mine in JR High that was into them and a couple of other people I knew. But I really didn't know much about the band.

I was also getting all these love letters written to me by this girl who had this huge crush on me at the time...she was writing how she was feeling sad one day and was listening to "Silent Night" by Bon Jovi.

So up to that point..that was my exposure to the band...then one day I was at the local arcade. They had a video jukebox which was in the center of the place. This video came on which showed a concert crowd with a lighting truss raising up on the stage and someone shouting out "SHOT THROUGH THE HEART!....." I could see three guys standing on a ledge and they jumped off with these huge explosions of sparks shooting up behind them.

Not long after I picked up my Slippery When Wet LP..several months later I saw my first concert featuring Bon Jovi.

Fan for life.

[color=][/color]Ive been a fan since KTF, ive grown up listening to rock music (BJ, aerosmith, def leopard, status quo) you could say ive hada privaleged upbringing :D .I'm 16 now and some of my earliest memories are listening to BJ blasting round the house.
KTF
Always

Ceri Wyn :lol:

for me it was Bed of roses :D

Well, it's a really long story: I became a fan at the age of 5 when I first heard "Livin on a prayer". My Mom had her alarm clock always set on the same radio station and one day when I woke up they played it. Back then I had no clue about English and therefore didn't really understand what they sang but I somehow try to sing the lyrics with Jon. It sounded like what I would call now "Baby English" ;). Anyway, since that day Bon Jovi have always been a huge part of my life and will forever be!

Way back in 1984 was when I got hooked - thanx to a family member.I was only 8 then and now my own 3 year old has the Jovi Bug :D

In the 80s I was into U2, Queen and disliked all those hair bands very much (actually I didn't listen to their music, I just disliked what their represented) and thought of Bon Jovi as one of the hair bands. So, I kind of judges them without listening to them only because their image scared me. Then in 92 I was given KTF and loved it. Then I got all Bon Jovi records and was blown away. :o

I still don't like most of the hair bands (although now I understand that it's not right to judge music styles, we should judge artists). With Bon Jovi it's a different story. I just LOVE them :lol: I don't think of Bon Jovi as a hair band anymore though. Just a classic r'n'r band.

I like BJ when I was 12 years old, and the first song I heard was : Runaway !...y'know BJ is my 'first love'...and people said "First love will never die".....Now I'm 29 years old,and I still love 'em. My friends and I made a BJ community in Jakarta, it's called "Die Hard Fans of Bon Jovi"
Bon Jovi Rules !