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In England their is a special edition of Classic Rock magazines called High Voltage. Their is a picture of jon performing when Bon Jovi opened for the stones. The Caption next to it says that Bon Jovi were booed of the stage. Is that true? Does any1 have any details to this allegation.

Hmm.
What year was that?

Aloha !

The weren't booed off the stage, but Jon admitted that the crowd was hard on them. Jon knew that when opening for the Stones in 1995 they'd get a bigger crowd to play for then just doing a gig on their own. However, the French Rolling Stones fans weren't exactly Bon Jovi fans, and some of them started booing.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

So it was in 95?

yes and it were the French (US in Europe) so not really to be taken serious

Aloha !

Yes. Jon always talks about how it was a big honour for them to open for the Stones and that they didn't ask what they were normally asked for by playing a show, but he forgets to say that playing for the Stones gave them the opportunity to play for at least 40.000 people instead of the "only" 16.000 they were able to play for in France. Bon Jovi was popular in France at that time, but still, it was arena rock there, and while Bon Jovi filled stadiums everywhere else, they still didnt in France.

By saying something like this you're not anything better than born_to_run, you do realize that, right?

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Who??????????

I was there and they weren't booed off stage.
All there was was a group of Rolling Stones fans (maybe 10-15 people) that had a sign that said Stones Forever on one side and Bon JovShit on the other. They right in front of Hugh - it was one of his first BJ shows, what a welcome :).
When BJ hit the stage they held their sign high, Jon went towards them and they gave him the finger and booed. Everytime Jon came close it happened, until in between two songs Jon heard something from one of the RS fans and answered something like "**** yourself sister".
It was mainly a Jon-thing as when Richie came close to them for his solos they cheered.

Morons.

All in all BJ got a better response than most opening acts as they did play for a full hour and had a good number of their own fans in there.

That is about as ignorant as born_to_ignore himself.


Ponrauil

Cool story to read !

What i've known so far was that B.J were booed in France, when opening for RS, because Jon appeared too cocky in front of their eyes.

Who cares what the French think?