No, I never believed that. I really think One Step Closer from Lost Highway was registered as "Closer", it's the same three writers.

One Step Closer is registered as "One Step Closer".

https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace...rkID/451284414


Ok, it's the same three writers but Closer instead says: performers: Westlife.

https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace...ter=SVW&page=1

I still think it's an ASCAP error confusing the two. Other sites list this writing team for that Westlife song:

Shanks, John Reid, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan, Feehily, Shane Filan

https://www.ascap.com/repertory#/ace...rkID/909288302

This would be the correct listing for the Westlife song. I'm not ruling out it being a grand coincidence that the same three people also wrote an unreleased song the same name as a song that made the album that shares a very close name to their own but it feels like a registering error to me,.

I'm starting to forget the birthdays...
Happy Birthday N°59, David Bryan!

Has anyone heard Story of Love on the radio yet?

Also, BBC4 here in the UK are repeating Top of the Pops from 1990 on Friday nights, Blaze of Glory charted the previous week, unsure if Jon performs in the studio on one of the 2 episodes airing this Friday

Save a Prayer is not a song I listen to very often but man, I forgot how amazing this one is.

I loved it from the get go and always love hearing it shuffle in the mix on my runs.


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About 6 months ago I bought the In These Arms 7” for Save A Prayer as I was disappointed to see the song not only missing from the KTF vinyl in the box set but also the bonus LP of other songs.

It’s a great track and one of the best on KTF. Defo in my top 3 from that album.


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Do we know anything about this? Aldo states that Richie and Obie came to his studio do do overdubs for a live album. However he doesn't say when. We can assume it was for OWN but who knows. I don't like hearing that they overdubbed live recordings though.

After the New Jersey tour, the band was going to release a double live album... Probably due to a contract album fulfillment. Unfortunately it got scraped but Blaze Of Glory took its place. A good majority of those tracks eventually got released as b-sides and other compilations.

I could listen to these guys talk all day.

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Overdubbing live recordings for an official release to work out little flaws is standard in the industry though. Jon even overdubbed Tokyo 1990 the night after the show before releasing it for the TV broadcast.

At the end of that interview it sounds like some bad shit went down between Jon and Aldo...

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Anything Thread
 

New Jersey. It’s on the AAA documentary - Jon Says they are recording every show for a double live album


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The live album was going to be released in 1990, it was almost ready... Jon and Obie picked from over 40-50 hours of music.

I wonder how far they got before it was scrapped, i.e how many tracks were 'prepated' for the release.

Aloha !

That album was finished but would also feature stuff that'd been broadcasted before. Rotterdam 1989 is a good indication of what the album would've sounded like.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

The last 2 weeks I somehow fell for Bullet.
I think it's a good song with some nice lyrics. "How does money lead to greed, when there's still hungry mouth to feed" is along Jon's best lines, in my opinion.

Musical-wise, it's somehow the 2000s equivalent to 90s Fear or 80s Roulette.
I think all 3 songs are good ones, with verses that work quite well.
But it's the chorus in all 3 songs that misses something which leaves you with the feeling that the songs had more potential if they would have worked out the chorus properly.

The breakdown/solo's guitar part reminds me a bit of Hey God!

Yeah, I think the topic is also similiar to that one.
My comparison "musical-wise" wasn't meant the way that the songs sound alike, but that the verses work while the choruses don't.

http://www.alternativenation.net/lin...tals-bon-jovi/

Any idea tl what show Mike Shinoda is referring to?? I vaguely remember something similar but not sure when it took place. I remember them playing Captain Crash in a parking lot show for some reason but Bon Jovi promo shows are easy to mix up....

This would be fun to piece together but man it's all over the place in what he remembers shoved into one interview haha. Like....

" ‘Hey, Richie [Sambora, guitar]!’ ‘Yeah, Jon?’ ‘You remember when we used to take the girls out to the back of the parking lot and…’

“They’re in the middle of a song and they’re doing this monologue, and then Richie busts into one of his ‘wow-wow-wow’ guitar parts and Jon Bon Jovi sets his microphone aside, and turns around, and shakes his ass at the crowd."

I can't think of a single song that would have that in it with a monologue about girls and go into a talk box while Jon dances haha.

It sounds like the into of Yankee Rose more so than anything! MAYBE the breakdown of In & Out Of Love? Although I doubt they played that live anymore by the time Linkin Park were a thing.

Yeah, it's likely that he's mixing up the mid portion talking in bad medicine and the solo/Jon dancing in we got it going on is the best guess I would assume....

" 14 countries, 3 weeks, 1 video "

Guess which music video i'm talking about...

The video for Everyday?

Remember when this song used to make rounds as the "new Bon Jovi single" around the release of WAN? The singer really does sound similar to Jon at many points:

https://youtu.be/-hrw59z8L4Y

Yes! :)

Great video, great song and mostly great album!

I remember... :)

Can someone identify the guy playing the NJ guitar in this picture? Or happen to know which show it's from?

looks like Steve Vai to me, but don't recall him ever appearing with the band though, I might be wrong

Looks like Scott Bakula to me, but that's even less likely!
Alice Cooper or Joe Perry at a push?

https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/ne...this_event_adp

Here's another photo. Im running it through a reverse image search to try and track it down.

That's most likely Billy Squier. He also played with the band during Wild Thing at Giants Stadium (2:49 in here):

These pictures are most likely from San Diego (April 21st, 1989).

Thanks muchly, guys!

At first, I didn't think the guy in Capt Jovi's picture looked like the same guy bc the facial features look totally different to me. But the shirt's the same; and when I compared a screenshot from Dominick's video with the picture Matt Posted I could see the resemblance. So I guess Billy Squier it is!

(I gotta say, though, that I agree with Nige. In the picture I posted he looks a LOT like Scott Bakula - with Joe Perry hair!!) :D

Thanks to all!

Bad Medicine tequila
https://www.instagram.com/badmedicinetequila/

Speaking of Bad Medicine: https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news...irst_tour.html

-_-
So it was a prank for April Fools' Day.
I guess this is another one:
https://www.wearethepit.com/2021/04/...th-darkthrone/

A random question for fellow guitar players:
I listened to the Circle today and realized I've never played Learn To Love on guitar (by the way, I love the song). It's not a technically tough song, but I have trouble with getting the chords right for that intro/verse. I know it starts on C and goes down from there. It almost sounds like the second chord is a Cmaj7 but it doesn't feel quite right.
Anyone who have gotten that intro right?? :)

When I tabbed it out I had it with a capo on the third fret. You can hear a ringing high G throughout. Let me know if I'm crazy.