[Lord of the Jovi Realm]

A little trivia from the past......(answers posted tommorow, guessing welcome)


1.) Which of these Bands did Bon Jovi never open for?
A. Scandal
B. Eddie Money
C. Stray Cats
D. Judas Priest
E. Scorpions
F. Kiss
G. Ratt
H. .38 Special
I. ZZ Top
J. The Rolling Stones
K. Van Halen
L. Duran Duran

2.) Name the three Cities Bon Jovi played unannounced club shows in to warm up for the New Jersey Tour.
1.
2.
3.

3.) What Band did Jon say ruined a song he wrote for them?
4.) On December 27th, 1986 Bon Jovi played a sold out show at the Centrum in Worchester, Mass, in the USA, what feat did they achieve that night that had never been done before in worldwide concert buisiness?

5.) Of the 135 shows on the Headlining USA Slippery When wet tour starting Dec 21st, 1986 and ending August 10th, 1987, how many were sold out?

6.) On that same tour what was the Gross in millions?

7.) How many copies of New Jersey were sold in the first quarter after it's release? - remember that back then there was no soundscan so units shipped were counted as "sold"

8.) What was the original title for "Keep the Faith" according to Jon while they were writing songs while on the New Jersey tour?

9.) How many TONS of Marajuana was former Bon Jovi Manager Doc McGhee sentenced for importing into the United States?

10.) What 80's girl group recorded but never released " You Give Love a Bad Name?"

11.) In the New York Daily News review of Keep the Faith, which of the following is a direct quote?
A. "souless corporate swill"
B. ""the Jovi's are not people at all but rather body-snatched pods"
C. "the new album calls far a significantly deepened commitment to vapidity"
D. "the result is sweepingly bad in DRY COUNTY"
E. "the band's shallowness, and thievery doesn't stop there"

12.) On July 7th/8th 1989 at a little past midnight Bon Jovi, Cher and some Bon Jovi tour crew rented out an entire theater in Londonderry, New Hampshire to watch a movie, what was it?


Enjoy,
P

[bjcrazycpa]

Whoa, all difficult questions. I won't even try and guess. Can't wait to see the answers.

deb

[Becky]

This used to be the kind of crap I could tell you off the top of my head.

I'll be BRAVE and guess on a few:

1. Stray Cats, Van Halen, Duran Duran

3. Loverboy

4. Played to the most number of people from January -- December in a single year of recorded concert #'s.

7. I've read (so I take it with a grain of salt) that it was double platinum before it shipped, so I'll guess 3 million in the first quarter.

9. 20

11. All of them


Almost all guesses! Quite possibly all wrong. LOL I might wake up at 2:00 AM and remember the name of the movie. That's one of thoes stories I know I've read/heard before.

So, my question is, do you remember all this stuff or do you have have to consult your Jovi "stuff" to get these questions?

[groover22]

1.) Which of these Bands did Bon Jovi never open for?

A. Scandal (maybe..)
C. Stray Cats
K. Van Halen
L. Duran Duran

2.) Name the three Cities Bon Jovi played unannounced club shows in to warm up for the New Jersey Tour.

pass

3.) What Band did Jon say ruined a song he wrote for them?

Don't know, but want to know now

4.) On December 27th, 1986 Bon Jovi played a sold out show at the Centrum in Worchester, Mass, in the USA, what feat did they achieve that night that had never been done before in worldwide concert buisiness?

pass

5.) Of the 135 shows on the Headlining USA Slippery When wet tour starting Dec 21st, 1986 and ending August 10th, 1987, how many were sold out?

6.) On that same tour what was the Gross in millions?

7.) How many copies of New Jersey were sold in the first quarter after it's release? - remember that back then there was no soundscan so units shipped were counted as "sold"

5,6,7 - pass,pass and indeed, pass

8.) What was the original title for "Keep the Faith" according to Jon while they were writing songs while on the New Jersey tour?

Revenge?

9.) How many TONS of Marajuana was former Bon Jovi Manager Doc McGhee sentenced for importing into the United States?

I want to say 14, but that can't be right..

10.) What 80's girl group recorded but never released " You Give Love a Bad Name?"

Bananarama

11.) In the New York Daily News review of Keep the Faith, which of the following is a direct quote?
A. "souless corporate swill"
B. ""the Jovi's are not people at all but rather body-snatched pods"
C. "the new album calls far a significantly deepened commitment to vapidity"
D. "the result is sweepingly bad in DRY COUNTY"
E. "the band's shallowness, and thievery doesn't stop there"

A,C & E (guess, but sounds typical of the time)

12.) On July 7th/8th 1989 at a little past midnight Bon Jovi, Cher and some Bon Jovi tour crew rented out an entire theater in Londonderry, New Hampshire to watch a movie, what was it?

Batman

[Lord of the Jovi Realm]

Which of these Bands did Bon Jovi never open for?

A. Scandal - the first Bon Jovi show was a record exec showcase opening for Scandal.

B. Eddie Money - after completing the Bon Jovi album but before it's release the band did a three week Station Wagon tour opening for Eddie Money.

C. Stray Cats - see question 2

D. Judas Priest - Bon Jovi opened for them on the Canada 86 tour

E. Scorpions - Bon Jovi opened for them on the USA 84 tour

F. Kiss - Bon Jovi opened for them on the Japan and early European 85 tour

G. Ratt - Bon Jovi opened for them on the late USA 85 tour

H. .38 Special - Bon Jovi opened for them for the very early US slippery tour late 86.

I. ZZ Top - First Bon Jovi show with Richie on guitar while making Bon Jovi album, Alec was arrested for carrying a loaded gun in a holster onstage at Madison Square Gardens.

J. The Rolling Stones - Bon Jovi opened 2 french shows for them in 95.

K. Van Halen - there is a bullshit bootleg poster showing Bon Jovi opening for Van Halen that is always on Ebay and is always bullshit. Van halen once opened for Bon Jovi but BJ never opened for them.

L. Duran Duran - 7/28/93 Bon JOvi was the opener at a radio station birthday party headlined by Duran Duran



Name the three Cities Bon Jovi played unannounced club show in to warm up for the New Jersey Tour.

10/15/1988

Raritan Manor

NJ

USA

Club Show

10/16/1988



Woodstock, NY

USA

Club show

10/17/1988



Poughkeepsie, NY

USA

Club show opening for the Stray Cats









What Band did Jon say ruined a song he wrote for them?



Loverboy ruined Notorius



On December 27th, 1986 Bon Jovi played a sold out show at the Centrum in Worchester, Mass, in the USA, what feat did they achieve that night that had never been done before in worldwide concert buisiness?



The Merchandise gross was higher than the ticket gross. They sold $167000 in tickets and $197000 in t-shirts and tour books they had a total of 14 items for sale for Bon Jovi and Cinderella combined. Stuff was in such demand that 2 nights later they started setting up t-shirt booths with armed guards outside every show for the folks who couldn't get tickets and set Merch records at every single venue for the rest of the tour.



Of the 135 shows on the Headlining USA Slippery When wet tour starting Dec 21st, 1986 and ending August 10th, 1987, how many were sold out?



133



On that same tour what was the Gross in millions?



@15 according to Variety



How many copies of New Jersey were sold in the first quarter after it's release? - rememeber that back then there was no soundscan so units shipped were counted as "sold"



4 million it went silver, gold, platinum and multi platinum simultaneously



What was the original title for "Keep the Faith" according to Jon while they were writing songs while on the New Jersey tour?



5 - Jon said he was so sick of naming and renaming the albums that they were calling the next album "5" and were gonna put whatever songs they liked on it and not worry about the title.



How many TONS of Marajuana was Bon Jovi Manager Doc McGhee Sentenced for importing into the United States?



18.5 yep that's alot of weed.



What 80's girl group recorded but never released " You Give Love a Bad Name?"



Bananrama



In the New York Daily News review of Keep the Faith, which of the following is a direct quote?

A. "souless corporate swill"

B. ""the Jovi's are not people at all but rather body-snatched pods"

C. "the new album calls far a significantly deepened commitment to vapidity"

D. "the result is sweepingly bad in DRY COUNTY"

E. "the bands shallowness, and thievery doesn't stop there"



ALL ARE QUOTES FROM THE REVIEW - the guy hated it and the review was so famous that other reviews refered to his review as the gold standard for hating an album.



On July 7th/8th 1989 at a little past Midnight Bon Jovi, Cher and some Bon Jovi tour crew rented out an entire theater in Londonderry, New Hampshire to watch a movie what was it?



Lethal Weapon II


I find this stuff while re-reading old interviews, reviews, etc looking for tour date info for the tourography, I figure the interesting stuff is good enough to share.

[Miracle]

Originally Posted by Lord of the Jovi Realm

In the New York Daily News review of Keep the Faith, which of the following is a direct quote?

A. "souless corporate swill"

B. ""the Jovi's are not people at all but rather body-snatched pods"

C. "the new album calls far a significantly deepened commitment to vapidity"

D. "the result is sweepingly bad in DRY COUNTY"

E. "the bands shallowness, and thievery doesn't stop there"



ALL ARE QUOTES FROM THE REVIEW - the guy hated it and the review was so famous that other reviews refered to his review as the gold standard for hating an album.

Is this review available online anywhere? I'm interested in reading this now!

[bjcrazycpa]

Very cool! Thanks for all of the anwers. I had never heard about them renting out the movie theater to watch Lethal Weapon II.

deb

[Kathleen]

I've never heard of a lot of this but thanks for letting us know. I had little kids in the 80s - enough said LOL.

Kathleen

[Lord of the Jovi Realm]

I have the newspaper clipping from the review, I will post it in a bit, as far as I know it is not online anywhere yet.

P

[andy_ash]

if the reviewer wrote that about KTF i wonder what he made of TLFR. I'm glad i read this thread now, learnt loads of new stuff.