1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio Live is a production of iHeartRadio. 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:08,560 Speaker 2: Welcome to our iHeartRadio Album Preview featuring bon Jovi's Forever 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 2: Legendary Edition from the iHeart Radio Theater in Los Angeles. 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 2: Here's your host, Valentine. 5 00:00:15,800 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 3: Hey, welcome to our iHeartRadio album Preview as we premiere 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 3: songs off bon Joby's new album, Forever Legendary Edition. Thanks 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 3: for joining us on the radio and on the iHeart 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: Radio app. Now you might ask, wait a minute, didn't 9 00:00:29,040 --> 00:00:31,880 Speaker 3: they release this last year? And you would be right, 10 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 3: But this is the legendary edition. So what is the 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 3: legendary edition? What sets it apart from the original version? 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:01:00,120 Speaker 3: We're gonna find out. Please welcome Jon bon Jovi, Hi, everybody, 13 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: thanks for coming. 14 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 4: Right on. 15 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: Welcome, Thanks for doing this for us. 16 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 4: Thank you. Traffic was so awful. 17 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:12,039 Speaker 5: I guess these folks wants to come around one o'clock 18 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 5: this afternoon to get here. 19 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 4: Well, I walked. 20 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:19,400 Speaker 5: Across the hill and got no. It was a long way. 21 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 5: It's all good. Thank you all. Thank you so much 22 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 5: for being here. 23 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: So let's jump into it. 24 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 3: Why did you feel the need to re record the 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 3: album special guests instead of recording a completely new album. 26 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:35,279 Speaker 5: Well, first of all, thank you for being here again 27 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 5: and for indulging me. 28 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 4: When we put out this. 29 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 5: Album Forever a year ago and it was accompanied by 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 5: the documentary Thank You Goodnight, the intention was to go 31 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 5: out on the road celebrate our fortieth anniversary, and it 32 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 5: was a rather joyous record that we really felt great about. 33 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 5: But in lieu of what had happened with my vocal 34 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,440 Speaker 5: surge and the rehab, I really just wasn't ready to 35 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 5: go on the road. 36 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 4: And in this day and age it's changed. 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 5: If you don't support a record with live shows and 38 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 5: at least television, the record just doesn't get a chance. 39 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 5: And so having come through the album twenty twenty during 40 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 5: COVID and having to release this fabulous record into a 41 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 5: black hole and not be able to promote it, and 42 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 5: then to come out of all of the COVID pain 43 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 5: and misery that we were all walking through together to 44 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 5: find joy again to write this record, to record this record, 45 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 5: and then your body says nope, not yet. 46 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 4: It was like I had this string of. 47 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 5: Not being able to go and promote a record is 48 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 5: breaking my heart. So I thought, in this day and 49 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,839 Speaker 5: age of people doing these features, if I could call 50 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 5: a bunch of our friends and under the guise of 51 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 5: the title of the Beatles song, with a little help 52 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 5: from my friends, ask folks to sing on these songs. 53 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 5: We would write something new to a company and you know, 54 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 5: just show that my voice is healed and then get 55 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 5: friends to come in and reintroduce a great album. 56 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 4: And that was the play, and that was the plan. 57 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 5: And so we called old friends, new friends, country rock, international, 58 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 5: men women. 59 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 4: So it's of diverse record. You know a lot of 60 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 4: different kinds. 61 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: Of talent were making the calls. 62 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 3: Yourself, Yeah you did, so you call it to go everywhere, Hey, Jeljoe, Yeah, 63 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 3: that's awesome. 64 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 4: It wasn't easy to do. 65 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 5: And I don't care if someone is your best friend, 66 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 5: you're sure because you're asking him to do something that 67 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 5: they may be busy, they may they may not want to, 68 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 5: you know, I mean, it wasn't It was an uncomfortable call, 69 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 5: even to dear friends, because you know, you're putting them 70 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 5: all on the spot. 71 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 3: Well, as we talked about thirteen special guests from various 72 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 3: genres of music, among them Bruce Springsteen, Depth Leopard Singer, 73 00:03:55,320 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 3: Joe Elliott, Jelly Roll, Landy Wilson, Avril Levine Jason isbel 74 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 3: to me, that is absolutely amazing. I'm fascinating though, how 75 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 3: you'd chose these people to sing on the album. How 76 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 3: you picked them out of so many different artists you 77 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 3: could have called. 78 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 5: Well, you start with folks should know, you know or 79 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 5: have worked with in the past. 80 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 4: Obviously, if you consider how long I've known. 81 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 5: Bruce since before I made any records, since I was 82 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 5: in high school. 83 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 4: I've known Joe Elliott for nearly forty years. So there's 84 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 4: some old standing. 85 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:38,720 Speaker 5: Relationships Robbie Williams, and then new ones with Jelly Rowland 86 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,560 Speaker 5: and Laney and Marcus King, who had all participated in 87 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 5: the Grammy Music Cares where I was the honoree last year, 88 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 5: and so they all came and did interpretations of songs 89 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 5: from our catalog, and then I immediately fell in love 90 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,800 Speaker 5: with both Jelly and Laney, and believe it or not, 91 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 5: Marcus was the biggest hit. Like at my table where 92 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 5: Bruce was sitting and Paul McCartney. 93 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 4: Was sitting, they were like, who's that guy? So Marcus 94 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:08,599 Speaker 4: was a huge. 95 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 5: Hit that night, and all those guys said yes to us. 96 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 4: So then it really just became this thing. 97 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 5: Now we need a girl. You know, let's find the 98 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 5: powerful voice girl. Oh, Avril's a great choice. Yeah, let's 99 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 5: call Avril, you know. And and that's really just how 100 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 5: it went down. Cariem Leon, the Mexican singer. He's sort 101 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 5: of like the Garth Brooks, if you will, of Mexico. 102 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 5: And because I've sung in Spanish before, he agreed to do. 103 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 4: We made it look. 104 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 5: Easy in Spanish, you know, for folks in America that 105 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 5: don't know Robbie Williams. 106 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 4: Of course, he's a huge international star. 107 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 5: And I've been around almost as long as we have, 108 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 5: and so you know, asking Robbie to sing on that 109 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:48,240 Speaker 5: same song for. 110 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 4: Europe was a great, you know, great call. 111 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,159 Speaker 3: Well, let's start with Holloman, which features your friend and mine, 112 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 3: Bruce Springsteen. I've never met him. 113 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: Sorry, he's a call to make. 114 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 3: Like I said, he's your friend since its seventies, you know, 115 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:05,039 Speaker 3: way back. 116 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: When, right. 117 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:08,080 Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's still not an easy call. 118 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 5: But when I was playing demos of the album before 119 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 5: we recorded it, he called me even the next day 120 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 5: and the song that stuck out to him was hollow Man. 121 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 5: Like when when you get a call from you know, 122 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 5: the premiere American songwriter and Bruce Springsteen saying, Johnny, that 123 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 5: song and you go, WHOA, I've written one here. So 124 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,640 Speaker 5: then I reminded him a year later, remember that time 125 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 5: you called me, told me how much you loved the song. 126 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:36,240 Speaker 4: That's the one I want you to sing. Yes? And 127 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 4: so of course he said yes and did an incredible job. 128 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: That seems perfect. 129 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 3: Let's check out hollow Man with the Boss and our 130 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio I'll preview feature egg U bon Jovi's. 131 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:56,359 Speaker 1: Forever Legendary edition. Some things really just work, they really do. 132 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: Welcome back to our l prebut party with John Bunjovie 133 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 3: and iHeart Radio. As I mentioned, while your roots sprung 134 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 3: from the rock world, I think your musical palette has 135 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 3: expanded over the years. This album, I believe would be 136 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 3: no exception. You've been making a name for yourself in 137 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 3: Nashville as well. Hear, not only with your bar and 138 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 3: restaurant jb J's right, but also with the initial recording of. 139 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: Forever that was done there. 140 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, and on this album you have some local flavor 141 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 3: folks associated with Music City, including Jason Isbell, the war 142 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 3: in Treaty, Lady Wilson, Jelly Roll who joins our Living 143 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 3: Proof how did the collaboration come to be and what 144 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 3: was it? Honestly, what was it like working with mister Roll. 145 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 3: I'm not at a first name yet. 146 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:39,760 Speaker 4: I don't know Jelly. I didn't know him before the 147 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 4: beginning of twenty twenty four. Okay, so is that the 148 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 4: last the big album came out? 149 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 5: And he had done music cares and big personality, big voice, 150 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 5: great songs, great lyric The only thing bigger than all 151 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,760 Speaker 5: of that is his big heart. And I got to 152 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,560 Speaker 5: know him, and then I got to know Bunny, his wife, 153 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 5: And one of the first interviews that he did was 154 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 5: me interviewing him for Interview magazine. And I also realized 155 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 5: how smart he was, how worldly he was. So this 156 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 5: didn't just happen for him overnight. You know, he's been 157 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 5: paying his dues for a long time, and he came 158 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 5: from rap and he obviously lived a very hard life, 159 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 5: got himself into some you know, message that he wishes 160 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 5: that he hadn't been in. 161 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 4: But look what he's done with that. 162 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 5: You know, he's a very very special man and he's 163 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 5: here for a great purpose in this business and on 164 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 5: this planet. 165 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 4: So that was an easy one. 166 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:39,599 Speaker 5: And a song like living Proof, you know, because it 167 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 5: says for the centers and you know, that kind of 168 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 5: a lyric which I've been writing for better part of 169 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 5: forty years. 170 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 4: It was natural for him and he could deliver on it. 171 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 5: You know, this family Tree's got nothing left to prove now, right, 172 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 5: you know. 173 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 4: And I think that he can relate to that lyric. 174 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: I feel like there probably is. 175 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 3: God, the must have been so much excitement when you 176 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 3: talk to him, too, because he seems like that type 177 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 3: of guy like, hey, you want to do this? 178 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: I go, hell, yeah, I want to do this. I mean, 179 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: I feel like. 180 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 4: That was a reaction that's exactly that's him. He didn't 181 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 4: as a date. 182 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 5: It was really great when you got that kind of 183 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 5: response from from he or anyone else on the record, 184 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 5: when they say, hell yeah, but he's a natural and 185 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 5: he's a pro, and there's nothing more you can say 186 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 5: than he's just a consonant pro. 187 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 3: Which is so funny because as a city here, I 188 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 3: feel like I'm having that reaction too. 189 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, here we are, iHeartRadio. 190 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 3: So many people enjoying this, and I'm like, I remember 191 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 3: when I wore my tassel jacket and saw you at 192 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,560 Speaker 3: the Wister Centrome and I like right. 193 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: Remember back in the day. 194 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, and here I am interview on a stage for 195 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 3: iHeart Radio. 196 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks crazy, appreciate you, thank you. 197 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 3: All right, here's jelly Roll in bon Jobe Living Proof 198 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 3: as our iHeart Radio album preview featuring bon Jovi's Forever 199 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 3: Legendary Edition continues, I'm so glad they like cut the 200 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,840 Speaker 3: mic during the song so they don't hear me trying 201 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 3: to sing along because obviously the albu I've been out before, 202 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 3: we know these songs, especially as jelly Roll bon Jovi 203 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 3: on Living Proof off the new bon Jovie album for 204 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 3: Ever Legendary Edition. Here on iHeartRadio's album preview on Valentine, 205 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,160 Speaker 3: hashtag iHeart bon Jovi, get your copied tonight at midnight. 206 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 1: John. 207 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 3: Another thing I think that sets this album apart from 208 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 3: the original, Besides these amazing collaborations, he is the inclusive 209 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 3: of a new, brand new song, red White in Jersey. 210 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you, very happy with it. You know, is 211 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 4: I can't wait to play. 212 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 5: These songs live. That's the idea, is you know, to 213 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 5: get out to a new song anthemic. I can imagine 214 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 5: what it'll be like, you know, to play it in 215 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 5: front of people. Because the title does say red, White 216 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 5: and Jersey. But it's just that wherever you're from fits 217 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 5: into the slot there, you know. And and it was 218 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 5: an homage to my life at my with my wife 219 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 5: at home. But you know, the idea was who I've 220 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,559 Speaker 5: wanted to make up this joyous record, and we needed 221 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,599 Speaker 5: a little cherry on top. So Jersey came along, and 222 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 5: like I said, I just can't to play them again. 223 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 3: But I guess when you think about it, we would 224 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 3: say for Springsteen, he's right there. 225 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 1: Crown Prince. That's Crown Prince. Just the Prince, just just 226 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 1: the Prince. 227 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 4: The boss is King, the Boss is King. Absolutely gotcha. 228 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: But I did hear speaking of that for a split second? 229 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 3: Did I hear you have a rest up on the 230 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 3: Garden State Parkway? 231 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,680 Speaker 4: Big? Yeah? When they named toilets after you, you know you're. 232 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: Big mile marker one twenty four. If you're in the area, 233 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: check it out. 234 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 5: I know that they see you in New Jersey like 235 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:31,600 Speaker 5: the biggest thing they can give you. 236 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 4: Stuff like that. We don't have, you know, high rises. 237 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 5: So yeah, my my high school and the rest stop 238 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 5: and the theater and the Yeah, I mean it's it's 239 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 5: all kooky. 240 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:42,839 Speaker 4: Stuff. 241 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 3: But so, but we joke about like the phone calls, 242 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 3: about you making them, how important that is. You're calling 243 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 3: an artist, who is the first person called you and 244 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:50,719 Speaker 3: said listen, we've got to rest stop and we want 245 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 3: to name it after you. 246 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 5: Someone from the Governor's office curse because he actually is 247 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 5: as goofy as it sounds. It's the people that you're 248 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 5: in the company of, whether it's Frank Sinatra or Alexander Hamilton. 249 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's not just Joey from you know, 250 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 5: down at the bakery. 251 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 4: It's it's guys that that, you know, Thomas Edison. 252 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 5: Without Thomas Edison, you and I wouldn't be here today, 253 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 5: you know. So the kind of people that they named 254 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 5: these these places after millions of people go. The funny 255 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 5: thing is the kind of phone call I get from, 256 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 5: you know, celebrity extra y that's going to Atlantic City 257 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 5: to perform or going to see their cousins in Jersey 258 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 5: or call you and go, hey yo it well, yeah, 259 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 5: what it's just and Sebastian Manis calcol leaves me a 260 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 5: text and I go, Sugar, I go, this is gonna 261 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 5: absolutely be a skit in your next routine. So you know, 262 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 5: I know I'm wide open to that, but you know what, 263 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 5: Welcome to Jersey. 264 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:56,920 Speaker 1: Hey by the John. All right, let's keep them asic going. 265 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 3: This is our iHeartRadio Album Preview featuring Bonjovies Forever Legendary Edition. 266 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 3: This is Red White and Jersey. Wow, so good up 267 00:13:10,559 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 3: here doing air guitar, air drum, looking like a fool 268 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 3: but absolutely loving that song from Forever Legendary Edition. 269 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: That's bon Job with Red White and Jersey. 270 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 3: Here on our iHeartRadio Album Preview hashtag iHeart bon Jovi. 271 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 3: I'm Valentine. I'm joined with my very good friend, longtime friend. 272 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 3: We've talked many times before this Jon bon Jovi for 273 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 3: an exclusive podcast. 274 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 4: Thanks Budding, yep awesome So. 275 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,560 Speaker 3: Forever Legendary Edition features some very strong and very unique 276 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 3: female singers, including Tanya Trotter from the War Entreaty Lady 277 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 3: Wilson April Lavinia spoke about earlier. What about them and 278 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 3: their vocal styles intrigued you to bring them to the table. 279 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:53,000 Speaker 5: All strong, strong ladies with strong voices. You know this 280 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 5: with these songs are not for the faint of heart. 281 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 5: You know, these aren't whispers, They're all screams, and so 282 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:00,800 Speaker 5: to have each and every one of them on there. 283 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 5: They also had to understand and tell the stories that 284 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 5: we've written and uh and so each of them got 285 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,160 Speaker 5: it completely. They wrapped themselves around the character and became it. 286 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:11,959 Speaker 4: With the Averril. 287 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 5: For for instance, there was not necessarily a girl part, 288 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,120 Speaker 5: but she she got it. You know, the songs called 289 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 5: living in Paradise and it became a boy girls story 290 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 5: when she took on the character of it. 291 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 4: Tanya and Michael Trotter from the Warren Treaty. 292 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 5: She's got that wreath of voice, you know, big, you know, 293 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 5: they're they're they're like old time soul, great big singers, 294 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 5: and they took the People's House, which was, you know, 295 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 5: a socially conscious song, and and took it to another level. 296 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 4: You know. I was really. 297 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,680 Speaker 5: Inspired when I wrote this song about and it was 298 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 5: about the storytelling, but they were about. 299 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 4: Preaching the story. 300 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 6: You know. 301 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: They took it to church, you know, and so again 302 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 4: great vocalists. 303 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 5: And to me, the great singer and the one that 304 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 5: I met as a results again of Music Cares, was 305 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,360 Speaker 5: Laney Wilson. She took I wrote you a song and 306 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:09,800 Speaker 5: made it her own. She took that melody and twisted 307 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 5: it and turned it, put it in a blender. 308 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,200 Speaker 4: So now the harmony. 309 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 5: Really became the melody because she just you know, all 310 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,200 Speaker 5: power to Landy. And I met her that Grammy weekend 311 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:21,840 Speaker 5: in Los Angeles and I just happened to be at 312 00:15:21,840 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 5: this event where she was asked last minute to substitute 313 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 5: for somebody to sing the Barbie song. 314 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 4: I'm just ken. Yeah, But the point. 315 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 5: Is she's just like, tips her cowboy hat and goes 316 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 5: all right, and then she nails it. Then she comes 317 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 5: in she does Born to Follow from the Circle album. 318 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 5: She goes all right and nails it. Then she does 319 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 5: the song with Jelly that she made, you know, big hit, 320 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 5: and then she comes around and says, just leave this 321 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 5: to me. I'll send it to you when I'm done. 322 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 5: So I mean, she's just a master, and she's a 323 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 5: guy's goal. 324 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,480 Speaker 4: You know what I mean by that. I mean she's 325 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,200 Speaker 4: a guy's goal. 326 00:15:57,320 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about that when you Bramfy's artists and 327 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,240 Speaker 3: I want to play the song with you and April 328 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 3: in a couple of seconds here. But when you do 329 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 3: these sessions, how many are studio sessions? How many are 330 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:08,760 Speaker 3: hangs like I feel like somebody like jelly or somebody 331 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 3: would have been like just a massive hang is everybody 332 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 3: hang you get burgers and beers or no. 333 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,040 Speaker 5: Sometimes when people were on the road, you know, yeah, 334 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 5: everybody was somewhere. No, it wasn't whoever's in town, come 335 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 5: down to this studio and we all do it when 336 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 5: you're here, because nobody was anywhere at any given time. 337 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,479 Speaker 5: And it took quite a few months to get everybody 338 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,320 Speaker 5: and their schedules and you know, to call the right people. 339 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 5: I was in the room for just a couple of them, 340 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 5: to be honest, Yeah, not all of them. 341 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 3: So when we look at in particular, April, you make 342 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 3: the phone call to her, you know the history of 343 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 3: her music and everything, and she's just an amazing, amazing 344 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 3: reformer and star. 345 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: How did that phone call go? How did that conversation go? 346 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 3: And she obviously knows your music, loves your music, but 347 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,760 Speaker 3: wasn't necessarily growing up with that early bonjovie stuff like I. 348 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 4: Was, because she's much younger. I don't know the answer 349 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:00,560 Speaker 4: that question. 350 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 5: Okay, you know what I mean, because in fairness, I 351 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 5: don't know the answer to that question. But I'm going 352 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 5: to imagine that she was certainly exposed to it or 353 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 5: knew it from the radio because she was much younger. 354 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 5: But she has her own thing, you know, that that 355 00:17:14,680 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 5: skater boy that you know, the white tank top and 356 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 5: the black tiger like, she had her own character. And 357 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 5: now I realize that she has that second generation a 358 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 5: fan now too. So she also has a lot of 359 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 5: respect and she has a big voice in John Shanks, 360 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,200 Speaker 5: my co producer and buddy mine. He had worked with 361 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 5: her in the past, so they were comfortable and confident 362 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 5: together in the studio and just she delivered. 363 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 3: Let's get into it, bon Jovi abri Levine. This is 364 00:17:41,280 --> 00:18:04,320 Speaker 3: living in Paradise, Hey on Valentine. 365 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: He's John Bonjob. 366 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 3: This is our iHeartRadio album preview featuring bon Jovi's Forever 367 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 3: Legendary edition. 368 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: John. 369 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 3: You make your home mainly in New Jersey, but here 370 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:13,760 Speaker 3: you might be leaving the Garden State, hitting the road 371 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:14,639 Speaker 3: a bit, traveling around. 372 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 4: It's a nice idea. Finally packed the bag. 373 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 5: It's been too long since I've held a microphone professionally. 374 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 5: You know, this radio microphone doesn't really count. 375 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't count for you. 376 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 4: It gets time where you gonna hit the UK Ireland 377 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:26,760 Speaker 4: to here as well? 378 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 5: Yeah, just let's put it this way, We're getting our 379 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 5: feet wet in a few major cities London, Dublin, New York, 380 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,720 Speaker 5: and we'll just build from there. 381 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:37,760 Speaker 1: But tell me about this. I also hear a residency 382 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:38,280 Speaker 1: at MSG. 383 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:40,520 Speaker 4: That's right, that's the idea, you know. 384 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 5: I've always wanted people to come to us in yeah, 385 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 5: instead of me going there, So that's the idea. 386 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 1: So that's a big thing. 387 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:50,199 Speaker 3: You guys have to be so stoked about this, right, 388 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:51,480 Speaker 3: be great, It could be great. 389 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,280 Speaker 1: We'd love to see you getting back in the road too, 390 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: the garden. 391 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 4: It'd be awesome. Yeah, me too, look forward to being back. 392 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 3: When you released Forever last year, you said, for the 393 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,520 Speaker 3: first time, at ten years, I have joy. I'd lost 394 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 3: touch of it for a number of reasons. I set 395 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 3: out to find it, you know, writing making this record. 396 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 3: At the completion of the project, I realized I was 397 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 3: at peace. I really found joy. Talk to me about 398 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 3: the joy that is in your life right now. 399 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 5: It's been a long journey, you know, getting around my 400 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 5: health first and foremost, you know, coming through that, which 401 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 5: was not easy, but it was purposeful. I think, like 402 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 5: everything that every obstacle is the way, and you learn 403 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 5: lessons from these obstacles along the way, But I do 404 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 5: love to make music. And the idea that you write 405 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 5: a song from your heart that means something to you, 406 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:43,360 Speaker 5: you get to share it with these wonderful folks who 407 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 5: come year after year to hear these songs. And I 408 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 5: appreciate that every single time. So, you know, like I said, 409 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 5: with twenty twenty, it was a very topical record. It 410 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 5: was a very interesting time in the world's history with 411 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 5: this house as not for sale, as much more of 412 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 5: a statement record. 413 00:19:57,400 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 4: We had to come and reinvent ourselves. He had again. 414 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,480 Speaker 5: So by the time I got to Forever and what 415 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 5: was going to be the fortieth anniversary, the theme was simple. 416 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 4: It was joy. We wanted to be there. 417 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: You're in a good spot, by the way. 418 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 3: The voice sounds better than ever to me, and I've 419 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 3: heard a lot of you over the years, so everything 420 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:16,360 Speaker 3: sounds great there. 421 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: Congratulations. 422 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 4: I appreciate that. 423 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 3: Last time we talked, you were talking about planning a wedding. 424 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 3: Now you're a peepa I am, or you're a jpaw? 425 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 1: What are you? Yapa Papa? Is that what your papa? 426 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 5: Papa John like the pizzeria? 427 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 3: But what is that amazing feeling that's gonna be a 428 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 3: ton of joy, you know, the first grandchild. 429 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 4: That's amazing, right. 430 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 5: Crazy, crazy, crazy, Yeah, we're a static And that's really 431 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 5: what life is about, isn't it. Your you know, family, 432 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 5: and then your kids and then now your kids are 433 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 5: having kids. 434 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:48,600 Speaker 4: It's mind blowing. 435 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 5: But it's a beautiful time in our family's lives. 436 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 3: So you look at Jake as a dad then, and 437 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 3: it does have to be full circle. 438 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: I'm not there. 439 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 3: My kid's seventeen, So please, God, let's wait a couple, 440 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,399 Speaker 3: you know, a little bit. But it must be so 441 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 3: special as a dad to see your son as a dad. 442 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,639 Speaker 5: You know, they, like we said, when they drop babies 443 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,159 Speaker 5: off at our house some thirty three years ago, they 444 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 5: don't come with a manual. You know, that first night 445 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 5: when the door finally closes and it's just you and 446 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,280 Speaker 5: your significant other air and with a baby, and you go, 447 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 5: where's the instructions? I don't know, And there aren't any instructions. 448 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 5: That's God's you know trick. And as the chapters go 449 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,040 Speaker 5: and the kids grow, you learn together as you go 450 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 5: along the way, and then you pass on what nowedge 451 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 5: they're willing to accept. 452 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 4: And then they got to find. 453 00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 3: Their way, of course, and a bet like for many parents, 454 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 3: that first birth, that first drive home from the hospital 455 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,160 Speaker 3: is probably the slowest drive your entire life. 456 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 4: I remember it very very well. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's great. 457 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 3: In addition to last year's Releasa Forever, there's also a 458 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,520 Speaker 3: documentary we talked about before, thank You good Night, The 459 00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 3: Bonjobe Story. So here we are a year later. Are 460 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,720 Speaker 3: you s you'll feeling the same about that documentary? Has 461 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: it ebbed and flowed for you? 462 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,360 Speaker 5: That's a good question, because truthfully, you don't know when 463 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 5: you're in it how you're going to feel about it 464 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 5: in the years to come. 465 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,119 Speaker 4: I would have to go back and watch it again. 466 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 5: You know, it's been it's been a year, maybe a 467 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 5: little more than a year that it's been out, But 468 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,479 Speaker 5: I haven't gone back to look at it because I 469 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 5: was I was intricately involved in it and the promotion 470 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 5: of it. But I know, I do remember that when 471 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,720 Speaker 5: we were done, I was very proud of the four 472 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:33,439 Speaker 5: episodes and very proud that Gotham Scholpra captured well. 473 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 3: I think it was great because we got to see 474 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 3: the history of you, the history of how the band 475 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:40,320 Speaker 3: went and you growing up through all that stuff because 476 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,199 Speaker 3: you know that's important for people to have. 477 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, all that the archiving is all part of 478 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 5: it for the history, and then the parallel storyline of 479 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 5: the surgery and some of the losses, you know, losing Alec, 480 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 5: you know, that's another bridge that nobody ever intends to cross. 481 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 5: And then you know Richie's leaving the band, so I 482 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 5: don't know, God, teen years ago now you know, who 483 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 5: would have ever thought that would have happened. But through 484 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 5: it all, the bond just grows deeper, and you you're 485 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 5: grateful for the time that you. 486 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,439 Speaker 4: Shared with Alec and Richie, and you're. 487 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 5: Grateful for the time that you have with with Philex 488 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 5: and John and. 489 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 3: Everett, And I guess inherently the music over the years 490 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,640 Speaker 3: is the bond that kind of holds it all together now. 491 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 5: Every every phase of it from Runaway before there was 492 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 5: a band. It's slippery when we became this that iconic thing. 493 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 5: Throughout the years, you know, with the reinvention with It's 494 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 5: My Life, where the countrification of who says you can't 495 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 5: go home? You know, the re establishing yourself with this 496 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,880 Speaker 5: house is not for sale, So everything is just another. 497 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 4: Chapter in our lives. 498 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 5: And when you this is my eighteenth album, you know, 499 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 5: I've been doing this for a long long time, same. 500 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 4: Record company, same record deal. You know, Yeah, that doesn't happen. 501 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 3: Honestly, I've been there long back in the business. That 502 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 3: doesn't happen. 503 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 5: I've been at the label I think longer than anybody else, 504 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 5: you know, for some forty three years now. I've been 505 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,919 Speaker 5: signed to the same record deal. And I'm very proud 506 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 5: of that too, because this, you know, Bob Dylan even 507 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,520 Speaker 5: left Columbia and went back. You know, Bruce has been 508 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,119 Speaker 5: with Columbia fifty years, streisand was with one label, like 509 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:18,920 Speaker 5: you know, it's a badge of honor. 510 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 4: To be with one record company. 511 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,520 Speaker 3: So a seventeen year old kid that goes into high 512 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,639 Speaker 3: school on a Monday and the teacher says, what'd you 513 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,280 Speaker 3: guys do this weekend? And little Billy goes, oh, I 514 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 3: was playing the football game. Soon as he goes oh, 515 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 3: I was hanging out with my friends, and you go, I. 516 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: Was singing with Bruce Springsteen. 517 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 5: Yeah. 518 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: I mean, that's what an amazing career with amazing life, right. 519 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 5: Those guys were very integral to my being here today 520 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 5: because it made the impossible seem possible. I had the 521 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 5: posters on my wall of led Zeppelin and ac DC 522 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 5: and the Who, but they were bigger than bigger than big, 523 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 5: and they were over across the pond, you know, and 524 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 5: it was on the radio. If you were, you know, 525 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,440 Speaker 5: fortunate enough to buy a record. 526 00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 4: Or see him, maybe, but you couldn't touch that. 527 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 5: But twenty five miles south in my house there was 528 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 5: seventeen of them in the bar. The U Street Band 529 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 5: and the Jasbury Jukes are seventeen members between them. Chances 530 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 5: were that they were going to be there, and then 531 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 5: you befriend them, and then they mentor you, and then 532 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 5: you know, relationships were built. So it's cool now that 533 00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 5: we can all sit around like old men and reminisce. 534 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 5: But you know, it's also astounding to me. You know, 535 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 5: I keep talking about my old friend like this. But 536 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:32,919 Speaker 5: I went to a screening of Delivering Me from Nowhere, 537 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:38,080 Speaker 5: and I'm sitting right next to Bruce, and I said, buddy, 538 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 5: this is a time machine because it's nineteen eighty two 539 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 5: Asray Park. This is the summer I write Runaway when 540 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 5: he was playing with cats on a smooth surface. The 541 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,240 Speaker 5: guy in the band was named Bobby Bandiera. He became 542 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 5: our sideman. He was the second guitar player and the 543 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:57,240 Speaker 5: bunch of tours. Bobby would played cover band music I 544 00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 5: had written Runaway. I had an original band, the wild Ones, 545 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 5: was two blocks over, but every Sunday night Bruce would 546 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,280 Speaker 5: go and play with Bobby and Son of a Bitch. 547 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 5: It was like go home because the original bar band 548 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 5: people have to come and pay attention of you writing 549 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 5: your own songs. We finally would go on at seven 550 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 5: point thirty at night in a bar because we all 551 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 5: said screwt. By nine o'clock he's gonna be at the Pony. 552 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 5: We're gonna have to shut down because everybody's going over 553 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 5: to the Pony. Because Bruce would play with the cover 554 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:29,680 Speaker 5: band on Sunday nights, which was the wild Ones night 555 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,119 Speaker 5: at the fast Lane too. So I'm watching the film 556 00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 5: and I go, that's me in the crowd. I'm the 557 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 5: kids watching. And when they're in the studio in the 558 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,919 Speaker 5: film and they're in studio A, that's the room I 559 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,359 Speaker 5: recorded Runaway that year, you know. 560 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,040 Speaker 4: So this was all pretty freaky to me. 561 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 3: Sure, And when you look back at that last you know, 562 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:53,159 Speaker 3: question of this, I feel I mean, obviously you were 563 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 3: destined for this. This is just it's in your DNA 564 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 3: from the start, in my opinion. But you have so 565 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 3: many other loves from charity work and stuff that we 566 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 3: should touch. Jimmyj Sulkitchen a bit in a minute. But 567 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 3: you love football? Now, if you could have flipped a switch, 568 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 3: because I see it all the NFL games and I 569 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 3: see you hanging out Robert Kraft, would you be a 570 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 3: tight end for the past the Giants and a heartbeats right? 571 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 5: I couldn't have even been the punter for I was 572 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 5: the mascot for the Patriots. That's as far as I 573 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 5: could go. 574 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,200 Speaker 1: Did you ever try out for a football team? 575 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 4: I played in pop Warners the last time I played? 576 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, yeah, Well one more song for the radio, 577 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 3: Ryan from One Republic on Seeds. 578 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: How did that come about? That collaboration? 579 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,280 Speaker 5: We actually co wrote this song with me and at 580 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 5: the end I had so much fun because of the 581 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 5: homage to the Beatles. 582 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,040 Speaker 4: And George Martin's string arrangement. 583 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 5: And so this was a unique song, an album track, 584 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 5: but a great story that we are all in fact 585 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 5: seeds trying to find our place in the weeds? Are 586 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,840 Speaker 5: we going to go up to be roses or weeds, 587 00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 5: and I was I was staring at my apartment building 588 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:02,679 Speaker 5: in men and in this department I had, and it 589 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 5: just came to me, there's a deep crack in the 590 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 5: sidewalk in the front porch of my you know, there 591 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 5: the front lone on my street. Whatever I say, if 592 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 5: you don't trip your walk by, there's a whole world 593 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 5: you don't see. And I'm just going like, thank you Lord, 594 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 5: here we go and start scribbling out these lyrics. So 595 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,760 Speaker 5: the song was easy to finish, and so I, you know, 596 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 5: was fortunate enough to co write it with Ryan, so 597 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 5: he was the evident, nobvious choice to sing on it. 598 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 5: And then we had a lot of fun getting David Campbell, 599 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 5: who happens to be Beck's father, to do the string arrangement. 600 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 5: And many people wouldn't know that unless you're in the 601 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 5: record business, but he has done strings and a whole 602 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 5: lot of rock records, many of ours as well. And 603 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 5: so to get David Campbell back into the fold and 604 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,000 Speaker 5: say go full George, you know, let's go full George 605 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 5: on this. So it's a it's a wonderful album track 606 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 5: and one I'm very proud of the lyric and a 607 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 5: feature vocalist is Ryan Tedder and also the collaborator. 608 00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 4: Love it. 609 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's get into it. 610 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,920 Speaker 3: Then the next song seeds John bon Jovi, fantastic, This 611 00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 3: is awesome that I appreciate you. Welcome back to the 612 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio album pib You with bon Jovis Forever Legendary Edition. 613 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 3: Do any of these songs have a different meaning now 614 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 3: that they feature different singers. 615 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 5: I don't know that they have different meanings, But I've 616 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 5: been jokingly saying the songs have gotten better were I 617 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,320 Speaker 5: really liked them before, But some of these versions have 618 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 5: given them a new life, an additional life, you know, 619 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 5: like I said with Laney on I wrote you a 620 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 5: song with Warren Treaty on the People's House, you know, 621 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 5: with Legendary and James Bay of course with Bruce and 622 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 5: so you know, I just think that the whole record 623 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 5: was something I'm very proud of and that's why we 624 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:48,600 Speaker 5: went through this exercise. 625 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 4: But they made them all their own. 626 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,640 Speaker 3: So not necessarily new life, but different life. Just I 627 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 3: think they made them on steroids, right. 628 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:23,000 Speaker 1: I love that. So here's the great part. 629 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:25,120 Speaker 3: We're not done. We have more music from Bonjovies. For 630 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 3: ever legendary edition. Coming up next, we hear from some 631 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 3: of your biggest fans, and you reached out to some 632 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 3: man of their talkbacks through the iHeartRadio app. We'll get 633 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 3: to those next. Let's get to Lady Wilson for a second. 634 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 3: Let's talk about her. The biggest thing in country music 635 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 3: right now, one of the sweetest people out there. I'm 636 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 3: a big fan of hers myself. Yeah, tell me about 637 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 3: that collaboration. 638 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 4: Well, like I've. 639 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 5: Said before, I'm such a fan of her as having 640 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:48,920 Speaker 5: met her at Music Cares in the beginning of twenty 641 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 5: twenty four, and. 642 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 4: Then she's just so versatile. 643 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,160 Speaker 5: When she did the Music Cares event and saying born 644 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 5: to follow, she nailed that when she came to a 645 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 5: Grammy party and was thrust into a situation to sing 646 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,880 Speaker 5: the Barbie song I'm Just Can and made that her own. 647 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 5: Then she jumps up with Jelly Rowland does their duet. 648 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 5: So I knew that she was going to be able 649 00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 5: to deliver for me and I wrote you a song, 650 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 5: but where she took it was beyond my comprehension, to 651 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 5: be honest with you, And I love her so much 652 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 5: because she's a guy's gal and I remember when when 653 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,959 Speaker 5: her and I once got together in Nashville and we 654 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 5: were both, you know, talking about Jelly and how she 655 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 5: had met Jelly and how they'd you know, been buddies together, 656 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,920 Speaker 5: and she says, I'd fight somebody for him, and I went, 657 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 5: that's a song title. Sit down, So we wrote a song. 658 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 5: You know, someday we should use it. But she gave 659 00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 5: me this great, you know title, I'd fight somebody for you. 660 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 5: I was like, that's a great song. 661 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:48,000 Speaker 1: Time and a great video too, probably right, it depends. 662 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:49,600 Speaker 3: Can we hear the song with you guys? You want 663 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 3: to do it? 664 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, let's do it. 665 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 3: Lady Wilson, Lady Wilson, I wrote you a song, Lady Wilson. 666 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 3: Bon Jovi iHeart Radio Alum preview featured bunjovis forever legendary. 667 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,240 Speaker 3: This Valentine Hashig, I heart Bonjob. 668 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 1: You get your copy tonight at midnight. 669 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting when you hear Lady's voice there 670 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 3: in yours and for so many of your friends on 671 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 3: the album, you could almost hear how that would sound. 672 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,360 Speaker 1: Acoustic voice is. 673 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 4: A movie, you know. 674 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 5: I think if the world knew who she was, she 675 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 5: could have been in the star is Born and in 676 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 5: one an Academy or what I think. So with that voice, 677 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 5: I mean I could have imagined Bradley Cooper and Gaga 678 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 5: singing that song in that movie. You know it just 679 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 5: it sounds like that kind of a song for that 680 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 5: kind of a voice. And she's just such a beautiful 681 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:36,680 Speaker 5: and talented girl. I can't just say enough about her. 682 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:37,160 Speaker 4: Love it. 683 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 1: Let's get to our first fan. iHeartRadio talk Back. 684 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 7: Hi, John, this is Dede from Pennsylvania. As a songwriter, 685 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,880 Speaker 7: I would imagine you were always writing or working on 686 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 7: new songs. If that is the case, have you written 687 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 7: any songs recently that are of a social commentary nature 688 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:55,200 Speaker 7: as you have done in the past. 689 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 4: Good question, Thank you for that. I am writing a 690 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 4: bit and there's a bit of it. 691 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 5: They haven't got a theme yet because there's just a 692 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,280 Speaker 5: couple of songs here and there. One has a social commentary, 693 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 5: one is probably more personal, so you know they're varying. 694 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,440 Speaker 4: It's it's way early. 695 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 5: But to me, that's the greatest joy that I have 696 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 5: is when you finish a new song, it's and it's 697 00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 5: still in the notebook. 698 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 4: But when it's in the notebook, you know you've given 699 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,600 Speaker 4: life to something. You know, you know the potential of that. 700 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 5: So yeah, I am writing a bit now and looking 701 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:36,760 Speaker 5: forward to working them up with the guys. You know, 702 00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 5: once we're through these rehearsal phases, let's. 703 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,000 Speaker 1: Get to another talkback. There's another question. 704 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 8: Hi John bon Jovie. This is Rebecca from Riverside and 705 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 8: I just want to say I am a huge fan. 706 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 8: I love your music, and I have a question for you. 707 00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,280 Speaker 8: I remember, back in the eighties maybe the nineties, you 708 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:04,440 Speaker 8: gave away your family home on MTV. Whatever became of that, 709 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 8: I never knew. Let us know. 710 00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 4: I love you. 711 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:14,799 Speaker 5: Bye, that's fun, that's true. I forgot, well, I didn't 712 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:16,800 Speaker 5: really forgets a long time since I thought. 713 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 4: About my family. 714 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,920 Speaker 5: My childhood home was bought by and given away by MTV. 715 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 4: My folks were going to move, and. 716 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 5: MTV approached them and said, we'll buy the house and 717 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 5: then give it away as a contest, which they did. 718 00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,600 Speaker 5: And uh, and it's turned over several times. But it's 719 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,799 Speaker 5: still there. You know, the house is still there. Sure, 720 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,800 Speaker 5: the house and the street. It's back in my hometown. 721 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:44,680 Speaker 5: And if you go to the rest stop and you 722 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,520 Speaker 5: get off of the you know, you turn left and 723 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,399 Speaker 5: you go down the light, you turn right, you get 724 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 5: you end up at my house and go buy the 725 00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:50,880 Speaker 5: high school that's. 726 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:51,440 Speaker 4: Named after me. 727 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,799 Speaker 5: You get off the rest stop that's named after me, 728 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 5: and you go down the street where I used to live. 729 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,520 Speaker 1: Hop on zillow, people go find it off. 730 00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 3: You go all right, a lot more talk back if 731 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 3: you don't mind. 732 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:01,919 Speaker 4: Have been great. 733 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: Let's have one more. 734 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 9: Hey, I'm lady. I'm from Pittsburgh, and it has been 735 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 9: my dream to meet you, Jon bon Jovi since I 736 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,120 Speaker 9: was eleven years old. I'm twenty four now. I was 737 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,759 Speaker 9: born in two thousand and one, and so I guess 738 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,680 Speaker 9: I'm just wondering what it's like to know that young people, 739 00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 9: even people as young as I was when I found you, 740 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 9: still love and adore you, and you are, you know, 741 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 9: their favorite singer, their favorite person, their favorite band. 742 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,440 Speaker 4: Well, that's very kind. 743 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 5: Thank you, that's very sweet, And I don't really know 744 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 5: how to say anything other than. 745 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:41,239 Speaker 6: Thank you, you know, with somebody young like that that's 746 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 6: here in the music, in the second generation of our fan, 747 00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,480 Speaker 6: if you will, and then you know, we've got a 748 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 6: third generation of fan now. 749 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,760 Speaker 4: But when you're around for forty eight years. 750 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,839 Speaker 5: It's like we're saying to Paul McCartney, I never knew 751 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 5: a time without the Beatles. 752 00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,160 Speaker 4: You never knew a time without the Rolling Stones, you know. 753 00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 5: And so young kids would find music and a catalog 754 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,359 Speaker 5: of their favorite artists will stumble over something, and if 755 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,399 Speaker 5: that artist is still active, they get to say, yeah, 756 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 5: you know, I've never known a world without it. 757 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:14,759 Speaker 4: And it's cool. It's absolutely mind blowing that we get 758 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:15,399 Speaker 4: to say that. 759 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 3: All right, it's our iHeartRadio album preview featuring bon Jovis 760 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,239 Speaker 3: Forever Legendary edition. I'm Valentine hashtag iHeart bon Jovi. The 761 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 3: next song is my first guitar, especially guest Marcus King. 762 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 3: Is there a story how you put this together? 763 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,040 Speaker 5: Well, Marcus, being the blues guitarist that he is and 764 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 5: great vocalist, it was evident obvious that he would be 765 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 5: my first choice to do this, and he made such 766 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,879 Speaker 5: an impression at that music cares and he stood out 767 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,120 Speaker 5: so to the other artists he gravitated to this. Now, 768 00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,799 Speaker 5: the song is about my first electric guitar, which I 769 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 5: had then sold as a kid for one hundred dollars 770 00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:01,080 Speaker 5: to a kid in the neighborhood. Forty five years later, 771 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,759 Speaker 5: he sells it back to me, and how much? 772 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 4: Not a lot. 773 00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,879 Speaker 5: He didn't he he could have, you know, he'd done 774 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 5: and he was great and and I'm my part of 775 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 5: the story. I believe this to be true. Is I 776 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,319 Speaker 5: don't think he ever took it out of the case. Yeah, 777 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,480 Speaker 5: I don't think he ever did, because it's still didn't 778 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,200 Speaker 5: It had five. 779 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,920 Speaker 4: Strings on it, not six. It had some sweat, you know, 780 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 4: dried up on it. 781 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 5: And you know, the case was basically made of paper 782 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 5: to begin with. 783 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 4: It was a cheap guitar. 784 00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,719 Speaker 5: But he brought it to one of the soul kitchens 785 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 5: and I met his daughter and we took a photo 786 00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:43,399 Speaker 5: and it's it's magical. So the first thing I did 787 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:45,120 Speaker 5: was I tuned it up and I sat with the 788 00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,160 Speaker 5: five strings. I didn't put a six string even bothered 789 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 5: putting it on it. And I wrote this song all right, 790 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 5: let's hear it. 791 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 3: I heard radio album previous featuring Banjovis Forever legendary, editional 792 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:01,760 Speaker 3: BELLI hashtag is iHeart on Joby. 793 00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,920 Speaker 1: We have one more song and collab. 794 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 3: It's ways with Jason isbel connecting with him musically had 795 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 3: to be an absolute blast. 796 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:12,160 Speaker 5: I would assume, yeah, that was when I was in 797 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:16,480 Speaker 5: the studio for as Well. He's one of my favorite lyricists, 798 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,120 Speaker 5: you know, if you don't think that Elephant or cover 799 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 5: me Up or just some of the songs you wish 800 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 5: you had written. So he came in the studio early 801 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 5: on in the process and wanted to do this one. 802 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 5: And he's just awesome, you know, I mean, he's he's 803 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 5: such a great performer, a great player, great singer, a 804 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:33,959 Speaker 5: great guy. 805 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 4: And I got to be there for it. You know, 806 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 4: it was fun. 807 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,120 Speaker 3: But me, you know, this is his kid that grew 808 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,799 Speaker 3: up in northern Alabama, you in Jersey. Connecting musically like 809 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 3: that as special. 810 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:44,720 Speaker 4: You know when he. 811 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 5: When I went to his show, and he made sure 812 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 5: that his mom and his aunts and his cousins were 813 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,680 Speaker 5: all there because I was coming, and they cut his 814 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 5: musical teeth listening to us, and they all told me 815 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 5: the stories and how he used to play Wanted or 816 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,560 Speaker 5: Alive as a kid. And you know, so you're sitting 817 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 5: there with one of the great lyricists now and hearing 818 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,360 Speaker 5: these stories from his aunt and his mom. 819 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,120 Speaker 4: It was a treat. Yeah, it's a treat. 820 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:18,520 Speaker 3: Well, John, You're gracious. I appreciate the time Thank you all, John. 821 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,799 Speaker 3: iHeartRadio App preview feature in Bonjovis forebber Lessen edition. Pick 822 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,839 Speaker 3: that Up, Pick up the album at midnight, I'm Valentine. 823 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:28,400 Speaker 1: Good night people. 824 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,919 Speaker 2: iHeartRadio Live is a production of iHeart Radio. 825 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,439 Speaker 1: Was produced, edited and mixed by Jordan run Talk. 826 00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,799 Speaker 4: If you like what you heard, please subscribe and leave 827 00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:42,360 Speaker 4: us a review. 828 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeart Radio, listen to the iHeartRadio app, 829 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,240 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.