According to a report by the New York Post, BON JOVI frontman JON BON JOVI slammed overblown pop sensation JUSTIN BIEBER recently for showing up late for multiple concerts earlier this spring and disappointing his fans.
Bieber was scheduled to take the stage at London’s O2 Arena at 8:30 p.m. recently but finally appeared around 10:20 p.m. He later issued a lengthy apology on his Twitter account, blaming “some technical issues.”
Jon Bon Jovi. “Do it once, you can be forgiven. Do it enough times and shame on you. They (the fans) won’t have you back. Then it just becomes a cliché. It’s really not cool — you’re an asshole. Go to fuckin’ work!”
Regardless of the BW&BK staffers‘ opinions of Bon Jovi’s current musical direction, a tribute to the performances that earned them fame the hard way…
Former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach says that he is “friends” with Jon Bon Jovi again after he didn’t speak to the BON JOVI frontman for many years following a dispute over money.
Despite the fact that the 1989 debut album from the Bach-fronted SKID ROW went five times platinum and produced several hit singes — including “18 And Life”, “I Remember You” and “Youth Gone Wild”, there was a lot of bitterness surrounding its success, largely due to the fact that in return for the helping hands of Jon Bon Jovi, SKID ROW reportedly had to enter a publishing deal with Jon‘s newly established Underground Music Company in which they waived their rights to publishing royalties. All money was paid to Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora. After a public dispute, Richie Sambora gave his share of the money back to SKID ROW.
Speaking to ArtScenics TV this past June at the Hellfest festival in Clisson, France, Bach stated about his relationship with Jon Bon Jovi (see video below), “Bon Jovi took us on our first tour and we signed some papers with him that he got a cut of, if we made it big, that he would get compensated for helping us out. Nobody expected us to get as big as we got. Nobody thought that we would become a big band. That happens all the time in the music industry. Jon was like, ‘We’ll take you on tour, but if you guys make it big,’ then he gets a cut of it. So I was bitter about that for awhile, but then I realized that we probably wouldn’t have made it as big, or maybe at all, if he didn’t take us.”
He continued, “I actually had dinner with Jon a couple of years ago. We were staying at the Mandarin Oriental in London — me and Axl [Rose, GUNS N' ROSES singer] — and we were sitting there. And the waitress says, ‘Hey, guess who’s over in the corner.’ And me and Axl go, ‘Who?’ She said, ‘Jon Bon Jovi.’ And I go, ‘Get the fuck out of here.’ He was in the corner. And I didn’t know what to do. ‘Cause we had had words… Most of them were mine. [laughs] So I go, ‘You know what?! Fuck this. I’m gonna go over there and say ‘Hi’ to him.’ ‘Cause we used to be great, great friends; I had Christmas dinner at his house and stuff. So I stood up and walked over towards Jon, and Jon was looking at me, going, ‘Are you gonna be a dick or are you gonna be nice?’ He’s looking at me, like, ‘What are you gonna do? What are you gonna say?’ And I was like, ‘Hey, man, how is it going?’ And he was, like, ‘Hey, man?’ And we stood up and we hugged and then he came over to me and Axl‘s table and we drank about 15 bottles of red wine, had a great time. He gave me his phone number and I’ve texted him a couple of times. He’s a good guy. We’re friends again.”
According to Rock News Desk, the musician who played with Phil Lynott and Gary Moore in Irish 1960s band SKID ROW has explained his frustration over the US outfit once fronted by Sebastian Bach taking his name.
And he says long-standing stories about Moore having been paid by Jon Bon Jovi for the name are untrue.
Brush Shiels founded his blues-rock act in 1967, and gave Moore his first professional music role. They toured across the US and Canada and released three albums before splitting in 1972.
He’s continued using the Skid Row name and is poised to release a new record under the title. But he’s issued a plea for Jon Bon Jovi or his management to contact him and explain what happened when they decided to call Bach’s band Skid Row in 1986.
Shiels says: “Philo, Gary and myself toured America, playing with FRANK ZAPPA, THE ALLMAN BROTHERS, IGGY AND THE STOOGES. ROD STEWART and THE FACES never turned up so we topped the bill. Everybody knew us.
“A couple of years ago, I’m looking at MTV and Sebastian Bach, the ex-singer of the American band Skid Row. He said they paid Gary Moore $35,000 for the use of the name.
“Now, I know for a fact this is a complete lie. I got in touch with Seb, and he said as far as he was concerned it was the truth. But that couldn’t be the truth.
Brendan “Brush” Shiels, founding member of the late 1960s/early 1970s Irish blues-rock act SKID ROW — which is best known as legendary guitarist Gary Moore‘s first professional band — has posted a YouTube video in which he accuses the American rock group SKID ROW of using the band name without his permission. He also discusses how he believes the story that Moore received a $35,000 payoff by the American band for the use of the name is nonsense and reveals that he has unsuccessfully tried to contact Jon Bon Jovi (with whom the Sebastian Bach-fronted SKID ROW reportedly signed a publishing deal prior to releasing its first album) and Doc McGhee, early manager of the the American SKID ROW, to resolve the SKID ROW name issue once and for all. Shiels also talks about his ex-SKID ROW bandmates, the late Phil Lynott and Gary Moore.
Shiels‘ video message can be seen below. Also available is a separate YouTube clip containing a track from Brush‘s new SKID ROW album. Source: Blabbermouth.net
