Bon Jovi frontman Jon Bon Jovi has admitted that screaming young groupies are a thing of the past for the band.
The rockers says their teenage female fans have been replaced by older women – but he says he is not complaining.
Jon, 47, said: “Now they [the groupies] are cougars and MILFs.
“It’s good to be us.”
Jon Bon Jovi is accusing someone of trying to sell parts of his soul – his Arena Football team Philadelphia Soul that is. A former employee of the 2008 Arena Bowl champs is being sued by team owner Bon Jovi and his Arena League Football team for allegedly making his own version of their championship rings and selling them to the general public. According to a lawsuit, Joe Krause, a former sales manager for the team, organized an event at which the rings were for sale. Bon Jovi alleges that the design for the ring, as well as any use of the Soul logo, belongs to him. He is suing for damages and asking for all the infringing materials to be destroyed.
Almost everything has been hit by the recession but concerts seem to be doing ok for now. Most other businesses are already floundering but the concert industry is actually boasting one of its best years ever as it scored just under $4 billion worldwide, a 13% increase from last year. Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and Madonna are the top 3 when it comes to ticket sales. Billboard’s concert industry writer figures that it’s because live music is “not something you can get a fix for somewhere else.” He was pretty quick to warn though that “it would be crazy to think that the economy and unemployment won’t impact ticket sales at some point.”
3 Doors Down recently filmed an exclusive live performance for IHeartMusic.com which features a version of the Bon Jovi staple, ?Wanted Dead Or Alive? which will blow you away! The band also performs classics from their back catalog plus a few off their recently released self-titled album. The videos also include an interview with 3 Doors Down vocalist Brad Arnold.
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Bon Jovi have announced plans for a band documentary, appointing an acclaimed director to helm the project.
Barbara Kopple will put together the movie, as the veteran rockers prepare to embark on their upcoming world tour. The Oscar-winning filmmaker is expected to cut old and new footage together for the currently untitled documentary, which was revealed this week by the band.
Guitarist Richie Sambora said Bon Jovi were eager to be seen in the same wide screen light as some of their rock ‘n’ roll peers.
“We just realized that (over) all the years, we really didn’t document enough stuff. We put out a box set a few years ago, but we look at other bands, contemporaries like U2, even Tom Petty and Aerosmith, and they had cameras rolling all the time. We didn’t have a lot of footage like that going on”, said the star, who admitted the project was “a work in progress”, with no official release date.