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Thursday, 03 January 2008 13:57 |
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 Starpulse.com reports that Jon Bon Jovi is so content with making new albums and touring that he doesn't need chart success to make him happy. The Bon Jovi rocker admits the band will never be as popular as they were in their 1980s heyday, but they don't care as long as they can continue to make a living out of music.
He says, "It's not about having to prove anything any more. I think we feel that less and less with each album - we know what we've achieved."
The 45-year-old also insists it is important to keep coming up with
new and original material - which is why the band opted for a country
influence on their latest album Lost Highway, which was recorded in
Nashville, Tennessee and features a duet with LeAnn Rimes.
He adds, "It's important we experiment. Without experimentation there
wouldn't be growth, and you risk becoming something of a nostalgia act,
trying to repeat past successes." As previously reported, according to Ticketnews.com,
it appears that you can add BON JOVI to the list of artists scalping
tickets to their own shows for hundreds, even thousands, of dollars
above face value. The New Jersey-bred band, headed by heartthrob Jon
Bon Jovi, is currently on tour supporting its top-selling album Lost
Highway.
TicketNews discovered that within minutes of tickets going on sale
this month on Ticketmaster.comfor several Bon Jovi shows, tickets that
had not been made available to the public originally were posted on
Ticketmaster’s TicketExchange website, often for exorbitant prices. Bon
Jovi’s current tour has been a top seller overall, but the band
struggled a bit when it tried to sell out a ten-date residency at the
new Prudential Center in their home state. Those shows eventually sold
out.
Bon Jovi joins Van Halen and other artists in the ticket scalping game as a way of maximizing revenues on their current tour.
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