Word: jovi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't need to be a tattooed 16-year-old with long, stringy hair living in central New Jersey to like them. These songs were loud but not threatening, performed by bands with names like Journey, not Megadeth. They were about finding love, mending relationships and, in Bon Jovi's words, keeping the faith. Most importantly, you'd see them on the charts and hear them on Top 40 radio. For a short time, this convergence of pop and metal was America's music...
...points, Oasis cribs from bands other than the Beatles. Much of the album is informed by the crunching blues-rock of the Rolling Stones. One of the worst songs, however, draws from a less impressive source: the spaghetti-western-style guitar work on Fade In-Out echoes Jon Bon Jovi's rock gunslinger song Wanted Dead or Alive...
...there's nothing wrong with being influenced by other bands (as long as they've got better musical credentials than Bon Jovi). As former Beatle McCartney pointed out recently, the Beatles borrowed some of their style from performers such as Chuck Berry. However, Oasis would be a better band if it started to innovate more and imitate less. If we want to hear the Beatles, we can listen to their Anthology records...
...Acting is much, much, much easier than music," says JON BON JOVI. He may be speaking prematurely. (He's only just started his second movie.) But, for now, films--and some music--are what Bon Jovi wants to make. After getting gentle reviews for his role in Moonlight and Valentino, he is playing the leading man, a big Hollywood star, in The Leading Man. "It's a stretch," insists Bon Jovi, who has been taking acting classes for five years. "The guy's such a chameleon." He plans to fit more movies around his music tours, but Sly Stallone...
...heavily hyped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum all-star concert: "This is what sickened me. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, those people have earned their place in rock history, and I want to hear them anytime. But where was the representation of rock right now? Bon Jovi does not represent rock right now, O.K.?" And he expresses scorn for rockers he sees as imitations: "Let's face it, Alanis Morissette is like a tame Courtney Love [a former girlfriend of Corgan's who now heads the punk band Hole]. What is Alanis Morissette being held up as? This...