CLEVELAND, Ohio - Bon Jovi’s 16th studio album, released on Friday, is called “Forever.” Judging by the hyped crowd of fans that acquired tickets for a Q&A session on Saturday afternoon, “Bon Jovi: Forever” isn’t just an album title for a band they love. It’s a way of life.
Bon Jovi, original members keyboardist David Bryan and drummer Tico Torres, longtime bassist Hugh McDonald, guitarist Phil X, percussionist and backing vocalist Everett Bradley and guitarist, co-producer John Shanks sat down with Jason Hanley, the museum’s vice president of education and business engagement, for an hour-plus long chat in the cozy Foster Theater. The 2018 inductees arrived in Cleveland having just played a short six-song set at JBJ’s Nasvhille, the singer’s bar, the first time they had played together for quite a while. Earlier on the red carpet before the chat and immediately after the band walked through the Rock Hall’s “Bon Jovi Forever,” he seemed a bit tired from more than two months of promoting the documentary and the album.
But he gained energy in front of the crowd of fans and rock hall members. “It was beautiful, incredible. I didn’t know they had so much of our stuff.
Now I know where it all is,” Bon Jovi said. “..
. the original lyrics of so many hits and some of the clothes that we had that I’m embarrassed by. They really outdid themselves.
” Though the man and the band have been in reflection mode while shooting the documentary and opening t.