Anybody See Jon Bon Jovi On larry king?

[Dinger]

He was saying how he admired the Dixie Chicks & that dissent is patriotic! Yay!!!!:)

[redwitch]

1. I didn't see it but...

I am in NYC at a hotel filled with Japanese tourists here to see Jon Bon Jovi. Very odd.

[GOPBasher]

2. Jon Bon Jovi is a die-hard Democrat. I remember during the 2000

campaign, he was pushing people to vote for Gore by saying, "I wrote Living On A Prayer in the middle of the Reagan administration and his 'trickle-down' economics policies. I don't want to go back to that."

[QuestionAll...]

4. wow, didn't know that about him...

never did like his music much but he sounds like an honest standup aware kind of guy.

[GOPBasher]

5. Yeah, I think it's cool that he's so rich but yet he hates tax cuts for

the rich. He says he "doesn't need the money." I'm not a big fan of his music either, but he's a realy cool guy.

[Mind_your_head]

19. I know some of those same folks (not Bon Jovi) but

extremely rich ones who say, "I don't need the money, but if the gov'mints gonna give it to me, I'm not gonna say "NO"'....THOSE are the people who won't vote against their own interests (shall we say, "smart").....but yet can't get "behind" people who are being totally financially raped ~ don't know it, won't admit it ~ and won't stand up and say "STOP! ENOUGH"!!!! You can't be in their 'club' (rightfully) if you don't understand enough math.....you don't have to be a 'genius', just a longing for (and a basic understing of) the subject will do.


Oh, one more thing....when it happens to THEM (someone/organization trying to take advantage), they STAND UP and say "NO"....it's a jungle out there. "Civilization" is just the icing on a badly made cake, me thinks.

[Dinger]

6. I Saw Him At A Kerry Rally In Green Bay In 2004

It was not announced, but rumored. Then he came out, and WOW!!!!!!! Never forget it as long as I live, never.

[timontheleft]

3. He also spent several minutes taking about Gore

and how much he admired him. It was a good interview.

[Jeanette in FL]

7. He was fucking awesome

I came on to DU to see if there was an ongoing conversation happening.

I loved the way he deflected Larry's questions. Larry was trying to lead him in to deciding who was right or wrong in Richie and Heather's breakup. He basically said he loved them both and both are suffering.


I loved when he took the media to task saying that the media kept asking the question "Who do you want to have a beer with" He said "I don't need to have a beer with my President, I want him to be smarter than me". This was after Larry asked him why he supported Al Gore. He said Gore was the smartest man he had ever met and that people don't realize the sense of humor he has.


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[driver8]

8. I have seen a couple of interviews with him. I'm not a fan of his

music, but he is definitely one of us. (A little richer, maybe.)

Right on, Bon Jovi! :headbang:

[GardeningGal]

9. He and his band are very generous.

When he was on Oprah last fall promoting their new cd, he surprised her by presenting her with a check for her Angel network for the Katrina victims. I think it's one of the only times I've seen her shocked. The check from the band was for a million dollars.

Good people - whether you like their music or not.

[borlis]

10. That's my guy!!

He is like a male Mary Poppins - "Practically Perfect In Every Way." :P I just saw them at Soldier Field in July and before the show started there were constant video clips of An Inconvenient Truth. What a guy! Now please tell me what's not to like about this?

:loveya: :loveya:











Sometimes I get very frustrated at the bad rap he usually gets here. I have been a big fan since the beginning (1983) and the more I learn, the more impressed I am. Boy, it's getting hot in here. :P

[buff2]

14. Wow........I can't express my thoughts looking at that pic........

:9 :blush:


Oh,and I LOVE his music too!

[Recursion]

11. And he's done massive charity work

For (I think) Boys Town (or something like that for teens having problems) and the United Way. And he manages to be a rock star who does good stuff and isn't an insufferable self-promoting prick or proseletyzing fundie about it.

[borlis]

16. He is also very involved in the Special Olympics and

he built 6 Habitat for Humanity houses recently. Sure he is filthy rich but is really "over" all that and is very involved in "giving back."

[karlrschneider]

12. I caught a few minutes of it but missed the Dixie Chicks part

I've thought he was a pretty decent guy for many years...not a big fan of his music (but I do like
one song..."Sleeping in the Roses..?") something like that.

[borlis]

13. Bed of Roses n/t

[karlrschneider]

15. Right...thanks!

:D

[laundry_queen]

17. I saw it.

I've been a fan since, oh, I was 10 or so. Not a rabid fan, but a fan. lol. Even saw Bon Jovi in concert once. But until tonight I didn't know his Democratic leanings. Makes me even more of a fan :)

[Beausoir]

18. He has a proven track record of being a nice guy. He has legions of fans.

Real die-hard Jersey fans. Thousands and thousands and thousands of them.

The guy is ok in my book. And cute, too.

[Scout1071]

21. I'm a longtime fan.

And they have just gotten better in time. Honestly, if you had asked me back in the 80's hair bands would still be together, have their act together and actually still putting out hits, I don't think I would have ever said Bon Jovie.

But here they are....

On a side, not a Jersey girl!

[Lisa]

20. very impressive!

When I think of all the negative stereotypes about rockers -- that they don't know anything about hard work, that they're unstable or exploitative in their personal and professional relationshps, that they're inarticulate and self-centered -- it's so good to see someone like Jon Bon Jovi come along and refute all that.

He modestly said, more than once, that he didn't consider himself to be smart enough to hold public office. Well, the gang in the White House now are much less thoughtful and intelligent.

I particularly enjoyed how he slammed the hype about Bush being the type of guy you'd want to have a beer with -- he nicely summarized how this is NOT a relevant question for a political candidate.

p.s. does anyone else remember -- right after the concession speech in 2000, Jon Bon Jovi got together some other musicians for a jam session, to cheer up the Gores? I always thought that was a very cool gesture.


"At some point Bon Jovi was chatting with Michael Feldman, Gore's traveling chief of staff. "Jon and I and a couple of people were at the bar," Feldman remembers. "There was talking about what had happened, and at some point Jon said, 'This is a great party, but couldn't you get a better band?' I said, 'Why don't you play?' He said, 'Can I borrow your cell phone?' "

Bon Jovi called some "friends" who were in town to play for a charity fundraiser. Presently the gates opened and Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty, and John Popper of Blues Traveler entered the grounds. They borrowed the band's instruments and jammed; Tipper played percussion; Tom Petty played "I Won't Back Down." "You were dancing, you'd bump into someone and you would turn around at it would be Al Gore, getting down," says Philippe Reines, a member of Gore's communications staff."

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