Jersey boys Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora join me here In the Studio for a particularly revealing look behind the curtain at the price of a permanent address in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on New Jersey‘s thirty-fifth anniversary. In September 1988 it took a musical effort the size of New Jersey to successfully follow up the phenomenon of Bon Jovi’s spectacular Slippery When Wet two years earlier, and the Garden State greats were more than up to the challenge, conjuring up the rock’n’roll spirit with the Pentecostal pew-jumping “Lay Your Hands on Me”; delivering doses of the FDA-approved “Bad Medicine”; the cinematic “Blood on Blood”, the jukebox singalong “Born to Be My Baby”, the #1 “I’ll Be There for You”, and hidden beach gems like “99 in the Shade”. –Redbeard
Tag: “Born to Be My Baby”
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Bon Jovi- Born to Be My Baby- acoustic 1988
The members of the band Bon Jovi were surfing the curl of rock stardom exactly thirty-five years ago. The tsunami wave had been propagated two years earlier by Slippery When Wet, which had never stopped selling. They had graduated from journeymen support act to arena headliners, written another batch of songs, somehow found the time to record them, and were dropping the new album New Jersey at summer’s end 1988. When Dick Asher, the president of the record label to which Bon Jovi was signed, invited them to be his guests to see the New York Giants hosted by the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football, the boys in the band heartily agreed to fly with him to Big D. Getting their luggage loaded into their vehicles curbside at the Dallas/ Ft.Worth airport, however, another vehicle pinned the label executive between the two vehicles, fracturing his legs. Asher nevertheless made arrangements to have attendants carry him to his seat in Texas Stadium BY STRETCHER and did not miss the Giants game! Somehow in all of the drama, Jon Bon Jovi remembered to slip me a cassette of this acoustic demo of “Born to Be My Baby”, which remained unreleased for decades. –Redbeard