Jon Bon Jovi... Wedding Singer?

So this happened. Jon Bon Jovi was coerced to sing at a wedding recently. He was a guest and presumably just wanted to be left alone. 

Things didn't go as planned. 

The wedding band did a cover of "Livin' On a Prayer." As you'll soon find out, the band is out of tune and the tempo is weird, but Jon got up and sang anyway. Poor guy looks... pissed.

Comments

[Bob]

Wow! What a nightmare! I've never been a fan of Bon Jovi, but nobody deserves to have to go through that.

[Kixchix]

Best post on BBG this year!

So many things going on here. Jon is annoyed, wedding is lame, band sucks.

[Metalboy!]

WOW!!! Haha!! Sambora fared far better as wedding singer at another this weekend... AND he had Orianthi on back-up vocals!...

http://m.tmz.com/#article/2016/07/10/richie-sambora-wedding-singer-video-jon-bon-jovi/

[Him]

I think this is penance for the music with which he has gifted us! Be gracious, Bon Raviloli. K-Tel released more slamming music.

Sambora, on the other hand, had no idea where he was. He parked his car in a tree. And he remarked, off camera, that Anna Nicole Smith looked "slimmer."

[Rita]

Ha Ha Him. Awesome comments as usual.

I agree with you Kixchix. That video was funny as hell.

That grey hair has to go though. Does nothing for him. He'd look 20 years younger if he ditched it. Growing old gracefully is totally overrated btw. IMO anyway.

[Brian C.]

That was wrong of the band.

100% WRONG.

[Bob]

Exactly, Brian C. the amazing thing is that this Lourdes Valentin chick doesn't even realize what an uncomfortable position she and her fifth grade stage band musicians put Bon Jovi in.

[Metalboy!]

Haha!!, HIM!

Yeah, I got no sympathy for Bon Ravioli OR Sambora, demo tape thieves as they are.

Still, if you click on the link posted in my earlier comment above, you will see AND hear a far better performance from Sambora at another wedding this past weekend.

To Bob's point, as you'll see in the Sambora clip, they set it up right for him to play guitar and lead everyone in song whereas Bon Jovi has to deal with a third rate wedding band, a situation far more embarrassing.

[Gary]

Ive said it before and I'll say it again. Richie Sambora has ALWAYS had the best voice in Bon Jovi. The Guys sang "Drift Away" from Dobie Gray a Capella at a concert I was at back in about 1987, and he gave me goose bumps when he did his verse it was that soulful. It's a shame he's an alcoholic pill guzzler now, as he truly has talent to burn...

[Dj]

He dosent look to happy, even though he's smiling it dosent look sincere. It must be tough to be such a recognizable face that people will do things like that and not respect your privacy.

[Metalboy!]

DJ! There you are, Boy! Where ya been?!

Yeah, Gary, I see what you mean... Sambora looks pretty wasted in that clip with Orianthi I posted in my earlier comments... Geeez!

[Bkallday]

Growing old gracefully can still work well for those ppl that have the desire and drive to actually take care of themselves. Smoking cigs, caking on makeup, not working out and staying in shape, and tanning, can all take serious tolls on the human body. Nothing worse than someone trying to look young when they really just look sad & sloppy as hell.

[Koz]

Sambora was wasted but he sounded good. JBJ is still a class act. He was probably thinking WTF!! I felt bad for him. He needs to ditch the gray hair and grow it out. Get back to being bad ass!

[Him]

I think we have hit upon a product that can finally--finally!!!--pay for the Rock Yacht and Party Bus that Metalboy! has been promising us for years (upon either of which Ace can finish writing his epic tome).

A whole line of "Just for Metal Men" hair colors! Lemmy Black; Bonravioli Frosted Delight; Plunkett Red; Tramp Blonde; and so on. Tagline: "Only their groupies know for sure."

Respectfully (and with tongue in cheek), Koz, can you point me to that point in time when BJ was a "bad ass"?!!? A heartthrob? Sure. A poppy lil' slice of cheesey metal with a dollop of fabricated edge on the side? Yup. The most effortlessly "hard" they sounded was "In and Out of Love" (my humble opinion). But bad ass? An in-his-prime Joe Elliott would have gone Irish (I know, mixing up parts of the royal dominion) on BJ . . . in a Union Jack half-shirt and bedazzled jeans, no less!

[Bkallday]

Bon Jovi a bad ass??? Now I've heard it all! Lmfao

[Him]

Like a comet, we have another thing we agree about Bkallday! We continue to surprise me.