Jon Bon Jovi has addressed hypothesis that former Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora will rejoin the band.
Talking solely within the emblem new factor of Vintage Rock mag, the singer finds that he has spoken to Sambora simply two times because the latter left the band mid-tour in 2013 – and {that a} reunion with the guitarist isn’t at the playing cards.
“It was once a surprise,” says Bon Jovi of Sambora’s unexpected departure prior to a display in Calgary, Canada on April 3, 2013. “No person expected it, no person noticed it coming. I talked to him the day prior to, I commit it to memory so smartly. It was once Easter Sunday, 2013, and I used to be riding during the Lincoln Tunnel as I used to be chatting with him, as a result of I used to be dwelling in New York, and I used to be like: ‘Yeah, I’m feeling nice, the album [2013’s What About Now] is gonna are available in at Quantity One, see you up there.’
“He mentioned: ‘Can I keep house yet one more day?’ ‘In fact. You wish to have to fly personal the next day to come? Certain. Do it. I don’t care. See you up there.’ After which the following day the telephone rings at 3 within the afternoon, and, you already know… ‘I will be able to’t move on.’”
Sambora later mentioned his departure was once in part right down to feeling that the band have been getting “stale”, one thing Bon Jovi refutes.
“I didn’t assume so, and the collective, we didn’t assume so,” he tells Vintage Rock. “I for my part concept that the entirety was once going extremely fucking smartly. And it was once by no means introduced up within the room, or within the writing, or within the recording, or all over the primary 20 displays of that excursion.”
Whilst Bon Jovi admits to nonetheless being “heartbroken” over Sambora’s departure, prior to including that he has slightly spoken to his ex-bandmate during the last 11 years.
“I’ve talked to him two times,” he says. “He. Hand over. The. Band. I swear to Christ there was once by no means a struggle, not anything… He wasn’t kicked out, he hand over. And he hasn’t made any nice overtures about coming again.”
After Sambora pulled out of the Calgary gig, Bon Jovi enlisted guitarist Phil X to interchange him on the display and at the next excursion. In early 2014, the singer showed that Sambora had hand over the band completely.
In November 2023, the guitarist – who in brief reunited along with his previous bandmates when Bon Jovi have been inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Status in 2018 –mentioned his go back to the band “may just indubitably occur” as a part of the band’s fortieth anniversary celebrations. Alternatively, Sambora was once reportedly disillusioned with new Bon Jovi docu-series Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Tale, which was once launched remaining month.
“Richie flew out to look Jon and taken him a birthday provide – a in point of fact great guitar – however they screened Jon’s documentary as an alternative,” a consultant for the guitarist instructed Other folks mag. “Richie left after the 3rd episode as a result of he was once unwell and bored with what he was once seeing.”
Learn the total interview with Jon Bon Jovi within the emblem new factor of Vintage Rock mag, out now. Order it on-line and feature it delivered instantly on your door.
