A conversation with Jeff Kazee about touring with BonJovi, writing with Southside Johnny, a brush with death, romance and riding the Blue-Bread-Truck… All of this talking took place between January and March 2006 in Queens, NY, USA – Luedinghausen, Germany and – virtually – many harbors in between..:
KB: Jeff, how are things going in Queens? The blizzard must have been a hit…
JK: Yeah, we got hit with 27 inches of snow-but guess what? I was in Miami Beach Florida the whole time! My wife was cursing me out left and right because she had to deal with it. My kids truly loved life-sledding and best of all… no school. I’m right in the middle of the Have A Nice Day Tour with BonJovi right now so I kind of get a free pass from domestic reality for a while… until I come home – then it’s Mr. Fixit with the old lady standing over me.
KB: Oh well, I’m glad for your kids and I also feel with your wife! We had some blizzard the weekend before the Jukes were scheduled in Osnabrück, never had that much snow since a century. It seems to me that you made some fair good choices regarding that. But I also see a point that the Bon Jovi tour crew had enough of flying under heavy weather! So how is the tour going?
JK: Ha, I assume you are referring to our brush with death when Bon Jovi’s charter jet overran the runway in Hamilton, Ontario. That was a bit scary – poor Bobby Bandiera, we had to carry him off the plane in tears. Seriously, it was a bit more unsettling when I saw the picture of the mishap in the news.
