Hope Concert V - Blue Christmas (5Videos)
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Nothin' But a Party: Jon Bon Jovi & Friends (3 Videos)
Man, I love these shows… Why can’t they go on tour with that lineup?
John & Jon - Talk To Me @ Stephen Talkhouse
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, featuring Jon Bon Jovi at Stephen Talkhouse 9/3/2010
Bonjovi feat. Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes (2010)
Treat Her Right – Bonjovi featuring Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
Live at the Blossom Music Center, Cleveland, Ohio, July 12 2010
Another night for the books of fabulousicity…
Video by momsdorm
The Induction Ceremony Of The New Jersey Hall Of Fame (2 Videos)
Southside Johnny & LaBamba and the Hubcaps at the NJ Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony 2009 – I Don’t Want To Go Home
Blame It On The Love!
There obviously must be a never ending source of musical talent in New Jersey. Lee from Down Under (Australia!) reports of some more new, fresh and exiting newcomers demonstrating just this fact during a private show at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey on February 23rd…
Back at the Basie
BACK AT THE BASIE WITH BANDIERA, BONDS, BON JOVI, & MR. GRINCH – DEC. 22. 2008: Springsteen drops in to wish Red Bank crowd a Merry Christmas, Baby!
It’s all cold down along the beach… the wind’s whipping down the boardwalk… and it’s freezing in Red Bank, where Bruce showed up tonight to bring some extra warmth to the newly renovated Count Basie Theatre. Just as in 2006, with no area holiday shows of his own, Springsteen chose to join in the festivities at Bobby Bandiera’s Hope Concert.
On the bill with Bandiera’s Jersey Shore Rock-N-Soul Revue were Tim McLoone and the Shirleys, Brian Fallon, Nicole Atkins, Gary U.S. Bonds, Southside Johnny, and Jon Bon Jovi; Springsteen’s surprise appearance came at the end of the night, as he joined the house band and a few of the bill-toppers for a few Christmas songs, two classic covers, and one of his own.
The night’s format had crossover between artist’s sets: Gary U.S. Bonds (after notably performing Bruce’s “Action in the Street”) was joined by Southside Johnny for “This Little Girl” to segue into Southside’s set; Johnny was joined on his last song by Jon Bon Jovi for “This Time It’s For Real.” When it came to Bon Jovi’s last song, out came Springsteen to back him up on “Run Run Rudolph,” playing lead guitar and hollering backup on the final chorus.
“Happy holidays!” said Bruce, otherwise a man of few words tonight. (Leave the quotables to Southside: “I’d wish you a merry Christmas, but it would be out of character” and “I get so sentimental, I have to drink myself into oblivion.”) Springsteen opened his own set with a doubleshot of his holiday B-sides, “Merry Christmas, Baby” followed by “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Southside — “Mr. Grinch” — joined in on the latter, and LaBamba came downstage to take Clarence’s part, “you better be good for goodness’ sake.” (LaBamba and Mark Pender brought the horn section headcount to eight for Bruce’s set.)
After Bruce went it alone on “634-5789,” Bon Jovi came back out to split the vocals on “Tenth Avenue.” And a final encore, as Springsteen was joined by Southside, singing lead, and Bonds for a rousing “Havin’ a Party.” Weather outside: frightful. Inside: plenty hot.
Source: BACKSTREETS.COM
Bonjovi and Bruce keep Hope alive
RED BANK – There already was star power a-plenty on the stage of Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank Monday night, and then Jon Bon Jovi introduced Bruce Springsteen.
BY KELLY JANE COTTER – Music Writer – December 23, 2008
“It ain’t Santa Claus,” Bon Jovi said, announcing a special guest. “We got something better.” Like his fellow rockers at Monday’s Hope Concert, Springsteen took the stage in a low-key manner, providing guitar solos and backing vocals to Bobby Bandiera’s lead on “Run Rudolph Run.”
Springsteen soon took center stage, with back-to-back performances of “Merry Christmas, Baby” and his definitive version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.” He directed the band and led the audience in cries of call-and-response. “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” soon followed, and all was merry and bright.
A finale of “Having a Party,” with Southside Johnny Lyon on lead, backed by Springsteen, Bandiera, Gary U.S. Bonds and the band, capped an evening that raised more than $250,000 for the Parker Family Health Center in Red Bank, as well as thousands of cans of donated food for the FoodBank of Monmouth/Ocean Counties.
This was the fourth Hope Concert, a tradition founded and organized by Bandiera, a longtime member of the local music scene who currently tours with Bon Jovi. Earlier in the night, Bon Jovi sang “Blue Christmas,” and then gave an optimistic wish for the new year and the new president, Barack Obama.
The IV. HOPE Benefit Concert (5 Videos)
Bobby Bandiera’s IV. HOPE Christmas Bash is over since just a few hours… and here’re already the first videos to come in via YouTube of what has been, as it seems like, another marvelous night at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ.
THIS TIME IT’S FOR REAL
Jeff Kazee - In And Out Of The Harbors
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.
