That monumental performance inspired the UnPlugged TV series and the UnPlugged movement in music. Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora made history when they took to the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1989 and performed 'Livin' On A Prayer' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive' with just two guitars. The concept of stripping the songs down to their basic elements and performing them acoustically is nothing new for Bon Jovi. "I'm so excited - I literally cannot wait to get into the studio everyday and get to work." "I am having the most fun I've ever had working on this album," elates Richie Sambora.
The long hours in the studio have been some of the most creative and productive the band have ever experienced. Tempos and instrumentations, phrasings and arrangements have been revamped and each track is as if it were a brand new song. Songs sung aloud to crowds of 80,000 morphed into intimate serenades. The band joined forces with veteran producer PAT LEONARD (Madonna, Rod Stewart, Elton John) and began the process of choosing which of the many hits the team would rework. We made a complete left turn and took the project down a different road." But once we began experimenting with the songs and trying out new ideas we created a very different, unique album. "We had a definite idea of the record we were going to make. "We went into the studio thinking we were making an acoustic record," says Jon Bon Jovi. Each song has been broken down to its core elements, re-discovered and re-crafted, constructing an album that takes the songs you thought you knew in a whole new direction.
(In addition to the Bon Jovi hits, which include 'Born To Be My Baby,' 'Keep The Faith,' 'It's My Life' and 'Wanted Dead or Alive,' the band has included two new songs, 'Last Man Standing' and 'Thief of Hearts'.) THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT is not the band performing their most popular songs with two acoustic guitars. Co-produced by PAT LEONARD, JON BON JOVI and RICHIE SAMBORA, THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT is a showcase of the band's greatest hits, each completely reworked from an acoustic base with new arrangements and various styles. And at the end of the day, IT'S ALL ABOUT THE SONGS.īON JOVI are set to release THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT on NOVEMBER 4, 2003. Multiple Grammy Nominations in the past three years.Ģ000 - 2003 have been incredibly successful (and busy) for one of the most recognized and beloved rock groups in the world. Two studio albums and one live album in three years. In the past three years: Three sold-out world tours in three years. The #4 All-Time Greatest NFL MUSIC EVENT in Rolling Stone magazine #4 All-Time Greatest MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS Live Performance #3 TOURING ACT in 2003 as voted by readers of Rolling Stone magazine. One of the TOP 10 GROSSING CONCERT TOURS of 2003 New York, NY - First-ever to headline the NFL KICKOFF Spectacular in Times Square, NYC. Finally, this album also includes another ballad, “In These Arms,” but I prefer the version that David Bryan recorded for his Lunar Eclipse album.BON JOVI: THIS LEFT FEELS RIGHT / BON JOVI SET TO RELEASE GREATEST HITS WITH A TWIST (NOVEMIN THE US/CANADA, NOVEMBER 3 INTERNATIONALLY AND OCTOBER 29 IN JAPAN) Keep the Faith also includes one of their best rock ballads: “Bed of Roses.” Written during the band’s break between New Jersey and Keep the Faith, “Bed of Roses” features somewhat autobiographical lyrics about one of Jon’s nights at a hotel, and is still one of my favorite of their songs. It’s a hell of a song, and one of Bon Jovi’s best. It gradually builds into an extended guitar solo, one of Richie’s best. And then there’s “Dry County,” a nearly ten-minute-long epic about people impacted by the decline of the oil industry. Despite an undercurrent of cynicism, the title track’s chorus is made for singing along to. Reflecting the end of the ’80s and the rise of grunge, Keep the Faith is appropriately more hard-edged than Slippery When Wet and New Jersey, but that doesn’t mean Bon Jovi dropped their penchant for made-for-stadium rock anthems.
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