{"id":29764,"date":"2024-06-20T21:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/no-tour-no-problem-jon-bon-jovi-says-he-doesnt-need-that-high-of-playing-live\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T21:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T21:05:22","slug":"no-tour-no-problem-jon-bon-jovi-says-he-doesnt-need-that-high-of-playing-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/no-tour-no-problem-jon-bon-jovi-says-he-doesnt-need-that-high-of-playing-live\/","title":{"rendered":"No tour, no problem: Jon Bon Jovi says he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;need that high&#8221; of playing live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-20\/M_JonBonJoviABC_HeidiGutman.jpg\" alt><figcaption>ABC\/Heidi Gutman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>on Jovi<\/strong> recently released their new album,\u00a0<em>FOREVER,\u00a0<\/em>but hasn&#8217;t announced a tour due to<strong> Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong>&#8216;s voice problems: He had major vocal cord surgery in 2022 and is still recovering. In fact, Jon <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/jon-bon-jovi-how-vocal-cord-surgery-inspired-new-album-forever-interview-8654011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>EW<\/em><\/a> that the band won&#8217;t tour in 2024. But luckily, Jon says playing live has never been the most important thing for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, I&#8217;ve always had the same list of priorities,&#8221; he told ABC Audio. &#8220;One was writing. Two was recording, to see if what you&#8217;ve written was worth it. And three was sharing it with an audience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I enjoy it when we&#8217;re out there. I&#8217;m quite good at it. But I don&#8217;t need that high,&#8221; he revealed. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s really not what motivates us. For me<em>.<\/em>\u00a0It doesn&#8217;t motivate me<em>,<\/em> I should say. Writing the song is first and foremost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Jon does allow that performing songs live serves an important purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you release a record and it&#8217;s on the radio, folks are listening to it. But I don&#8217;t know the reaction to the song, you know?&#8221; he notes. &#8220;So going out and doing it live is great.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of a tour, we&#8217;ll just have to content ourselves with listening to the new album and watching the Hulu documentary <em>Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC\/Heidi Gutman on Jovi recently released their new album,\u00a0FOREVER,\u00a0but hasn&#8217;t announced a tour due to Jon Bon Jovi&#8216;s voice problems: He had major vocal cord surgery in 2022 and is still recovering. In fact, Jon told EW that the band won&#8217;t tour in 2024. But luckily, Jon says playing live<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/no-tour-no-problem-jon-bon-jovi-says-he-doesnt-need-that-high-of-playing-live\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}