{"id":117788,"date":"2024-05-28T21:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/28\/jon-bon-jovi-claims-hes-only-talked-to-richie-sambora-twice-since-he-left-bon-jovi\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:00:39","slug":"jon-bon-jovi-claims-hes-only-talked-to-richie-sambora-twice-since-he-left-bon-jovi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/28\/jon-bon-jovi-claims-hes-only-talked-to-richie-sambora-twice-since-he-left-bon-jovi\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi claims he&#8217;s only talked to Richie Sambora twice since he left Bon Jovi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-28\/Getty_RichieandJonbonJovi_110922.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora in 2018; Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Jon Bon Jovi<\/strong> wants fans to know that despite what <strong>Richie Sambora<\/strong> says, the guitarist hasn&#8217;t made any &#8220;great overtures&#8221; about rejoining<strong> Bon Jovi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Since Sambora left Bon Jovi in 2013, he&#8217;s\u00a0hinted\u00a0several times that he might reunite with the band, most recently in November 2023. But according to Jon, if Sambora is interested in doing so, he hasn&#8217;t made it very clear. In fact, according to Jon, the two have had very limited contact since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to him twice,\u201d Jon tells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/news\/jon-bon-jovi-richie-sambora-reunion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Classic Rock<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>magazine. \u201cHe. Quit. The. Band. I swear to Christ there was never a fight, nothing \u2026 He wasn\u2019t kicked out, he quit. And he hasn\u2019t made any great overtures about coming back.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jon also tells the magazine the exact circumstances under which Richie departed the band right before a show in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to him the day before, I remember it so well. It was Easter Sunday, 2013 &#8230; [I was in New York] and I was like, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m feeling great &#8230;\u00a0see you up there [in Canada].\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said: \u2018Can I stay home one more day?\u2019 \u2018Of course. You want to fly private tomorrow? Sure. Do it. I don\u2019t care. See you up there,\u2019&#8221;\u00a0 Jon continues. &#8220;And then the next day the phone rings at three in the afternoon, and, you know\u2026 \u2018I can\u2019t go on.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Sambora has claimed that one reason he wanted to leave was that the band was getting &#8220;stale,&#8221; which Jon refutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t think so, and the collective, we didn\u2019t think so,\u201d he tells\u00a0<em>Classic Rock<\/em>. \u201cI personally thought that everything was going incredibly &#8230; And it was never brought up in the room, or in the writing, or in the recording, or during the first 20 shows of that tour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora in 2018; Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic Jon Bon Jovi wants fans to know that despite what Richie Sambora says, the guitarist hasn&#8217;t made any &#8220;great overtures&#8221; about rejoining Bon Jovi. Since Sambora left Bon Jovi in 2013, he&#8217;s\u00a0hinted\u00a0several times that he might reunite with the band,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/05\/28\/jon-bon-jovi-claims-hes-only-talked-to-richie-sambora-twice-since-he-left-bon-jovi\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,430,452],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}