Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I'm doing a series it's called What
Makes This Singer Great and we're gonna do Jon Bon Jovi next.
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with that said I want to talk about some things that when I think of Jon Bon
Jovi, what do i think of. Well I think he's a great singer you know
he's a good singer, he has his own unique thing it's not
necessarily my first choice for taste, I'm more of a big round,
you know Coverdale, Paul Rogers, Lou Gramm, Glenn Hughes,
you know big voice guy but he definitely is a great singer, very high range stuff
too, a lot of stuff I've done. In fact i did a whole series on Jon Bon
Jovi. I'll put that in the description tag and you can look at all the songs
I've done of Jon as takedowns and my approach and his
approach. Let me know how I did, but I think, so I think of you know good
singing. I think of anthemic rock when I think of Jon Bon Jovi.
I think of big hair, the cute factor, he's cute you know guy from New Jersey
with his cute little accent. Little, sorry Jon didn't mean it to be
demeaning but anyway I think of the cute factor for sure,
the girls you know and the attraction for that.
Glam rock. the quintessential example of great 80s metal glam rock so they
definitely have the glam thing going on. You know i also want to emphasize
his lyric writing, not just a good songwriter from melodic structures and
phrasing and you know pocket singing and all that
but just a really good lyricist also so
I don't just think of him
in Bon Jovi but i also think of like the movie soundtrack stuff that Jon has
done and he's just done some phenomenal things
I think of Richie Sambora, he was a great contribution to that band so
it's kind of inextricably linked in lots of ways when I think of Led Zeppelin, I
think of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page as a package,
when I think of Bon Jovi, I really think of Jon Bon Jovi yes his name is on the
band but I also think a lot of contribution from Richie Sambora so I
think he should get a lot of credit because
I think he didn't get the some of the credit maybe he deserved for that so.
Very hard working. Now I have been, I've toured a lot and um back in the 80s
and early 90s, specifically in the 80s when Jon kind of tanked and sort of
fell off the charts there for a minute, he got back out on the road man and he
worked hard throughout Europe for a long time doing Monsters Of Rock, I was
fortunate enough to be on one of those festivals but
he you know was just a very hard-working guy and took his business
very seriously so he's a good businessman, so that's
great. Great music production, he always hired great people so
you know whether it's you know "Livin' On A Prayer",
"You Give Love A Bad Name", "Bed Of Roses", "Wanted Dead Or Alive", "Keep The Faith",
"Lay Your Hands On Me", "It's My Life". All those songs, all the production was just
amazing so I challenge you to go back and listen to how great,
and the people that he hired as producers and engineers on that stuff
too. So the other thing too is you know
he had a really, I know he's having some
vocal trouble now but for a lot of years that guy, I've
seen him perform a lot of times and he was spot on in his live performances
every single time. Now I know they ran tracks for the background stuff but I
watched pretty closely and most all the lead vocal stuff was
was Jon out there out front so it's a shame that he didn't take care of his
voice or really didn't know how to take care of it as well. There are some things
he could do to correct it but I don't know if he's up for the task of doing
that so but I did do a montage here of Jon
but yes these days I've become an old man and I
gotta wear glasses sorry about that but. So let's go to Jon Bon Jovi. Oh one other, one
more thing I want to mention about Jon is he's lately come into his own as
far as being very benevolent so Jon has gone ahead and done some
you know places for people to eat I don't know if you know what's it called
the something house I forget uh let me look here. Ah I can't find Jon Bon Jovi,
here it is sorry I found it right here but he's done these these um community
service things for restaurants and stuff and so we see
him later in life kind of giving back to you know the
money that he made and the fame and whatnot that he's gotten and putting
back into communities, communities and stuff you should just
wash my tongue and I can't do a thing with it.
Putting it back into communities and stuff which I think is really awesome so
let's dive into Jon now, here we go.
Very live, you can hear it.
See what I mean that interpolation between him and Ritchie, the exchange.
Okay now before we get to the chorus so I want to emphasize for my singing
friends out there, he wasn't a very technical singer. He
was just, had a naturally gifted, high range
and he knew how to use it and use it well and he was careful about how he
did it, he you know as a street singer you learn certain
things not everything is technical and by the way i don't want to keep driving
the technical, technical, technical side because you know really you know
singing is is you know 50 percent art you know the
artistic side of it and then 50 perecent or should be 50 percent side technique and
more technique you bring into your toolbox, the better you'll
be able to create better art and bigger range and more diversity and
all that variety and so forth so and in Jon's case you know he's just more
of a street guy, just doing what he does well,
being a street singer that can sing well and that's um
but it's also kind of what's cost him his voice over over time too so.
Memorable songs, that's also something I think of, very memorable.
And something else I think of it is um, you know he usually wrote a very
positive lyric, like we just talked about "Livin' On A Prayer", you know very
positive lyric, "You Give Love A Bad Name", it's kind of
could be positive, you know "Wanted Dead Or Alive" it's a movie
soundtrack stuff but "It's My Life" or "Keep The Faith", that was a great lyric in
that. So I want to emphasize too, very positive
guy where you know was it wasn't just all about sex and drugs or
depression or you know what happened in the grunge movement in the 90s and
whatnot, very uplifting, happy you know inspiring
kind of music.
Again there's Richie, you get that
exchange right.
and you're waiting for the (sings) you know to come in after he comes in because
you're expecting that right.
Looks like he's outside, like it's really cold where they are or something.
Nasality right.
You know it's kind of funny when I see a song like this, this is just personal
uh side note and I think of you know I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride or
whatever. I think of Richie as being more of the cowboy, renegade
uh you know cowboy rough, tough guy then I think of Jon so it's kind of funny
when everything in the song, I don't think of Jon being the cowboy, I think I
think of Richie being the cowboy but just my own little
two cents, three cents.
Great live band dude, every time I can see, I've seen these guys just
always put on a great show, very consistent, done it for years and years
and years. Too bad I can't see them getting back together, I don't know they're in
little bit of a riff so I don't know if they ever will but
um guys tell me what you think. What do you think of when you think of Jon Bon
Jovi, if i've missed something put it in the comment sections
so I can have more of a well-rounded thing rather than just my viewpoint on
it and don't forget I'm trying to do
most of this by request so if you have somebody that um you want to hear,
what makes them great and have everyone respond to that too, I would love to hear
your thoughts and comments on that and stay tuned man because I've got
another, another video headed your way right here.