MTV’s Disaster of Bon Jovi Proportion
The return of MTV’s ‘Unplugged’ was supposed to be jump started by Bon Jovi but the taping of the show on Tuesday turned out to be a big disaster. MTV will have fun editing this one.
The recorded episode of ‘Unplugged’, which will air on MTV, VH1 and CMT, was done with an audience of about 400 fans. What’s sad about that? The fact that Richie Sambora was blitzed the whole time.
A witness claims that a lot of musicians were put on stage to cover his mistakes on guitar and at one point had his mic turned off so he wouldn’t be heard singing off key.
Another reveals that as ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ started to signify the final performance of the night, Richie couldn’t even play along. Jon Bon Jovi had to stop and make Richie start again. After that, Jon had the whole band come back on stage and do a third take of the song so Richie couldn’t mess up. It was clear that Jon was upset but he handled it like a pro.
So much for the band that pretty much started ‘Unplugged’.