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Just another thought here buddy when you see the real history of BON JOVI, the real two dudes behind this band is actually Jon and David Bryan, they started the whole thing and guess what, Richie Sambora was the last player to join in after Tico and Richie was a session musician too. Alec John Such and Tico were brought up by David and funny thing is Jon met and played with Hugh MacDonald way before Alec and Hugh is now helping Jon again, so as long as Jon and David is around, the real Bon Jovi is still exist I love Richie and his playing and his vocal, but talking about irreplaceable, not entirely true about him especially when he's fallen to the drugs, somebody must fill in the job and the show must goes on. This Phil X dude, he's a great and accomplished musician, not only handling guitar, but can play mandolin, bass, and also has great vocal. Check out this footage from Bon Jovi's concert in Brisbane, Phil nailed a wonderful vocal on AC/DC classic, 'Highway to Hell', skip to 03:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJ6Z9BHmIw I get your point, but, for me at least, 'Bon Jovi' is the five guys who recorded 'Slippery ...', 'New Jersey', 'Keep The Faith', etc. Saying that Bon Jovi IS Jon and David is a bit like saying Iron Maiden would still be the same band without Dickinson, Murray, Smith, et al., simply because Steve Harris is still in the band

King Diamond Michael Kiske ... okay, so neither one of them is a 'young gun' anymore, but they're still good

Now that they've lost their guitarist and bass player, how long before Bon Jovi is just 'Jon and Blokes'?

Raise Hell: Not Dead Yet Eagles: Hotel California H.I.M.: Love Metal Blue Oyster Cult: Workshop Of The Telescopes

I was listening to 'Not Dead Yet' only yesterday ... reckon I'll have to grab this

Great band. I love this stuff

H.I.M.: Love Metal

Eagles: Hotel California Bruce Springsteen: In Concert/MTV Plugged

Congratulations, mate! My eldest is 16 ... seems like only yesterday that I was driving home from the hospital thinking 'I'm a Dad!'

Has JBJ turned into Sharon Osbourne??

I knew Tony Iommi/Sabbath had considered a number of different vocalists in the 'post-Dio' years, but I didn't know that Ron Keel had been one of them

Benedictum Hydrogyn

Anthrax with Joey Belladonna Nightwish with Anette Olzon

The albums they did with drummer Nick D'Virgilio providing the vocals are pretty good, I haven't heard anything they've done with the new guy yet ...

If only he'd got the job ... we might've been spared the dog's dinner that was 'III'

Skid Row I kind of agree with Glen when it comes to Marillion - a change of name might have been a better idea once Hogarth was on board?

Sabbath with Dio and/or Tony Martin Iron Maiden with Bruce Dickinson Arch Enemy with Angela Gossow Marillion were never the same once Fish had gone (although they HAVE made some very good albums, it's just not 'Marillion' for me.) I much preferred Dream Theater's first album ... what they've done since does very little for me.

Did you mean to say that Metallica went from being one of the best bands around (up to 'Metallica'/'The Black Album') to being utter shite? That's a fairly major change of style

I much prefer Anathema now ... I never really liked their doomier/death sound. Paradise Lost went from the death metal of their debut through to the electronic/gothier sound of 'One Second' and 'Host' (via the metallic 'Draconian Times'), before heading back into more doom/death metal territory with their last couple of releases. To be honest, I like pretty much everything they've done - you can hear how they've developed as a band, and taken elements from each release into what came afterwards. A recent review went as far as to say that they couldn't have recorded their latest album if they hadn't released 'One Second'

Northern Oak: Of Roots And Flesh Seahorses: Do It Yourself

What he said ... some of those guys can hit insane notes ...

I've always been a fan of Status Quo (stop laughing) ... well, the Rossi/Parfitt/Lancaster/Bown/Coghlan and/or Kircher line-ups ... and it was only after reading their autobiography that I realised they had a massive problem with drugs during the early 80s ... neither Rossi nor Parfitt remember recording many of the albums that I love (Rossi even went as far as to say that he hated one of them, because of all the internal problems with the band.) They also talked about their opening slot at Live Aid here in the UK, when most of them were off their faces on Class A. They seemed like such sensible chaps

Yeah, the five of them made Gn'R what it was ... they all brought something to the table, and the band was never the same once the original line-up fractured.

A lot of his lyrics are a bit like that, to be fair 'Thank God For The Bomb' is a bit cheesy, for sure, but surely - for what is pretty much an 'anti-war' song - the worst line has to be 'Nuke ya, nuke ya'

Are you trolling here, mate ? Ultimate sin is my favorite Ozzy + Guitarist + you name it! Secret loser easily in my list of the songs I listen to naked and drink champagne without the flute glass. I can't listen almost to anything else from ozzy. I LOVE 'The Ultimate Sin' ... just sayin' that most people think it's an 'average' album ... I can think only of Ozzy bashing it.I understand that we should come with a better working definition of "average" but If I recall right, when I used to buy the Greek HM/Metal Hammer magazine, Ultimate Sin was in top 20 of the 100 best albums (the poll was made by the readers in early to mid 90's). Edit: the survey sample was approximately 10000 strong! Kerrang! magazine gave it something like 6/10 ... a lot of my mates don't rate it that highly (I don't think it helps that Ozzy looks like a pantomime dame in most of the promo shots from this era), but I maintain that if it was given the proper 'remaster' treatment (like the rest of his early albums), and re-released, then a lot more people would dig it ...