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Steve Brown on his ALWAYS JOVI Tribute band to Bon Jovi
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ask you about Always Joey. How did that
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happen? Uh you're you're now like
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official tribute BonJovi band, right?
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>> Yeah. Yeah, of course, man. You know, um
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Bonjovi has been pro, you know, Kiss Van
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Halen, Bonjovi, De Leopard, the biggest
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influences in my career. And John
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Bonjovi has been a lifelong almost 40
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years of friendship. He was the first
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rock star to get behind me and Trickster
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back in 1986 before Slippery and Wet
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took off. We gave him our demo tape and
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he called us and got behind us and you
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know he was the one who introduced us to
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Snake and Rachel and Scotty from Skid
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Row and they became they became like our
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big brothers and he told them make sure
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you take care of Stephen the trickster
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guys but um you know it goes back to the
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you know important moments of my life
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with Bonjovi and they're probably uh the
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concert when they when they were on tour
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opening up for RAT in 1985
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it was one of those life-changing
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moments for me because um you know they
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were it was on the 7800 tour and it was
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Rat Invasion Your Privacy at the
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Metallands Arena in New Jersey. Still
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one of the greatest rock shows ever. And
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I remember that was my first time seeing
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Bon Joy. And I remember just being like,
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"Oh my god, this is it." It was
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everything. It had elements of Van
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Halen. It had elements of Journey. It
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had elements Brian Adams and and Kiss
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even and it was a de leopard. It was
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everything that I loved about what was
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going on in the 80s rock. And of course,
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you know, it was the Jersey guys, so it
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was like your hometown heroes. And I
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remember watching them and you know,
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first, you know, I had three big
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impressions that night that changed my
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life forever. Seeing John at that point,
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he was the coolest [ __ ] looking rock
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star in rock and roll, you know? He had
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the best hair, you know, that he was
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like the first guy who had the frosted
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tips. And it was like, man, he there was
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nobody cooler. He was like David Lee
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Roth meets Steve Perry meets Brian Adams
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all wrapped up in one, you know, the way
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he sang and the way he performed. And
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then the band was so incredible because
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they were having fun, you know, they
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were smiling so much. It was kind of
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like the Van Halen thing. It was like
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they were bringing a party on stage.
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>> Yeah.
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>> And um and then thirdly, the most
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important thing that struck me that
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night and has a had a forever impact on
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me was seeing Richie Sambbor live for
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the first time. And that was the moment
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watching them probably by three songs in
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I was in awe of him as a performer, as a
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guitar player, but most importantly as a
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singer. And that was the night that I
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saw him and I went, I have to become
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just like that, a lead singer, guitar
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player that is going to end put those
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great harmonies and support the lead
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vocalist like I did with Pete with
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Trickster. And that was it. And then,
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you know, here I am, you know, 40 years
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later with my brand new uh Always Joby
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BonJovi tribute band that um I'm so
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proud of and I can't wait to get this
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show out on the road, man. Because we
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are uh you know, like I said, it's a
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tribute like no other. um you know what
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we're going for will always Joy what I
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what I set out to do is of course it's a
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tribute and to be able to do it pitch
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perfect note perfect make it sound like
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the way they did in the 80s and 90s at
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their best doing the best songs some
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deep cuts some stuff that I don't even
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think you know they've played in 40 or
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50 you know 40 years so it's going to be
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really cool I have a great band you know
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Joey Casada's in it in it on drums I
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have our X factor in the band is our
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female singer Devon Marie who's been
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with me for a couple years in various
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things and she's also she was Debbie
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Gibson's back background singer for the
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last 15 years and so she adds a
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completely different element because she
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were able to do who says you can't go
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home and she's able to put these
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unbelievable harmonies on which in the
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promo videos you people see and it's a
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unique thing and and of course it's a
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great visual uh because she's is
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beautiful. So, it's really really cool
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in that respect. And then my guitar
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player, Fred Gorehow, he's with me in
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the Wizards of Winter, been a dear
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friend for a long time. He plays the Sam
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Bora stuff to the tea. And um and that's
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the most important thing, you know, that
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we're doing the music justice. You know,
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I got Chris McCoy on keyboards who
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played with me with Tokyo Motorfist Live
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a couple times. He played with Trickster
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as well. Um, and Kevin Humphris, who has
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been with me for a long time playing in
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various different bands. We played in a
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Van Halen tribute band about 10 years
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ago, 15 years ago together. And, uh, you
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know, it's just so much fun. And, you
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know, we're different than all the other
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tribute bands that I've seen because
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first and foremost, we're not doing the
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lookalike thing. I'm not wearing a
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blonde wig. You know, in the States,
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tribute bands have become very, very
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big. And there's there's a couple of
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them. my good buddy Greg Smith who I was
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in Tokyo Motifist with. He's in a great
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journey band called Voyage and they're
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like the top journey band in America
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with Robbie Hoffman who's Extremes
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manager. You know these guys are
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brothers of mine and they they've been
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helping me and um you know when I the
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goal was to be able to make this band be
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you know where people close their eyes
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and go is that is that is that Bon Joy
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from 1989? You know, because that's what
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I'm going for. You know, lyrically, I've
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spent and melodically and vocally spent
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so much time to match John's tone in
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every inflection.
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