Anyone going to Bon Jovi? PhilX is standing in for Sambora

Reinhard · 2013-04-05T14:13:09+00:00

Apparently John and Richie had a lover's tiff and Ritchie left the band. So PhilX is touring with them, which means we hopefully get to see him on stage with them in May ? For those who don't know PhilX OK so now everyone can post how they won't be caught dead at a Bon Jovi show, but at least check out PhilX. He does some great gear demos for Fretted Americana.

Squonk

IceCreamMan wrote
Squonk wrote Tommy played on a lot of Air Supply hits but darn I am going off topic again ?
I thought Tommy worked on the docks?

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Not any more, he's got his six string back

Reinhard

chris77

The thing is that in some bands all the members are highly regarded and in the spotlight, like say The Beatles, Led Zep, Queen etc. If one of them weren't to make a show, there will still be 2 or 3 other guys in the band carrying the performance and the missing member (unless it's the vocalist) won't be that glaring in his absence. The rest of the band plus a capable fill-in should be enough to satisfy their fans.
But other bands only have maybe 1 or 2 high profile members, like for example U2 and Bon Jovi. Now if one of the background members of these bands can't make a show most fans won't be bothered much. If the stand-in performs the parts well enough, no problem. BUT if it's one of the high profile members it's another thing altogether. Without Richie it's Jon and a couple of other blokes and U2 without the Edge will be Bono and some other blokes.
It will still be a great show and you can be certain that the replacements will be wonderful, maybe even better than the original because they have the extra pressure of filling famous shoes and can't afford buggering up their opportunity. But I can certainly understand why some folks are feeling short changed by Richie not being there.

Malkav

deefstes wrote Seeing as we are discussing Bon Jovi, does anyone have an opinion on whether it would be better for Tommy Emmanuel to be playing an Ibanez for the Parlotones or a Theremin for Justin Gaga?

As funny as you're trying to be I just figured I should mention that Tommy Emmanuel does in fact own Ibanii, once read an article where he was talking about them, from what I can remember they were solid maple bodies and fully singlecoil equipped in a shape that you would not find in an Ibanez catalogue ?

Tokai-SA

Reinhard wrote

Ja, Bob has a habit of doing that. ?

guidothepimmp

Right

So i took my goose to this show... not being a fan myself, i wasn't familiar with most of tracks.. .il try remain objective

Didn't realise old Jon played guitar so much
They played a lot of ballad type, folky sounding tracks, my Mrs says it's the new material... didn't like that at all
They had one or 3 rocking tracks... my Mrs says those are covers to get the party started and not their own tunes ???
They played at least 8 covers, rolling stones, Elvis etc
His voice held up well all things considered

He is quite a showman and the band was tight
Not bad, just not my thing

Curious was to see Phil x playing a ltd viper 301... no, not esp, an actual ltd

Played a solid 3 hours, and still managed to diss bieber and timberlake in the set

Oh if only hetfield was watching :?

A happy Mrs means I'm happy.

Would rather have had a steak roll.. but.. ce la vie

ActionArnie

guidothepimmp wrote Curious was to see Phil x playing a ltd viper 301... no, not esp, an actual ltd

Yip AFAIK that was his no.1 before going with the Yamaha SG's. Curious that he wasn't playing one of the Yamaha's though, I though the ltd had been retired.

deefstes

ActionArnie wrote
guidothepimmp wrote Curious was to see Phil x playing a ltd viper 301... no, not esp, an actual ltd
Yip AFAIK that was his no.1 before going with the Yamaha SG's. Curious that he wasn't playing one of the Yamaha's though, I though the ltd had been retired.

Praytell what is the difference? I always understood that LTD was made by ESP. What do you mean by "actual LTD"?

Did anyone do a roll coll of the guitars he used at the gig? What I can remember:
- LTD Viper 301
- Fender Strat
- Fender Tele
- Black Gibson Les Paul
- Schecter (Tommy Lee Signature)
- Yamaha SG1802

And then there was Bobby Bandiera playing a Les Paul goldtop and Jon himself rocking (actually not quite) a LP goldtop in between his strumming the black Takamine acoustic.

Anything else?

Tokai-SA

deefstes wrote
ActionArnie wrote
guidothepimmp wrote Curious was to see Phil x playing a ltd viper 301... no, not esp, an actual ltd
Yip AFAIK that was his no.1 before going with the Yamaha SG's. Curious that he wasn't playing one of the Yamaha's though, I though the ltd had been retired.
Praytell what is the difference? I always understood that LTD was made by ESP. What do you mean by "actual LTD"?

ESP = Japan
LTD = Korea/China

guidothepimmp

deefstes wrote
ActionArnie wrote
guidothepimmp wrote Curious was to see Phil x playing a ltd viper 301... no, not esp, an actual ltd
Yip AFAIK that was his no.1 before going with the Yamaha SG's. Curious that he wasn't playing one of the Yamaha's though, I though the ltd had been retired.
Praytell what is the difference? I always understood that LTD was made by ESP. What do you mean by "actual LTD"?

Did anyone do a roll coll of the guitars he used at the gig? What I can remember:
- LTD Viper 301
- Fender Strat
- Fender Tele
- Black Gibson Les Paul
- Schecter (Tommy Lee Signature)
- Yamaha SG1802

And then there was Bobby Bandiera playing a Les Paul goldtop and Jon himself rocking (actually not quite) a LP goldtop in between his strumming the black Takamine acoustic.

Anything else?

Yeah that's about it, 2 different vipers and 2 different yammy sg

There was the 12 string but i couldn't make out a brand

guidothepimmp

Oh, and bobby played a prs on the encore..

Think that's all the guits

flatfourfan

guidothepimmp wrote Oh, and bobby played a prs on the encore..

Think that's all the guits

I was meaning to ask you what it was like..........you missed a good housewarming man.

Jacques_nasi

I really loved the sound of that black les paul custom on the Bed of Roses solo.

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