Bon Jovi

Tico's drums

Some dork backstage

VIPs touring the backstage area

Jon Bon Jovi's guitars

Richie Sambora's guitars (including a $250,000 Les Paul!!!)
His guitar tech also works for AC/DC

More of Richie's guitars

Richie's "breakroom" just below the drum set

Richie running out to the audience 

Jon in action

I attended a recent Bon Jovi concert with a colleague of mine.

He's a huge Bon Jovi fan and I told him I had an "extra" ticket.

We met at the 60,000 seat venue, and hooked up with the band's management.

They gave us our wristbands, tickets, and tourbooks.

Then,.........they immedietly put us to work(!!!???).

Our job was to escort the German VIP's around backstage and make sure they all stayed together. I guess my knowledge of German is starting to pay off.

We were then to hand out water to the crew who were stuck at their stations in the crowd.

Afterwards, we went and had dinner with the crew in the band's catering area.

The food was AMAZING!

Curry chicken over rice was what I went with.

Good stuff.

After dinner we made our way to the stage and the band came on.

The place went nuts!
All photos by B.H.