Martell Foundation, honoring the band's work with autistic children. And Alec has a lot of different things. He's eccentric. He also is selling several classic cars. The car, one of several for sale, is a beauty, and Such takes delight in its pristine condition.
On a sunny afternoon's drive, he turned on the windshield wipers as if demonstrating a parlor trick, smiling as the old-fashioned blades stretched and retracted like the legs of a cricket.
The two-passenger car sped past the horse farms and mansions that make Colts Neck so pretty and prestigious and so elegantly silent. Such, who grew up in a tight-knit Hungarian neighborhood in Perth Amboy, bought his house in Colts Neck in There's no activity.
You don't see people anywhere. I would just come home and do nothing. I even got into the habit of cooking for myself and I don't want to do that.
I want to go out to eat, I want to get out and meet people. This part of his personality was sorely tested within a year after he retired from Bon Jovi in Such said a drunk driver smashed into his car in Marlboro, shattering his hip.
Recovery was agonizing, physically and mentally. It was about the worst thing to happen to me in my life. The size of his house, with all its stairs, has become unmanageable. I want to meet people and if they don't believe I was in Bon Jovi, I won't care. I don't think I've picked up a guitar since I left the band. I don't have calluses on my fingers anymore. I'd bleed if I played now. The rest of the band also maintained ties to New Jersey -- Tico Torres, the drummer, lives in Colts Neck; Richie Sambora, guitarist, and David Bryan, keyboardist, also have homes in the area.
Such and Sambora played together in an earlier band called Message; Such and Torres traveled in the same circles. The rest, as they say, is history. Bon Jovi became the most successful of the many "hair bands" of the '80s that bridged the gap between pop and heavy metal. Commercial success continued with "New Jersey" in , "Keep the Faith" in and the greatest-hits album "Cross Road" in Bon Jovi survived the dominance of modern rock in the early '90s and now seems poised for another comeback.
The band's album, "Crush," is due for release June The band played a sold-out preview gig last month at Tradewinds in Sea Bright. Meanwhile, Jon Bon Jovi played a supporting role in the hit thriller "U Peter Doherty was evicted from The Libertines in Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony found out he was fired through the internet and word of mouth during September I can understand that he wants his kid to play with him.
In Germany in , building on his history of pompous behaviour, Axl Rose walked off-stage mid-set. This kind of thing had caused riots in the past, so security locked the gates and he was forced to return and finish the set. However, it was the final straw for guitarist Izzy Stradlin, who announced he was leaving the next day. A post shared by nareif nareif on Apr 14, at pm PDT.
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