Bon Jovi Set To Launch 2-Year World Tour
Rock band Bon Jovi is set to launch a two-year world tour to support their new album The Circle. This is the band's 11th studio album and it's scheduled to drop Nov. 12.Bon Jovi's mammoth world tour gets underway Feb. 19 in Seattle and ends 135 shows and 30 countries later. Highlights of the tour include being the first band to perform at the new Meadowlands football stadium and an extended stay at London's O2 arena.
Bon Jovi will rock concerts in Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Dallas (sorry that concert won't be held at the new Cowboys Stadium). The band will also venture to the Great White North for a pair of Bon Jovi shows in Montreal.
This is exciting news for rock fans as Bon Jovi is one of the world's great live bands. They are also extremely popular as fans find them easy to relate too, accessible, and unpretentious. Basically, Bon Jovi is one of us.
However, that standing might be in jeopardy.
Bon Jovi has recently made a deal with the devil and in this case the devil is NBC.
Bon Jovi has signed a promotional deal with NBC Universal that will feature them, as well as their music, on NBC and their family of cable networks.
We understand the need to promote their new album and sell Bon Jovi concert tickets, but we worry that this is nothing more than insidious corporate synergy.
If it means an appearance on the Jay Leno Show, and songs from The Circle used as background music in Heroes, than that's fine. But if the band suddenly starts working for Dunder Mifflin we'll be upset.
The question still remains how exactly will Bon Jovi be integrated into NBC Universal programming?
Will Richie Sambora be a suspect on Law and Order?
Will Tico Torres be Liz Lemon's love interest on 30 Rock?
Will Jon Bon Jovi break down Iran's nuclear program on MSNBC?
Obviously this one business arrangement won't turn fans, or this blogger, against Bon Jovi, but it is disconcerting and disappointing. While it seems natural to mix rock music with network television such a union must be organic. If it's forced, and/or lawyers are involved, than it's never a good thing.
There is one saving grace though. No one watches NBC. More people will see Bon Jovi on "The Circle World Tour" than on the Peacock Network.