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Article: Jon Bon Jovi gives rock 'n' roll longevity a good name.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
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- November 5, 2000
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"You've seen a lot of boy bands today," Jon Bon Jovi said to a sold-out Kiss Concert audience this summer at the Tweeter Center. "Now you're gonna see a band."
Bon Jovi and his happy band of Jersey arena rockers promptly steamrolled right over the crowd, even though it was something like the group's second gig in four years.
The short, powerful set (with Bon Jovi in tight leather pants showing off what a reviewer in a later London show called "a pert tush") so impressed Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins, also playing the show, that he later told Entertainment Weekly, "They've gotten dissed completely by the media, so there's a certain amount of ...