Jon Bon Jovi on the drive to prove his early success wasn't a fluke. After the 240-show Slippery tour, he and the band did another 240-250 shows for New Jersey, chasing five top-ten singles. The relentless pace felt like a continuous fight to sustain momentum.
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I think that part of the journey of life is that in your 20s, when you've got that chip on your shoulder and there's all kinds of new surprises around every bend, you don't really sure how to navigate this journey. You look to mentors and, you know, in some form or another to sort of guide you, and they do the best they can. But it doesn't mean that they had the answers either. You're on this journey, and all we could think of, at least all I could think of, was, I got to do this again. I got to make sure that nobody thinks that was a fluke. we can, we can do this again. We can do it again after that. So it was nose to the grind. A year after the Slippery Tour concluded, and it was 240 shows and massive success for the band, we were back on the road with the album New Jersey, which had five more top ten singles and another 240-250 shows. One year later, just back to back, just went right back in the ring.