“I don’t know, in truth, if it’s part of my being this age and this experience at that time, but as an observer of what was going on around me, I reported it as though I was just. Yet it was such a moment that I felt that I needed to write about,” says Bon Jovi, whose album was released in October 2020 and included “Do What You Can,” an inspirational song about standing up to COVID, and “American Reckoning,” a protest song in support of Black Lives Matter. Because I didn’t go promote it, I didn’t get to perform it in front of large crowds, I didn’t get to really work it. “It was the only time in my 17 albums that in essence I put it out into a black hole. You’re not gonna not play ‘Livin’ On a Prayer,’ and ‘It’s My Life,’ and ‘You Give Love a Bad Name.’ You go, ‘Oh, this one would be nice to pull out again.’ And it’s not an easy task, because the audience wants hear Song X, Y and Z.
So being in one place for that long - with the stage, with the band, with a PA system - it was good.” On creating a setlist Just the idea of getting out there again on a big stage is surely different than singing in your studio.
“But in light of COVID and how long it’s been since anyone’s done this, we went into an arena for three weeks and had rehearsals, and it was the most joyous thing I may have ever done in my life, career-wise. This band was always like, ‘If you don’t know these songs by now. My guys have always walked in the room knowing the songs perfectly. I said, ‘What the hell do they do there for a month?’ I never really understood it. I used to hear about these bands that rehearsed for three weeks and a month.
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