That time 24-year-old Jon Bon Jovi raved to me about recording in Vancouver just before Slippery When Wet exploded on the charts
By Steve Newton
I did my second interview with Jon Bon Jovi in July of 1986, when his band was heading to Vancouver for a date opening for Judas Priest.
Little did anybody know that one month later, when Bon Jovi released its made-in-Vancouver album Slippery When Wet, it would rocket to worldwide fame and soon be playing stadiums.
At one point in the conversation I asked him what he thought of the local studio they’d just recorded at with producer Bruce Fairbairn, Little Mountain Sound.
Actually, Jon seemed to be most impressed by the work of mixer and engineer Bob Rock, who would scoop the producer role from Fairbairn two albums later for Bon Jovi’s Keep the Faith.
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