Richie sambora is the bomb .

Richie is underated he,s awesome

Howard - "Do you think you are the secret weapon in Bon Jovi?" Me - "Um, Yes!"

My respect for Richie just continue to grow.

Regardless of what you do when you have all the accolades or the fame for what you do, and you realize I love what I do and I can do it better but I need to collaborate with somebody. Him taking lessons at that age in his life. Super props:-) no ego there whatsoever

This is so revealing . Richy is like my new friend.

Love you Richie!!!

Excellent interview with Howard. Amazing down-to-Earth and outstanding musician, Mr. Richie Sambora, guitar player and vocalist extraordinaire. Love the 37 minute acoustic version of "Living On A Prayer".

Listen to that 12 string,Richie is the man.

great song Mr. Sambora really good

Just found this video..thank you for putting it up. Great stuff x

Thank you for uploading!

Thank you so much for uploading! LOVE this interview :D

This starts my Wednesday off right, thanks for posting

Richie has always been my favorite. Always! From the very beginning. He protected Jon for forever. He needed to throw Jon to the wolves!

Anyone have just the performance they did of "Livin on a Prayer"? Really awesome.

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Richie Sambora rule,s

About an eighth of the way into the video. I'm about the same age is Richie maybe I've got a year on him. It's funny how growing up in New Jersey I wouldn't listen to Springsteen because I thought people just dug him because he was from the Garden State. Then I'm in love with a young woman and she drags me to a Springsteen concert and I'm not making this up it was like a religious experience. And from that point on I've probably seen him 20 times. Silly I'm writing this like the people that did the work actually care LOL. So when Jon Bon Jovi came out at least the first time I was aware of him was the very early 80s. And I could see music declining from the moment MTV came on the scene and he became an MTV Superstar. Not to take anything away from John they were making a hell of a lot of money selling albums and touring as well. But I couldn't dig it. And it's not like I'm Uber Springsteen. The first concert I ever saw was Chicago in 1972. I was too young to appreciate it. I wish I had been a little bit older. The first concert I saw that I really appreciated was Jackson Browne Running on Empty that was 1976. I'm also fortunate that I had a father and that expose me to Country and blues and R&B and Motown classical music and all sorts of genres. How many kids in Hudson County New Jersey and my day could go to school and on the way sing Hank Williams Senior songs? And that was always a thing with me so I always look back at music. And Springsteen be my hero all through his career play well with others and played with a lot of people that were older than him. Now he's the older guy. I hope that the younger generation appreciates that and reaches out to him the way he did to the people that came before him. But we seem to be stuck in her where people think if it didn't happen while I was born it didn't happen. How effing sad. But just listening to Richie I haven't heard him play yet in this interview but he seems like a really stand-up guy. And by the way even though I never was crazy about Bon Jovi as a musician I thought he was a damn good actor. But maybe if some young Jersey girl had dragged me back in the day I might have had a totally different opinion of that band.? The musician sweet listen to Growing Up influence the hell of it us. And if you're lucky enough that parents that take music they influence you. The first album I ever Stole was from my mother LOL was tapestry by Carole King. And from the age of three or four. I didn't grow up with them as an adolescent like I did with the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac or the whole but they were just so damn good that it trips a wire in your brain. Also my old man played Sinatra. It took me 30 years. It was a 90s before I went back and started to listen to the things he do with Nelson riddle and his other works. So what if great States come from from musical standpoint as well as a lot of others. Just listening to the early part of this interview Richie and I went to the same College. When I went there was a division 3 school and I played two years of football I'm not saying that to brag it's actually a joke because division 3 is basically 4 overachieving slow little people LOL period but it led to me becoming and educator. Also I transferred do unc-greensboro after 2 years. UNCG had a much better reputation for the quality of the professor's sucked. But while Kean which we now call the University and I think it's bumped up to division two. That's the thing about growing up in Jersey if you take advantage at least at that time you could get a great education for a reasonable price. Millennials and gen Z because they want everything and they think they are entitled to everything the thing everyone is entitled is an opportunity. I dropped out of high school and had to take the GED at 18 period And I was wasn't ready for college until 2 years of work. Appreciated and loved the guys I work with whether it was waiting tables or delivering Auto Parts. But when you hear people tell the same freaking joke every day can you see how repetitive their lives are and how there's no creativity there's no intellectual stimulation I had finally grown up and put away the bad stuff I did. At the age of 19 I was taking the SATs with 17 year olds and eight year olds at Cliffside Park High School in New Jersey. And I'm grateful. I needed to go through the experience of dropping out and having to work blue collar. I had to come to the conclusion that there's more in life for me and therefore it's time to bust your ass. I only mention this because Richie and I went to the same College. And a lot of people that wants to that college don't realize that in the sixties it was called Newark State University. Maybe Richie knows that? It wasn't Rutgers University. If you want their you knew that and you had friends that went to Rutgers and they really like the smell their own farts:-) often the conversation went start off where do you go to school and when you answer the question they would tell you where they went. Which was basically like saying you're at the bottom of the food chain but I never felt that weigh at my college. It was actually named after the family of the person who is the governor of the state at the time. Because his family had given so much land to that College. And whether or not that's cool I dig when rich people back in the day you should just give money two causes they deemed Worthy. They were paying a lot more taxes but there was philanthropy, but it was smart because even the wealthy had to pay taxes back then period And even though I didn't vote for the guy who was governor he did a pretty damn good job and I'm grateful that his family gave so many people like me and Richie an opportunity to go to school period and did I mention that for the Pell Grant it was quite affordable. Millennials annoy the shit out of me but the one thing they have a right to the bitch about in the college cost 6 times what it was when I went to school in the mid-80s and early 90s. Also we engaged. Somebody that you disagree with you might go out and have a drink with and listen to a band. I think Millennials and gen Z have a right to bitch is the fact that the kids that deliver pizza Domino's today make the same money I made in 1988 but College cost 6 times as much. That's just not fair. It's not liberal is not concerned for the much just right vs wrong. As I got older I listen to music that either I initially didn't get into for that was before my time. Richie Sambora and Frank Sinatra part two artists that I'm glad I went back and listened to:-). Can you imagine Keith Richards or John Lennon being that creative without listening to Chuck Berry? I know Springsteen did not invent this paraphrase but, Everything is Everything. Rock on Richie!

As far as his band goes. Playing in a smaller means you're trading out sound quality and intimacy with the audience for money. How much is enough? Richie seems to have found his answer. Very cool

The story about the Kiss tenure is somehow different according to other sources. In his autobiographical book Paul Stanley tells that Richie auditioned for the gig and didnt make the cut. Moreover during a 1988 New Jersey promotional interview Alec John Such recollects that Richie was bummed after losing the audition in Kiss so he (Alec) adviced him to go see his new band play at a local club. That band was Bon Jovi.

Sambora was very cute

Howard clearly likes Richie more than Jon🤣🤣

i dont' listen to bon jovi but that performance of living on a prayer was fucking ridiculous. and richie was shredding acoustically was awesome too

36;45 just about better than the best! WOW!!!

What the hell Richie does sound Jon here, anybody hear Jon in Richie's voice? I think the only difference is Richie talks a bit faster than Jon lol

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This is years after the whole Bon Jovi-Stern feud....Good to see it all behind them..

Stern hit it on the head when he asked if Richie and John get along , Richie said yea, but Stern said I bet you guys don't. A year later Richie quits the band. hmmm did Stern know something?

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Quick note. Badfinger signed with Apple records and then the Beatles broke up they got screwed buy a lot of different people. Two people died. Yet they were extremely talented. Ritchie could have gone the same route signing with Led Zeppelin's label. I'm glad he made it

Too many pinch harmonics, that's why he's left off the lists. Damn Fine guitar player, DAMN Fine, and I really like his voice, too. Plus all the pussy he has seen?!? We all want to be Richie: Great musician, great vocalist, incredibly talented song writer, handsome, rich (Like RICH, rockstar rich), founding member of a GIANT band. Yep, we all want to be Richie. This was good, thanks for posting it. ps, I loved that version of Living on a Prayer. Good stuff, thanks.

Kiss didn't ask him to join, they asked him to audition and they didn't chose him. I like Richie as much as I like Kiss, so that's not a biased comment. As far as his guitar lessons, he was at Norm's Rare Guitars when he heard Laurence Juber and asked him for some acoustic lessons.

I am not really sure.

emoted through their instrument ? then he woke up !!

Maybye Jon but they are pretty much neck in neck

he briefly mentions how he loved the coke indirectly when he talks about partying with Charlie Sheen

Man, I like Sambora quite a lot, but I've always hated that slow version of "Living on a Prayer". I always thought that was Jon's horrible idea to slow it down, but now Richie's doing it here. Blech. Speed it up, it's a great ROCK tune.

He was in a band with Dean Fassano in the very early 80s called Message. Fassano was the lead singer- not Sambora. Sambora wasn't even the lone guitar player when they were called Mercy! Dean had a great voice and I believe it was his voice that attracted the attention of Swan. I like Richie but he's even bullshitting about the Kiss thing. Kiss had a cattle call and hundreds of guitar players showed up. Early BJ songs like "Breakout" and "Roulette" are generic pop metal songs with little "blues" inspiration.

what did howard do with richie back in the day?!!

Have Richie ride the Sybian.

Much more talented then Jon

Regarding career. Not being chosen for the band Kiss what's the best thing that ever happened to you period and as soon as talked about someone wanting your bow down even before Howard said it I knew it was Gene Simmons. A fucking egomaniac. And I never thought kiss was that good. During that time that was not one of the band's I would rush to see when I was in junior high school. Although I give to two Ace Frehley who was a hell of guitarist. But it wasn't about the music it was about spectacle. And if that's your thing that's okay but it sounds like Richie knew what he wanted. I'm sure you could have made a lot of money with kiss and then Miserable as hell.

Howard always hated Bon Jovi. He used to say that Bon Jovi was for 13-year-old girls and that Guns N Roses was for real men. I'd actually agree with that.

Language, howard

I think bon jovi didn't bring out Samboras talent how it should been brought out. Bon jovi is too pop. Sambora coulve done better in a heavier band or even solo. Obviously he played great in non jovi but he did get lost because of Jon...imo. Jon wasn't better, he just took the limelight cat all costs.

I'm glad Richie didn't join Kiss. They stink. Richie is superb.

Belsen was a Gas

I'm way behind sambora daughther looks like him no heather just saying.

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