At 'The Fred' Bon Jovi tribute band Aug 28

Before Bon Jovi ever takes the stage at “The Fred” it could be a long time. On Aug 28, local residents will get the next best thing.
Slippery When Wet will be the first of what concert promoter Chris Verdon hopes to be a series of tribute band concerts. A tribute band should sound like the band whose songs they are performing and often have the look as well.

Slippery When Wet footages both qualities and if you are a Bon Jovi fan, like Verdon, you will be blown away.

Slippery When Wet’s drive, music ability, showmanship and dedication to duplicating the Bon Jovi live experience led them to be officially authorized by Bon Jovi to perform their highly entertaining show. With 14 Billboard Top Ten Bon Jovi hit songs like: “Living on a Prayer,” “Runaway,” “Wanted Dead or Alive,” “Never Say Goodbye,” “You Give Love a Bad Name,” “It’s My Life,” and “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” just to name a few, “The Fred” is guaranteed to be rocking.
Another added bonus is the very affordable price with tickets priced at $15. Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 770-631-0630. Become a friend on Facebook go to The Tribute Series click on like button.
The Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater is a 2,500 seat state-of-the- art facility owned and operated by the city of Peachtree City. At 201 McIntosh Trail the box office is located, and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Box office opens at 4 p.m. on concert day. For more information call 770-631-0630.

Donates seats for fans of new team, Bon Jovi

American rocker Bon Jovi has purchased four season tickets for the new Melbourne Heart team in Australia's A-League and will donate them to fans.
Bon Jovi was announced as the football club's No. 1 international ticket holder in a statement released by the team Saturday.
The four premium memberships, valued at about $2,000, will be donated for each home game to fans who otherwise "don't have the financial means."
The Heart will play 15 home matches in its inaugural season starting next month.
Bon Jovi, whose band will tour Australia in December, was formerly a co-owner of the Philadelphia Soul in the Arena Football League a lapsed indoor American football competition.

Bon Jovi's stadium gigs Sambora loving

Next Australian gigs to Bon Jovi's will be big scale stadium shows, but guitarist Richie Sambora is promising an 'intimate' experience for fans.
In December the band hits Australia as part of their two year world tour to promote their latest album, The Circle.
The rock storys announced last month they would play shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane.
A second and final show for Sydney was announced on Wednesday, ahead of the start of general ticket sales on Thursday.
The band, which kicked off their tour in the US in February, has just completed a series of concerts at London's 02 Arena, and Sambora says he's loving the massive shows.
'Anybody that says they don't like it means they can't do it,' Sambora told AAP from his Los Angeles home during a week long break from the tour.
'The event is so much fun, to take part in that ... it actually comes down to us being able to do that and we do it very very well.
'Jon (Bon Jovi) happens to be one of the best frontmen when it comes down to making a stadium seem like a small place.'
Sambora says he's looking forward to coming back Down Under - the band was last here in 2008 - and he's promising Aussie fans a great concert experience.
'We're bringing the most amazing production, there's going to be a high-definition screen behind us that's 55 feet (16 metres) high and 115 feet (35 metres) long so everybody gets very close and personal to the band and it becomes an intimate kind of experience.'
With a career spanning almost three decades, Bon Jovi have sold more than 120 million albums and performed more than 2,600 concerts around the world.
The Circle is the New Jersey band's 11th studio album, released in November last year.
Before they hit our shores, Bon Jovi will also have released a best of double album, which contains five new songs and is due out in November. Aussie fans will be among the first in the world to hear some of those songs performed at a live concert.
Australia is one of 30 countries the band will visit during this world tour.
Sambora says the band has had a 'passionate love for Australia since the 80s' and the now single guitarist - he was married to TV star Heather Locklear and has dated actress Denise Richards joked that 'the girls have been very good'.

Rocks again to Bon Jovi

11th studio album to Boni Jovi's , The Circle, this week hit stories. Here's what music critics are saying about it:
Darryl Sterdan, Sun Media: Who says you can't go home? After shamelessly mounting the country bandwagon for 2007's Lost Highway, the soccer-mom heartthrobs circle back to their arena rock wheelhouse for CD 11. The everyman lyrics about living for today, the U2ish anthems about love, the huge singalong choruses, the lush strings; everything your gal wants is right here. You have my sympathies.
Download: Work for the Working Man, Bullet
Wayne Parry, AP: Bon Jovi is back! The Circle is the followup to 2007's wildly successful but country fried Lost Highway, which was a jarring sonic detour for the heroes of the New Jersey Turnpike. Thankfully, Jon Bon Jovi & Co. are keeping the faith with the still developing but oh-so-recognizable sound that has been the band's trademark . . . A rejuvenated Richie Sambora makes his presence known here more strongly than on his last few albums, with more intricate and longer solos. Throughout it all, "Hell yeah!" has replaced "Hee Haw." And as they say in New Jersey, that's a good thing, capece?
Billboard magazine: The band hits a classic Bon Jovi stride out of the gate with the first single, We Weren't Born to Follow, a common-man anthem that draws its buoyant chorus straight out of the group's 1988 song Born to Be My Baby . . . The country friendly elements are still there -- the fiddle and steel on Live Before You Die, for example -- but The Circle rides closer to the New Jersey turnpike than the band's Highway run.

Bon Jovi: Heads To Germany

There is not much that Bon Jovi hasn't accomplished in its career, but Jon Bon Jovi is pretty excited about being in Germany for the celebration marking the fall of the Berlin Wall. The pair is recently slated to be the only entertainment act at the ceremony on November 9, performing the new single "We Weren't Born to Follow" from the album The Circle. Jon Bon Jovi told Billboard.com that he "wrote a fan letter, 'to whom it may concern,' stating about how we've had such a relationship with Germany for all these years and how relevant the song is to the situation and how I was there chipping away a piece of the wall 20 years ago when it came down." The German government responded by inviting the band to play at the ceremony. "It's a pretty big deal," Bon Jovi stated.The Circle comes out on November 10 and Bon Jovi is so gearing up for its "Artists in Residence" partnership with NBC, which will kick off with a November 4 Today show interview from London. The group also will appear on the show via outdoor plaza performances on November 11 and 25, and an in-studio interview on November 18. They also will be on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, an episode of Bravo's Inside the Actor's Studio, and they'll be part of NBC's The More You Know public service campaign.Meanwhile, the first ever Bon Jovi book, When We Were Beautiful, hits stores today. The book offers unprecedented insights into the members’ lives on stage, on the road, and at home, as well as intimate reflections on the highs and lows of their 25 years together. The book also houses exclusive photographs and text from Jon, Richie Sambora, David Bryan and Tico Torres themselves. Last but not least, keep an ear out for FMQB Productions' Bon Jovi radio particular, Inside Bon Jovi: The Circle, hosted by Scott Shannon. The one hour radio particular will explore the making of The Circle and will world premiere songs from the album. It will air on radio stations nationwide starting November 6.

Best of Bon Jovi

1	Always full track			5:54
2	Never Say Goodbye full track			4:51
3	Santa Fé			5:39
4	Miracle			5:07
5	I'll Be There For You full track			5:41
6	Bed Of Roses full track			6:35
7	Blaze of Glory			5:20
8	Livin' On A Prayer full track			4:11
9	You Give Love A Bad Name full track			3:44
10	In These Arms full track			5:18
11	Bang a Drum			4:35
12	Bad Medicine full track			5:16
13	I Want You			5:36
14	These Days full track			6:28