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Originally Posted by Becky
You know, Jani actually said Warrant was signed because their label wanted a Bon Jovi.
I'm pretty sure this was taken at an LA show on the New Jersey tour. I'd love to see the audio of it. Jon and Jani are my two favorite singers from the hair band era.
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The entertainment business has its own golden rule:
"Do unto others as others have done unto others."
ALL the record labels wanted their own Bon Jovi back then, for the same reason why all the labels want their own Beyonce now, LOL: because that's where the big money is. I even remember when it happened with The Beatles -- and I was only nine.
Suddenly, radio was flooded with "Brit Invasion" bands. At first, I rejected them as cheap ripoffs (especially those scruffy-looking Rolling Stones, LOL!). But as I aged, I found that I could like bands like The Kinks and Deep Purple and Syndicate of Sound without being "disloyal" to The Beatles.
And don't forget about the role MTV played back then! They had the power to make or break an act, and it was SO much easier to make an act that was good-looking. Indeed, the record label scouts began rejecting aspiring bands that had less than camera-friendly members. The original bassist for New Jersey's Trixter was declared "too tall," while Vinnie Vincent was almost done recording his second solo album when his record label mysteriously decided that his singer sucked, and was replaced with (the younger and cuter) Mark Slaughter.
Now, here's your reward for reading all that -- a pic of Jani no one has ever seen before. I took it at a club in New York City:
