Il n'y aura pas de tournée d'automne puisqu'il présentera définitivement sa comédie musicale en septembre ....

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The rock survivors of Bon Jovi roll into Anaheim Keyboardist David Bryan looks back at 25 years with his old schoolmate Jon Bon Jovi and the rest of the band. By PETER LARSEN Twenty five years after Jon Bon Jovi called up his schoolmate David Bryan and talked him out of enrolling in music school, the band they started then is still on the road, rolling into Southern California tonight for a trio of shows. Bon Jovi – the band – plays Honda Center in Anaheim on Friday and Saturday, and Staples Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday. After guitarist Richie Sambora got arrested for on suspicion of driving under the influence in Laguna Beach last week (and suddenly was no longer available for interviews) keyboard player Bryan stepped forward to talk about the legacy of a band that's beaten the usual rock-'n'-roll odds to survive a quarter century and counting. Q: What's it like to look back and realize that 25 years have passed by and you, Jon, Richie and (drummer) Tico (Torres) are still going at it? A: You really don't look at it every day. In retrospect, we've outlasted everybody we've ever played with. But when you start, your biggest thing is to get a record contract, and we got a contract. And then to have a No. 1 record, and we got that. And then we learned that the hardest thing is to stay on top. To tell you the truth, it's more fun to step on stage now than it ever was. Me, Richie, Jon and Tico, we interact without each other saying a word. And it's been an amazing journey. Q: So how do you keep going after all these years – and what keeps fans wanting to come out and see you again each tour? A: It goes back to really striving to be current. Not writing "Living on a Prayer" 15 times. Not rewriting "Wanted, Dead or Alive." Not being happy to rest on your laurels, but working to move forward. Most people are happy to be where they are, and they rest on their laurels and maybe get a little bit lazy. We've always wanted to be the Rolling Stones, and we've lasted and I think we still have a shot at it. Q: You think Bon Jovi will be out on the road in 15 years when you're as old as the Stones? A: Well, let's call it 20 (laughs). We don't need to do it, we just really want to do it and like to do it … so I guess there is no end in sight. The end is when it stops being fun. Q: On this tour, what will fans get – a lot from the "Lost Highway" album? The big hits? Some old stuff you haven't done for a while? A: Well, we're also fans, so if I go see Paul McCartney, and he doesn't do "Let It Be," I'm (ticked) off. I want to see that. I want to see "Hey Jude." So we take a step back and say, you have to do "Wanted …," you have to do "Prayer." And then we try to do some for ourselves – we have such a handful of songs that we can throw an obscure one in – the bench is deep. Unlike a scripted show, ours isn't – we change it every night. And then there are audibles, where we have six songs on the side of the set list, and Jon will turn around and call one out. Or he'll call out one we haven't played in ten years, just to mess with us and have fun. Q: How have the fans changed over 25 years of touring – when you look out at the crowd, what's different? A: What I see most is a generational thing. There's three generations of fans there. Back in the '80s they were our age. And now in the 2000s they're our age. But there are their kids, and then all the new kids who find us. The one thing this band has always been is the ultimate respect for the stage. You give your heart, everyone one of us try as hard as we can every night. And you look out there and see that you still matter. Q: After this tour wraps up, what comes next? A: I have a musical going to the La Jolla Playhouse, opening in September. It's called "Memphis," about one of the first white DJs to put African American music on the radio. It's about his love of the music (co-written with Joe DiPietro, whose credits include, "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change") and what it bring is not just entertainment, it teaches us how ignorant racism is too. Q: That kind of connects you back to the start of Bon Jovi, when you were about to head off to the Julliard School of Music, and then Jon called you up. A: I played with Jon since we were kids, and then I was always a classical player. And then the opportunity came up to do this, and it's worked out. My day job turned out pretty good.

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