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He was asked to join Jon Bon Jovi's band in 1983. [7] Bon Jovi's first manager, Peter Mantas, credits much of the classic Bon Jovi lineup to Alec's connections in the local music scene: "Without Alec, there would not have been Tico [Torres], who he had played with in Phantom's Opera, and there wouldn't have been Richie." [8]
Bassist Alec John Such, a founding member of Bon Jovi, has died at the age of 70, Jon Bon Jovi announced on social media Sunday.
Bassist Alec John Such, a founding member of Bon Jovi, has died at the age of 70, Jon Bon Jovi announced on social media today (June 5). A cause of death is as yet unknown. “We are heartbroken ...
Bon Jovi is an American rock band formed in Sayreville, New Jersey in 1983. The band consists of singer Jon Bon Jovi, keyboardist David Bryan, drummer Tico Torres, guitarists John Shanks and Phil X, percussionist Everett Bradley, [1] and bassist Hugh McDonald. [2]
Bon Jovi performing on the Lost Highway Tour in November 2007. In March 1983, Bon Jovi called bassist Alec John Such and Such called experienced drummer Tico Torres and guitarist Richie Sambora. [19] Bon Jovi, Sambora, Such, Bryan, and Torres became the founding members of the band Bon Jovi. [20] In 1984 and 1985, Bon Jovi released its first ...
According to “Thank You, Goodnight,” the band’s founding bassist, Alec John Such, who was a member of the band until 1994 and died in 2022, introduced Sambora to Bon Jovi. He officially ...
Richard Stephen Sambora (born July 11, 1959) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013. . He and lead singer Jon Bon Jovi formed the main songwriting unit for the ba
Torres was a jazz fan as a youth and studied music with Joe Morello.In 1969, he played drums for the psychedelic rock band Six Feet Under. Before joining Bon Jovi in 1983, Torres had already played live with Joe Cerisano's R-Band aka Silver Condor in the New Jersey Rock circuit, and in the studio with Franke and the Knockouts, Pat Benatar, Chuck Berry, Cher, Alice Cooper and Stevie Nicks ...