BON JOVI Tour Begins In Shadow Of Shootings
February 19, 2008, 16 years ago
According to Gary Graff from Billboard.com,
BON JOVI's U.S. tour was kicked off last night (Feb. 18) in Omaha, Neb., without any full production rehearsals, due to last Thursday's shootings on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
Bon Jovi and the rest of the band were en route to DeKalb on Thursday, where they were due to rehearse at NIU's Convocation Center because Omaha's Qwest Center was unavailable. The Convocation Center was near Cole Hall, where Steve Kazmierczak fatally shot five people and wounded more than a dozen others before taking his own life.
"Your thoughts and prayers go out to them. It's a shocker, just devastating," Jon Bon Jovi tells Billboard.com. "We were in the air at the time, so we didn't get any further than the airport. When we landed we were just told to get back on the plane and go home. But our crew and the stage and everything was there. Once things settled down they just packed everything up and headed to Nebraska. What else can you do?"Read more here.
