You gotta love a dad who's totally frank about what he's reluctant to share with his kids about his past. In Jon Bon Jovi's case, it's his hair - or, rather, the hair that he had when he was rockin' out in the eighties. For some reason, he's less keen to show his kids his own concert footage from twenty years ago - because of shame around the hair - than he is to cop to dealing drugs as a teenager.
Bon Jovi's all sharesies when it comes to the drug stuff - spilling stuff like "I did the drug thing very young and wised up very young too, because I was into drugs a little too much... I was entrepreneurial even then, buying quarter pounds of dope and trying to make a couple of bucks" and "Did you ever smoke dope that was laced with PCP (phencyclidine) and
then have that whole summer of hallucinations? It was f***ing awful" - but when it comes to the hair? He don't wanna go there.
"I've heard Richie Sambora (guitarist) and Dave Bryan (keyboard player) say they played their kids a DVD of our old concerts from 20 years ago, and they were really laughing. But I've never done that. They would probably laugh at my 80's hair. Sure they would."
I can't really blame him. I'm still embarassed about my 80's hair, and it was never as bad as this:
Stick to the drug stories, dude, and keep the hair under wraps - whatever street cred you gain with your kids for admitting that you did drugs will be utterly obliterated the minute they see the permed mullet and the scarves. And the make-up. Yeah, don't go there at all.
