“That’s [Vancouver] where Bruce Fairbairn lived and that’s where he wanted to be. He also wanted to get us out of our element in New Jersey. I don’t think it was such a good idea because we were very out of control. The working environment was always in control. It was the environment that came after the work that was usually out of control. Luckily, we were sturdy lads!… The strip club in Vancouver were something that we had never seen before, being from New Jersey. The first day we walked into this strip club, this woman descended from the ceiling sown a pole and proceeded to take all her clothes off. When she got in a shower and soaped herself up, we just about lost our tongues. We just sat there and said, ‘We will be here every day.’ That energized us through the whole project. Our testosterone was at a very high level back then… We all lived in the same rented condo together. It was destroyed by the end of the recording. The police evicted Jon and me. We had to finish the last few days living at the Sheraton hotel, because we had pissed the neighbors off with the noise. It was five guys together and it got pretty wild. It was a brand new condo, right on the river overlooking the World’s Fair. It was lovely until we moved in there. Then it was ‘There goes the neighborhood”. You know, sometimes you forget your key and have to climb over the wall…”
— Richie Sambora on life while recording Slippery When Wet in Vancouver. (From the book ”Bon Jovi : In Performance The Halcyon Years”)
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