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Music: Bon Jovi interview; Part 2 of 2ENGLAND: London:INTJon Bon Jovi (Bon Jovi frontman), Tico Torres (Bon Jovi drummer) and David Bryan (Bon Jovi pianist) interview SOTQ: JON I WATCHED THE ENTIRE SERIES YESTERDAY / SOMETHING THAT REALLY STRUCK ME IN EPISODE FOUR IS THERE'S A BIG POLITICAL CONTINGENT TO THAT EPISODE / HOW DO YOU LOOK AT THE POLITICAL SPHERE NOW- (Bon Jovi) It's probably no different than 2020 or 2016 or 2012 before that / here we go again, that's the world in which we live, times are constantly changing, and the long and short of it is here we go againQ: I WAS LISTENING TO 'LIVIN ON A PRAYER' YESTERDAY AS WELL AS MANY OTHER SONGS-- (Bon Jovi) You did your homework, thank you very much (laughter)Q: THE FIRST FEW LINES ARE ABOUT THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THEY FEEL VERY TANGIBLE TO NOT ONLY PEOPLE IN AMERICA BUT AROUND THE WORLD LIVING THAT SORT OF LIFE / HOW WOULD YOU VIEW THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE NOW, IF YOU WERE TO WRITE THAT SONG NOW- (Bon Jovi) I don't think it would be different, it's a universal, timeless, classic theme of the collective 'we' coming together, and that's what resonated / over the years we've written about characters, people have made them their own, Tommy and Gina were the first of many- (Bryan) You think Tommy would have been on an iPad and Gina was working at Google (laughter) 'Tommy's on an iPad all day'Q: THERE'S A REFERENCE TO JOHN SHANKS BRINGING IN TECHNOLOGY TO MUSIC / IS THAT THE WAY MUSIC HAS CHANGED THE MOST FOR YOU AS ARTISTS- (Bon Jovi) I'm sure there's plenty of that in the world / guys are capable of making big sounding records in their bedroom / recording studios have suffered, that would be something very different than when we started, it was a very organic approach to record making, there weren't drum machines and computers, we rely on Tico / so that's very different, but everything, because it's different, doesn't mean it's worse, it's just differentQ: DO YOU THINK THAT'...