The Bon Jovi Experience are the worlds first and finest tribute to the great Bon Jovi. Featuring Jon Bon Jovi clone Tony, (Jon By Jovi).
Accompanying him are Edd (Richie) on guitar, Jon (Tico) on drums, Steve (Hugh) on bass and Steve.S (Dave) on keyboards. Together they produce the looks and sounds of the real thing so closely that critics have said "you could almost be fooled into thinking that this band was the real thing", and "quite simply a mirror image of the man himself".
The band was the first to be asked to perform on the us new jersey tribute album "Garden State of Mind". They were told recently by radio 1 DJ and TV personality Chris Evans that they were the "best tribute band he had ever seen", and have also been asked to appear live on Chris’s show in the future.
The band has a significant fanbase, not to mention Tony's various TV and film appearances, (ITV’s International Stars and Their Doubles hosted by Dale Winton, BBC’s Doctors series, and British film Kinky Boots.
Tony recently attended a couple of Bon Jovi shows himself and was actually mobbed when he was mistaken for the real Jon Bon Jovi by hundreds of screaming Bon Jovi fans and official photographers asking for autographs and pictures.
Chad Kroeger, frontman with Bon Jovi’s guest band Nickelback, even picked Tony from the forty thousand strong crowd and said, "have you seen this guy? He’s that much like Jon Bon Jovi it's freaky man!", then had his own photographer take pictures of him.
As a result Tony has been the topic of conversation on the official Bon Jovi website from people asking who he was, an honour that no other Bon Jovi tribute band frontman has ever gained.
Then, on Monday 13th November 2006, Tony and the band received the ultimate accolade when they were requested by Bon Jovi to perform live at the Hard Rock Cafe in London for the celebrations surrounding Bon Jovi's induction into the UK Rock 'n' Roll hall of fame. During this performance Jon Bon Jovi himself joined Tony and the band on the stage and performed the song "Who Say's You Can't Go Home?" to the delight of the sell-out "Backstage with Jon Bon Jovi" fanclub audience of die hard fans.