Lockdown Licks no. 259. ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’ by Bon Jovi. Signature riffs played on a HB35+ in mid ‘twin’ humbucker setting. played through a NUX M8 amp set to ‘superlead’ with some reverb. Original played by Ritchie Sambora.
“You Give Love a Bad Name” is a song by American rock band Bon Jovi, released as the first single from their 1986 album Slippery When Wet. Written by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, and Desmond Child about a woman who has jilted her lover, the song reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on November 29, 1986, and became the band’s first number one hit.