Richie Sambora has only a single regret concerning his exit from Bon Jovi.

The guitarist, who abruptly give up the band in 2013 to shell out extra time with his household, was a current visitor on The Allison Hagendorf Present. When requested what he would enhance about his departure from Bon Jovi if he could go back once more in time, Sambora was forthright.

“I almost certainly would have left earlier,” the rocker admitted. “I may well have remaining a few of albums just before mainly because, I imagine Jon [Bon Jovi] was going into a position where he desired to not definitely be a band.”

This was not the 1st time the guitarist sensed Bon Jovi would rather go solo.

“When we to start with met, he was flourishing to be a kind of a solo artist in a Bruce [Springsteen] way or a Rick Springfield way,” Sambora explained. “And quite frankly, it was an ultimatum for me when I just just before Slippery [When Wet] [was made]. I went, ‘Come on, gentleman. Permit me in. We have to do this. We have to make this a band problem if we want to invade the planet and have folks settle for it.’”

Richie Sambora Says Bon Jovi Documentary ‘Could Have Been More of a Celebration’

Somewhere else in the interview, Sambora explained his dissatisfaction with the just lately-launched Bon Jovi documentary Thank You, Goodnight.

“Hey, appear, this of course was [Jon’s] customized notion. And this documentary was his perception, his infant. I truly had nothing at all at all to do with it,” the guitarist stated. “I disagree with a good deal of stuff or regardless of what, but I am not actually shaken by it.”

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“It could have been far more of a celebration,” Sambora continued. “We could have cut that down to about two hours, since, to me, the celebration would have been the good songs that we wrote and how we sold all these hundreds of thousands of information and performed for folks. I was in the band for 32 a long time, which is unbelievable in any case. [That] five fellas could be married for 32 years, it truly is incredible. That celebration of individuals excellent tracks that folks truly took into their lives, that’s what I thought the 40-yr celebration would be myself. But, like I reported, it was his infant.”

Requested what he would alter about the documentary, Sambora laughed.

“All the things,” he remarked. “There’s just one thing that’s not in there, and it’s almost everything. Like I explained, to me, this is Jon’s baby.”