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Richie Sambora’s mic had to be turned off during a recording of MTV Unplugged because he was too out-of-it to play in tune.

According to insiders, the show, filmed in front of around 400 fans and designed to relaunch the Unplugged series, was a disaster from beginning to end thanks to the Bon Jovi guitarist’s inability to actually play his guitar.

The source tells Perezhilton.com, "They had a whole bunch of musicians on stage for most of the night to cover his mistakes on the guitar and would turn his mic off so he couldn't be off key."

Despite this, some songs had to be recorded several times before Sambora got it right.

"As Wanted Dead or Alive started, Richie couldn't play along! During the song Jon stops and makes Richie start again and after the second take was finished the show was supposed to be over but Jon had the whole band come on stage to re-record the song a third time so Richie couldn't mess it up!

"Jon was clearly upset, but kept it together and handled it like a true pro!"

We can’t help thinking that it would have sounded even better if they’d just gone the whole hog and turned off ALL of the microphones.
   

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