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Originally Posted by Walleris
Not to mention the fact that it was billed as "postponed due to throat issues" and then conveniently never rescheduled. Why would he not play these shows a week or two later if tickets were sold well?
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Maybe because his day job got in the way? A week or two immediately after those shows were cancelled, he could have still been under the doctor’s instructions. A week or two after the LA show, the Jovi machine was up and running again, promoting WAN and getting ready for the tour. There
was about a month from mid-December through mid-January that appears to have been open, if you forget the Christmas holidays; but the venues may have had other things besides Richie on their books and the band may have had other plans by that time. I have no idea; but it seems like he wasn’t just sitting around, twiddling his thumbs, from the end of October, when the shows were cancelled until February 4, when the BWC tour started. He was pretty much on the move the whole time doing Jovi stuff. Here’s the way the rest of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 played out:
Oct 16, 2012 London -Shepherd's Bush Empire
Oct 18 The Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA (Cancelled – reason given: laryngitis)
Oct 20 The Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, Canada (Cancelled – reason given: laryngitis)
Oct 23 Best Buy Theater - New York, NY (Cancelled – reason given: laryngitis)
Oct 23 Runaway Q&A – New York, NY (Matt Bongiovi confirmed laryngitis and requested no close contact during the photo ops because they suspected that was how Richie got caught the bug in London that led to the laryngitis)
Nov 13 The Fonda Theatre - Hollywood, CA
Nov 16 The Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA (cancelled – reason given: scheduling conflict)
(Thanksgiving – November 22)
November 26, 2012 – Travel to NYC
November 27, 2012 – Inside Out event (BJ)
November 28, 2012 – WAN Photo Shoot (BJ)
November 30, 2012 – gig with the boys (BJ)
December 11, 2012 – Travel for 12-12-12 concert
December 12, 2012 – 12-12-12 Concert (BJ)
(Christmas and New Year’s: Tuesday, Dec 23, 2012 - Sunday, Jan. 1, 2013)
January 18, 2013 – in the studio (since AOTL was done, I assume this is for WAN)
January 22, 2013 – flight to London
January 24, 2013 – BBC performance (BJ)
January 26, 2013 – Stuttgart (BJ)
January 29, 2013 – BWC video released (4 vid series – had to be filmed at some time, right??)
February 3, 2013 – Flight East to begin tour
I suppose one could argue that there was plenty of time after Lubbock for him to do the rescheduled dates; but there was a lot of discussion on the “Richie” thread about whether or not he could even do promotion for AOTL for months after Calgary. But I don’t know that.
I never said the shows sold well. I didn’t check them myself, but I believe Matt when he says they didn’t. My point is that even though the shows didn’t sell well, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Richie lied about sick; laryngitis could still be the reason the shows were cancelled. Or you guys could be right; I can’t say categorically that you aren’t. I didn’t go to the Q&A. I just know that my friend who was there told me Richie was definitely sick and that Matt B. told the fans, before the Q&A, that no close contact or hugs were allowed because that was how Richie got sick in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Walleris
Come on Jackie, how can you be so reasonable on most things, yet so selective on the shady Richie stuff?
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Selective reasoning isn’t my problem. Neither is selective memory. Using your logic, I guess we could assume that Tico really didn’t have to have surgery, since at least one of the shows that was cancelled because of that has never been rescheduled, even though the promoter tried again to reschedule it during the time Bon Jovi was going to be back in South America this fall. That’s a little tongue-in-cheek because I believe that Tico had to have surgery, and cancellation was unavoidable. But I’m not the one saying that it only makes sense that if someone was sick, the shows would be rescheduled…