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Originally Posted by Jim Bon Jovi
The Edge is known all over the world.
A lot of that has to do with the fact he's referred to as the Edge, how many people would be able to name drop Gordon Summer or Graham McPherson if they didn't go by the name Sting and Suggs?
As for your point about Keef. He was involved in an accident and no one is going to question the band for cancelling gigs in that situation. What's happening with Richie isn't an accident, it isn't out of the blue and it would leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths if they did start cancelling and **** up the whole tour on account of his drinking.
I genuinely think Jon is more concerned about being pragmatic than making money on this one (let's be fair he doesn't need it) but even if he is being a cynical money grubbing c*nt, as band leader it's his perogative, it's the music business not the music charity.
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So if Richie changes his name to The Bomb, 9 out of 10 people are more likely to know who he is?
I'm not saying the accident=the alcoholism. I'm just saying that both bands, for whatever reason had their guitarists unavailable. Incidentally, for all we've been told, maybe something bad has happened to Richie, something people would be a lot more sympathetic about. This is just an example, but say he found out the other day that he has cancer, went home with his mind all over the place and thought 'I want to get smashed'. Could you blame him for that? Maybe he's had the drink under control until something monumentally bad has happened. We just don't know, but a lot of folk seem to have the stance that he's just not giving a shit.