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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
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Originally Posted by Becky
I don't think there's enough material that Richie has written alone to compare his songwriting skills to Jon's. With Jon we have the bulk of his solo CDs, half of the Keep the Faith CD, and songs from each band CD that he wrote solo. With Richie, there are three songs in the entire catalogue that he wrote solo. So, I don' t believe there's enough of a sample to compare the two as songwriters. Who knows how much of Richie's solo CDs are the contribution of Dave Bryan or Richie Supa or Desmond Child etc.
Now if you want to compare Jon and Richie as a team to another team of songwriters, there are plenty of songs to judge them by. If you want to compare Jon to another solo songwriter, there's enough material to do so. But it's impossible to judge Richie as a songwriter because there isn't enough released material he wrote alone.
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Becky, do me a favour and listen one more time to WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE at the MOSCOW MUSIC PEACE FESTIVAL and notice RICHIE's intro. It contains the whole BLAZE OF GLORY RIFF in it. Does Richie have any songwriting credits for Blaze of Glory? Guess what: NO!
Let's take Dry County. Is Richie anywhere in the credits? No! On the other hand I bet he wrote the riff parts as well and the solo alone is half the song so the credits are most of the time irrlevant.
Let's take THE ANSWER... Richie wrote at that song for years. But on the credits there is that Foster guy also even if I'm 90% sure that there are BJ songs where Richie has a bigger contribution still he is not mentioned in the credits.
Well...I can't have an objective opinion. I like Richie better than Jon but on the other hand there are a whole bunch of JBJ songs that are by miles better than Richie songs so I can't decide. All I know is that the credit part on records is irrelevant. |
I totally agree with you, I'm sure that Richies the genious behind the most of the guitar stuff, and since the guitar stuff is 30-40% off Bon Jovi thats a big part.
Maybe Jon wrights better lyrics, but Richie is IMO a better musician that Jon. When I was hooked on Bon Jovi it was not the lyrics at all, I didn't understand much English at that time, but the music and guitar stuff.
Acording to their solo-projects, I think that theres much more soul in Richies cd's.
Gennerally I think that Bon Jovi wouldnt be Bon Jovi if one of the guys was missing, Tico, Dave, Jon or Richie, alone they are all great but together they are briliant.
01-31-2005, 09:40 PM
