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Originally Posted by richiefan95
i am 100% sure that Richie is capable of beieng serious. But that was a 3 minute video where he was signing guitars. Nothing more. There is no need to be serious. If someone would interview him an hour or so that would be a complete different story.
Uncle Richie - YouTube
Richie is still the same guy. Maybe that seem odd to you but when you give Slash as an example how a man over 50 should behave I can't take that serious. |
Exactly. Richie's always been a goofball. ("Aus-traail-leeya", anyone?) Yeah, it's awkward, partly because he's not 20-something anymore (or 30- or 40-something, for that matter); but he's always been that way.
I wonder if another part of the reason he seems awkward, now, is that he's still trying to figure out his public persona since the split. Except when he was promoting solo projects, he was usually the comic to Jon's straight man. And after 2013, any time he's been serious in interviews, people have dissected every word he said and interpreted it as "dissing the band." When he does funny stuff, they swear he's drunk or 'off'. The guy can't win.
"Uncle Richie" also makes an appearance in this video (in case people have forgotten that, once upon a time not so long ago, they used to think Richie was just funny):
https://youtu.be/aIDk7tqoi9c
Interesting to note that before the world got so serious, Richie wasn't the only clown with OTT and occasionally off-color humor. Sad to think that, like a lot of us, the other guys seem to have lost their fun sides altogether. The price of maturity, I suppose.