Originally Posted by rickysambo

So there we have it, Richie had another secret kid (at least one) all this while
Also, what an odd way to "be a unit" to leave your "brothers" out of the album cover, how convenient! I think the dollar obsessed junkies in GnR/Motley Crue can tout the phony "brother" moniker more convincingly where every "brother" gets sort of an equal footing. Surely, there isn't gonna be any album cover with just Vince or Axl on the cover/music video/thumbail/promo etc. And don't say "oh its coz only Jon's face and image sells" which is quite evidently false. Its a dead horse that I'll flog, but huge props to Richie for quitting! You say he's replaceable and dispensable? There you go, replace him and be content. When he played those solos, you proclaimed he was " the heavyweight champion of the world", "the king of swing" and so forth. When he quit, he became less significant than The Edge (of all people).
Apropos to "The band is a family in as much as we had grown up together, done everything together, we had ups and downs, but we never deserted the ship": That just sounds like the Mafia, an analogy which Jon sort of enjoys referring to. As long as you're the mob boss, its a family. As soon as someone goes rogue, you take him out. Because it'd just destroy the don's ego & perception to God forbid, request the fallen Underboss. He can't be seen as going soft (What about the pansy democrat party OST he's been churning out though?). Sorry Jon, the only parallel to a make believe mob tale that applies here is that like Tony Soprano, you too need therapy.