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Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi
He still has a voice, but his performance... this guy can no longer concentrate to do something really solid. Too spread out.
However, when I listens to the snipets of his new songs, everything is fine. So strange.
It's a different problem than Jon in terms of performance, but at the end of the day, you come to the same conclusion. The studio recordings are the only thing they can give us to enjoy a bit of his talent.
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Apart from the voice box issue, which I'm not sure if that was his fault or not, I felt that this performace was pretty strong especially when compared to recent performances. He is certainly looking well.
What is strange is that Richie's guitar playing has gone from sounding like Clapton to Keith Richards. ie. precise to somewhat sloppy. I know some guitarists loose the felxibilty and movement in their finger joints as they get older. Maybe Richie is suffering from that?
Vocally he was pretty strong but he defintely has issues concertrating on both singing and playing at the same time.. I almost feel like he should concerntrate on the singing in a live setting and have another guitar player take over the heavy weight from the guitar playing.
Constantly trying to be a huge jam session is not a great idea either, with the rest of the band never knowing what he's going to do next. But on the whole I see this performance as a positive step.