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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
Jumped to conclusions hardcore. Bobby was brought on the same time Jeff was (along with Everett Bradley briefly) so to say Bobby was included just to a) pay his sons medical bills or b) be Richie's back-up/understudy in case Richie went off the rails (a full seven years before he went to rehab) IMHO are way off. Richie's playing, while getting less and less imaginative as the 2000's progressed was not THAT bad in 2003. He was still pretty together at that point.
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Well since we are sticklers for facts around here, Richie did go to rehab in 2007 but I would say he truly started to deteriorate somewhere between the end of the bounce tour and the beginning of HAND. Although Richie is one of those people you can always tell when he's loaded. Bloated Richie = loaded Richie and he was heavy too towards the end of the Bounce tour.