When you read biographies, you are reading quotes that may not be real quotes and your taking them from some people who have had fallen out with the band like Lonn Friend. Everyone with a brain and any level of self understanding can look backwards and see that what they did at one point may have been motivated by something they didn't realize at the time. It doesn't make what was their truth at the time a calculated lie like you try to make any little contradiction to be. You hold Jon to an impossible standard of perfection, nitpick every word, and to be honest with you, when you're only looking back in hindsight like you are, you're not going to see the same picture as those who lived it.

I'm personally too sick to try to keep up with your 8000 word posts. We get it. You think Jon is a lying, evil, SOB and Richie bears no responsibility for his own behavior. Fine, no one is going to convince you otherwise and I have better things to do like sleeping 17 hours a day since I don't have to go to work today.

Have fun. I don't need more stress in my life from someone who clearly hates Jon no matter how much you deny it. My band is still together making music I like. That is what I'm going to focus on.

My point remains though. You have missed a lot of this band's history that you will never "get" by reading about it.