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Originally Posted by Panda
I really, really struggle to understand why people think it's because of Phil that the setlists are limited. It is not. At all. Phil can learn any of Bon Jovi's songs in probably a half hour or less. If he could learn a whole 20-something song setlist + more in less than a week, which includes more complicated songs like Keep The Faith and Lay Your Hands On Me, he can learn any song. It ain't Phil. It's Jon's laziness.
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I agree it's probably because JBJ doesn't bother to ask him to learn new stuff - but with a month of the tour left, he's hardly going to start now, is he?
So yes, it is because of the absence of Richie and the presence of Phil that setlists are limited.
No chance of Richie taking lead vocals for a song is another example of a setlist limitation.
It's also the excuse that JBJ peddles.
At the London Fan Club Q&A he had various song requests and he said "Maybe if Richie were here, but Phil is probably locked in his room up the stairs afraid I will ask him to learn yet another song".