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Originally Posted by crashed
Well, except The Circle tour and Lost Highway tours both had some pretty amazing sets and moments.
Any possibility of that this tour was killed by Richie.
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I think it's more than that that stopped this tour being any good. Jon's lack of vocal range plus his inability to put down the guitar, own the stage and sell the songs have been a massive let down for me.
I was never a 'Richie lover', I sing in a band, I am 37 years old and idolised Jon as a frontman from the age of ten, since the first time I saw the Prayer video. I unfortunately predicted this new, acoustic strumming Jon when the album came out; stating how my opinion of the new album would be coloured by whether he sold the songs live or whether he tethered himself to the mic stand with that f*cking Takamine strapped around him for 2/3 of the set.
I honestly take no pleasure at all in watching Jon's decline. We could all list the songs he can no longer sing, the middle-of-the-road plop he puts in the middle of the set to give his voice a rest are down to him; not Richie's absence.
People are extremely fond of rolling out how many shows Richie has missed on this tour - and he is a pr*ck for missing them, I admit that - but if you are saying that, then you have to admit that Jon has had plenty of time (around 7 months) to change the set around and it can't be blamed on Richie's absence. Jon shoe-horned this tour in to 2013, knowing Richie's album was out in 2012 and Dave's new musical was ramping up in 2014. He loaded the gigs up and picked sets to accommodate playing over 100 shows in a year, compared to 85 on The Circle tour - to make sure they got the number one tour again.
Blame Richie for being a total bell-end but even if he'd been on this tour for the entire year; this album, Jon's lack of energy and hiding behind his guitar, the crappy setlists would have remained...