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Originally Posted by Bill23
We still don't have an explanation as for why (allegedly) no one knew anything until "3 PM today when I got the call". Richie had 3 weeks between the Lubbock show & Calgary...unless he talked to Jon about it earlier & Jon called his bluff?
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Yeah, this is the part that still puzzles me, too. Jon said he wasn't surprised when he got the call - so he apparently knew something was up, yet was confident enough that Richie would be in Calgary that he didn't have Phil-X on site. Do you think maybe the power struggle/negotiations (or whatever they referred to when RS said, "We're just not happenin' right now" and JBJ said, "... or you say, "I hate my brother and you quit the band...") carried on through the break? If it was a standoff, and given that it seems RS played the last card on show day, could it be that it was RS who called Jon's bluff over something?
The other question that won't let me go is what happened between the start of the tour and Lubbock that set up Richie's non-return in April? I don't think RS would have started the tour if he truly had no intention of finishing it. From accounts I've read here of how amazing Cleveland was things seemed ok then. In Lubbock I thought RS seemed preoccupied during IBTFY, then right before the outro, it seemed to me like something kicked in and he caught fire. (I'm not the performance critics some of you guys are, though, so I'd be interested in your thoughts about that.)
After he didn't show up in Calgary, I wondered if he knew in Lubbock he wasn't going to finish the tour and that was the reason for his preoccupation (if he was and it wasn't just my imagination
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