No Richie on current leg of the tour

I agree I'd rather have the 4 but if you haven't accepted Bobby in the touring lineup we have bigger issues here. It's been almost 10 years now. Move on.

Matt still has no clue when or IF Richie is coming back:

He tweeted this in response to someone tweeting him the recent radar online article.

Richie isn't coming back. I just don't see it happening anymore and we'll probably never find out why he left.

That is still to be seen. Matt is an idiot.

I'm with Rolo on this one, I don't accept Bobby and his shitty solos.

I accept Bobby but he has NO place playing solos whatsoever. The man can sing REAL f*cking well but shouldnt even think about geeeetar solos.....

They should kick Bobby and bring Teh Chadman™ as backing vocals and rhythm guitar player.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooo *echo*

I appreciate Bobby thickening the guitar sound onstage, as well as his addition to the end of "That's What the Water Made Me" because it's atmospheric and fits the song well imo. Yes, he is a good background singer.

But how many band's lead guitarists can do what Richie does here? I've always thought of Richie as basically a co-lead singer of Bon Jovi. I don't think Phil X /or/ Bobby could pull off lead guitarist AND co-lead singer that Richie embodies: (8:42)

I love Richie, he was always my favorite member of the band, and I really do get that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. but I'm really surprised at how with a bit of time, Aftermath is being looked at as an example on how good Richie can be. I was really let down with the album, the jam sessions at the end just scream laziness, the songwriting is nothing that he hasn't been doing in Bon Jovi for the past 10 years. Sure there are good songs, 7 years gone is a great tune even if it's basically a rehash of a live version of The distance. You can only get so high is Richie's own personal version of Make a memory (musically speaking). And just like WAN has wayyy to obvious influences coming from The killers, Matchbox 20 and Coldplay, Richie did the same with his album with The Foos, Jet, Gavin Degraw, and a few others. Granted, i'm not saying WAN is better, because it isn't, but they're both pretty much on the same level, only Aftermath has more guitars, well because Richie's a guitar player, but they're both really calculated albums when we get down to it.

It is funny that you bring up the Making of Bounce BJTV segments as during an industry preview for Aftermath in Palm Springs(?), Richie said to the audience that making Bounce wasn't very much fun but they toured the hell out of it and made a lot of money.