No Richie on current leg of the tour

Do you just copy paste your replies and completely disregard what the people you're quoting are saying?

I think in this case a very important point has been made by the original poster. Judging from the distance, Sambora appears fairly easy to manipulate and gullible (the dolphin issue anyone?), so maybe the fact that Jon is such a leadership focused person has benefited Richie over the years. Maybe, at some point, Jon went a little bit too far and Richie just had enough and needed a break. Nobody knows and the majority of this thread is just educated and uneducated guesswork anyway. However, it is because of posts like yours that this thread will soon contain in excess of 10,000 posts, 80% of which have little or no intellectual content.

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Schlochty's got a point, and he's pretty much saying about Richie what I said a long time ago. So far it doesn't look like Richie's capable of actually having any career next to Bon Jovi. Anything he does tanks and every project he's attached to is either a joke or a **** up.

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It's sad, but it's true. It's bad enough that Richie bailed on the band in the middle of a tour, but to do so for all this garbage that he's involved himself with instead is a nail in the coffin.

Exactly - again no issue with him wanting to go his own way and do his own thing but there was a right way to go about it and six months down the line and the clusterfk he's now involved in is a slap in the face. He's better than that.

His FANS deserve better than that.

Not all of his fans care about the band.

That's a very small minority though.

Just stumbled across something else Richie is involved in, how much don't know but he is listed in the credited cast:

Skum Rocks!(2013)
77 min - Biography|Comedy|Music
Not yet released
'Play like the music doesn't matter.' The unbelievable true story of the band that gained massive east coast popularity in the late 1980s despite having a complete lack of musical talent ... See full summary »

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2434688/ Link for more.

I watched that Inside The Actors Studio thing again this morning as it was on TV. Even though it was the band, it was called 'Jon Bon Jovi - Inside The Actors Studio' but anyway...

It was quite hard to watch, to be honest. Jon and Richie actually seemed to compliment eachother so much on there and it looked so genuine. Yeah, they done the whole brotherhood and 'been together more than apart' stuff which does count for the band but it always seems to relate to them two. It just seems so weird seeing them like that and then seeing them like this now. Obviously, we STILL don't know what has gone on, but even in 2009, they were 'brothers.'

Jon seemed so relaxed and Richie was really funny and they seemed to really have fun. Now it has just gone the other way and I don't know why. Well, none of us do. It really does baffle me...

Wow, theres a crapload of people in that movie. I see Tico is in it too.