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Originally Posted by JackieBlue
I haven’t been able to watch WDOA since this clusterf**k started, but I decided to suck it up and watch the “Jon Bon Marco” video because I can’t resist kids in action. Jon and the kid were cute, even though it was clear in the beginning that Jon was playing to the crowd, like shaking his finger each time the youngster reached for the mic. But when the kid held up the mic for the crowd to sing “Wanted” and Jon just lost it, I cracked up. It seemed that Jon’s stunned delight at the kid pulling such a Jon/Richie move momentarily wiped all the nastiness of the situation from his mind, as it did from mine. For those few moments, Jon seemed to truly enjoy being on stage, which is something I haven’t seen often, from him or Richie, since Bamboozle, and maybe even before that. Thinking about it later, I realized that while I have (truthfully) said all along that I believe this whole thing must be hard for both of them, I have been gutted on Richie’s behalf; but Jon’s pain had never really hit me viscerally until that moment.
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Late to the party as always but your whole post was spot on but particularly this paragraph. I've said in another thread about this video, the Jon on stage was as genuine as to the "real" Jon that we haven't gotten in a long time and what you just wrote made sense. Since this whole thing started, I think in that moment with Marco was the first time that Jon really had fun up there. He was not trying to prove that it's the same show, not trying to hold a whole concert on his shoulders, he had a "side kick" He has been missing his right hand man, more then he will ever let on and for that one song, he had someone who Jon could be himself again. Then add on the innocence of a child and the enjoyment that kid was feeling. No bullshit there, it was real.