Originally Posted by SadieLady

For all of those whose bitch about Richie traveling the world "jamming with fabric"... he has been off tour 9 months and has actually made very few fashion appearances--a handful at the most. His short trips to Italy and France were a vacation with his daughter. Prior to those trips his tweets were few and far between and there were almost no sightings of Richie anywhere. And now he has made a couple of appearances at horse races in the last week. Big deal. That is far from spending weeks away from home enveloped in the Bon Jovi machine.

I hope he returns to the band but I am at peace with whatever he decides to do. He is a grown man in his 50s. If he wants to be his own person or change directions, maybe it is past time that he give it a go. Most people don't stay on a job no matter how enjoyable or profitable it is for 30+ years. I've seen ordinary people burne out on a job and keep going through the motions to collect a paycheck and it isn't pretty. If you think singing the same set list night after night would be boring for Jon, imagine how much more boring it would be for a backup singer rather than a lead singer. Does his drinking come from the rock and roll lifestyle or from boredom?