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Originally Posted by rightsideofwrong
The whole idea that "jon won't put forth the effort to get other older songs played is such a joke" do you really expect a fill in guitarist to learn an entire bands catelog?
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Why would it be a joke for Phil X to learn a bunch of 4-chord songs? We're not talking Steve Vai or Tommy Emanuel material. Bon Jovi songs are very easy to learn, especially for a guitarist like Phil X.
He could sit in his hotelroom a night and learn the entire Bounce album for example. Of course they would have to soundcheck the material, but so they had to do when Richie was in the band too. It wasn't like the band just played a rare song without soundchecking it with the exception of some few occasions.
All Jon has to do is say "Hey Phil, learn that song" and then go through it a couple of times during soundcheck.
Blaming Phil for the fact that the band is not changing the set more is just a lazy excuse. I doubt the set would have differed a lot if Richie would have been in the band.