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Originally Posted by DryCounty
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.
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Exactly. Phil will learn whatever Jon wants to put in the setlist. Jon could put Wild In The Streets in there for example. If they did this "secret gig" or glorified soundcheck/rehearsal the day before, they could have easily gone over a batch of other catalogue songs that could be rotated into the set.
Maybe there are songs Richie doesn't like to perform that Phil would as he has no emotional attachment or preference to the songs. But it certainly wouldn't be any sort of stretch for him to learn, say, 50 songs and they pick and choose from that.
I hope some new stuff turns up soon- whilst Always, Dry County, These Days, Hey God etc.. are all great and always welcome (tbf they should mostly be staples) they have been used as the rarities for the last couple of tours, it would be nice for something else to show up.