~ Official Richie Sambora Live @ The Tivoli, Brisbane, February 20th 2014 Thread ~

Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi

Some legends fall and then rise. Richie never have the game 10 years ago, but still can do magic for me. Just wait.

Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi

It's a fair point. But at this time, I prefer to listen to Richie solo, I can not take more Born to Be My Baby, Lost Highway, and the jukebox man. I've had enough, too monotone.

Originally Posted by crashed

Much as it's WAY overplayed, Born To Be My Baby is still a great song. Go on, stick on your copy of New Jersey. I still bet you'll be singing along in seconds

Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi

I love Born To Be My Baby, but it sounds boring as hell now. Many tours, same set list. I want changes. Richie songs took more than 14 years away.

He is 54 years old, soon 55. That is supposed to make the rest of his life? only make music with Bon Jovi?

Originally Posted by Jayster

Most of you guys need to go outside and get a breath of fresh air..... And then get laid.

You're like school kids.

I'm tired of the one thing that has brought us together being the thing you are constantly at each other's necks about.

Originally Posted by Jayster

Most of you guys need to go outside and get a breath of fresh air..... And then get laid.

You're like school kids.

I'm tired of the one thing that has brought us together being the thing you are constantly at each other's necks about.

Originally Posted by Supersonic

Aloha !



Could you please turn off your fanboy mode? It's getting annoying with you blatantly insulting and slagging everyone off who's got a different opinion to yours, yet without any arguments of yourself but the fact that you just won't take no critisism about your hero.

It's no secret that pretty much everyone on Jovitalk who can play a bit of guitar is very much aware that Richie's not been spectacular in years, with the odd exception here and there. He's sloppy, makes plenty of mistakes, goes back to the same lick over and over again once he's slightly out of his comfort zone, and his "duet" with Oranthi proves this quite well, considering how she flat out outplays him once she gets her chance to shine.

I often wonder if people, who think that Richie is truly awesome there, listen to any other good guitar players out there, or in fact know anything about guitarwork at all. I'm a big fan of Slash, but am very much aware that all Slash does is play blues licks and hardrock riffs. He does it extremely well, but in the end it's just that. The thing is, Richie used to play all kinds of things but now you get more variety on guitar from Slash in one show than you've gotten from Richie over the past decade. That should kinda tell you how much Richie has fallen as a so called guitar God.

All Richie does now when he's let loose is overdo everything. Overdo the shredding, overdo the bending, overdo the tremolo. There's no build up to his improvising anymore. He's just there, and he goes flat out all the time and then starts making plenty of mistakes exactly because of that reason. Every riff or lick needs to be fast and hard. If that's your thing, fine, just don't get pissed when people notice it and point it out to you.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan