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Old 06-14-2014, 02:19 AM
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Thierry, I am not a Richie defender here by any means, but I find it weird that you're making such comments, yet you're gonna see him twice on this tour, once even travelling to Germany for that. What's up with that?
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Old 06-14-2014, 02:24 AM
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Thierry, I am not a Richie defender here by any means, but I find it weird that you're making such comments, yet you're gonna see him twice on this tour, once even travelling to Germany for that. What's up with that?
Yeah I know. Kinda bought tickets for the shows for old times sake. I was a really big Sambora fan.

Just checked some videos from Bounce7800 YouTube account and even Prayer and Stranger are unlistenable. Let's face it the guy is a mess, the 2012 shows weren't perfect but miles better than this.

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Old 06-14-2014, 02:27 AM
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Hello

I went to the gig and have really mixed emotions.

I have fully supported Richie ever since I got into Bon Jovi, I would always cheer him and is a real hero to me, I'm home now but feel disappointed.

I was fortunate enough to go to the shepherds bush gig I'm 2012 and thought this was a great show. But tonight I really struggled to enjoy it.

The "opener" tonight was just weird, he should have opened with a rock song, I understand what he was trying to do but just didn't think it worked. Richie to me has been all about blues and all out rock and roll, but seemed so many ballads and aftermath songs and it wasn't good.

Highlights for me were Stranger, the outro with Ori was brilliant, Nowadays, Seven Years Gone, I liked These Days, even with the Reggae first verse! And Stick to your guns and wanted.

It pissed me off beyond belief that Who Says was played, why he doesn't play more from the Stranger album is beyond me, I and am sure others would have loved to have heard Father Time, Rosie, Ballad of Youth, but we just get lame aftermath songs. I don't believe 1 song was played from the undiscovered soul album.

I was about 3/4s of the way back and struggled to see, but was just annoyed when he was playing lame aftermath songs and covers when they could have played the songs that his fans wanted to here.

I also think something wasn't quite "right" with Richie, he mentioned something about musicians having free reign on songs and also added cocaine to that sentence, saying something like good musicians and cocaine make good music or something like that. I'm sure that's what he said. Which annoyed me a little, as he was kind of endorsing it. Apologies if i got this wrong.

I don't know why I don't feel blown away by the show I saw tonight. Maybe the magic has gone for me.

But from looking at all the tweets and Facebook posts. I seem to be the only person feeling this way.

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Richie reminds me of Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart. What happened to this guy? assumes that Luke Ebbin is his friend, no one intends to tell who is doing the ridiculous and self-destructing?
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It descended into Bon Jovi karaoke at times, which I can get anywhere quite frankly.
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Richie might not realise it but he needs his proper band mates now more than ever. These clips genuinely worry me.
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Holy shit what a mess...

I'm glad for those who went and had a great time, but comparing this to 2012 performances really show what a drunk he's become once again...

I don't know if I should laugh or cry? Twitter world sounds like it was perfection, this was not.

Just thinking If he's drinking again - his interview at the NJ anti-drug concert he said he spent 3 hrs that day on the phone with his sober coach and he didn't remember when his last drink was is all BS.

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Old 06-14-2014, 02:32 AM
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It pissed me off beyond belief that Who Says was played, why he doesn't play Father Time, Rosie, Ballad of Youth is beyond me, he seems to have completely forgotten that he wrote the Undiscovered soul album.

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most of the crowd seemed to be there for Seven Years & Bon Jovi tracks unfortunately. I was naively expecting a decent sample from the first album at the very least
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Yeah I know. Kinda bought tickets for the shows for old times sake. I was a really big Sambora fan.

Just checked some videos from Bounce7800 YouTube account and even Prayer and Stranger are unlistenable. Let's face it the guy is a mess, the 2012 shows weren't perfect but miles better than this.

Stranger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIW-9H81L8

Prayer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEgSC9Xvdtc
Jeez ... Watching these videos make me think It's from another concert.
The crowd was singing so loud that I could not hear how bad Richie was sounding.
However, I'd still go. Even with all those mistakes, I still had lots of fun.
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Old 06-14-2014, 02:38 AM
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Richie with Bob Rock after the show.

"Rich, when you get back with Jon and have the right songs, I'll produce the comeback album"
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