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Originally Posted by Tictoc
Richie was the Bon Jovi sound. Lets not fool ourselves here. Jon was the commercial showman who sold the records but Richie was the soul that kept people coming back.
Tico and David are replaceable but Richie is not. I don't know much about guitar work but hearing Phil and his terrible tone and workman like guitar playing makes me realise how great Richie was.
Removing Richie from the equation is like taking tomato sauce out of a bolognese and still calling it bolognese.
So yeah, he'd save it.
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IMO, each of the original members, including Hugh and Alec, contributed something unique that defined the Bon Jovi sound in the beginning. So I can't agree that Tico and Dave are replaceable. Otherwise, I agree with every word.
I don't know guitars either, but I know voices; and both Jon's and Richie's are so distinctive that either of them would be hard to emulate, much less duplicate or replace. Replacing the blend of the two is virtually impossible. I even heard Jon say something like that in an old interview I watched not too long ago. When he was talking about the formation of the band, he said something like the way his voice and Richie's blended was magic; and that was what defined Bon Jovi's sound. I can't quote him exactly from memory; but that's close. It caught my attention because I see the word "magic" used a lot when people talk about what's missing from the band these days; but I was a little surprised to hear it from Jon, years before Richie left.