2020: The New Album

What track would that be?

Diamond Ring?

Oh okay, in that way - I thought the poster was saying that they were replaced by other musicians.

It's Hard Letting You Go is just a drum machine AFAIK.

Yep, Hard Letting You Go it is. That track has a drum machine, Jon on the piano and Richie playing guitar. Jon stated so in a few interviews back in 1995.

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Between that, the acoustic renditions they used to do for promo appearances and the song writing credits it's almost like Richie was 50% of Bon Jovi, the band. Hmmmmmmmm...

(inbefore Becky talking about how that is unfair to Tico and David and yadda yadda yadda)

i strongly believe its all about serving the song...if a drum machine works better then so be it..
tico has a style and personality that truly gives the bj sound.
Jon doesnt do the bands legacy justice when he says richies is replacable...i realise he has to say sth in order to move on but the bon jovi we all loved had richie as a very very big part..
if the edge moved out, there would be many guitarists who could play his parts, but it was the edge who came up with them... the same goes with Richie, he composed wanted, prayer, ktf, these days and many other, all these rock classics are Richies legacy and his guitar work..
i am not gonna talk about his voice and harmonies...

Add- Even songs that Richie hasn't written left his mark on the guitar, like Bed Of Roses or Dry County. Richie spread many magical powders in Bon Jovi's songs.

true...i think it was criminal in dry county especially to not be given a songwriting credit to Richie, jon obviously sees who wrote the chords and lyrics but Richies guitar work is phenomenal...

Regarding bed of roses, i randomly watched the unesco 94 concert with jon and rich. there is a small guitaR lick before the last chorus of the song that always works as a charm.. Richie wrote it and always nailed it ;live, in an organic way, not like shredding. phil x, hasnt nailed it once, yet everyone says how easy the guitar work is by Richie. its not only the speed or the complexity, its the timing, the feel, the finesse that a master can provide. Richie truly was the man

ps. no intention to put down X its just that many times i hear bj songs are easy ...always make me skeptical and puts me in adefensive mode,

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People shouldn't take this "interview" as serious as people do on here. It's done by Pollstar, a company originally started by Azoff, the same guy who manages Bon Jovi nowadays. The entire interview/article is written as promo piece for the upcoming tour as Pollstar's main job is to "inform" promoters and booking agents and subsequently a part of the fanbase as well. It seems to work very well, a lot of fans on here seem to believe "Jon's got something special on his hands" just because Jon says so while there's no proof of it at all after we've all heard Unbroken and can pretty much tell what the setlist will be next year.

Azoff having started this company and now running Bon Jovi would be the same thing like me starting a magazine, then joining a band, doing 10 shows in half empty bars and then having my magazine write amazing reviews about the shows saying I played the exact bar 10 times. They'd obviously not run an article saying the band is shit, Jon's got no faith, management is rubbish and there's no way to believe the upcoming album will be rubbish. There's no money in that. Azoff and Bon Jovi indirectly benefit from articles like these as positive news means possible new investors and fans will once again get their hopes up. It's well written, but has no real informative value. Much of what's written here comes close to verbal masturbation as the truth is either stretched, run out of context or ignored to find excuses to turn a major event into some succes. Some of it can even be countered by facts that'd highlight how certain things might be a financial succes but eventually meant the demise of the band in one way or the other.

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