Eh, the solo album thing is a matter of opinion. But I think he tries too hard when writing for the band to either impress Jon or impress the audience, so I'm excited that he had less of a hand in the writing aspect of the band album.[/QUOTE]

i agree, richie is a trully gifted musician but imo jon is a far superior songwriter. i also feel positevily about the heavily jon oriented songwriting. jon is a bit unfair and strict as far the credits go though...dry county is credited only to jon, sth unfair imo cause even if he wrote all the chords-melodies-structure the solo and the whole middle section surely is a band/richie effort and they should be credited...another topic but i always thought this was wrong in a way