The Richie Sambora & Orianthi album

For now these songs are my favorite:

1º Richie on vocals
I Don't Want to Have to Need You Now
Take Me
One Night Of Peace

2º Orianthi on Vocals
Together On The Outside
Masterpiece
We Are Magic

3º Duet songs
Making History
Walk With Me
Truth

I can't wait to discover more songs. I guess the next will come in February.

Wasn't Midnight in Chelsea a hit for JBJ? I don't recall how it charted in the US, and couldn't find it easily online, but I do recall the music video had a very heavy rotation on VH1 at the time. I can't imagine it would have played so often if it wasn't at least a minor hit.

Does anyone have any idea of how successful these EPs by RSO are? I don't know how you would even measure success nowadays.

How successful were Richie's solo albums?


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Go to rocknation’s website if you want to hear RSO on Feedback. Sorry about the background noise. We have a few large dogs who like to sit outside my window and bark.

Removed link because it leads directly to mp3.

Thanks to rocknation for attempting to improve the sound and uploading it.

Maybe rocknation can give instruction to the website to find it.

I'm certain it was #3 in UK?


Edit - Just read it was 4. Still higher than 95% of Bon Jovi singles. Always/IML and then Prayer (same position) only ones higher?
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Re: Songwriting....Richie has a certain style which caries across a lot of songs in both his solo, Bon Jovi and now the RSO catalogue. To me it's pretty clear that there are a lot of Songs where Richie has written the majority and maybe Jon has just adjusted some lyrics to suit him better here and there, or added a bridge or something, and therefore got a songwriting credit. But Jon always gets his name credited first, because he is Jon and he has to be first. Fair enough. Just like it's clear that some are Jon's and maybe Richie changed a bit here and there. And some are a true collaboration.

Back to the EP....Making History, the song, sounds very much like rise. But like MH song more. Mix is quite messy again, like Rise

I was disappointing with Magic after hearing the live version. Very poppy production. I was hoping for more of an acoustic style track like the live version we've been hearing. Had potential, but unfulfilled unfortunately. Would love to hear an acoustic version done as a bonus track.

Love the next 3 songs! Already posted my comments of Walk With Me, but love it more the more I hear it. The middle part doesn't bother me now, I've got used it it.

Yeah it's definitely Alice Cooper on together On The Outside. Really like this one too. Very different.

IDWTHTNU is the best thing that I have heard from RSO so far. Definitely has a Bounce kinda feel to it and actually reminds me of The Distance in places. Great Richie vocal and just a great feel throughout.

One Night Of Peace is a fantastic vocal, but other than that it doesn't do much for me. It's quite predictable.

Someone said that they needed to stop doing so many styles, but I love the fact that all of these songs are so diverse. So far we have Rock, Pop, Country, Gospel, Reggae....this to me really signifies why Richie was feeling so stagnant in Bon Jovi..he wanted to do things that he just wouldn't get to do in the band....it wasn't necessarily about more guitars or being a front man. But it is good to hear more guitars on this EP. Still waiting for a couple of really good bluesy numbers!!

Overall, big improvement on Rise I feel....will listen to this a lot!

I've only seen 2, that I can recall, and they were both on Shark Frenzy, so back in his late teens.

I think there's 3 songs on Stranger that he wrote alone.

Well, damn! I can almost understand forgetting Church of Desire and River of Love, but how the hell did I forget Mr. Bluesman??

Toldja! My memory sucks! I probably wouldn't even have remembered the 2 on Shark Frenzy if I hadn't looked that stuff up the other day. Lord, I miss my mind!

http://rocktivity.com/bj/richieHOFrsoInt.mp3

(The dogs kick in at the six minute mark, LOL...)