Sad thing is, the Richie fanatics will jump on this as yet more proof of how Jon mistreated poor, helpless Richie and is only out for himself. I was surprised the author actually put this nonsense out there. Everyone knows Jon has been trying for years to get a piece of the NFL pie. I believe Richie even had a small piece of Jon's arena football team.

And Rolo, Richie should have realized it was time for Richie, before the tour was underway.

No he didn't.

He's at what looks like an airport and probably either wants to go where he needs to go or get out of there.

He answered the reporter.... what do you want him to do. Find a couple of seats and do a reveal all interview on the spot?

Floored. Floored that anyone would take that viewpoint.

He would have been happy cancelling more shows for poor ticket sales?

Time for Richie to do what? His single tanked. His shows didn't sell. He's NOT going to have success unless he jumps on someone else's bandwagon or pulls some stunt. Do we really want to see Richie twerking?

Only in the United States.

Richie knows that his solo album will never be a bestseller, but he needed to share that record, make the promotion like many other musicians belonging to great rock bands (example, Joe Perry), although never achieve hits in the charts.

It is important that a musician can express themselves individually.



Taylor Hawkins (drummer of Foo Fighters) is promoting his solo album.

-Louise (First Single)

-Not Bad Luck on Jimmy Kimmel Live (American late-night show)

His solo album is not a success. So what?

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-Every Road (First Single)

-Seven Years on Craig Ferguson Show (Live late-night)



Perhaps Richie will not fill "arenas", but clubs can fill itself, at least in Europe and possibly Japan. Being in the charts is not the most important, fill a football stadium not always have to be better than a club of 200 people.

"Jon should have realized it was time for Richie" Are you serious????
Richie had plenty of time to do Aftermath. It was supposed to be out in the beginning of July, which would have given Richie 4 months to tour it wherever he wanted, before having to go in in Dec and polish the new Band record. Richie backed up the release until the end of September not Jon or the band record. Richie picked his tour dates and didn't even finish them. Why should Jon have given him more time??? The record didn't even chart, even most of the fanbase didn't buy it what exactly is there to promote???

Richie is a grown man. If he didn't want to go on tour with the band then he should have said so, but as a grown up he also should not have just walked out part way through and not kept his commitments.

Mate, what planet are you on?!

What do you want Jon to do? Wipe Richie arse for him? He's a man in his 50s and he made the conscious decision to bail out of a tour mid-way through. I dont know how hard this is to understand. But it's probably one of the following three:

1. You are really blinded by the Richie love goggles
2. You are incredibly stupid
3. You are trolling

I would put money on the latter.

Richie did not released the album before because it was while working on the new album of the band. If Richie had not participated in "What About Now", Richie's new album would have come released before the summer, remember that he has been involved in two projects.


As I said in my previous post, "Aftermath of the Lowdown" is not selling massively, Richie wants to promote the album, because she wants to enjoy the creative process, promotional and live show including some shows. This is not new, "Stranger in This Town" and "Undiscovered Soul" was released the same way, were not successful, but I'm sure Richie and many fans, it was worth it.

It's my opinion and if you do not like ... :middlefi:

Jon has done 5 albums with 5 tours, and when Richie decides to make a solo album, not enough time because the CEO need other new album, so the world has to stop, because 5 albums /w 5 tours in 10 years is not enough.