No he doesn't. Its banter, thats all.

For what it's worth....

Someone must have made a comment on Lorenza Ponce facebook page. I never saw the comment but this was her response.

@Marian Strumfa Blah, blah, blah. No one is quitting Bon Jovi. I like having you on my facebook pages, as you seem like a nice person, but please don't put this stuff in comments on my wall. You have no idea what you're talking about and comments like this are hurtful and untrue.

Yeah, that's how I took it and it was improv all the way. Poor David - must have been rusty on his R & R riffs LOL

A tongue-in-cheek protest? Or genuine?

"It's NOT alright..."

Absolutely right.

I've heard so much about that clip and that's the first time I've seen it....there is no way that is anything other than banter. Jon is just ripping the piss and you can see Richie is enjoying it too. Jeez talk about reading something that just isn't there.

That's a no-brainer, really. They're all laughing and having a good time, how could anyone see something else here is beyond me.

Isn't that what this board does most of the time?

Looking Richie enjoyin it like that, I don´t see a man who wants to leave the band. And watchin him so into the show on Clevland stream, I don´t see that man either.

At some point I thought he really left the band. Now I know he will left behind his personal issues and ´ll be back on the road.

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Pretty much Kathleen.

On the Richie subject...

The other thing I don't get with this - and maybe some can answer - I've seen lots of posts and people saying "they were only going to see Richie" - so was it Richie that got you into the band? You fell in love with the music on Stranger, Undiscovered Soul, and Aftermath like I did with Blaze Of Glory and found the band that way?

If so, I can understand that attitude - but if not - if it was the joint collaboration of Jon and Richie on Wanted, Blood On Blood, I'll Be There For You - then why wouldn't you still want to go and hear the songs that they crafted together? Yes, his voice will be missing, but there's enough of Richie's fingerprints on those sorts of songs that if you truly love the things he's created, they'll last long beyond Jon and Richie and Bon Jovi, and likely most of us. If a band member eventually dies or does retire due to health, I would still love to hear the others play those songs, keeping the music I've loved all my life alive.

Furthermore, if this still is Richie's band, not going now is only going to make the future for him and the band that much tougher, if it really is just these personal demons he's exorcising whatever they are and has every intention of being back with them in the future.

The other thing I'm reading is, "I don't want to go to a JBJ and friends show" - well, what about Dave and Tico? The band is as much them as it is Richie and Jon, so it's far from JBJ and Friends, never mind Hugh also being there whose as instrumental to Jovi as the official members are.

I'm just trying in all honesty to understand that point of view.