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Bob FM 99.9

18 hours ago.



While we wait for the Bon Jovi-Richie Sambora reunion, Sambora is busying himself with new music and road work. He tells Billboard that he's working in the studio with guitarist orianthi, and that not only are they writing and recording, but have already played some live shows in Orianthi's home of Australia, with plans to hit up Europe and Asia. As for a return to Bon Jovi? Sambora says he doesn't know if/when it'll happen.

I think honestly that we all know it will happen. It's just the "when" that is up in the air. After Richie gets to tour, and the rest of the band has some much needed downtime and maybe "rejuvenation" time, is when it will probably happen. That may well be later rather than sooner, but I am pretty certain that the Bon Jovi we have known and loved will be back at some point.

I would not be surprise if Richie was playing a game and he will do this for a long time or until the end of his project with Orihanti. This kind of comment give him more plubicity and will satisfy some of his fan who don't want his return with the band. I think he will be back with the band in some years.

1995 pun intended?

There will never be the same chemistry between jon and rich on stage again now so i hope he doesnt return , it would be fake..... I feel sad for dave and tico .... jon will survive solo . I love what Richie is doing now . Im thankful to have had 29 great years with Bon jovi , but its DONE now ;)

Remember 1990-1991. Everything can be fixed.

I wouldn't even worry about that. First of all, it's been fake for the past 10 years now but I'm sure they were feuding other times as well and no one even knew. They might not be fooling around and having tickle fights together on stage but musically (Richie's vocals and guitar), it'll be fine. They are professional.

What Richie did was pretty serious though. It's one thing if he wanted to take a break and not tour but to just quit a quarter of the way through was pretty serious. Were are taking about screwing some of the guys out of millions and also screwing the staff as well. Luckily Jon was able to pull it off but it came at a price.

Yeah, you're right. But there isn't the innocence or hunger anymore. Jon aint writing and just seemingly wants away from all things music for the foreseeable future. So maybe it isn't like 1990-91. No Jon solo album, no new years eve show in Toyko (!). The issues they suffered back then are similar to now in the fact that Jon has turned into Doc and burning everyone out. But what Richie did, as Rdkopper said, was very very serious. There wasn't the stubbornness and pure animosity back then.

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Should I be worry about ticket sales ? Still no sold out show in Germany. Last time Berlin was sold out in about 7 days or somethng.

Richie looks like shit! He needs to shave that goatee and do something with that hair. It looks like a wig. A burnt, frizzy wig. If he wasn't famous and sitting next to me in a restaurant, I'd make fun of him.

i am not buying one in advance this time... just gonna show up at the show and hope that somebody's gonna sell it to me cheaper :D:p

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His hair really does look like a rats nest.

From the Australian Guitar Magazine June 2014 Issue ft. Richie & Orianthi.

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He really is just a piece of shit.

He really is entitled to whatever opinion he likes. I can see where he's coming from and he's only elaborated to a greater extent to the same feelings Dave showed in the MSG 2008 dvd documentary. It made them rich and was fun but isn't what they really wanted from music - never look a gift horse in the mouth and all that.

And everyone else is entitled to their opinions a a well, and that's mine. David never spoke the way Richie does in this interview, he has way more class than that.

What this really boils down to, though, is "I sold out". And now he's pissing both over the music a lot of people love and his partners who made him rich. Woopee.

Also, if the Bon Jovi sound was so limiting to him, why the hell did he do his own version of Rosi? And use the rest of the guys on his first solo album? As well as get Desmond Child to write?

Dude's trying to rewrite history and paint himself as the true musician of the band who never quite enjoyed the poppy stuff they released. Take some ****ing responsibility for the songs you wrote and the albums you recorded. He claims to have played such a huge role in the writing and production of the BJ albums, but now he wants nothing to do with that. Make up your mind.

Your opinion or not, I'm pointing out that no matter how you feel about his particular stance on Jovi's music, you are going completely OTT by saying he's full of shit just because you disagree with him.

Dave also hadn't fallen out with the CEO at the time of filming the documentary, which may explain the difference in language the pair of them used. At the time of the documentary, Dave actually came across as having the strongest opinions of all of them with respect to his true feelings about the band.

What a clown. You'd swear his solo albums are light years apart from Bon Jovi musically. F**king Undiscovered Soul was bland for the most part while parts of Stranger and AOTL are Joviesque and they're the better parts of those albums.

The man is a classless idiot who is just trying to insult Jon. If he continues like this I'm struggling to see a reunion. Either way, it'll never be the same again.

Are you upset that Richie doesn't like Bon Jovi music as much as you do?

He loves The Beatles and blues music, it's hardly a surprise that he talks about Bon Jovi's output in negative terms. After 2000 he was more or less a session player who drank to get through the tours, before that I'd say his heart was in it though.

I'd pretty much agree with that!

I said he is a PIECE of shit not FULL of shit. Big difference. My opinion is the Richie is a PIECE of shit for the things he said in that interview and others.

And again, what explains the difference between David and Richie is class. David has it, Richie doesn't.

No, Richie acting like a prick is what upsets me. And now he was drinking because he didn't want to be there? Well then he should have left then or was he too much of a p**** back then? Poor, poor Richie, stuck in a situation he didn't want to be in for so long. Please, give me a break. You are projecting the Richie want to be the Richie that actually is.

Yeah, a session player that co-wrote 40% of the songs and co-produced 100% of the material. Richie is just as responsible as Jon for the poppy sound. Christ, the man is deluded and surrounded by people that are just licking his ballsweat BECAUSE he used to play in Bon Jovi. Richie always was very excited about saying to everyone how they sold out 52 countries on every tour. He just has a very selective memory, which means that whatever suits him to say at that moment to look cool or better then he'll say, even if it is a lie....

And still his setlists will include turds like Who says you can't go home. Really?

I am afraid that I have to agree with you. Richie's solo stuff (while good in my opinion) sounded very much like the popular Bon Jovi. Maybe it was a bit blusier but certainly not outside the box. He can try to rewrite history all he wants but I (for one) don't buy it.

Jeez, just as I was trying to convince myself to buy a ticket to the Dublin show he makes a dumbass comment like this.

He really needs to shut up.

I can't believe he is talking about bon jovi like this after being in the band for 30 years and making millions with them.

Well if that article isn't a sure way of saying he's done then I don't no what is, then again I always take everything with a pinch of salt, Jons always said don't listen to the press ;)

Aloha !

I find this hard to believe, really, and think it's been a mix of both. First he started drinking, so got less involved with Bon Jovi records, and because he then got less involved, he started drinking more.

If he'd actually kept his sanity he'd have put his foot down 10 years ago as opposed to pretending he was just tagging along all the time. First he goes on about how "It was the first time he was home for a year in thirty years because he was also producing and writing the records" and then it's suddenly him being just a session player? Yeah...

The bragging is just ridiculous beyond belief. "Doing gigs with BB King and Buddy Guy". He was invited as a guest player on one or two songs. The list with things of him trying to make his career looks so sad when you compare facts to fiction. :|

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Was thinking the same thing, but I already have tickets and have always enjoyed his solo concerts :-(

Still can't f***ing stand the guy and his attitude at the moment. To p*ss on the biggest part your legacy, where you did have a lot of involvement (he can state otherwise and believe his own lies all the way he wants), is just plain stupid and disrespectful.

I was already mad at him for ruining the BWC tour in the "middle" (should've left before or after IMHO) and thinking about whether or not to get tickets to see him, and now this... :confused:

I really think I liked him more when he was drinking :D

Richie is obviously a bit of a stupid man too. The man doesn't have an audience outside of Bon Jovi fans. He's trying to sell tickets for a tour and he's shitting all over the one thing his target market has in common.

Christ, he always came across as dumb in interviews but he's proving it now.

Richie must be fired,f..k him!

The Richie die-hards will still buy the tickets though, but I find it amusing that he'll fill most of his set with songs he's shitting on.

I'm still trying to find a Richie fan who found him through his own music and not Bon Jovi's though.

All of this really just makes me shake my head at someone I once idolised. No matter what's happened with him and Jon, him and the band, him and the music, burning your bridges in this sort of manner can never end well.

The die hards will but that won't sell out his tour. There's at least one poster here who is borderline on buying a ticket and erring on the side of staying at home because of the crap Richie is spouting. He won't be the only one.

I really hope Jon continues to stay silent on this because the more Richie opens his mouth, the classier Jon looks for not responding in kind. That said, an all out media war of words could be a laugh.