Richie has long been a Catholic... a lapsed one but a Catholic, none the less. I have been informed that his former residence in NJ had religious statues in the garden... I imagine it's just gnomes in LA now though.

does anyone else feel at that stage that they are just past caring about all this bollocks? Its too exhausting now. Shit album, shit tour, being lied to after spending a shit load of money.

False alarm. @flourishgirls just tweeted it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.. Would have been very odd...:)

Just came in to post that, an amusing false alarm!

That's not recent. That tweet is dated January 26, 2012.

https://twitter.com/MartinWiener/sta...71788214210560

I see that as a polite way of not denying and not confirming....
If he'd said " Yeah Man! I'm Phil X " it'd be autographs, pictures blah blah...
"What's up with Richie?" blah blah...

Another example of how he's downplaying the whole situation, he's got my respect across the board. I hope this work brings him loads more great opportunities, because it will be difficult to ever top this!

After lots of umming and arring, i have given my tickets away for the villa park gig. Its not the sambo issue , its just that im not feeling it this year, i have no excitement about this tour. After being on the 1 show and talking to him i was well pumped for the Europe leg of the tour. But i just don't feel it like i have the shows over the past 29 years.

I for one hope the band jon in particular stops jumping on the bandwagon to stay relevant as its not working ( WAN ALBUM SALES ) and just go back to what they used to do, im sure they will gain more respect for that and get a lot of the older fans back who have dumped on them, like me ! I will continue to browse the boards and have some banter, but as for the band, grow some BOLLOX !
If sambo was to leave, lets get Phil x as replacemnt, or even dave snake sabo ! It would be interesting to see what music would be coming out from the band, or would jon not back down and continue to deliver the same old shite as of the last few albums ( HAND EXCLUDED ).

p.s. I'm not sure if I'd ever buy a car from a guy called Wiener :p

Awesome. We can add "Found God" to the list of conspiracy theories. That may be the best one of all.

You're missing the point. He's played 16 shows with the band. Richie has probably played 3,000. How many people (other than fans who know who he is) are really recognizing Phil as Bon Jovi's guitarist?

One. One person randomly asked him to take their picture and then realized he looked kind of looked like the guy playing guitar at the show the night before. "I get that a lot" is arrogant. "Thanks man, fun gig!" would be down to earth. "Who is Bon Jovi?" would be downplaying it.

It was just my take on his tweet. It's really not worth the discussion or all this space.