ON the Matt tweet - He would have just said... 'Bad reporting', no need for the 'not.' Jon said it, Jon meant it.

Sambora, over to you...

for those on twitter, are fans bombarding Richie with all the negativity and how crap and let down we feel or are we still playing nice like with the girls crying over at his side of the stage!?

He seems to have deleted this tweet as well. If he hasn't I can't see it.

HAHAHA!
https://twitter.com/micelicharly/sta...27294269710336

Just a thought on the replaceable thing - Jon can't really say Richie's irreplaceable since he's been faced with the reality that he may well have to replace him. It's almost like being put in a corner.

Richie has really lost a lot of respect from me. Jon is about ready to talk and understandably so, just somebody reach the man and let some steam off of Jon and the guys, the only thing they are guilty of is keeping the Bon Jovi machine going maybe a bit too consistently.

It was there just a couple minutes ago, right under the tweet "I never said he would only miss the first leg." Well, actually it says "o my miss the first leg." LOL

Isn't it weird that he's also basically saying, not that Edge is necessarily better than Richie, but acknowledging that Edge is irreplaceable in the sense that he plays about 20 different guitars every night and has an insane, intricate set-up that allows him to reproduce the complex sonics of the albums live.

I think the people saying this is very cleverly pre-thought out are right.

If Richie has to be replaced permanently, then Bon Jovi has to be ended or stopped until the dude changes his mind (which he will, once he once again be reminded how nobody outside of Europe and South America gives a damn about him). Jon can go officially solo, most fans will still support him, but then he wouldn't piss anybody off. If Keith Richards had to be replaced, you know Mick Jagger would end the Stones.

As much as I have defended Jon over these two months and slagged Richie off, Jon had no right to say it the way it was printed. I'd still much prefer the video of the interview to make it sure that he really said it. That'd be the first move on Jon's part in this situation which I wouldn't support.

So, Richie couldn't fill a 2,000 seat theater in a 9 million population city (NYC) just a few months ago.
On the other hand, lots of fans are complaining and do not want to see Bon Jovi without him.
The conclusion - Richie is mostly popular as a Bon Jovi band member, not on his own.
Hopefully, he can realize that himself and come back soon.