Agreed. I think the experience with Dangerbird really turned him off of trusting smaller labels. But, a lot like Jon, he's not doing a heck of a lot to show he wants people to hear the new music. Apart from the clips on Norm's Rare Guitars it's been silent since RSO it feels like.

When you actually think about it he left Bon Jovi 10 years ago next year and all he's released is the RSO album. What a waste of time at his age! I know he's toured sporadically but the lack of new material over that time is such a shame and a wasted opportunity.

People say that the whole "wanting to slow down and do less, etc" was an excuse but the evidence seems to suggest otherwise...so who knows?

I half-agree I think? Like it's just odd to want to slow down and do less while also recording easily a hundred songs, talk about them coming out soon and then not? Like he's clearly putting in the time to record all this stuff and talks about touring. Obviously the pandemic is a HUGE factor in this and maybe he came close a few times to releasing but but for all intents and purposes, the dude is retired until he does something to show otherwise.

I really think once he "left" in 2013 with so much press on him, gone back to promoting Aftermath.

Yeah it's very strange all in all. Either way it's clear the mayham and chaos that was the RSO project was down to him. She released an album since they stopped working together, while his feels like RSO part two (minus the O) at this stage...

Certainly the first leg of his tour after he left was like Aftermath part two. Luke Ebbin was even still on board for those shows.

But that was, what, early 2014? And mostly festival dates. I am very hazy on this period but I remember a run of festivals in 2014. It was Aftermath in lineup but not so much in promotion. The video in the can for I'll Always Walk Beside You never saw the light of day, the EP they were planning never got done. To me it felt so strange that he'd rather be doing his own thing, which is absolutely his right to do, but not keep doing it? Could be a management problem, I really don't know. But it feels like everyone gave up on promoting the album at the height of his press-time.

In 2014 he combined a solo tour with supporting Dolly Parton on her tour, playing guitar on LYHOM. I didn't know at the time that she'd covered that song so when she brought him on stage at Glastonbury I screamed, shoved my camera in my sister's hand and told her to record it, cried at the end, announced to our group that I didn't care who we saw for the rest of the festival and bought everyone a drink. It just so happened that I was wearing the t-shirt I'd picked up at his concert with Orianthi in London a few weeks before, which made the whole thing even better. It's fair to say it was one of the musical highlights of my life.

This video doesn't have the best audio quality, but you get the picture.

That’s a pretty big confession🤣.

That moment was so bizarre and at the same time so cool. It is one of those moments that you cannot forget.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dan7o


That guitar outro... you can sense the discomfort of Dolly and her band because it seems like Richie never going to end and that's fantastic, like when you watch Back To the Future and Marty plays Johnny B. Good at the Under the Sea Enchantment Dance.

That was crazy.

Good lord... this is embarrassing on so many different levels.

Even for Richie who was never been shy of talking bull****, this is close to be his absolute low point. Bragging about knowing a dead musician, who I somehow doubt was really close with Richie, and then praising his own "popularity" just a few seconds later in a "conversation" with these three lunatics.

Richie is so desperate to spew any type of relevance he has left. 15 years ago, I would have thought Richie would end up legendary. Now he's just one notch above or below Sebastion Bach...

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