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Originally Posted by Rdkopper
If you're JBJ and you could still pull off an arena tour after losing a high profile figure like Richie Sambora, I'd be pretty impressed... Sure the numbers are going to dip a little. That has to be expected but overall,the numbers are still impressive...
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If anything, the massive success of later legs of BWC tour + relative success of This House proved that the commercial importance of Richie to Bon Jovi brand is not so big. I would not have thought so in April of 2013. As much diehards love(d) Richie, he just doesn't have that "Slash effect" for the casuals.
I believe market oversaturation in the last 9 years is a much more contributing factor than Richie's absence. In many Western places they played like 4 or 5 times in a give city (not counting double nights, etc.) during this time span, which is more frequent than other high profile rock legends (e.g. U2, Bruce, etc.). It's natural that returns start to diminish a bit.