Richie Sambora

Actually that just proves that you don't read anything properly, and blew your own credibility out of the window right there! I have said here many many times that Richie was off his face a lot between 2014 - 2016. In fact I even said it just one page back that 2014 is when he was at his worst. I even did a review of a show in Leeds in 2016 opening for Bad Company on this very forum saying how out of it he was.

People like you commenting that he's drunk on every post is just ignorant and lazy. Of couse you are allowed your opinion, but so am I, so every time you think you can tell me to "save it", I will tell you exactly where you can shove it.

In my opinion, which I will express whenever I feel the need, the current Richie that we are seeing is one that is an older guy that has lived his life partying to the max and as a result has some health issues. Add that to the fact that the guy acts like a guy in his 30s or 40s not his 60s, because that's what he does, not because he's wasted. He doesn't come across to me was a guy that is wasted at all. Having shared numorous tour buses with musicians and crew on many occasions over the last 20+ years I know exactly what wasted people act and look like first hand (granted that can change drastically from person to person), and I know how that can effect you in later life if you've spent your whole life abusing your body. The Richie in 2014ish is very different to the Richie of the last couple of years or so. Certain people are just too wrapped up in their judgements made before they even click play on the video to open their minds to that. It's easier just to say Riche's wasted. Yawn....

Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know for sure. None of us do, you included. But that's my take on it.

So, do me a favour..and "save it"...

I actually just watched a video on YouTube about Jon's vocals and the guy was saying that he thought it could be because of some form of substance abuse. I don't agree at all, but it proves the point well...

I actually thought Richie looked good in that Fox video

It probably doesn't help any that he and his son are involved with a wine company and the company sponsored the tour. However, I don't think that is the reason for the problem with Jon's voice on this tour.

What people will and won't believe is almost funny. I was reading one of the many articles about Jon's voice and the writer mentioned Jon's smoking. Then I went down in the comment section after this article and there were people on there writing that Jon had never smoked! LOL I guess they forgot the song Last Cigarette. I'm against smoking myself, but I must confess I really liked the song.

Oh, please, those fans There are so many pics and vid footage with Jon smoking. He even admitted to smoking and drinking himself in various interviews, it's not a secret! And it's kinda weird that almost no one is talking about the Hampton Water, where is Jesse? Umm, or maybe they do, I just muted that thing on twitter haha

I don't think I understand, Jesse is CONSTANTLY promoting Hampton Water.

I meant in the comments under the vids or in the articles/reviews. Thought it'd be given much more attention...

Aha gotcha. In the grand scheme of things he's the son of a rock star. This is the first chance to publicly make a name for himself and his dad is very involved as the face of it. It's possible Jesse has a bigger role in the day to day operations but it's pretty understandable people aren't commenting about him. To me anyway..

True, it seems it's all about Jon's voice and a million different ways to explain/justify such a decline... but just like you said in the other thread that no matter what made R leave, it was the way he did it that sucked, it's exactly the same with Jon - it's ok to go and do arenas but it's not ok to charge so much for this kind of vocals...

Yup. Neither side is in the right here and both pissed a lot of people off.