No Richie on current leg of the tour

And I thought my co-workers talked about personal stuff! LOL

Dramatic much? Nobody said they knew more than the doctors, a couple of people shared their experiences in similar situations. Christ, it is a discussion board, people were discussing.

If Richie has an account in here, this is his expression reading the last pages...

For some reason had saved an interview from last April – propably to read through when the European leg of the tour was coming closer. Not a clue where it’s from but quite interesting still at this point…

These were the most interesting parts for me:

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..we caught up with the singer Thursday, April 4 — two days after he learned that Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora would not be joining him that night on stage or any other night for the duration of the tour.

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”I’d be hard pressed to be playing anything from the second album because I never thought much of it but from “Slippery,” “New Jersey,” “Keep the Faith.” I haven’t done anything off of “Bounce” in a while, which in all honesty was one of those records where I would have said, “Man, I think this record’s great, start to finish.” To tell you the truth, I’ve gotta go back and listen again to hear why I’m not doing some of those songs.”

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”Well. All I can tell you, without lying, is 3:30 Tuesday afternoon, I get a phone call in Calgary that Richie will not be able to perform for personal reasons and he won’t be coming. So we went to the show and I had two choices. Pack up the trucks or play. And we’ve been through this before so we played and had a replacement for him the next night. We’re very supportive of whatever he’s going through but I have yet to speak to him. Richie’s still the guitar player in the band until the day he says he’s not. We’ll always support him and whatever he’s going through.”

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Yep.
Until the day HE SAYS he's not. Does he has to say it... does he has to say it out loud? ..or will action in some point speak more than words?

****ed up ****ed up so ****ed up!

The post was deleted from facebook and they really should change the pic. Put one of the whole band or whatever...this one is just....

why did the delete the fb post? is it cos there had a tonne of i miss richie, bring richie back comments ?

You dont blame the fans for missing Richie...I hope...

To me, that just says more so that he is Not out of the band just off the tour. He, according to what I read, still has merchandising $ coming in so I'm sure he probably doesn't mind this image being used. I do think all of the guys should be in the shot though. His web site, still says that he is touring with BJ - do wish they would fix that.

Now, I find myself in contradiction. I just "assumed" the Richie inclusive NJ information on BJ.com lead to the thought that he is still in the band just not touring. Then today, in the News section there is a review of San Paulo that states he left the band. Now, this is NOT written by BJ official but they did post the review to their web site. I would suspect they approve anything that goes up. The is the first paragraph. I surrender!

By Thiago Rahal Mauro (Folha de Sau Paulo)

"Two days after playing in Rock in Rio, Bon Jovi closed their brazilian tour in the very beginning of the dawn from Monday to Sunday, at Morumbi Stadium, São Paulo. Beneath a persistent rain and without guitarist Richie Sambora, who has left the band due to personal issues and drummer Tico Torres, in recovery after an appendix surgery, the vocalist found support during classical songs to raise São Paulo’s audience."