No Richie on current leg of the tour

This one?


And also, can someone tell me what show or the clip where Richie gives Jon the finger (it was talked about somewhere after the Phil X debacle at Hyde Park) I've never seen it!

He also looked fairly pissed to me at the MTV Awards in 1997. That was the year he won "Best Male" and threw the award into the crowd. Everything about the collection of that award made me think he'd had a few.

Yeah I saw it at 5am this morning and didnt have time to shout it about it there OR on here haha... But it did shock me a bit :/

I'll take this opportunity to wish Richie a "happy birthday" (esp. if he's reading this thread, since some helpful person Tweeted him the link lol)

Pointless, if he's reading this thread, he'll be in this page in like 10 days.

You did ask to explain or point you to where she assumed Jon was in part to blame for his alcoholism, that's why I said if you didn't see it by yourself, I couldn't help you. I didn't deny my "help" on anything that you didn't ask for.


I'm pretty sure she can speak for herself and she did. I still believe this is the easy way out to pretty much blame someone/something else for something we have absolutely no knowledge about. You might say the whole thread is like that, but I think when it comes to sensible topics like this one, things 1) are much more complicated than this leads to that, and 2) should be discussed more carefully.


Every comment is not about Jon, just like every comment is not about you. You do not represent the whole group of what you would call "Richie fans". You're one of them. So, you might not hate Jon or hold him accountable for the issues at hand, but there are other people who do. And I didn't bring out Jon out of the blue for no reason, SHE mentioned Jon and that made HER comment about Jon. It's simple logic, really.


Again, I, I, I. I wasn't talking about you. When I say "people", I mean people.


Uhm, again. It was not about you. And nobody here, much less I, was talking about all the legal or contractual implications of what's going on at the moment. To be honest with you, I wasn't even necessarily talking specifically about Richiegate. My "cretin" comment could have been valid 6 months ago, years ago. It's an attitude and a distorted way of seeing things that's getting really old.


I don't think I've ever made it a secret that this is exactly how I look at all this.

Can anybody think of a reason why there was no official statement regarding Richie´s absence on the forthcoming shows?

Maybe because of his interview where he said that nothing has been decided yet so they don´t bother releasing further statements in that matter?

They should still make an official announcement, no matter how many interviews he does. So, no clue. It's weird that they're not doing it. Maybe they just forgot, like, who's left thinking he's coming back tomorrow anyway? Or maybe they're just waiting for the very last minute for reasons beyond me.

May be something as simple as a pissing contest. Richie won't give them the satisfaction of officially quittting the band and Jon won't officially release (nice way of saying fire) him from the band. So BJM won't actually say (at least so far) that he's out of the entire tour. And I got this under 500 words!

Announcement about the entire tour will probably never happen (no matter how it all turns out), but there should be one for this upcoming leg. Officially, people will be expecting Richie to show up on tour starting tomorrow. The previous announcement only covered till Europe.