Can you hear Richie's absence from THINFS?

Wrong. KOS is JON's band (assembled by Bobby B.) for his solo and charity gigs. Phil played at several Jon and the KOS concerts hence he IS a KOS. Whoever backs up Jon at those gigs is a KOS. Plain and simple.
http://www.blameitonthelove.com/2013...atoga-set.html


Bobby's band is Bobby's band, called "The Bobby Bandiera Band", "Bobby Bandiera and Friends" or "The Bobby Bandiera's Jersey Shore Rock'n'Soul Revue" and the line-up is slightly different from one show to another. It's been this way for over 30 years.

https://www.facebook.com/BobbyBandiera/

http://www.newjerseystage.com/articl...le.php?ID=3735

http://tablet.olivesoftware.com/Oliv...F14&id=Ar03503


That's right, PhilX too has his own band: The Drills.

Exactly!!! You just summed it up!!! It's Jon's band assembled by Bobby. And of course Bobby doesn't play solo under that name! Jon leaves it up to Bobby to assemble the KOS and Bobby is not assembling Phil... Jon will ask Phil to join the band at larger events where more electric Bon Jovi songs are being played but he is by no means a member of KOS... His performances with that band have been VERY LIMITED compared to how long and how many shows they've played to date. I'm sure if Bobby was asked who the lead guitar player was, his answer wouldn't be Phil X.

So stop trying to confuse people with the garbage that makes sense in your head....

Everyone? No, not me! I'm convinced he wrote nothing, he just played what Jon, John, Falcon or so-and-so had written before he was asked to come to the recording studio.

Lack of fluidity and dexterity means that the arpeggio sounds like it was recorded note by note then all the notes were digitally glued together or maybe Shanks recorded it in one take but it sounds like a warm-up exercice when you play one note after another very distinctly.
Describing a sound with words is very hard! Maybe you should look for "guitar dexterity" videos on YT, it should be clearer.


A very good studio musician is a musician who doesn't put his personal touch into his playing when he's hired to play somebody else's music. It's the true definition of the job.

Methinks it's the reason why Jon hired him, and not because Phil can write his own songs. That's why I'm pretty sure we won't be able to identify him as opposed to Shanks on the album. But I'd love to be wrong.

The same to you!

No. YOU are the only one in the world to say/think so and you're wrong. Bobby assembled a band because Jon, his employer, asked him to and Jon, not Bobby, called the band the KOS. That's why it's JON'S BAND, not Bobby's.

No Shit!!! We are past all that... We are talking about Phil X being a member of the KOS and I corrected you by stating that he's not a member, he has just played with them a few times on what, 3 separate occasions...(I don't consider that time when Jon mixed the band and the KOS together one of them)...

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It's ridiculous, which is why I don't post here much anymore.

Well if Jon had let Richie have a bit of artistic freedom this conversation would probably not be taking place.

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Something is going on between Jon and Richie which is much bigger than I think we understand.

Jon has one of the best guitar players in his band yet he's keep him caged for the past few albums. It just doesn't add up... I really think it's Jon's ego. Richie just wants to rock in a rock band and Jon wants to go in every direction.

With Jon's vocal condition the way it is, they should rely on the music. Pink Flamingos is the best opener to an album and it's played before Jon utters a word. Just saying...