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Originally Posted by GabrielC
Ouch. As much as it hurts, Jon does have a point.
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I'm not so sure? He implies that Richie said he should stop the band without him, and that he continued the band because of those other people who's jobs depended on him. Richie would have been under no illusion that Jon would carry on without him, he did it once before when Richie went to rehab. So that comment really doesn't make any sense, apart from trying to paint himself as Jon the saint, yet again.
As far as we know Richie had made it clear that he wanted to slow down and Jon didn't want to. Both points of view are fair enough.
But if Jon was the one that wanted to stop touring, he wouldn't give a damn about those 120 crew members....
Richie was going through a tough time for all of the things Jon mentioned and more, and to me, it doesn't feel like Jon was there to support his "friend" at all. Instead of giving Richie a leave of absence from the band he saw it as an opportunity to get rid of him. The whole "Richie didn't turn up for work for 11 years"....well, we all know from interviews that Richie was planning to be back by September, but that never happened. So you have to presume that the reason that didn't happen was because Jon didn't allow it..
The "anxieties" comment is interesting, and not something I've heard mentioned before? Axieties over what? I wonder if this has anything to do with the reason he seems so relunctant to put his new mateiral out there? Axieties about it failing? Or not being good enough? It opens a whole other aspect to Richie that I've never considered....
At the end of the day, it's still all speculation and maybe the documentary will shed more light on that, maybe it won't. I do find it interesting (and surprising, almost unbelievable) that Jon didn't have final say on the edit though....