That's the thing ... it's not up to Phil X to give us the news. It's that the band's official PR arm is the worst in the business.

nearly at 1100 pages.

Someone should print them all out and post to the band to read

The band have continually said it's up to Richie to say anything - Richie hasn't except through tabloid buddies.

So I'd presume the band has nothing else to say on the matter.

They don't really need to tell people Richie won't be on the tour when we know he won't be on the tour.

I guess at this point only the biggest optimists would think there´s a chance that Richie´s shows up for the rest of the tour.

The question is can they (whoever is to blame) push their egos aside and work things out for the future.

Yet they continually say Richie is still in the band. Isn't up to the band's official PR arm to say something beyond "ask him" if he is indeed still in the band?

Yep, he´s already looking forward to a bright future...

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No because as discussed a few pages earlier Richie's still in the band until he says he's not.

He just definitely won't be on this tour.

I hope he's asking Bobby what hair conditioner he uses. :p Page 1100 and still no Richie. And my feelings on that situation at this point is "eh."

Sorry mate, I don't think I am alone in expecting a lot more from both parties than simply, ‘ask him.’ I wouldn’t accept that from Richie and it’s a cop-out from Jon too – and let’s face it, that statement is from Jon, not ‘the band’. The rest of them just fall in line with their boss, as you would.

So Jon saying ‘ask Richie’ and ‘he will be the guitarist ‘til he says he’s not’ is either spot on – because Richie is being a twat – or extremely sly and savvy because Richie feels Jon has made his position untenable. The point, which you and everyone seems to forget is, we don’t know what’s happened and just because Jon speaks to a journalist from a tabloid in a room at The Dorchester, doesn’t make his statements any more truthful than Richie speaking to his publicist and that publicist taking that story to a tabloid site. Both are using the avenues available to them.

Don’t forget, Jon made the same statement about Alec always being the only official Bon Jovi bass player and that was a pretty hollow statement considering he was a drunk who got fired. Jon knows how to play games with the press and put the pressure on Richie and who knows, maybe RS deserves it.

I’ll just reserve judgement until one of them comes out with the truth. But this affects the band and the fans, so I think we’re owed a statement FROM the band.