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This may be naive but how Orianthi is Australian and Richie toured Australia with her. Was that tour honestly offered to him and then he asked her or vice versa?

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Originally Posted by DevilsSon (Post 1173147)

Jon being the Tom Cruise of rock n roll?

Didn't JBJ himself say that BJ are like Tom Cruise, that they make a ton of money but get no critical acclaim? ("the people's band")

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Originally Posted by Alphavictim (Post 1173242)

Didn't JBJ himself say that BJ are like Tom Cruise, that they make a ton of money but get no critical acclaim? ("the people's band")

Yes. Jon described himself as the Elvis Costello of the movie business (good reviews, but no commercial success) and the Tom Cruise of the music business (commercial success, but no good reviews). Nothing new.

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Originally Posted by CKatz (Post 1173110)

Richie wasn't saying Jon's Runaway was a rip-off. He was saying Del Shannon's song Runaway from 1961 was a much better song (which I agree with):
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkZV-XDqGo

Whether you agree with him on that is up to personal taste.

(Bonnie Raitt also has a song called Runaway which is also a much better song, imo)

Ahh much clearer now, still is a stupid comment. Does that mean that every song sharing a title is an earlier or later version of the same song?? Two entirely different songs that only share a title.....

Crickey, that shitty 60s Runaway sounds NOTHING like Bon Jovi's. Richie's clearly still on the juice if he prefers that version

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Originally Posted by JackieBlue (Post 1173233)

Do you know that, unless I missed it, you are the first person on any message board I visit who has brought that point up?? With the way ppl jump on every statement he makes I've been waiting for someone to comment on that. :D

This is also the first interview I remember seeing where he made a similar statement but said "a" lead singer vs. "the" lead singer. For the first time, I thought that perhaps what he meant was that in every band he was with before he shared the lead singing role (as in recording leads and switching off on stage). I know he recorded Shark Frenzy songs as the lead singer and did so for The Message as well, whereas with Jovi he never recorded any songs as the lead vocalist, and only sang a verse here or there, in concert, and occasionally got a solo spot doing a song while Jon rested his voice.

So I wonder now if that's what he meant. It makes more sense because he clearly wasn't THE lead singer in any of his previous bands except when he did pickup bands in bars as "Richie and Friends".

No, he meant THE lead singer because all the interviews in Australia referred to those solo shows vs. him in Bon Jovi. He said he had always been the lead singer in all his bands before Bon Jovi so this wasn't such a departure for him. But the fact is, he wasn't the lead singer in Shark Frenzy or Message either. He sang lead vocals on Southern Belle from the first Shark Frenzy album but he wasn't the frontman of that band. He's just trying to convince people that he should be taken seriously as a solo artist. He ought to just let his performances speak for themselves because comes across as a douchebag when he fabricates his past in an attempt to impress people.

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Originally Posted by akma (Post 1173269)

april, I'm waiting for you
http://watchfree.me/118/w.png

Whoever April is needs to run like hell

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Originally Posted by nickolai (Post 1173277)

Whoever April is needs to run like hell

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma...fqrwo1_500.gif

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Originally Posted by Alphavictim (Post 1173279)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma...fqrwo1_500.gif

makes absolutely no sense whatsoever

Don't worry, it's none of your concern. :-)