Oh crap! I have tickets for Kansas City and Des Moines. What a disappointment.

Let's save the assumptions and wait for further details before damning anyone. There will be more details along with the announcement of the replacement.

Wow.

I'd like to see the band live with Phil X, but this makes me wonder how ****ed up Richie's life is. I'm hoping this is not related to substance abuse in any way.

Ice

Exactly, It doesn't make any sense. And its posted on April 3rd, it has nothing to do with April's Fool

I guess the least I could do is wait a while before calling him an idiot! lol, the disappointment just gets strong sometimes you know??

Someone posted on Twitter, 'Heard Richie Sambora just had a heart attack. Hope he pulls through okay. Rock n Roll icon.'

Hope that isn't true.

I'm inclined to agree: if there had been some kind of blowout, Jon wouldn't have waited until the next to last second to make the announcement. I just hope there isn't some kind of major illness in the family,

10 hours ago he tweeted that he is watching videos from the contest so there must have happened something afterwards.

Wow really hope it's not a heart attack. That would be awful.

Unfortunately, that's quite possible -- look at how closemouthed the band was about Jon's throat surgery, David's near-fatal stomach parasites and near-career-fatal slicing off of his fingertips, and Tico's herniated discs.