{"id":4105,"date":"2011-04-30T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2011-04-30T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T15:58:19","slug":"bon-jovi-without-richie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/30\/bon-jovi-without-richie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bon Jovi Without Richie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Sambora doesn&#8217;t matter, why not go out as a solo, as Jon Bon Jovi with unknown players and keep all the money?<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, the show must go on, but really?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one thing if someone&#8217;s paying $3 a ticket.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re all in it together.\u00c2\u00a0 But at these prices, people expect the real thing.\u00c2\u00a0 This is like buying a Mercedes Benz and finding out it&#8217;s a Chevy under the hood.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re pissed!<\/p>\n<p>This is different from Journey going out with a new lead singer.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s a celebration of the songs, people still believe in Bon Jovi, they want to reconnect with their youth, and without Richie &quot;Wanted Dead Or Alive&quot; is just not the same.\u00c2\u00a0 Captain Phil died on &quot;The Deadliest Catch&quot;, we accept it and the show goes on, but rehab is not like death, it&#8217;s actually supposed to prevent death.<\/p>\n<p>If one of your kids was in the hospital would you still go on the road Jon?<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t tell me about all the support people you&#8217;d be letting down.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of them have been sucking at the tit quite profitably for years, and if you&#8217;re such a fan of the little guys, do one solo benefit show for them in New Jersey and charge up the yin-yang, your fans will pay for that.<\/p>\n<p>I like your pay what you want restaurant <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><a title=\"Bon Jovi to open pay what you want restaurant in Red Bank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thenjunderground.com\/blog\/2011\/4\/27\/bon-jovi-to-open-pay-what-you-want-restaurant-in-red-bank.html\">Bon Jovi to open pay what you want restaurant in Red Bank<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But going on the road without Richie is like Tyler going on the road without Joe Perry, D.O.A.<\/p>\n<p>Have you got no sense of history, no sense of loyalty?<\/p>\n<p>And I realize they call it &quot;Bon Jovi&quot;, and that&#8217;s your name, and you&#8217;ve got a leg up.\u00c2\u00a0 But Don Henley can&#8217;t sell the tickets the Eagles do and do we really want to see an Eagles show without Frey?<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time bands were beholden to their fans.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re beholden to their bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Performers are just as greedy and vapid as bankers.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why the business is dying, not because of P2P theft and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t planning to go anyway, but I was offended upon reading the news and my inbox is filling up with naysayers.<\/p>\n<p>And, I LOVE &quot;Wanted Dead Or Alive&quot;.\u00c2\u00a0 All those TV shows with Richie and you doing the number acoustically?\u00c2\u00a0 Those are etched in my brain.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I give you a pass, that&#8217;s why I still listen.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot do it without your family.<\/p>\n<p>And you may not pay him what you make, but Richie is a blood brother. \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cancel the dates, wait for him.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-right: 0px;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><a title=\"Bon Jovi to tour while guitarist in rehab\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/04\/28\/us-bonjovi-idUSTRE73R8BD20110428\">Bon Jovi to tour while guitarist in rehab<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Sambora doesn&#8217;t matter, why not go out as a solo, as Jon Bon Jovi with unknown players and keep all the money? 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