*lol*  I'm still a kid at heart when it comes to music and I get excited when I hear something special.  Granted that it's been awhile that I've heard anything special but still.  When I heard System of a down I couldn't believe my ears for example.  And I was an adult.  Same with when I heard Tool.

Of course good promo helps.  I'm gonna tell my friends about this as well.  And if the promo is handled well it will help sales.  But again.  After that CD should be given a chance to do well on it's own.

I didn't aim anyone in particular Faldor.    And of course CD will do ok sales.  Some people are gonna buy it out of curiosity only.  But don't try to make it successful by spamming radio stations or people shouldn't be buying 50 copies just so they can say it sold whatever million copies.  The album is good enough to do well on it's own even though it won't revolutioanize anything.

Not necessarily.  My brother in law bought his ticket thinking Slash was in.  Plus the show I was at.  The show was on a Tuesday night.  Nov 21 2006 to be exact.  I bought my tix the Saturday before the show at the low price of two tix for one.  I wouldn't call that a success.

As for the controversy Buzzsaw is creating.  Here is where I agree with him.  ALOT of people here seem to think CD will be the album that will sell regardless any obstacles and can't fail, and that it'll revolutionize music.  It won't.  Sorry to disappoint you but CD will be a good album no more no less.  I hate to bring AFD back in this.  But back in 87 when I heard AFD for the first time I was 14.  I ran to my friends house and told him to listen to this.  We were in awe!  Even at the age of 14 I realised that this album was special.  Anytime you heard WTTJ it made your head turn to see what the buzz was all about.  From the intro it knocked you out.  And the album just never let you go after that until it was over.   While CD is a very strong track and it contains other very good songs.  Nothing in there makes me wanna run to my best friends house to make him listen to cause I think that what I have in my hands is the greatest thing in music.  GNR this time around won't revolutianize music or change it forever like they did in 87.  And as long as people expect a good record from CD period, it should do fine.

One last thing.  Back in 87, you didn't have to call the radio station a 1000 times to hear GNR cause 1000's of people called alot cause they wanted to hear GNR on the radio not because they wanted it to be  no 1 for giggles.  Why not try the same thing this time around and see what happens?  You all might be surprised in a good way.   CD is a good enough song to do well on it's own.