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#1021 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Sued For Copying Songs » 866 weeks ago
i wonder how many years this will push back the tour and 2nd album release
#1022 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Sued For Copying Songs » 866 weeks ago
war wrote:GNR needs to release Riad as a single right now and use this to their advantage!
Not sure about the legality issues, but that actually wouldn't be a bad idea. Though I think I'd be willing to bet a million dollars that won't happen.
the ony further legal risk would be the sales for the actual single or ITUNES download but that's ok for two reasons...........
1- they could just take the intro off
or
2- accept the 5 percent maximum they'd have to pay in royalties for the intro and they still have 95 percent of the sales they wouldn't have had without this incident.
either way would be great way to ride the media wave
and if they released this as a single and won the court case that would be a great FU you to Schnauss
#1023 Re: Guns N' Roses » Does anyone else get the impression that Axl is trying to re-build ... » 866 weeks ago
yes, buzz speaks for everyone
not himself
#1024 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Sued For Copying Songs » 866 weeks ago
GNR needs to release Riad as a single right now and use this to their advantage!
#1025 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Sued For Copying Songs » 866 weeks ago
liked the song better without the intro too
i know axl wouldn't do this on purpose
#1026 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 866 weeks ago
axlin08 has it all locked down
#1027 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns n’ Roses to Tour Southeast Asia? (Rolling Stone) » 867 weeks ago
how could a normal person not be upset with him for leaving, with the album release just months away
add a temper and a "every body's faullt but mine" complex and i'd say he was pissed
#1028 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 867 weeks ago
PearlJam wasn't a fad. And there was no "steady decline." They decided, as a band, to retreat out of the mainstream, not make videos, or release commercial singles after 1993 and they still sold a shitload of albums and held very, very successful tours... That doesn't consist of half empty venues.
I still hear music from PJ on MODERN radio and not just from one of their albums. I can't say the same for GNR. Sorry, but trying to diminish a band who has been successful critically and finacially after deliberately walking away from the mainstream a decade after GNR became irrelevant is lame and not true.
yes, they were a part of the seattle sound/fad that died after a short run (by those days' standards), lasting as long as it did with the help of other bands in that same movement.
your "deliberately walking away from the mainstream" slogan is a desperate point and here's why:
their popularity and sales began to decline with their second album, progressivley
that comment was made much later to a fan base they knew would embrace it as "cool"
and even if they were being honest, 99.99 percent of bands don't get to that stature and a small precentage of the ones that do are able to maintain it for very long after, even if they try to.
so that's like ray finkle saying he didn't want another super bowl win AFTER missing the "kick heard round the world"
it's an irrelevant comment
as far as radio relevance....i guess the one or two of you that has heard pj on modern radio in the last couple years makes your statement true but i'm comparing original gnr and pj here. no one is claiming pj or their music doesn't exist any more so, unless you are claiming pj is played on the radio more often than gnr, feel free to concede that particular argument at any time.
if you are, 
and if you think original gnr has ever played to half full arenas
for the record, radio play does not define the quality of a band or it's music
IMO
#1029 Re: Guns N' Roses » Does anyone else get the impression that Axl is trying to re-build ... » 867 weeks ago
maguire22 wrote:Fortus was actually one of the best performers I've ever seen and I mean EVER,he really rocked out and pissed all over Slash's "standing still with fag and hat" schtick...:cool:
I'm afraid you have never seen Slash live. Not even a single video on youtube. BTW as I heard Usain Bolt runs faster than Fortus, so Axl really should sign him as the 457th guitarist.
I wouldn't say Fortus shits all over anything slash does with his power strumming 
slash was sloppy in his day due to the lack of sobreity but let's not get carried away here
#1030 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 867 weeks ago
If you think GNR is as big or bigger than PJ then you're not really facing the truth. This isn't 1991. GNR hasn't been relevant since then. PJ has. The name only helps with the few, maybe 5-10 thousand people (and that's being very genrous), who actually give a shit enough to care about any incarnation of GNR in the States to buy the album just for the name or Axl. Recognizing a name and being a fan are two different things. No Linkin Park or Fergie fans were buying this album out of curiosity. And like war said, the people following this fiasco who actually care about Axl using the name didn't buy the album in the first place, as Buzz and Bono are examples.
Maybe, just maybe, the majority of people who bought the album actually liked the songs they heard, which made them buy the album. But of course that would mean Axl actually accomplished something...
The only people who care about legacy are you guys.
you're right it's not '91 - that's when pearl jam's debut ten came out and they were making a name. It was a steady decline after that. gnr, on the contrary, imploded from sever success spanning three albums and several world tours. pearl jam was a fad that died out - gnr was one of the greatest bands of all time and they have three albums worth of material that will played steadily on the radio for the rest of our days. if you think you can say the same of pearl jam, i respect your opinion but you're wrong.
