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#1151 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rehearsals Streaming » 790 weeks ago
The rehearsal streaming was the best pr/marketing move by GN'R in the past 15 years. Even I got interested, although the tour is on the other side of the planet. Unfortunately it's over and I haven't heard anything. I hope that it'll pop up on youtube.
I wish Ron had more say in the business aspects of the band. He's a talkative, funny, great guy with a lot of music and marketing talent. He could have been the next Slash marketing wise.
#1152 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2011-12 Guns n Roses Tour » 791 weeks ago
What would make me laugh is if for the next 2 years worth of shows Axl just played only CD songs - and then I could read endless posts demanding the band play Jungle and SCOM.
That will never happen, but I would absolutely back the 'New Chapter' movement.
Anyway, it's clear that they have to play some classics - otherwise people would have another valid ground, questioning the use of the name 'Guns N' Roses'. But if it's a nostalgia act, then be a real one, and not some fake b(r)and. Or (and it's the better case) move on, and play your new (I mean not older than 20 years...) material in a serious amount.
#1153 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2011-12 Guns n Roses Tour » 791 weeks ago
Mikkamakka wrote:What's the purpose of another Greatest Hits tour? If they don't play at least 5-7 songs off CD (or CD II...), then Axl is dead as an artist, cause it's just another cash grab tour. The only excuse could be an album next year.
I'd say the purpose of any Guns N' Roses tour is to play Guns N' Roses songs to Guns N' Roses fans. So that's why I'm excited that it's happening in my country this time around.
'I don't work for you' is Axl's ars poetica. So fans wishes do not effect him. It's either about getting money to live his luxury life-style, or getting money to make/finish another album. I'd support the latter, but not the first.
If he wants to please fans and do nostalgia tours, then do it with the original guys. This, or move forward.
#1154 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2011-12 Guns n Roses Tour » 791 weeks ago
What's the purpose of another Greatest Hits tour? If they don't play at least 5-7 songs off CD (or CD II...), then Axl is dead as an artist, cause it's just another cash grab tour. The only excuse could be an album next year.
#1155 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Velvet Revolver featuring Corey Taylor; Album done? » 791 weeks ago
Slash needs someone with some soul... Hell, the chic from 4 Non Blondes would be better than most dudes.. Chris Robinson or Linda Perry...
Great choices! 
There aren't many talented singers, just like the world is in need og guitarists who play with soul.
#1156 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH: 'Made In Stoke - 24/7/11' Concert DVD and Blu-Ray Due In Novemb » 791 weeks ago
Slash, whose real name is Saul Hudson, left Stoke-on-Trent when he was five years old.
"Slash is a local hero, he's from Stoke-on-Trent and not a lot of people know that. I think he lived here until he was 11..."
ok than!
The life of imaginary persons...
#1157 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Ok, you're Slash & VRs new manager, what would you do? » 791 weeks ago
No fuckin' way. Any era of new Guns > Myles & Weiland combined.
Lead-singer dependant 
Weiland was weak, but not worse than Finck and Myles is probably the DJ Ashba of Slash's band in terms of performing well without the original soul (and without the 24/7 self-marketing).
#1158 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Ok, you're Slash & VRs new manager, what would you do? » 791 weeks ago
I think Myles sings those classics at least on the same level as Axl's hired guns perform the music. Both are solid, but both are lacking.
#1159 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2011-12 Guns n Roses Tour » 791 weeks ago
Doesn't look much different from last year's tour. Looks like Monster Energy (who's drinks suck) are the sponsor. I know DJ is practically a regular sponsor. I think Duff is big with them too.
Monster Energy sponsores (or sponsored) Slash, too, they paid for the Beautiful Dangerous video.
#1160 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Robin's Robin (Shows @ Sonoma, CA, 16-17/09/11) » 791 weeks ago
Just curious Mikka,
What's your opinion on NIN?
I loved NIN 'till Fragile, but I think their last decade was pretty weak. I was excited when I read back then that Robin had joined GN'R, cause I expected a killer, mean industrial record. OMG was surprisingly weak, but I still had faith in the project.
Years later RIR2 was pretty disappointing with another mediocre, unfinished songs and butchered classics. Had Axl gone the Downward Spiral route (which is among my 5 favurite albums of all time!) without abusing the old material, I could have remained a Finck (and Nu-GN'R) fan (in a certain territory of music).
With all what happened, Axl's melodic industrial mess-ups and their handling of the much-loved-catalogue, not having self-confidence, not moving forward, but becoming a nostalgia act and even softening the new songs to work better for the old GN'R fans, I think hiring Robin was the worst HR idea in the history of GN'R. It tells a lot, cause I hate Yoko Tobias.
