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#1471 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash commenting on Duff with GNR » 810 weeks ago
lol - Slash comment on Tyler and American Idol. I think he should shut his mouth when it comes to other people doing anything like that. He's throwing stones whilst sitting in a very big glass house.
Re the comment about "they still went on an hour late". I don't think it's stupid that he mentioned that. I think it's abundantly clear that Slash isn't going to 100% bend over and cop it in the ass just for a reunion. He doesn't need to unlike say an Adler.
If/when a reunion happens (BTW I'm with Bono on this one, I think it WILL happen at some point in some form), I think Axl's tardiness is one of the things that Slash and Duff will definitely want addressed in any agreement. Same with equal share and say. I tip my hat to Slash and Duff for wanting to have "on time starts", shows they have respect for the fans, plus they obviously don't want to cop the fines either. Yes I know that these 2 requests will probably be sticking points for Axl and make any potential reunion harder, but I can't see Duff or Slash compromising, nor should they.
I still laugh at the irony of the title Chinese Democracy and then compare this to the way Axl likes to run his bands.
#1472 Re: The Garden » Time traveller caught on film in 1928? » 810 weeks ago
These are interesting things to look at and speculate on. This link has some good potential explanations for the pic that James posted.
#1473 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff SW blog Oct 28th - London, Axl and continued Patience » 810 weeks ago
Yeah a good read. Interesting too this blog mentions Del. Probably not coincidence either, they probably sorted out any differences they had also.
#1474 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Beautiful Dangerous Video » 810 weeks ago
Haha - cool vid!
I bet Perla will love that one 
I say it's only a matter of time before Slash pokes Fergie in the whiskers (if it hasn't already happened).
#1475 Re: Guns N' Roses » Barcelona, Spain - October 23, 2010 (Palau Olímpic Badalona) » 811 weeks ago
I actually would prefer them to be in smaller venues (providing I can still get a ticket), it makes the whole experience more intimate.
#1476 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb » 811 weeks ago
Axl claims that their side of it is bullshit. So who do you trust? The crazy guy or the guys who were stoned out of their minds at the time? Axl claims the hostile takeover thing is a propaganda PR strategy from Slash over the years to gain sympathy. Regardless, you don't give up something that valuable when you created it. Axl said that if he had actually tried the hostile takeover thing, he would have lost the court battle over the years and they could have not only taken the name from him but also sued him for damages.
Yeah from what I can tell I doubt that Axl refused to go onstage one night unless they signed over the name. That seems pretty unbelievable, plus as Axl said they could have sued him on those grounds.
However, Axl says all this shit went down at the time the renegotiation with Geffen happened. Niven has said in interviews that the reason they got David Geffen to renegotiate was the fact that they threatened to tour and not give the record company the Illusion albums if he didn't renegotiate. They figured they could make enough money just off the tour alone even with no new album (sounds like the Chi Dem tours for years).
Perhaps when the contracts where finally done and Axl put the clause in about the name, he threatened Slash et al that he wouldn't "do the tour" unless they signed them. Then somewhere thru the passage of time that scenario got bastardised into the "Axl wouldn't go on stage", which Slash conveniently never corrected. Presumably the statute of limitations had expired by the time Slash and Co awoke from their drugged and drunken haze and realised what they had done. Assuming there was any legal recourse anyhow.
Remember also these contracts were signed after Axl sacked Niven and this guy "the ambush predator" as Slash described him was now in control:
No prizes for guessing whoose side he was rooting for:
It's worth pondering also why a partnership agreement had never been drawn up previously, wouldn't that be good management? Apparently the bands lawyer at the time Peter Paterno had been instructed to draw one up but Axl refused to sign it, so it sat in a draw.
Reality is no matter how ethically and morally wrong it probably was that Axl made them sign over the rights, they did it! It was stupid and later on they realised that fact but it was all too late by then. Slash and Duff obviously have tried to work the "legally wrong" angle but to no avail.
#1477 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff SW blog Oct 21st. » 811 weeks ago
I just couldn't figure out who else other than Del that Duff would have been friends with previously. He mentions "old friends" - plural so I assume he was referring to more than one person that was once a friend and due to things that happened over time the relationship is now strained/awkward. On thinking about it further perhaps it's Bach, coz I agree I can't see why it could be Dizzy.
#1478 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb » 811 weeks ago
I would say Del and possible Dizzy (not sure what beef he and Dizzy would have had though?)
Beta? Dunno if she had transcended her housekeeper status with Axl before or after Duff left. As for Fernando he would have still been in nappies just about when Duff was still in the band. Obviously their family are vehement defendants of Axl (understandably) so perhaps their presence may have made things a bit awkward?
Perhaps Bach could have been one of those people Duff referred to also.
#1479 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff SW blog Oct 21st. » 811 weeks ago
I went down to the gig with him. There were a couple of guys hanging out. There was a lot of, sort of... Like what I was saying, you go through a lot of stuff in business and there's some fractures and demonizing of each other and I think, if nothing else, a couple of old friends maybe got over some of those hurdles and had a nice talk. And I don't want to do anything here to cheapen that by saying anything to you guys, but we had a nice dinner the day after the show, and that was it."
Great read thanks for posting Smoking Guns.
Do we guess and suggest that perhaps he is referring to Del and maybe even Dizzy in that above quote?
#1480 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Joining GNR (Oct 14, 2010) was awesome but dumb » 812 weeks ago
I also think Axl doesn't give two shits about Gilby or Matt. He sees them as replacement players,
Unfortuantely it's that same attitude that could also mean any of the current "replacment players" could be out on their ass in a heart beat if it suited Axl.
I agree that it appears Axl can make good $$'s without reuniting. BUT at heart he is a musician and I'm sure as part of that the ego wants the music to reach as many people as possible, to be king of the mountain, to have large scale success. Whilst Axl's career obviously hasn't been a failure post '93 I'm sure he would have like to have had a bit more commercial succes.
The X factor of a reunion thrown in with some new music gives him a slim chance of scaling to some of those dizzy heights of success that they enjoyed previously. It would never get to the same heights but he would still be looking down on aything he could achieve with any version of NuGNR.
