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#141 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
I don't visit their merch site often, but the more classic-looking UYI shirts must have been on there for a while - I'm sure I'd seen them listed before the new anniversary merch was added.
#142 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
The "Guns N' Roses was here" t-shirts can also be seen in official newsletters from 1989/90:
#143 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
"Guns N' Roses was here" was definitely on official t-shirts during the AFD tour in the US and elsewhere. It was usually accompanied by tour dates. It was even commented on in the press of the time, e.g. in this clipping from the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 1989:
It has been used even during NITL (but without the rape image from the original AFD artwork).
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About the "EP": I think the media have just confused the fake EP rumour at the Steve Hoffman forums with the actual release, which isn't being marketed as an EP by the band - and it really isn't, it's a CD single.
#144 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R 2021 Tour Thread » 222 weeks ago
Damn, Axl sounded terrible. I was really hoping for its live debut he’d do it a little bit of justice, but that was Mickey all the way through.
That was a struggle to watch it all the way through.
Did he say anything about the song before or after?
Before they played it he said that it was supposed to be played earlier in the set, but there were issues with his IEM. Then he introduced it as "a song about lower education" (I was hoping he would say more about it or at least for a better introduction, but oh well).
After the performance he said, “That was interesting. That was something. What that something was, I’m not exactly sure.”
#145 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
Blackstar wrote:I think they just got the info from the credits in the Aien cover on Spotify and youtube, which lists all 7 members of the 1999 lineup as writers (Axl, Tobias, Dizzy, Finck, Stinson, Freese, Pitman). I don't think Aien knew more than we do.
I searched for it on BMI/ASCAP, but I couldn't find it listed yet. I did find Absurd, which shows the writing credits as Hudson/McKagan/Reed/Rose, completely cutting out Pitman.
Yes, Absurd was added to the ASCAP database (also to GMR, which collects royalties for Slash and Duff) about three weeks after its release, if I remember correctly. SESAC (which collects royalties for Axl) hasn't been updated yet.
It'll probably take longer till Hard Skool is added, because based on the press release there are no other writers/royalty recipients than Axl, Slash and Duff, and none of them is on ASCAP (which is usually updated more regularly).
EDIT: Absurd credits have been discussed in this thread here (I've also compiled information on the publishing shares for each song in the GnR catalogue somewhere on the third page of the same thread):
#146 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
Thank you, Haters Gonna Hate.
Very interesting. I think this gives credence to the theory that it's from 1996. According to Sorum, the Jackie Chan song was a song Axl had. Maybe he had written the core of it, Slash, Duff and Matt worked on it a bit before the band imploded, and then NuGnR developed it.
Also from Soulmonster at a4d and myngr:
I talked to someone close to Axl and apparently the song was never intended on the soundtrack to a Jackie Chan movie. The working title, Jackie Chan, was chosen simply because Axl was watching a Jackie Chan movie at the time.
#147 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
The press release only credits Axl as the writer.
What press release?
#148 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hardschool single coming September 24th. » 222 weeks ago
Sky Dog wrote:Billboard article said 7 writers of this song! Ludicrous
Did they name any?
I think they just got the info from the credits in the Aien cover on Spotify and youtube, which lists all 7 members of the 1999 lineup as writers (Axl, Tobias, Dizzy, Finck, Stinson, Freese, Pitman). I don't think Aien knew more than we do.
#149 Re: Guns N' Roses » Songwriting Credits » 224 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure Izzy Stradlin got a substantial amount of royalties from the Illusion albums. The 1992 partnership can’t take away his songwriting credits!
Of course he did. Those shares in the partnership agreement (Axl 36,3%, Slash 33,3%, Duff 30,3%) were not about publishing (songwriting) royalties, but about other royalties/revenues (there was a separate agreement about the publishing). But he eventually got part of those other royalties, too; he mentioned that his lawyers made a deal so that he would receive royalties from the master recordings until 1997.
#150 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » 2003 killer footage of "The Project" pre Weiland » 225 weeks ago
In the quotes I know (including his book), Duff said that he became addicted to Xanax in two week time (he was taking more and more, and after two weeks he ended up taking 22 pills a day), not that he recovered after two weeks. After about two months of that, he went to a doctor who gave him tapering-down drugs and he went on with those until the end of the Contraband tour. Then, after the tour ended he went to rehab for a month.
