If GN'R were to perform at all this year at the VMA's, even if it's to promote Rock Band 2, even if it's to promote CD... I think it'll be one song - Shackler.

They've already did the medley thing, and MTV aren't gonna double-bill them, nor give them access to a 10-12 minute performance... just because.

They already did that in 2002.

I do know this Wal-Mart or Best Buy deal is going to piss ALOT of fans off, as a total sell out. Especially for a band that was originally successful for it's "from the streets/underground" appeal.

But they truely "sold out" when they became MTV's little darlings, and started churning out videos like Rain, Cry & Estranged.

Just because you are successful & commercial doesn't mean you aren't good & quality. This applies to GN'R... Metallica another. But when the core fans that got you out of the mud, and off the ground are the ones you walk away from for bigger success, some follow (like myself, and others here) and other ones cry in their beer and talk about how everything sucks. It's just about the music folks, the only people who rag on image are 13 year old boys who just want something to complain about.

Great posts, especially the exhaustive analyizing by sic.

In a basic form, what sic is saying is completely right. Even with the CD tracks we've heard so far, Axl went with the 'epic' route with lots of Zeppelin-esque rockers, and Queen-like ballads. That's what GN'R was starting to become in 1991, and was further brought on with a 21st century flavor in the present with the CD tracks.

AFD represents NOTHING of the current band. Nothing. Personally only TWO tracks to me 'fit', and that's Jungle & City. Jungle just happens to be a track that transcends time, and City was actually in alot of ways the very first GN'R 'epic'. A very structured rocker at nearly 7 minutes long that would fit on UYI & CD also, with AFD.

The new band is awesome. But when I saw them in 2006, other than Jungle, City, the UYI tracks & the CD tracks, they seemed like a REALLY good COVER band doing AFD songs.

Snow you are delusional man. EVERY POLITICIAN EVER IS AN ELITIST.

All of them. This whole "common man", John Edwards "my dad was just a farmer or mill worker or whatever the fuck" lame ass shit is all fucking bullshit. They need to stop pussyfootin' around the issue, and stop trying to tell me, the American people, and the world how they understand the working man. None of them do. It's all playing to the working class, because they are GULLIABLE.

McCain needs to really think hard about his choice. But Romney - AIN'T IT. He's too conservative to ever give McCain a chance at this year's election. And if you watched the Republican debates during the primaries McCain, Huckabee and even Ron freakin' Paul ran roughshot right over Romney. Joe Biden would DESTROY Mitt Romney in a debate. Stone Cold Stunner. No chance.

McCain vs. Obama = it'll be interesting

Biden vs. whoever = McCain better bring out a "big gun"