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#391 Re: Guns N' Roses » The "Best Buy" leaks » 875 weeks ago
Axl could go on tour with just a laptop providing the music and still call it a Guns N' Roses tour,wouldn't it be funny is he did that?
#392 Re: The Garden » What's your day job? » 875 weeks ago
My day job is being a website designer and setting up websites and maintaining them,but I also write poems,songs and working on 3 novels,and I'm a musician as well and I'm working on an album of my songs.In my free time I like writing news parodies 
#393 Re: Guns N' Roses » First single is If The World? (theory) » 875 weeks ago
To be honest I like Shackler's better than If The World,but If The World is one of those songs that you can sing along with.Maybe they will release a different song as a first single,maybe one we haven't heard.
#394 The Sunset Strip » Angus Young on Snubbing iTunes: “We Don’t Make Singles, We Make Albums » 875 weeks ago
- Slash_McKagan
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When AC/DC release their new album Black Ice on October 20th exclusively through Wal-Mart, the album will join the Beatles catalog and Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus in the small 'Not Available on iTunes' club. While the stance has done wonders for Jesus'˜ renaissance, it nearly ruined Estelle's chart momentum. Despite the Wal-Mart exclusivity, AC/DC's Angus Young said Black Ice wouldn't show up on Apple's digital store anyway because 'We don't make singles, we make albums.'
iTunes allows customers to choose between single song or full album purchases. 'Way back in the Seventies, we drew these figures on the back of an envelope for our record company. We showed them how much they earned from us if we sold 1 million singles and how much they earned if we sold 1 million albums,' Young said. 'The difference was staggering. That was to get them off our back because we only very grudgingly release singles. Our real reason is that we honestly believe the songs on any of our albums belong together.'
Young also says that he recently met some bands that discussed withdrawing from iTunes as well because 'I told them that since iTunes came into existence, we've actually increased our back catalog sales without being on the site.' Young makes an interesting point: The Beatles and AC/DC rank one and two on the list of highest-selling back catalogs, and neither appear on iTunes. The Rolling Stones, meanwhile, ranked sixth on the list and are available on iTunes.
Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i … ke-albums/
#395 Re: Guns N' Roses » Bob Lefsetz: Best Buy Deal confirmed/Azoff response to leaks » 875 weeks ago
it wouldn't surprise me if they release the album and not even say anything about or even support it.
#396 The Sunset Strip » Metallica nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame » 875 weeks ago
- Slash_McKagan
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Metallica commented:
"We're honored to be among the nine nominees being considered for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . . . has it really been 25 years since our first record came out? Yeah, that's the criteria to be nominated and we're keeping company this year with Jeff Beck, Chic, Wanda Jackson, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Run D.M.C., the Stooges, War, and Bobby Womack.
Of course we don't know yet if we're really in . . . the official inductees for this year are not announced until January 2009. So as we always say, keep watching here for more info. The big ceremony will be held April 4, 2009 in Cleveland."
Source: http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/339/ … llica.html
#397 Re: GN'R Downloads » Guns N' Roses - Tokyo Japan Bootleg 1988 » 875 weeks ago
I noticed that the links were dead,so I re-upped this with all of the songs in a zip file.
#398 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N Roses on Universal Music Group Release List » 875 weeks ago
And that's what I think COULD happen Slash_McKagan, just reverse with album first and then reunion or at the same time.
I also think you can't compare the flop of Carnival to a potential CD flop, because Carnival by all means was a throwback sound to classic KISS. Not exactly en-vogue in the late 90's with the explosion of nu-metal.
CD, at least from what's leaked, despite being unoriginal, has been a concious effort to be as modern as possible, at least by the standards of 2002, most of which styles are still "in" in rock.
No I didn't mean that CD would be a flop,and I wasn't comparing CD to Carnival Of Souls,that would be hard to do anyway,but yes,they could do a reunion and then release it or release it at the same time as reunion,but if they did a reunion they would not play any songs from CD,so they wouldn't be supporting the album.
#399 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N Roses on Universal Music Group Release List » 875 weeks ago
I could only see a reunion working in conjuction with the release of Chi Dem if it was released as an Axl Rose solo album and not under the name of GNR.
Well like someone said it could be like Kiss did with Carnival Of Souls,do the reunion and release the album after and not even support the album.
#400 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N Roses on Universal Music Group Release List » 875 weeks ago
James hit the nail on the head. I've felt for the longest time that there would be no CD tour to support the album.
The theory would be that a GN'R reunion would be marketed as a REUNION with no ties to CD, but the promotion of having CD out with the brand name of "GUNS N' ROSES" on it, would allow it to get the upmost publicity and help juice sales. I wouldn't be shocked if an anthology album of the old band's back catalog were released to be the album that would be backed by the reunion tour, even if CD was out at the same time.
It's not that far fetched imo. I think recent years, and departing band members for other projects have proven there are no future plans for a new GN'R - at all. KISS put out Psycho Circus, which didn't even have Ace or Peter, and yet they were touring as a reunited-KISS.
Actually the name of the Kiss album was Carnival Of Souls,they had recorded it prior to the reunion and after the reunion tour had started it was released and it was one of their lowest selling albums because they didn't support it,also because it was leaked to the public so most Kiss fans already had it.
