Especially after reading an article that was probably written by a 12 year old (no offense to any young members here, but the article itself was really poor).

If Axl Rose is a marketing genius, then I'm a biochem genius.  Why?  Because I haven't done anything related to biochemisty.  That's the rationale used by those behind this article.

I really like how this topic is hopping.  Over the past few weeks, the GNR section was pretty much dead due to lack of news.  However, as soon as we get a little crumb of information, we all like to chip in and voice our opinions.  Great thread everyone!  It's great to see everyone is still legitimately interested in this band.

watching Family Guy and recovering from a wild time last night.

Once the new AC/DC and Metallica albums come out, we might be able to get a clearer indication of how sales would be for GNR in today's industry.  The bands have similar target consumers and are each coming off long delays between albums.  Until those numbers come in, it'll be difficult to gauge record sales, as the industry has changed a lot even in the past two or three years.

Is that in the CBA?  I just thought they were locked into the contracts.  I remember when Cashin Yashin sat out a few years ago for more money.  He hasn't played the same since.  Lindros and Peca did the same thing.

We've ignored the all star guys!  Been a few surprises in there yesterday and today.  Have a look (starters have *):
East:
G Martin Brodeur*
G Rick DiPietro
G Tomas Vokoun
D Zdeno Chara*
D Andrei Markov*
D Brian Campbell
D Sergei Gonchar
D Tomas Kaberle
D Kimmo Timonen
F Daniel Alfredsson*
F Sidney Crosby*
F Vincent Lecavalier*
F Scott Gomez
F Dany Heatley
F Marian Hossa
F Ilya Kovalchuk
F Alex Ovechkin
F Mike Richards
F Jason Spezza
F Eric Staal
F Martin St. Louis

West:
G Roberto Luongo* (not playing)
G Manny Legace
G Chris Osgood
G Evgeni Nabokov
D Nicklas Lidstrom*
D Dion Phaneuf*
D Duncan Keith
D Ed Jovanovski
D Chris Pronger
D Sergei Zubov
F Pavel Datsyuk*
F Jarome Iginla*
F Henrik Zetterberg*
F Jason Arnott
F Marian Gaborik
F Ryan Getzlaf
F Shawn Horcoff
F Anze Kopitar
F Rick Nash
F Henrik Sedin
F Paul Stastny
F Joe Thornton

Well, both sides have players missing that I think should be there, but really, who can we take off?  I'd like to see Malkin and Kovalev added as forwards in the east.  Maybe take away Richards and Gomez.  Since we're taking them off, we need to add another player from the Rangers.  I'd put in Lundqvist for Vokoun.  After that, we need to add a player for Florida, so why not sub in Bouwmeester for Gonchar.  Sure, there are other guys who should be there (Brad Richards, Mats Sundin, Brendan Shanahan), but there's no one else I think is worthy of coming off.

As for the west, I'd like to see the other sister (Daniel Sedin) added.  He and Henrik would make some magic there.  Too many players are just tokens on both sides.  It's crap that all teams need to have at least one representative.  I mean Shawn Horcoff??? Take him out and put Sam Gagner (as another Oiler).  Take out Duncan Keith and put another AHLer in there.