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#8781 Re: Management » hey james, would you cave? » 926 weeks ago
Can't say this situation surprises me.
One thing I've always loved about this board is its "free speach" approach where it allows the fans to talk openly about what is going on with GNR - good or bad. It's a contrast to some places where things are moderated to the extent that its become propaganda.
On the other hand - it's one thing to share demos and leaks when the album seemed like it may have never been coming out - it's another to make public the song that appears to be GNR's first single in 10 years - and release to the net it just a few weeks short of the song legally going public in rockband. Then you've pretty much said your doing it just to get your own site known and name public. Just as Axl didn't like people selling bootlegs of shows and riding off his coattails - I doubt he will enjoy you getting a fame boast from leaking his surprise new track.
Don't get me wrong MSL...as a fan of the band I was pumped to hear SR and thus a part of me enjoyed your efforts and was thankful that it happened. Just like as a fan of the band I will still buy the official singles and albums when they come out no matter what's availaible for free on the net.
But you can't be surprised that GNR mangement is gunning for you now. This move could have seriously damaged their business plans - i mean how do they nut out exclusivity deals for future games like Rockband - or for CD release in stores - or for a single release - when people are putting out the same stuff for free online?
It's one thing to leak demos when an album is years off. it's another to leak what seems to be a mastered version of a song that was about to be officially released with a huge fanfare. You can see that they will consider that a hostile act to their business 
#8782 Re: The Sunset Strip » For the first time... » 926 weeks ago
No offense to you or any of the other musicians here and hopefully you don't take this the wrong way, but I don't feel sorry for new artists. Cream rises to the top. Fact. If you're good enough, you will get your music to the people. You don't need Trent's bank account to be a success. You need talent. The youtube/myspace dipshits you are referring to don't have talent. There's probably 10 good bands out of every thousand on myspace, but its their job to expose me to their music. Cant pass the buck somewhere else.
Nah i actually agree about the cream rising to the top...but that's half the thing for me...like there needs to be a top for it to rise to. Myspace doesn't have such a top...but record companies did...the good bands got signed...the crap didn't. While theres always some great underground unknown acts...in general in the 1980s you could check out the signed artists and find yourself the most talented artists in all genres to choose from. It's not like that today - if you want to find them today - you have to hit the internet and sort through all the posers and crap. Myself I don't want to have to wade through all the garbage to find a good band...I want there to be some system.....maybe not what we have now...but not the free for all either.....
for the Kala recording was $100,000, and a chunk of that was spent globe trotting because she couldn't get a visa to record it in the US.
Yeah i'll grant $100k will go a lot futher than it used to. But you've got to give me - that's a lot of $ for a normal person to have to find and commit to a project. Immagine GNR were 22yo again - would any of those junkies have saved up $100,000 to record AFD as an independant act - then put it on the web for free and make their money touring from the publicity/fan base it generated? Hell No. We never would have seen AFD or GNR under the model of the industry that we're moving towards.
You can release your album for free, and in fact I would advise it. Schedule some shows for a mini club tour. Days before each show, hand out free discs in the area you're doing your shows. You might be surprised to see an increase in attendance. Did you make a few bucks from cd purchases? No, but you possibly took a step in establishing a fanbase.
YEah...that's not a bad idea. I guess perhaps I see things from a different perspective being an Australian. You see - over here - at the ass end of the world - most foreign bands who tour don't make big profits from it - they're lucky to break even. It's because they have to lug tons of gear (amps/pyro video screens/staging) half way across the world to get here - and when they do get here - they find a country with the physical distance of the entire united states - yet only 20 Million people living in it. So they can only play like 4 shows at our "big" cities (which are piss small) to pay for the tab...and it doesn't work out.
If you replace the record industry with a model where bands give CDs away for free - then make their money back to pay for the CD with live shows - i think i'd never get to see a live show again!
#8784 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff - Live Through This » 926 weeks ago
Dont get this stuff in Oz. But sounds like it would be an interesting show.
#8785 Re: The Garden » BIGFOOT body found and put in freezer » 926 weeks ago
Interesting that they seem to be thinking its legit asking for a second opinion and being present at a situation which would debunk them. Maybe they did come across the dead body - but it was a body left by another hoaxer - so they themsleves are not bullshit but their find still is....
#8786 Re: Guns N' Roses » "Chicken Dinner" Shackler's Revenge Leak » 926 weeks ago
It also seems pretty obvious that a Top 40 station wouldn't touch this song, even if a single did chart in the Top 40. Most of the teenage girls and thier Mom's listening to it wouldn't get into it. Only song getting onto a top 40 station would be a ballad, and not any of the ambitious ballads we've heard so far.
I sort of agree...but then I also remember heading songs like "The Beautiful People" or "the Dope Show" from Maralin Manson (lol i can't spell today) in my top 40 in the past and that's also stuff that would confront the teenybopper radio audience - so you never know.
#8787 Re: Management » "Street Team" » 926 weeks ago
I wasn't in the original street team but will be happy to do what I can if you need extra people...i'm always mentioning this site to folks around.
#8788 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR's 'Democracy' To Be Retail Exclusive? » 926 weeks ago
I just don't want to loose the part in TWAT that talks about Stephanie sucking off other dudes 
#8789 Re: Guns N' Roses » Shackler's Revenge Tabs » 926 weeks ago
Here is the campfire version.
It's totally inaccurate...and just for a bit of fun when you have an accoustic around the camp fire and suddently get the urge to sing like Axl but can't be bothered turning down - so just want to play like any version of the song!
So its my "camp fire" version of easy chords in standard tuning..that will sound crap next to a CD but good in the middle of nowhere when drunk. And yes..i'm not that good a guitarist...and I know it!
C#
I've got a funny feeling
C
There's something wrong today
C#
I've got a funny feeling
C
And it won't go away
C#
I've got an itchy finger
C
And there'll be hell to pay
C
I'm gonna pull the trigger
C#
And blow them all away
B (sounds cool to slide to the B from the A below it)
Don't ever try to tell me
B
How much you care for me
B
Don't ever try to tell me
B
How you were there for me
C# A
I don't believe there's a reason (I try)
E G#
I don't believe it
C# A
I don't believe there's a reason (I try)
E G#
I don't believe you
And so on.
Hope someone finds this fun...and no disrespect to Dr Love who's version is more accurate...this is just for when you don't want to go find a drop C tuned guitar
#8790 Re: Guns N' Roses » your current tracklisting » 926 weeks ago
I'm digging this order at the moment:
1. Chinese Democracy
2. Prostitute (ie Track 2)
3. Better
4. I.R.S.
5. Shackler's Revenge
6. Rhiad and the Bedouins
7. Oh My God
8. If the World
9. The Blues
10. Madagascar
11. There was a time
12. catcher in the rye
13. sailing (live boot)
