Are there any current standouts?

Maybe in other genres...but I can't remember the last time I found a new rock act that was any good....I think it was buckcherry...and prior to that BLS...

Can someone clear this up for me...so according to the interent the moon landings are fake, and the guy they faked em with also knows they are hiding aliens? that's starting to get confusing for me

Jokes aside, this is a pretty important guy to be claiming this though, he isn't some crackpot.

I agree they have made some bad decisions. But to be honest i think this kind of article is just justifying downloading by saying it isn't the problem. But realisticly...if technology were still as it was in 1989 - the entire record industy would be exactly as well off as it was in 1989. There isn't any doubt in my mind of this.

Totally agree. He prob just has friends that go to the board. You know like immagine this dude is my friend, i've just been spending my day in the usual way ranting about crap in our "will the VMA's have axl again" thread or reading one of Baz's interviews where he goes on about how axl has 3 cds and its good stuff. So I meet up with him one night and he tells me he is working on rockstar with Shackler's Revenge. I'd go crazy, and we'd talk GNR and i'd regurgitate about half the threads I read that day. Then someone comes and interviews him, he says "I heard it was going to be VMAs etc" - just means he spoke to me

Obviously this didn't happen...but i'm showing how easily the guy could be telling the truth but actually not know anything else than we do. (except as related to Shackler)

Sounds like a BS lawsuit....why would she make a profit share agreement as an oral contract and not make a codified written agreeement. Pretty unusual for high end music business.