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- Smoking Guns
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Re: Slash album reviews
Business Law rivals Business Calculus for the most boring classes ever.
Re: Slash album reviews
Well i'm taking a Business Law class, and the mother fucker is the most boring class i've ever been in.
It might be boring as hell, but it will help later on. Trust me.
Business Calc is quite interesting. Not nearly as interesting as integrating calc into economics studies however.
Re: Slash album reviews
Axl Rose said
What I'd tell any kid in high school is "Take business classes." I don't care what else you're gonna do, if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, "Well, I don't want to get commercial," but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial. You can be flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, but you're a commercial burger flipper.
In the chats, a fan asked him for advice on how to get started in the musicbuisness or something like that. Axl's answer was:
"Follow your heart, don't sell out and read every book on the biz u can find."
- Mikkamakka
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Re: Slash album reviews
Gong wrote:Axl Rose said
What I'd tell any kid in high school is "Take business classes." I don't care what else you're gonna do, if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, "Well, I don't want to get commercial," but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial. You can be flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, but you're a commercial burger flipper.
In the chats, a fan asked him for advice on how to get started in the musicbuisness or something like that. Axl's answer was:
"Follow your heart, don't sell out and read every book on the biz u can find."
"...have good lawyers, and last, but not least, don't forget to get the name" 
Re: Slash album reviews
I wish I had the quote but I think that Rogers Stevens of Blind Melon said it best back when people called the Hoon-less reunion of Melon a sell out. His point was, of course it's a sell out. You're doing it to make money. There's no degree of acceptable commercialization - either you're in it for the money or you're not.
I think what he said was "if we weren't sell outs we would just play music in our houses. the act of touring is selling out, recording an album on a label is selling out, anything where you make money is selling out".
It's a business. You're in it to make money.
I've never heard about the Hoon-less reunion.
Just because Roger Stevens thinks that way, doesn't mean every artist that does music is in it to make money.
I have plenty of friends here in Norway who has released a lot of albums and toured all over Norway, Europe and even Mexico. Neither of them made a profit. They make just enough to cover their costs and make up for the time they had to take off their dayjobs to be able to do what they love.
And didn't Tom Zutaut say Axl is the only artist he ever worked with who truly didn't care about money?
Axl and Slash seems to have different values when it comes to certain things. And I know which I prefer....
Re: Slash album reviews
Naltav wrote:Gong wrote:In the chats, a fan asked him for advice on how to get started in the musicbuisness or something like that. Axl's answer was:
"Follow your heart, don't sell out and read every book on the biz u can find."
"...have good lawyers, and last, but not least, don't forget to get the name"
It's normal in "band-world", the guy who starts the band gets to keep the name. Many bands go through a lot of incarnations. If it gets big, be smart, get in writing. Axl did. Blackie Lawless prolly did, Hetfield & Ullrich prolly did...
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Mikkamakka wrote:Naltav wrote:In the chats, a fan asked him for advice on how to get started in the musicbuisness or something like that. Axl's answer was:
"Follow your heart, don't sell out and read every book on the biz u can find."
"...have good lawyers, and last, but not least, don't forget to get the name"
It's normal in "band-world", the guy who starts the band gets to keep the name. Many bands go through a lot of incarnations. If it gets big, be smart, get in writing. Axl did. Blackie Lawless prolly did, Hetfield & Ullrich prolly did...
Problem is that Axl thinks (to be correct: he says) that the name defines the band, hence he, who found out the name, is Guns N' Roses. In reality Guns N' Roses was nothing till the classic line-up got together and would have remained nothing without Slash & Co. 5 made the band, it wasn't a 'lead singer only' band.
If we are talking about greed, then Axl Rose is one of the firsts whose name comes to my mind.
Re: Slash album reviews
Naltav wrote:Mikkamakka wrote:"...have good lawyers, and last, but not least, don't forget to get the name"
It's normal in "band-world", the guy who starts the band gets to keep the name. Many bands go through a lot of incarnations. If it gets big, be smart, get in writing. Axl did. Blackie Lawless prolly did, Hetfield & Ullrich prolly did...
Problem is that Axl thinks (to be correct: he says) that the name defines the band, hence he, found out the name, is Guns N' Roses. In reality Guns N' Roses was nothing till the classic line-up got together and would have remained nothing without Slash & Co. 5 made the band, it wasn't a 'lead singer only' band.
If we are talking about greed, then Axl Rose is one of the firsts whose name comes to my mind.
Not exactly sure what you meant by that last post.... 
Yeah, 5 people was in the band. One was fired and three left.
The band carried on with Axl at the wheel.
If you loved the old band more then the new or the other way around or both, that's cool either way...
Size of venues/stadiums and number of people in attendence during the last DECADE speaks volumes of who was the most important part of the original band. There is no desputing that fact! Everything else is just personal preferences!
This old bitter argument between old-GNR and nu-GNR fans has proven to be futile. So I'm done....
