Yea I would be surprised, even at 8 million, that they'll show the GnR set.
Tho I was surprised when they showed Rio so it is possible.
I just wonder whether Axl would let the performance get out into the public domain & bootlegged, y'know?

That 8 million tho.. Any of you seriously think GnR or anyone is worth that sorta cash?? I really don't. Certainly sets a precedent, which of course is part of the point.
& it's an interesting figure too, that that was apparently the price it took to get Axl to share a platform with Slash again.. Everyone has a price I guess..

Well, if he had made his mind up before then it begs the question, why bother going ahead with the residency & the dvd? (The dvd was recorded during that residency, right? Or was there an earlier one the year before??).

Even for that, they were relying heavily on the appetite promo (wasn't the pic banned, again, from some of the ad's?).

I figure the answer to my question is prob contract obligations.

Was the idea fermenting before then, or did it only come up during negotiations to get the dvd released? We know Duff & Slash have (kinda always) wanted back in so I'm sure Axl was aware of that, especially having cosied up to Duff again.
Even just using his own intuition, Axl prob could've foreseen the possibilities of bringing Slash & Duff back.

So maybe even before Vegas '14?
Chinese had long since run out of puff. The band was really a world away from what the Chinese thing started out as, there was no legs in that thing (no matter how often DJ thought he was writing/recording GnR material). It was really inevitable that DJ & Ron were never the answer & were short term solutions.

I guess we'll maybe have to wait for Axl's mooted autobiography to get the details of the timeline..

Looking back on that last (full) show I saw, I do gotta say they put on a fun show in fairness to them, & I always enjoyed seeing BBF.. But.. I'm glad they're gone!

i'm off til monday so hopefully i'll be about the next few nights.

planning of giving star wars battlefront a blast tonight. got it as a christmas gift despite me telling everyone NOT to buy me it. i think they took it like, "oh he must actually want that if he's tell us not to get it, we'll call his bluff".
was hoping for mgsv or even fo4. oh well.

Yea the rest of the lineup is really bad.

Delighted SG's going tho. & so fuckin looking forward to his "I told you so" post when he gets to see the original 5 @ Coachella

Ok. Well for people in Ireland keeping score -  AC/DC played the Aviva Stadium in 2015 (capacity somewhere between 35-50,000??)
They also played Punchestown Racecourse in 2009 - the same venue GnR played in 2006

Kinda hoping for Slane or a mainland UK show if this is any indicator (tho it's possible Ireland isn't on the tour itinerary at all). Don't care for the Aviva at all, Punchestown is a good venue but a bollocks to get in & out of.

Guess we'll see..