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#5041 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lars Comments on "Better" Video » 858 weeks ago
My thoughts are that Axl needs to stop beating a Dead Horse now with CD. For whatever reason they just couldn't get their act together with this damn thing and the ship has sailed. It's a shame coz I think it's a solid album when held against other shit on offer today.
I mean fuck people you have a video ready to release to coincide with the single when it's released. How long ago now was Better released as a single???
I'm sorry but I just really can't understand what is so fucking hard about this whole thing. Regardless of legal and other bullshit someone with a strong sense of leadership would get all this shit done irrespective of the obstacles thrown at them. He's not the first artist to have a lovers tiffs and legal arguements with old band members. I would love to be enlightened as to what is so bloody difficult and what is causing them so much trouble.
Axl is a fanstastic artist but he is not a managers fucken asshole. He needs to recognise this and bloody give up some control and delegate to some decent people, then most importantly listen to what these people tell him to do. I'm sure that may mean having to do some things that he may not entirely like or feel could be done a different way. Too bad - suck it up, the worlds not going to end.
My only thought with this Better video is if there is some truth in the rumour that after the 6 month best buy exclusive ends, he's gonna release HIS version of the album, artwork etc. Then he's going to actually promote with a video etc etc. Not saying it will work but perhaps that's what he's going to do. Although that would certainly screw over Azoff's relationship with BB - although some would argue that the CD fiasco has already done that.
Wow...I don't see this at all...releasing his own version of the album??? All this intricate plans...
Dood...he couldn't even release the first album on his own
#5042 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lars Comments on "Better" Video » 858 weeks ago
no business sense? this album's release has been ALL business. that's the problem. we don't even know if axl wants super stardom any more or if he plans to go after it later and was content burrying cd. if that is the case, everybody involved got what they wanted as far as money goes and went on vacation. i'd be questioning best buy's business sense, myself. the question then becomes: how many people that bought cd at best buy bought anything else?
i didn't
excellent point...i walked in...got the album and walked out...i didn't even consider buying anything else.
#5043 Re: The Garden » Old WWF question... » 858 weeks ago
Now that picture is absolutely gorgeous...is he doing a slim jim commercial right there?
#5044 Re: The Garden » Old WWF question... » 858 weeks ago
Here's another question I would hope someone would answer:
What is the deal with the WWE and Randy Savage? Vince has basically given everyone a second chance from Hogan to Nash to RVD. He brought in guys who were successful in WCW (except Sting) and gave them a run in WWE. He rehired Warrior in 1996 (for a short time). What exactly is the issue between Savage and Mchmahon? Apparently, people don't bring up Savage's name when Vince is around because they know it will piss him off. The only thing that I've read that makes some sense is that Vince thought Savage would return to WWE in 1996 at Survivor Series, but he chose instead to remain in WCW.
There has been a rumor around the internet for the past few years that Macho Man, sometime very late in in WWF career, had sexual relations with Stephanie McMahon...this would put Steph at somewhere around the age of 18 (1993-94).
There is no confirmation or denial of this rumor...and I doubt it will ever be acknowledged whether it's true or not. This would be incredibly stupid of the Macho Man...and would explain his rather abrupt and unmemorable departure from the WWF.
#5045 Re: The Garden » Child Services Strike Again » 859 weeks ago
I don't get it...
#5046 Re: The Garden » 2008 NFL season » 859 weeks ago
Bono wrote:Neemo wrote:^so what....all of tom brady's rings came without a top tier receiver at his disposal, some quarterbacks bring those around them to a higher level....others need someone to help them get there
I'm just saying. he didn't actually have a top tier reciever when they went to the Super Bowl. This has nothng to do with Tom Brady who is the fucking man. Comparing anyone today to Tom Brady is totally unfair to the other guy.
a few years ago everyone was saying that Brady was average..he was no peyton manning...etc etc
I don't recall that...I think ever since he came in to replace Drew Beldsoe, I think everyone was in agreement in the thought that they were seeing something special.
#5047 Re: The Garden » 2008 NFL season » 860 weeks ago
I know Jauron well from his Bears days...I admired his unflappable composure...but sometimes it frusterated me to never see him react instinctively to a BS call or a bad play by his quarterback...
Being succesful in football doesn't mean you have to act like a crazy man...but it's an attribute that I like in a head coach...
Lovie Smith is much the same way...
#5048 Re: The Garden » 2008 NFL season » 860 weeks ago
Its gonna be Arizona vs Baltimore in the Super Bowl. While I despise the parity era, that is actually a very solid match up. Could be one of the best Super Bowls in years.
Funny thing about the Eagles.....
Almost every year they collapse and fans want to lynch McNabb and Reid, yet they always sneak into the playoffs. I have never been a fan, but you gotta give that team credit where its due.
Eagles vs. Arizona NFC Championship game - anyone have that predicted at the start of the playoffs? Kudos if you did..
I predicted Arizona in the SB during our preseason predictions.
Home teams 0-3 in divisional round, maybe home field advantage isn't what it was? Home teams went 2-2 in Wildcard Weekend. Also odd that now that week 17 Giants-Panthers game was absolutely meaningless
Its the parity era. No such thing as home field advantage anymore.
James, why did the Bills retain Dick Jauron? That move confuses me; the man inspires no confidence. He's in the good coordinator/bad head coach mold. Was Ralph Wilson too cheap to fire him? Just wondering.
I pretty much abandoned the Bills when they shit all over Flutie. That whole fiasco left a very bitter taste in my mouth. Bears and Bills always been my favorite teams though, so I understand Bills fans being frustrated with Jauron, and I feel their pain.
Jauron is reminiscent of coaches like Schottenheimer, Philips, Bobby Ross,etc. Able to capitalize on the talent already in place when he arrives and build on it, yet completely unable to win deep in the playoffs. That Bears resurgence under Jauron should have culminated in at least one SB win. Instead, there were none. That team could have been a major obstacle to that Pats dynasty.
I'm glad there is at least one other person in this world that sees this for what it is...the NEW NFL is one of parody...and everyone wanted it so badly. It's funny how most of the people around here preach capatilism and free market competition; however, when it comes to your sports, you want socialism and equality for all.
Why don't we throw a deck of cards in the air every football season and the 12 that land face up will be the playoff teams. Then we can throw the cards up in the air again until the superbowl winner is determined. We can have a whole season in about 45 minutes!
#5049 Re: The Garden » Old WWF question... » 860 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:Yeah....I have to admit that a lot of the story about the Montreal screw job story has never sat right with me...I've heard both sides of the story and to this day I don't feel like either side was telling the complete truth or in the complete wrong...I guess that's what's so compelling about the whole situation.
It was a very intense time to be in WWF...but the ground Bret Hart and the Hart Foundation were breaking in the wrestling business was unprecedented and truly entertaining. Looking back now, it doesn't make any sense...why get rid of Bret? He wasn't in it for the HUGE contracts...hell he was wrestling for pennies in Calgary until the late 80s. I truly believe that he was about loyalty and respect to this day...
but desperate times call for desperate measures...Vince thought he could unload a giant expense and devalue him at the same time with one simple move...Vince did NOT like being number 2 in the wrestling world...i think that much is obvious
If forced to pick a side, I think I would pick Bret's side...and I have waivered on this many times...but I think Bret was right...he carried WWF from 1994 until he left...he had a right to demand certian things...it was Vince afterall who wanted him gone the moment that he left...Bret had intentions of showing up on RAW the following night and losing or forfeiting the title the night after
The problem here is that Vince was burned by Alundra Blayze or Madusa as she was called in WCW. She dropped the women's WWF title in the a trash can on a live WCW Nitro and disgraced the WWF women's title for years following...can you imagine that happening to WWF title? The scenarios surrounding this time frame are amazing and entertaining to say the least.
And see that right there is why i've never fully trusted Bret's side of the story. I just don't buy with the dis-content he had for Vince and the WWF at that point, not to mention his ego, that he would've graciously forfeited or lost the title on RAW the following night. Don't buy it for a second. I think he would've taken the WWF title to WCW, and degraced it. Alot of wrestlers at that time, felt WCW was the future, and WWF was on the way out. McMahon was losing the ratings war, and Turner had an endless supply of money. Some of the JBL interviews, with him reflecting on this time is quite intriguing, coming from at that time a mid-card wrestler, who was forced to stick with the WWF. Even he himself said at the time, in the locker room, the WWF felt like a dying entity, and wrestlers were jumping ship before it sunk. No one ever expected Austin, The Rock, and DX among others to totally pull the WWF back from the brink of extinction.
Bret leaving also had nothing to do with respect or the love of the sport... it had to do with money. WCW gave Hart a contract that Vince wouldn't give his own kids, and Vince (at least at that time) had a certain line that he would not pay wrestlers higher than a certain amount of money. That it was he, who was responsible for their fame, because of their push, and really to be honest... Vince is right.
People got over Bret Hart leaving. They moved on to HBK, then they moved on to Austin, and eventually moved on from Austin to The Rock, then to HHH, etc.
History has proven Vince right time and again. Nobody will ever strongarm him like Hart did, ever. When Vince won't budge on HULK HOGAN, and won't give Hogan what he wants... nobody has a prayer. Vince will have his limits, and if the veterans don't want to play ball, he'll simply push a rookie (Cena).
You make a lot of valid points...but I don't know how history has proven Vince right in the case of the Montreal screw job. It's all true, Bret was disgruntled and he had a huge ego...but Shawn didn't, Scott Hall didn't, Kevin Nash didn't? I don't think anyone had a bigger ego than Shawn during that time frame.
If you mean that history proved Vince was right because he eventually turned the corner and overtook WCW...I'm not sure how one relates to another...
One thing you do have to explain is why Bret even to this day refuses to have anything to do with WWF...if it were really all about money, he could have come back in an extremely limited role and made high 6 figures easily.
Bret was a pretty simple guy...he really was...he was from Canada from a town I would akin to a midwestern, old school, family values type of environment. I think those things meant the world to him...unlike the New England blue blood that Vince McMahon was raised in...he had a pretty large business based in New York just given to him.
I'm not sure anyone knows with any degree of certainty what Bret would have done had the screw job never occurred...I'm not sure how you feel so certain that he was ready to back stab Vince and the WWF.
#5050 Re: The Garden » Old WWF question... » 860 weeks ago
Yeah....I have to admit that a lot of the story about the Montreal screw job story has never sat right with me...I've heard both sides of the story and to this day I don't feel like either side was telling the complete truth or in the complete wrong...I guess that's what's so compelling about the whole situation.
It was a very intense time to be in WWF...but the ground Bret Hart and the Hart Foundation were breaking in the wrestling business was unprecedented and truly entertaining. Looking back now, it doesn't make any sense...why get rid of Bret? He wasn't in it for the HUGE contracts...hell he was wrestling for pennies in Calgary until the late 80s. I truly believe that he was about loyalty and respect to this day...
but desperate times call for desperate measures...Vince thought he could unload a giant expense and devalue him at the same time with one simple move...Vince did NOT like being number 2 in the wrestling world...i think that much is obvious
If forced to pick a side, I think I would pick Bret's side...and I have waivered on this many times...but I think Bret was right...he carried WWF from 1994 until he left...he had a right to demand certian things...it was Vince afterall who wanted him gone the moment that he left...Bret had intentions of showing up on RAW the following night and losing or forfeiting the title the night after
The problem here is that Vince was burned by Alundra Blayze or Madusa as she was called in WCW. She dropped the women's WWF title in the a trash can on a live WCW Nitro and disgraced the WWF women's title for years following...can you imagine that happening to WWF title? The scenarios surrounding this time frame are amazing and entertaining to say the least.
