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#511 Re: Guns N' Roses » Nightrain Official Site » 528 weeks ago
tejastech08 wrote:The marketing efforts this week have been a good start, but they will need to ramp it up going forward if they want to have really big crowds at all of those stadiums. Can't help but also think a lot is riding on the early gigs. If Axl shows up in a timely manner for Vegas/Coachella and his voice is in good shape, I think a lot more of the general audience might be interested in maybe seeing the tour when it comes to their town.
There is a night/day difference in how this marketing is being handled IMO (Unlike Axl's last 15 years.) I think they'll do fine in that department. The rest is up to Axl.
Absolutely, clearly got a pro marketing team involved this time round. It's a breath of fresh air.
#512 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 528 weeks ago
The Tour is named "Not in this Lifetime." Fucking awesome!
Great to see Axls got a sense of humour about it. Using his direct quote to name the tour
#513 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 528 weeks ago
I do think Axl liked what he had and was ready to release new music in 01 but the people around him gave him bad advice and removed his confidence in the new band.
On a side note does anyone else think Buckethead looked like a Slash dopplenganer with KFC bucket on his head. I know how different they sound but i think Axl got a weird comfort in how similar they looked.
I think without Slash by his side his confidence was shaky anyway. A few bits of criticism and he was back to the drawing board. Not sure that would have happened had Slash been around to fight his corner.
Funny you mention BH I think in terms of talent he's the only guy Axl could really relate to as a Slash replacement. Possibly representing the best chance the CD era band had of standing on its own two feet. Problem was his appearance and off stage persona meant Axl was still pretty much doing it all on his own, he had no palatable right hand man to present to the wider world and take some of the burden off himself.
#514 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 528 weeks ago
If it was about art with Axl we would not only have 1 album in the last 23 years . We would have got CD 2001 and atleast 1 or 2 more release since then 90 songs were written and recorded just not mastered . Axl is for the money and ego not the art is my opinion.
I disagree. I think in the end and it's only my theory but Axl didn't really want to do any of it without Slash.
I don't think he ever really hated him in the way it was portrayed, despite certain quotes. I think he hated him for leaving and perhaps resented him because he knew deep down he needed him.
I think in the end the great wait for material had multiple underlying reasons but I think one is that without Slash it just didn't inspire him enough to release it. I'm not convinced he was ever truly happy with most of it, hence so much of it sits in a vault somewhere unreleased and over produced.
#515 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 528 weeks ago
Don't understand the upset over this at all. Makes sense to do a warm up show to me, loads of acts do it. Loads of acts also add dates to tours due to demand, sell outs etc and often what was looking like being a first show ends up not being.
People have waited two decades for this and now we're pissed because Axl and Slash will be on stage possibly as soon as tomorrow rather than next week!? And that's somehow a bad thing?
#516 Re: Guns N' Roses » Looks like rehearsals have started! » 528 weeks ago
Interesting, looks more and more like Adlers gonna have a role which is great for him. Still got my reservations on if he can hack a full tour but I guess the insurance is that Frank is an over qualified reserve.
#517 Re: Guns N' Roses » AXL In ACDC??? » 528 weeks ago
If it's just to cover the 10 cancelled gigs I see no issue. He's obviously a big fan considering how much he covers them live. Kinda once in a lifetime thing for him and that's saying something for a guy who's done as much as Axl. Certainly wouldn't work him fronting both bands ongoing but 10 shows is nothing in the whole scheme of things.
Also don't see ACDC as openers for GNR, with or without Axl as stand in frontman. A co-headline tour down the line could be interesting though.
#518 Re: Guns N' Roses » Vegas Shows Roll Call » 529 weeks ago
So jealous Will. Have an awesome time!!
#519 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R Twitter Updates » 529 weeks ago
The bottom picture is definitely Axl's set up.
How do you know? I can't even work out what I'm looking at besides a bottle of water and a towel?
#520 Re: Guns N' Roses » AXL In ACDC??? » 529 weeks ago
As long as it's just the 10 shows and this doesn't impact the GNR stuff then I think it's awesome. In a way it'll be great PR for GNR as well providing they go ok.
Axl fronting AC/DC and back with Slash and Duff in GNR. The guys climbing back to the top of the mountain in 2016 for sure. Bowt fuckin time.
