bump****Westerberg talking about Tommy and Gnr and where Tommy's head is at these days. Make of it what you will.

Pitchfork: Talking to Tommy a couple of years ago, I got the impression that after all that hard work, after all those miles on the road, that what he's doing right now [as a member of Guns n' Roses] is in some ways his reward. Finally play arenas, get kept on a retainer...

PW: If you talked to him more recently you might get a different vibe. But you know, that's fairly true. It was a couple of years ago that he probably felt that. But now he's thinking more artistically. I heard a batch of his songs he sent me. I added a few things and sent it back. He wants to be more of an artist now. That's just the way it goes. You're a performer for ten years straight, then you want to go home and actually write a tune or whatever. But he more than any of us is sort of built for the stage. If he goes without performing for a long time then he can't stay still.

PW: It was that one fucking poster in Europe...if they ever make a movie about us, that was "the moment." The German promoter comes in and shows us the poster with me, "Paul Westerberg and the Replacements." In German or whatever. Tommy ripped it in half and said "that's fucking it" and stormed out. I thought, there it is, we're done.

You think Tommy ever gave Axl the "that's fucking it" line and stormed out? Something happened before the first Hammerstein show in 2006 when Axl hugged him on stage before TWAT.

AFD is Gnr's best album. However, the Illusions broke Gnr and put them on a worldwide platform....AFD sales, like Nevermind from Nirvana, were mainly an American/North American phenomenon....possibly throw in the UK. Each UYI still went 7 times platinum in the US in 1998..a few years after the grunge thing died. So, all you naysayers can talk all th shit you want. UYI was a wildly successful project. Period. End of discussion. One studio lp recording session yielded over 30 million albums sold worldwide.  Pretty good return on investment...I'll take the ten best off UYI before the ten best off AFD. Now, if you have to take the top three most important Gnr songs, then you go with Welcome, Sweet, and Paradise....but, those are the perfect storm for hard rock singles. Almost nobody has ever matched three more perfect singles for a debut album.

oh, and ps, Gnr had the third most catalog sales out of any artist in 2007....more than the Beatles. They are selling a very hefty amount of records right now for an old school band....more than Zep in the US. The pop catalog chart might as well be the billboard 200 because the catalog chart is kicking ass way out of proportion to new music sold. That is an industry fact that they hide by not letting catalog sales be apart of the top 200 chart. Thriller would have topped the charts a few weeks ago with it's re release and Gnr's GH wasn't far behind. New music sales pale in comparison to catalog sales right now.:ummm:

or a bit insane.....a little too much drinky drink to respond just yet....oh wait, here's a response.:haha:

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration. We are all one consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death and life is only a dream in which we are an imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather."

"It's not a war on drugs. It's a war on personal freedom. Is what it is, okay? Keep that in mind at all times. Thank you." 

I am fairly certain the record company does NOT have the album. If they are negotiating, Axl is not gonna give them the record because he loses the only thing he has to negotiate with. The record company has already shown they will release whatever mastered material related to the recording agreement they want AND will do it again as soon as they get an album. They don't have the record and NO credible source has said they do. Beta said it is done, not handed in, Mysteron alluded to the same thing. No fucking way the record company has an album.:thumbup:

ps, and until the record is handed in, Axl still has the power to change anything he wants on the album or it's tracklisting.