i agree w/this an applaud him 4 it. 4 whatever it's worth i'm in his corner but at the same time he can't be prophizing monumental promotion or be demanding budgets for video shoots when he himself disparged & distanced himself from the money men. if one of ur buddies fucks u over u'r not gonna give him a lift 2 the airport or help him move furniture unless there's some sorta compromise.
& axl's completely correct not to compromise. but then he can't be bitching n complaining about not getting nothin done. knowwhatimean? just do it urself n leave the BS behind - which 4 the most part he does do, he just goes out n tours. but when he complains he makes himself look like a little bitch cause there is plenty he could do that he doesn't do w/out needing label backing..

axl is reaping the whirlwind of pissing off & on the label.. it's almost like he expected the label & bosses 2 be all sweetness n light & super grateful he finally got some songs finished. but instead it seems more like there's nobody with any goodwill towards him willing to lend him a helping hand, or worse 2 obstruct & undermine GnR/Axl.. that's just how it looks 2 my eyes. everybody sometimes bites the hand that feeds n axl is gettin paid back in kind for his obnoxious, demanding behaviour.. now axl might've had his reasons for behaving like the knob that he was/is, but that also provides the people on the other end reasons not to help him.

in theory uni could take the moral high ground, but they've no real reason to. why should they budget many more millions on promo & video's when axl ploughed his own furrow & activitely insulted the label/bosses (remember the story of him driving over cd's of wouldbe producers??) & spent their money ungratefully for over a decade??

& as has always been the way the people who really suffer are the fans cause really whats a few more million of profit those guys would make over the principle of the thing?

that's if that's how it's going down of course..

another reason i don't think axl would drop mega gigs of live shows is cause he's such a perfectionist & is AFRAID of releasing anything that might not show him in the best form. remember the whole 2 do about the Reading gig being broadcast on the BBC?
it's weird cause some of the decisions he's made in terms of output he has released has been subpar...

there were millions of handwritten notes by MJ, he was tripping balls & had all these notes & post-its littered round his home..

yea well let's not get started on the NHS.. the world is going 2 hell![/grumpy old man post]

this'll be the one year anniversary of this current CD World Tour (think this is the 4th CD world tour??) & Djs first live date w/the band. maybe they'll mark it w/somethin special..