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#41 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Chart Positions Thread » 838 weeks ago
...so azoff took 2 axl took 1 and uni made $10million? plues world wide sales....hot damn
which brings Axl vs Uni conflict back to 0....no one owes anyone anything...they're square....which is potentially a whole bag of trouble in itself...
Axl no longer has anyone to blackmail...which is not good, as he is clearly used to it by now...he would potentially love to pack his bags and shop the rest of his new catalogue to someone else (Sony, EMI)....but Universal still make a solid amount of GNR's back catalogue, so they won't let him go...no way...
he has no money to take on a giant like that legally and win....so he's stuck with them...forever...nothing he can do there...
They won't get into another advance negotiation with him ever again, meaning he can't milk them for another ridiculous amount based on his past glory...
which kind of puts him in a very sticky situation....he's with a record company he doesn't want to be with, he can't really get out of it, and he's used up all the favors/myths he could have with them....they're not buying into anything anymore...
The tour/promotion/whatever else is purely at his own expense right now...and i'm guessing this is the reason we didn't see any of it just yet...
either its too expensive for him to handle by himself...as it would have to be global...
or he genuinely also doesn't think that this material will be as profitable as he would like it to be...it may pay for itself if he goes on tour, but it won't make huge amounts of money to stash away...
fucked up situation....bigtime....for Howard Hughes of rock to be in...quite sad actually...
oh, and those who think that Azoff/Gould are out....i agree with you....no way in hell would heavyweights like that be sitting on their asses and doing nothing...their profitability purely relies on turning over projects and getting their bands/artists out there to make them money...
Axl/GNR are stagnant right now...which to me indicates that this duo has either packed their bags and left, or have been booted out by mr Red.
#42 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman » 839 weeks ago
I always secretly hoped that Whit Crane of Ugly Kid Joe fame would have been considered as a choice...the guys vocal range is amazing...
#43 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman » 839 weeks ago
I dont know who Mickey Valentine is...but this was posted by him on Slash's FB page:
Mickey Valentine: Hey Slasher, someone claiming to be Perla has been in correspondence with me on myspace...she directed me to an email address to send her my VR demos. Please ask her or your "assistant" about it to see if its legit. was sent to Sanctuary last week. THANKS!
here is the myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mickeyvalentinemusic
#44 Re: Guns N' Roses » Eddie Trunk: What's Up With Guns N Roses? » 839 weeks ago
there was only one other person who could generate the same media frenzy that Slash used to create....:buckethead:...bring him back....and new GNR may just impress the masses...
#45 Re: Guns N' Roses » Eddie Trunk: What's Up With Guns N Roses? » 839 weeks ago
as sic. summed it up in this thread.
http://www.gnrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?id=5796
'If I give you the album, will you let me go now?' There is nothing more anyone of us can demand from Axl Rose.
i think its fair to assume that Axl doesn't want anything anymore to do with this band, himself, the music, the people around him, leechers, good guys, bad guys, media, promoters...etc...
he's done what we wanted him to do and is now finished with it all....simply had enough of it....time for a holiday...
until of course he runs out of cash again, in which case, considering this is the only thing he knows how to do well and earn money from it, we may see him play a few shows for those of us who still feel the nostalgia....but those won't be stadium shows or any "monumental" world tour attempts, but rather simpler shows in areas where they can still make some cash....like South America, maybe a festival or two in Europe...or smaller theater shows like Hammerstein in NY...
CD re-release is toast....it was toast when it was mentioned as an idea way back when....its still toast...unless he adds a whole new disc of songs to it, together with a DVD which is at least 4 hours long, i simply don't see this guy bouncing back in any way, shape or form.
he doesn't want anything to do with this shit anymore, and we cannot blame him for it anymore either.
we got the songs, we got to know some decent (new) musicians over the years, we became their fans...its time to relegate gnr (any version of it) to the history books...
#46 Re: Guns N' Roses » Bumblefoot to play with Loaded » 840 weeks ago
Izzy & Duff on Appetite songs, next tour!
yeah, sounds like a recruitment drive for "special guests" to me as well...
#47 Re: Guns N' Roses » Eddie Trunk: What's Up With Guns N Roses? » 840 weeks ago
Why would there be that long of a delay when he will be done recording by June/July?
because his wife is managing him, and she clearly wasn't too impressed with the deal he got whilst with VR....so my guess is that he will finish it in its entirety, choose a single or five and then he and Perla will shop it around town to the highest bidder...
could also explain why he recorded it so quickly....because he was footing the bill for the studio(s), and not the record company...
#48 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Possibility of a Guns N' Roses '09 Summer tour » 840 weeks ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7plGs3RP0
i'd pay double to be able to see this....:peace:
#49 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Possibility of a Guns N' Roses '09 Summer tour » 840 weeks ago
Maybe Baz is just a special guest again, for a few songs, like last time...same with Izzy....he could also be there again...
#50 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter updates » 841 weeks ago
maybe he wants to take his time with the mixing and mastering of it...also, perhaps he is nowhere near with the artwork for the album either....and has he negotiated a deal for himself yet with a label...(has he got a label for this?)...6 months is not a long time to get all of that done....
