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DJ Ashba likes to show off his Las Vegas mansion, with pools, bars, drive ways , Death Rides and what nots.

Ashba toured with GNR for about 5 years and has no royalties from albums.

Sure he played on 1 succesful Sixx Am CD before he joined, but that's not enough to enjoy such a lifestyle, methinks.

Frank has played drums with GNR since 2006 - 9 years now.

He's gotta be rich, we're talkin hundreds of shows , even if they pay him 10 grands a show.

Has he ever shown his house on instagram or smth?

I'm intrusive, I'm sorry, I love Frank and I'm just curious.

It's my broken dreams speaking rite now

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I never thought someone would start a thread like this......

Well Frank seems a normal simple person, he lives in da hood.

He is not a person who would show off things, he has a daughter, so I guess he saves money for her education and other expenses unlike Dizzy who has to ask money from people.

Yeah he would have earned good money by touring in Axl's band and he does session work, but he only spends the amount he needs.


I assume Mags would say he Pimpin when he not drummin

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I only know this from the years on here. I don't care who's rich and who isn't (although I wish everyone the best)

DJ's money seems to primarily come from his company, I guess they do some special effects, promotionals, and such around Vegas for things like the Casinos and Cirque du Solei. Add that with his merchandise, writing with Crue, GNR touring, etc and I can see why he has more money than the other non-Axl guys.

I'm sure the other guys are well-off, but not multi millionairs. I'm sure Richard has made a lot with his session work, too.

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Some insider would be able to tell that how % they each get, like I would like to know that how much it is divided between the 3 guitarist, I know its not equally divided between the guitarists.

From what I assume Axl would obviously take the big cut, then I guess it would be Tommy, but well Dizzy is in the band since 1990, But I assume Tommy would get more

Then it would be the main lead guitarist - Ashba, Fink

Then I assume it would be divided equally between Fortus and Ron

Then I guess Frank and then Chris


I'm doubting frank pulls in $10k per show. More like $2k I bet.

No way he would get $10k per show, I guess it would be between $2k to $5k, depending on the venue.

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Well according to Celebrity Net Worth, Dizzy is listed to have amassed a fortune of $15,000,000 since 1990.

I really find this hard to believe. Although i have never met the guy, i do know his ex wife Lisa and his younger Daughter Shade.

They lived in a shitty apartment in California, although it was in a nice location by the beach front. They recently moved to Oklahoma, where Lisa works as a waitress and relies heavily on tips for income. Their older daughter Skye is at Veterinarian school. Lisa was running a Go Fund Me page for her daughters fees a few months ago.

So either Dizzy is extremely tight with money or doesn't have any..

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Well according to Celebrity Net Worth, Dizzy is listed to have amassed a fortune of $15,000,000 since 1990.

I really find this hard to believe. Although i have never met the guy, i do know his ex wife Lisa and his younger Daughter Shade.

They lived in a shitty apartment in California, although it was in a nice location by the beach front. They recently moved to Oklahoma, where Lisa works as a waitress and relies heavily on tips for income. Their older daughter Skye is at Veterinarian school. Lisa was running a Go Fund Me page for her daughters fees a few months ago.

So either Dizzy is extremely tight with money or doesn't have any..

Yeah she was running the Go fund me page and asking for donation for her college tuition, I guess Dizzy just spends all the money on Hookers, there was this Iranian woman, I forgot her name, she wrote a book and Dizzy was mentioned in it. She talking about his money and how she got pregnant with his baby and god knows what shit.

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Well according to Celebrity Net Worth, Dizzy is listed to have amassed a fortune of $15,000,000 since 1990.

I really find this hard to believe. Although i have never met the guy, i do know his ex wife Lisa and his younger Daughter Shade.

They lived in a shitty apartment in California, although it was in a nice location by the beach front. They recently moved to Oklahoma, where Lisa works as a waitress and relies heavily on tips for income. Their older daughter Skye is at Veterinarian school. Lisa was running a Go Fund Me page for her daughters fees a few months ago.

So either Dizzy is extremely tight with money or doesn't have any..

Yeah she was running the Go fund me page and asking for donation for her college tuition, I guess Dizzy just spends all the money on Hookers, there was this Iranian woman, I forgot her name, she wrote a book and Dizzy was mentioned in it. She talking about his money and how she got pregnant with his baby and god knows what shit.

It just seems weird. I mean. i have two kids, and if i wasn't with my wife i would make sure they had the best life fucking possible. Especially if i had millions in the bank. They would have the best of everything.

Maybe he made bad business choices and lost what was amassed?

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Well when you think about it:

Dizzy and Frank have no writing credits, so no royalties really. Actually Dizzy might have some from CD, but sales were not the best.

Music has moved to streaming now with poor royalties. So there won't be much coming in that way in the future.

GNR very rarely tours anymore (they can go years without touring) and when they do tour they are playing smaller and smaller venues.

They are regularly now playing to audiences of 3-5k people. Axl and the promoters will take most of the money from the concerts, leaving

the rest to be split between large number of musicians.

To be honest I would be surprised if on average Dizzy and Frank make more than 30k a year, which isn't very much for LA.

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I heard on one of the boards a number of years ago that Bumblefoot was on a retainer fee of 30,000 a month.

Weather they where on down time or a full year world tour the number stayed the same.

Thats 360,000 per year X 8 years.

2,880,000 - Not a bad salary

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Well when you think about it:

Dizzy and Frank have no writing credits, so no royalties really. Actually Dizzy might have some from CD, but sales were not the best.

Music has moved to streaming now with poor royalties. So there won't be much coming in that way in the future.

GNR very rarely tours anymore (they can go years without touring) and when they do tour they are playing smaller and smaller venues.

They are regularly now playing to audiences of 3-5k people. Axl and the promoters will take most of the money from the concerts, leaving

the rest to be split between large number of musicians.

To be honest I would be surprised if on average Dizzy and Frank make more than 30k a year, which isn't very much for LA.

Come on man, they make much more than $30K per year, they do earn good money by touring, Frank lives in NY, he does Session work also, so he is secured, but I guess Dizzy doesn't has a business sense, like whatever he earns he just spends it. Everyone is different and everyone has a different type of mentality, but in the future If i have kids then I would do something or keep money aside little by little for their education and other things.

I heard on one of the boards a number of years ago that Bumblefoot was on a retainer fee of 30,000 a month.

Weather they where on down time or a full year world tour the number stayed the same.

Thats 360,000 per year X 8 years.

2,880,000 - Not a bad salary

The retainer fee was when these guys were in the studio from 1999 to 2007, after that it was only from the touring or the royalties.

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Actually Slash 787 you're right about the retainer fee-this was probably the way that newgnr members made most of

their money. So people like Robin, Brain and Bucket would have made most of the money I think. I presume that people like

Bumble, Frank and Richard would make a lot less.

The retainer fee for the highest paid members was 12000k a month, 120 a year- not 300000.

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I heard on one of the boards a number of years ago that Bumblefoot was on a retainer fee of 30,000 a month.

Weather they where on down time or a full year world tour the number stayed the same.

Thats 360,000 per year X 8 years.

2,880,000 - Not a bad salary

Axl stopped paying retainer fees a long time ago, once the record label severed ties with him.

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The info is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/arts/music/the-most-expensive-album-never-made.html

With the band’s return, Mr. Rose’s machinery cranked up again. One internal cost analysis from the period pegs the operation’s monthly tab at a staggering $244,000. It included more than $50,000 in studio time at the Village, a more modern studio where Mr. Baker had moved the band. It also included a combined payroll for seven band members that exceeded $62,000, with the star players earning roughly $11,000 each. Guitar technicians earned about $6,000 per month, while the album’s main engineer was paid $14,000 per month and a recording software engineer was paid $25,000 a month, the document stated.

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I met his daughter's friend.

This is super weird to see on here, for reasons I'll PM you about.

Frank sent me a random message on Facebook recently telling me to like his new artist page and I messaged him back but didn't get a reply. :(

Maybe you can contact him to do a MYGNRFORUM interview? Frank, Ron and Richard are not that hard to get.

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Well when you think about it:

Dizzy and Frank have no writing credits, so no royalties really. Actually Dizzy might have some from CD, but sales were not the best.

Music has moved to streaming now with poor royalties. So there won't be much coming in that way in the future.

GNR very rarely tours anymore (they can go years without touring) and when they do tour they are playing smaller and smaller venues.

They are regularly now playing to audiences of 3-5k people. Axl and the promoters will take most of the money from the concerts, leaving

the rest to be split between large number of musicians.

To be honest I would be surprised if on average Dizzy and Frank make more than 30k a year, which isn't very much for LA.

It doesn't matter how sales for CD were, they had that exclusive deal with Best Buy who bought many copies up front to sell them

Also, you're crazy to think that they both only makes $30k a year. $300k is more like it with all the session work and touring they do on their own

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The info is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/06/arts/music/the-most-expensive-album-never-made.html

With the band’s return, Mr. Rose’s machinery cranked up again. One internal cost analysis from the period pegs the operation’s monthly tab at a staggering $244,000. It included more than $50,000 in studio time at the Village, a more modern studio where Mr. Baker had moved the band. It also included a combined payroll for seven band members that exceeded $62,000, with the star players earning roughly $11,000 each. Guitar technicians earned about $6,000 per month, while the album’s main engineer was paid $14,000 per month and a recording software engineer was paid $25,000 a month, the document stated.

I did read somewhere that Josh Freese said that he was getting $7k per month when he was in the band, but even he was tired of waiting for Axl, I assume Robin and Bucket would be getting $11k per month.

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Well when you think about it:

Dizzy and Frank have no writing credits, so no royalties really. Actually Dizzy might have some from CD, but sales were not the best.

Music has moved to streaming now with poor royalties. So there won't be much coming in that way in the future.

GNR very rarely tours anymore (they can go years without touring) and when they do tour they are playing smaller and smaller venues.

They are regularly now playing to audiences of 3-5k people. Axl and the promoters will take most of the money from the concerts, leaving

the rest to be split between large number of musicians.

To be honest I would be surprised if on average Dizzy and Frank make more than 30k a year, which isn't very much for LA.

It doesn't matter how sales for CD were, they had that exclusive deal with Best Buy who bought many copies up front to sell them

Also, you're crazy to think that they both only makes $30k a year. $300k is more like it with all the session work and touring they do on their own

The Best Buy deal would have been used to cover the advance which had already been given for CD. GNR would

not have made very much from it, if anything.

Not sure about Frank but Dizzy does no touring (other than a few bars here and there) and no session work. Musicians

are really not paid much money at all anymore. I don't think that apart from Axl any of them would be

earning anything close to 300k. I'll stand by 30k.

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