What would you choose, if you were the band's manager?

[GivenToFly]

I'd book a few dozen Russian wedding party shows and get some seriously fat commissions, listen to the vault stuff on my own and not give a shit about any of you peasants on Mygnr. And fuck the fanbase, right? Damn, I can't even blame the Lebeises...

[wasted]

Anyone who votes for anything other than a new album has completely lost their marbles.

I honestly think that releasing another album while they aren't on tour is a mistake. With no videos, it will just die in the first two weeks with zero buzz around the band. They need to be on tour. Maybe through SA, and wherever else but when they hit the US they need to drop CD II with maybe a single release a week prior at the very minimum.

How about they do it the way other successful bands do it. Release a new single, then a month later release a new album, then tour to support the album. Why would GnR need to be in the midst of a tour for their album to be successful? Release a new album THEN tour to support it. It's how real bands do shit.

Yeah, convention is really rock n roll. I'll take Axl's GNR and one album every 20 years over 5 politically correct U2 records any day. I'll admit that I admire Bono's ego though- its far more compelling than anything U2's released since Achtung Baby.

Haha yeah nostalgia tours living off the past with an almost identical setlist is so rock n roll man. Releasing 1 album every 20 years is so rock n roll man. I totally digging all the awesome music Axl has given us over the last 20 years man. It's all about being bad ass and rock n roll. Fuck what works man. I love Axl Rose man. he's the shit. Dude is so creative and bad ass man. Like a musical genius man. His approach makes it so much more authentic man. Yeah fuck convention man. Fuck those other bands who please their fanbase on a regular basis man. Just corporate stooges they are man...... Long live Axl Rose man.

As for Bono I'd say the guy has earned his ego. Being in a massively popular band with your 3 best friends for over 30 years and touring to over 7 million people and racking in over 700 million dollars in touring revenue on the last tour alone kinda justifies having a bit of an ego I'd say. I always find it amusing when Axl Rose fans try to mock other artists for having an ego.

I'm just going on CD release and how they aren't a normal band. There will be no press conferences of members chatting up the press or videos. I'm just factoring in what we know, and thinking out side the square to bring the most sales with the least amount of promo dollars. Without label support, if they put out a single and it get's raped, Axl will cancel the tour and the label will delay the album. All the label needs to do is say yes to releasing the album, get the name of the band right and call it CD II, with the band touring that will replace videos, and ass kissing, baby cuddling, 80s radio jockeys and RS covers. Release the record on tour and Axl can come on 4 hours late to celebrate and open with Jackie Chan.

I agree they just gotta do it. They NEED to release another album or this band is completely and utterly pointless. I don't agree with calling it CDII though. It should have NOTHING to do with Chinese Democracy. It's time to move away from that dead horse. This band needs to put out an album in 2014 though otherwise what is the fucking point of their existence?

But you did say like successful bands do it, BUT GNR are a successful band. Even I don't quite believe it. I think in the 90s they'd have got smoked. But the way things are, the record sold alright and no one really blew them off the map with their album. CD is probably the best hard rock album of the 00s.

I guess without a record they would just tour around having fun playing songs for people that they like, maybe working IRS and Catcher or some deeper cuts from UYI into the set. With the possibility of a record in the future for Axl to fathom out, what he wants to say and how etc. I'm hoping he's already got something to put out. If he has CD like stuff I'm up for it. There's just not that many bands I really like their music as much, so I'm kind of screwed.

[Apollo]

Anyone who votes for anything other than a new album has completely lost their marbles.

I honestly think that releasing another album while they aren't on tour is a mistake. With no videos, it will just die in the first two weeks with zero buzz around the band. They need to be on tour. Maybe through SA, and wherever else but when they hit the US they need to drop CD II with maybe a single release a week prior at the very minimum.

How about they do it the way other successful bands do it. Release a new single, then a month later release a new album, then tour to support the album. Why would GnR need to be in the midst of a tour for their album to be successful? Release a new album THEN tour to support it. It's how real bands do shit.

Yeah, convention is really rock n roll. I'll take Axl's GNR and one album every 20 years over 5 politically correct U2 records any day. I'll admit that I admire Bono's ego though- its far more compelling than anything U2's released since Achtung Baby.

But your comparison isn't really fair. Apples to Oranges.

How about a more accurate comparison.

Do you think U2 fans would rather have five U2 albums over the next 20 years or would they rather have one U2 album?

and

Would Axl Rose fans rather have five GnR albums over the next 20 years or would they rather have one GnR album over the next 20 years?

I'd bet you any amount of money that the overwhelming answer to both those questions is "five albums over the next 20 years."

And I hate to burst your bubble about things being rock-n-roll or not. But not releasing music.......that's about as un-rock-in-roll as it gets. At the end of the day, if your favorite band doesn't put out music, what do you have? You have guys praising their band's musical integrity instead of praising the great kick-ass music they've released!!!

Oh, on a side note, would you have rather GnR NOT released Lies and both Illusions back in the late 80s and early 90s? You must have really thought they were showing a real lack of artistic integrity and being the opposite of what a rock-n-roll band should be when they released four albums in five years, and put out a mass amount of music videos, and the band did talk shows, magazine interviews and played late-night talk shows and awards shows. Because back then, the band did exactly the same things that you are complaining about now.

[DangerousCurves]

Step #1 - cut the apron strings. The best music and lyrics come out of life experience. As long as Axl is wrapped up in cotton swaddling with Beta running point, he will have nothing to spark his creative muse.

[Shooting Star]

Launching a new album and going to a tour to promote it is the most sensible thing to any active band, not only to GNR.

Edited January 7, 2014 by Shooting Star

[loko]

Nah, releasing new music is for pussies... Only real man touring for 15 years with the same album.