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  1. 7 hours ago, Shacklermyrye said:

    Axl also explained the It's so easy story on that Eddie trunk radio interview in 2006, right before Baz put his foot in it and asked how West was doing.

    Haven't seen that tape before although i have heard the songs off it you would expect. But did any of the other songs ever appear from it? Wonder how much better the sound may be on those songs taken from that tape than the rips of ones already out there

    yeah he interrupted too much in that interview. 

  2. On 9/13/2022 at 12:33 PM, axlsalinger said:

    Mark Kostabi recently responded in the comment section of an article about the UYI painting (assuming it really was him). And what he says makes total sense - unlike Niven, who is entertaining but every time he talks makes Axl's decision look more like the right one. 

    https://metalinjection.net/news/axl-rose-apparently-spent-a-lot-of-money-on-the-use-your-illusion-album-art-not-knowing-he-could-have-had-it-for-free

     

    Mark Kostabi

    1 day ago

    Niven is absolutely wrong. My painting, called Use Your Illusion, was not in the public domain. That would be like saying many of Andy Warhol's most valuable paintings are in the public domain because Warhol quoted Da Vinci's Mosa Lisa or other old masters. Warhol transformed the subjects into his own style, cropped, changed colors, repeated in patterns, changed titles, etc. Niven's $75,000 price quote is wrong too and how could he know? It is contractually protected private knowledge and as Niven said, he did not negotiate the deal for Axl. If Axl had used the public domain original from the Renaissance it would have had muted colors, would not have had my signature black-and-white chiaroscuro and sfumato contrasting to the simplified bright serigraph colors in the background. He also could have not used my title: Use Your Illusion (which my brother Paul Kostabi actually provided.) And IMO it would not have sold as much because it would have looked old-fashioned. Axl now owns the copyright to my transformative version of the Raphael detail, so he can sue anyone who copies and sells the Use Your Illusion merchandise. It was a great deal for everyone involved!

    Not to take away from this info, the replay to his comment was pretty out of left field funny :)

  3. On 8/12/2022 at 6:53 AM, action said:

    RATM used to be extreme left, but that exact same attitude makes them right wingers now

    when they sing "fuck you I won't do what you tell me", this goes straight against the current left ideology of listening to the experts, get vaccinated, don't drive your car, don't eat meat etc.

    Unless of course, they're being a hypocrite, which I suspect they are, same as guns n roses and all those other "dangerous" artists who bend the knee to woke and the technocracy

    Or since the lyrics had a way different meaning 30+ years ago when they were written

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  4. 4 hours ago, jamillos said:

    I may be stepping on thin ice here, but I believe that in such situation, now that you've actually paid for it, I wouldn't see anything wrong about downloading (i.e. pirating) the two tracks so that you can listen to it in your devices. I mean, you've legally paid the price, so...

    you think it's pirating if you were to rip songs off a cd you bought onto your own phone/player? 

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