Axl In Lafayette

I think sales have gone extremely well considering the band hasn't promoted the album and tour AND it's the dead of Winter in Canada. Many people don't attend shows in the middle of the Winter.

Why schedule shows if thats the case, in the dead of winter. And they did just fine in 91 and 92 during that time of year touring places like minnesapolis, dayton, baton rouge, Memphis.

though comparing this band to that one is like comparing an apple to an orange

There is NO fucking way Axl is really posting on twitter, he goes un heard from for the better part of a decade, and now just as he goes on tour and gets ready for some canadian shows he's on twitter, yeah right.

just listened to TWAT, great if you like to hear Axl be drowned out by guitars, like he was in most of 2006, jesus, that was horrible LOL

The guy is all over in the mix, if you watch any UYI show, his vocals were front and center at all times. The band is FINE, but as Axl fits in, he is basically just drowned out.

I'd love to see them play Estranged, That would be too cool to see again after all these years.

jesus, not even the whole song?! Why make a big deal about a partial tune?

its 100% for sure a Dig at G N R, if you don't think so, then you haven't followed shit the last decade, which by and far, has been a real waste

You are comparing GNR to Motely Crue?

i'm saying if such has beens as the crue can get 100 mil...G N R should be able to do at least as good

Robin Leach reports on his blog "Vegas Luxe Life with Robin Leach" that MÖTLEY CRÜE — Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars — signed a $100-million-plus mega-deal last week to produce three albums and perform three world tours for the giant Live Nation entertainment conglomerate.

"We'll actually have been together for 37 years by the time it comes to an end," Vince told Leach.

Vince, who will go off next month on a solo tour of Canada, said that the first of the three long world tours starts this July. The new contract runs for the next 10 years and includes 169 concert dates on the first global journey.

CRÜE is well into the creation of its new studio album, which will be titled "The Dirt" and based on the band's 2001 memoir of the same name. Bassist Nikki Sixx wrote in a new online update, "10 songs done for the new CRÜE album so far, I'm very proud of the songs. I think we're onto some of the better songs we've had in years...Time will tell, of course. A couple of song titles on the CRÜE album are called 'A Scar On Hollywood Boulevard' and 'The Saints Of Los Angeles'... The chemistry in the studio as we're writing is unbelievable."

Nikki Sixx will be featured on a new Fuse TV program called "Live through This" which documents music stars that have made a comeback. The show will air on Thursday, February 21 at 10 p.m.

The Pulse of Radio reported last month that the rumored tour by Sixx's other band, SIXX: A.M., is starting to take shape. The MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist and his new act will likely hit the road in late April and early May for a run through 10 or 12 major U.S. markets. No word yet on exact dates or venues.

Sixx wrote and recorded the album with longtime friends James Michael and D.J. Ashba and has resisted the idea of turning the project into an actual band. But Sixx told The Pulse of Radio that may all be changing. "It seems that people have been able to really feel that it's a band, they really feel that it's something that they can get behind and they can go, 'You know, I really support these guys in what they're doing,'" he said. "It's interesting 'cause we never planned on playing live together, and then we played live together, and that went off so well that I think we accidentally started a band."

Rumors initially surfaced that SIXX: A.M. would tour in February, although Sixx shot down those reports. The project has only played live once so far, last fall at a Utah radio festival.

The SIXX: A.M. album serves as the "soundtrack" to Sixx's recently published book, "The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star".

Twenty-five percent of Sixx's royalties from "The Heroin Diaries" goes to Running Wild In The Night, a charity he established in conjunction with Covenant House to rescue homeless and runaway youth from the streets.

fuck this shit

Guns are going down the fucking toliet...

Record Biz: Top 10 CDs This Week Less Than 450,000

Is the music business dead? I’ll say so. If you want to know why the Writers Guild of America (not to mention the DGA and SAG) must hold for proper payment of Internet rights, just take a look at this week’s CD chart. The top 10 sold fewer than a total of 450,000 copies. The record company people let the Internet destroy them. This is the result.

Ironically, the No. 1 album is the soundtrack to the hit film "Juno," on Rhino Records. Rhino is a division of the former Warner Music Group, now known as Warner Mess Group. WMG stock is hovering around $5, a miserable failure. "Juno" sold about 72,000 copies last week, which in the heyday of the business would put it around No. 15. But times have changed.

Michael Christopher of DelcoTimes.com recently conducted an interview with former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On the delay in getting his first "proper" collection of all-new solo material released:

"Good things take time; good things come to those to wait. I wasn't just going to put out some BS. I am trying to establish myself as a solo artist, because SKID ROW was so huge, and it's hard to do. The only way you can do it is with a great album."

On the grandiose album closer "Falling Into You", which carries the influence of Bach's stints in professional theater:

"I did four Broadway shows, and I am 100 percent bringing that vibe, theatricality and all the different kinds of sounds to the record. I enjoy taking what I learned from theater and bringing it into rock and roll."

On how he wants to be remembered:

"Ozzy Osbourne, when he was kicked out of BLACK SABBATH, he made 'Blizzard of Ozz', and I hope to God that this record is like my 'Blizzard of Ozz' where people go, 'Man, Bas can do it on his own.'"

On the cover of the AEROSMITH classic "Back in the Saddle", which features a guest appearance by Axl Rose:

"It was hard to mix that one because I laid down six tracks, and Axl laid down like, nine tracks, but then we had to put it together, and it was hard to pick who gets what line. I basically followed the lyrics, I mean, let's figure it out: 'I'm calling all the shots tonight/I'm like a loaded gun.' I'm like, 'That's Axl!' 'I'm loading up pistol?' That's Axl! Anything with guns; so we let the music decide who sings where."

On being a fixture of television shows from the sitcom "Gilmore Girls" to "Celebrity Rap Superstar":

"We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, and I'm one of those dudes who is on TV all the time. I don't know how that happened really, but I've just been asked to do all of these outlandish things in the last seven years that have taken me into a different direction."

On his made-for-TV band DAMNOCRACY, which played its first and only gig during the final episode of the VH1 show "SuperGroup" in which fellow bandmember Ted Nugent went off afterward on-camera about Bach being unprofessional for throwing T-shirts out to the crowd, taking away from his own guitar solo:

"I was watching it like, finally, a cool episode. I had a ton of people in my house and we were all drinking, watching it, and (Nugent) says that; I almost whipped a bottle through my TV set."

On "cooling" on his fanboy devotion to the outspoken Ted Nugent:

"I will always love Ted Nugent, and he will always be one of my heroes, but it was that one thing that was really enough's enough for me. It's like, you can call me whatever you want, but you don't call a guy who starred in four Broadway musicals 'an unprofessional.' You don't call a guy who's been on a sitcom for five seasons 'an unprofessional.' That was the thing that was really below the belt, and that was it for me. It was like; you're taking the whole thing to far dude. Let's ask the kid who got the free T-shirt if it was unprofessional of me to do that. What is bad about that? I just don't get it."

On being on television:

"I don't want anybody I've worked with in TV to take this the wrong way, but I'm gonna be a hundred percent honest: I don't give a (expletive) about TV — it doesn't mean anything to me. Television is really a meaningless art form. I think that the best thing I did on TV was the 'Gilmore Girls', other than that ... when you put on 'Angel Down', that CD to me, will be listened to many years after I'm dead and gone."

"There is no art form like music. When you hear a song that you loved as a kid and you hear it now, it makes you feel like a kid. Like when I watch 'Jaws' now, I don't feel like I did in 1975. When I listen to 'Summer Breeze' by SEALS AND CROFTS, I can shut my eyes and it's 1975."

On flirting with the opportunity to take over the lead vocals for one of his favorite acts as a kid in VAN HALEN shortly after Sammy Hagar departed:

"There was definitely a meeting I had in 1996 with (Bach manager) Doc McGhee where it was told to me that (then-VH manager) Ray Daniels and VAN HALEN were inquiring about me to be the lead singer — but that's as far as it went. There was this whole thing about Eddie and Alex couldn't have a lead singer in the band who smoked pot. And I go, 'That's pretty funny, because you know where I learned to smoke pot? At a VAN HALEN concert!'"

Read the entire interview at DelcoTimes.com.

I think sales should go up once they release a single/video

i dont know why they havent released a single. thats not the best marketing

where is it going to get played?

There is very little, if any, market for his music anymore

Man, i think Supernova had better sales than this! LOL

Man, CD sales have just dried up and gone away, 15 years ago he probably would have sold something like 10 times this number.

When Chinese Democracy comes out, it won't sell more than 100,000 copies in its 1st/biggest week either.

Former SKID ROW frontman Sebastian Bach's new solo album, "Angel Down", sold 6,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 190 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD is Sebastian's follow-up to 1999's "Bring 'Em Bach Alive", which has shifted 19,300 units in the U.S. to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan

why the need for updates, the setlist is identical every show, so just post the setlest fromt he last show and save the suspense...and alterations will be MINOR.

anyone who says they aren't playing "new" songs cause they will get bootlegged is fucking kidding themselves! I saw Velvet Revolver almost a month ago now, their NEW Album comes out in a month and they played ALL kinds of new stuff, and it was fucking killer too, "the last fight" is going to be a monster single later this summer, what a great song about a guy who is leaving for Iraq the next day and is having the last fight with his girl, probably for the rest of his life.

i've been in this situation before in Ames back in December...after a while you seriously begin to lose interest in the show

Was Sebastion an opening act tonight?

nope

ok 11:50 in mexico i guess 10 more min till they get on stage

So you were actually told they're going on at 12 for sure?

no but they usually get on stage at 12

they have no "usual" time that they go on, its all over the map

11:30 in Chicago

12:30 in Ames

Both on this last tour

give me a break, till you hear it from Axl himself, NOTHING is coming out...

any good pumpkin songs any of you could recommend? i want to try to get into them

check out

Here is no why

Bodies

Both from Mellon Collie

Then proceed onto Mayonaise and Rhinoserus, you won't be dissapointed

It's a top song in my opinion,specially in the end.

finally a decent rock band releasing a great song..it's better to release it than leak it.

wow, this is PERFECTLY said!!!

Fake Jane's Addiction Fake !

there's nothing fake about this at all, i think it fucking rocks...

And for any pumpkins fans out there, tell me this almost isn't identical to "fuck you- an ode to no one"