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Nobody has posted my favourite New GnR photo yet - which I'm extremely dissapointed

I've got it on my computer but how do you post a photo here ?

The following is a look at some of the bands that are touring Australia in the next three months. It highlights a very saturated market and I just hope that these GnR Australian show dates actually get officially announced soon, that the tickets go on sale very soon, and that Axl and the rest of the boys do some promoting of these shows. Otherwise I am concerned that these GnR shows will have very poor attendances and be considered a failure :

So Here goes -

In January & February touring Australia are the following bands:

Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Killers, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, The Chemical Brothers, Weezer, Keith Urban, Elvis Costello, Ringo Star, Carole King, Norah Jones. Neil Finn and Paul Kelly, My Bloody Valentine, Deep Purple, Linkin Park, Blink 182 and many others... !

In March just in my home city of Brisbane there are the following acts:

Kiss and Motley Crue, Thin Lizzy, The Stone Roses, Prodigy, Temper Trap, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Ronan Keating, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Santana and the Steve Miller Band, Dinosaur Jr and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band, as well as many others... !!!

In April there's more bands, including Black Sabbath ! It's ridiculously busy with artists touring.

Is it like this in your Country ???

Guns N Roses have not, as far as I am aware, officially announced this Aus tour or have tickets on sale.

Also I have seen and abundance of promotion in Newspapers, with the artists themselves on Aussie T.V talk shows etc... and heard others being interviewed on radio stations.

In some cases there are shows booked very close either side of GnR's proposed dates - e.g I think Kiss and Motley Crue are performing 2 nights at the Sydney venue where Guns are supposed to be playing like a day or two later.

Many people would have allready bought tickets for these countless other shows.

I reckon this could be the worst attended GnR shows in their history of touring Oz.

Very cool. Thanks for sharing !

Must be official - i heard them announce it on Triple M radio today !

My mum doesn't drink beer (she's strictly a wine connoisseur!) Ha!

??? I think we both have different meanings for 'knock her off'. ???

Hmm..interesting....Melbourne gig coincides with

F1 Grand Prix weekend, venue is only 5 mins away from the Albert Park race track , if your travelling to Melb better book your accommodation early...

I would say its a high chance that they are the band for the F1 event

Nui was spot on with his info!

Who is Nui ?

Ok, thanks Mate. Interesting... just wish it would be announced officially soon.

Gotta organise work holidays etc...

Hmm..interesting....Melbourne gig coincides with F1 Grand Prix weekend, venue is only 5 mins away from the Albert Park race track , if your travelling to Melb better book your accommodation early...

I would say its a high chance that they are the band for the F1 event

If that's the case are you saying they will play twice in Melbourne? What night is the F1 concert usually ?

Johnny D - how was Soundgarden? I saw Cornell's solo show in Brisbane which was cool.

Redhead - I can knock off your mum for a carton of beer

Oh no ! Move over the USA gun debate - we have a much bigger controversy!

Seriously? They cant put a GnR album on a tour poster... Some of you "critics" are desperately pathetic

It however is a symptom of what GN'R have become however, i.e. a greatest hits act.

Thats fine by me. Alot of bands are the same. Lots of touring and fewer and fewer new music releases. Things in 2012 are still much better than the GnR 'silent years'...

I'd go see Axl & GnR perform every week if I could !

Oh no ! Move over the USA gun debate - we have a much bigger controversy!

Seriously? They cant put a GnR album on a tour poster... Some of you "critics" are desperately pathetic

I've never been to fond of the sound at the myer music bowl hopefully the sound is decent for the show.

I don't know man - the Christmas Carols sounded pretty awesome last night on my t.v here in Brisbane !

Cool question Vincent Vega. If there was a version with Steve on it then that would be great to hear. But I gotta agree with Marc - Matt's drums and intro are really unique and cool and I enjoy the fact that the drums somehow separates it from other GnR tracks in general...

Yep, it does change all the time. But to be honest I simply don't have a top three GnR song list. It's just too hard.

Maybe I could set a top 10 list that would change a bit every now and then, but a top three list ? Nope, just too hard.

I guess there is still the older people such as myself who still prefer the physical copy of the CD though. I enjoy holding it in my hand and looking through the lyrics, pictures, thank you lists etc... Anyone else here still prefer the CD ?

I guess bands could package more together such as a big book of pictures, a tshirt, stickers and stuff like that with a CD and maybe more people would buy it in that form?

Awesome dream Marc.

You will see Axl again one day. Hopefully not too many more years will pass before it happens...

Great news if it's indeed true ?

Thanks for posting that clip Melly4Axl - Alicia Keys is beautiful ...

Thomas, would you take a bullet for Axl?

I know I'd pull the trigger for Axl...

It is possible.

South American legs on 2010 and 2011 had even bigger crowds.

61,500 people attended their Sydney 2010 gig.

However it was attached to another event - the V8 supercar race. It's still alot of people that decided to stick around and watch GnR on a rainy saturday evening

I guess I am genuinely curious as to what's happening with the music scene in the U.S when I read about lack of music videos , decreased music sales etc...

YouTube has a lot to do with both. That's where videos are released nowadays, even Prince has a brand new video on YouTube. And that's also where you can hear and download full albums.

Apocalyptic Love has been there for a while, although at least one of them has since been pulled. Appetite for Destruction is there right now. Why spend money on full albums when they can be downloaded for free, or you can buy just the songs that interest you.

That all makes sense. I didn't know Prince has a new video on Youtube - cool, i'll have to check it out.

I find it interesting how it's all changed a fair bit since the 80's & 90's and I wonder if GnR need to do things differently and move with the times if they want to succeed and also just getting funding for new albums etc... ?

I just think it's weird that Slash can play here in Australia to big crowds and yet only pull small crowds in the US, likewise with Axl and GnR - they can get crowds around 10,000 or more to a show here but yet struggle in the USA to get just a couple of thousand.

Don't you realize if GNR and Slash played as infrequently in the states as they do in Australia that the crowds in the US would be much, much bigger? It's all about supply & demand mate, nothing to do with popularity in particularly countries. Over the past couple years GNR has had what, four concerts in Australia? During that same time period they've played in the states FIFTY SEVEN times. The fewer the shows in a particular country, the greater the demand for those few shows.

Yeah I totally get that - you make a good point. I saw Slash play here in my home city just a few months ago and several thousand people were in the crowd. That was the fourth time in 2 years he has played here and each time he has been extremely well supported. If Slash played four times in the past two years in your city of residence do you think that crowds would be that big ?

Also the USA has nearly 300 million more people than my country too. So I'm thinking it has something to do with the popularity of R&R in the U.S. ...

It's probably multifactorial. I guess the U.S economy has been terrible for a while now so people may have less disposable income for shows etc...

I guess I am genuinely curious as to what's happening with the music scene in the U.S when I read about lack of music videos , decreased music sales etc...

Axl handled that really well. Good on him. Even told the Paparazi Bloke to have a good day

Since when does Marc's opinion on the music industry matter? I mean, no offense to the guy at all or anything, but let's be real.

Well I guess if I need to justify my question to you all mighty wfse then I suppose Marc has lived in the Epicenter of one of Rock's coolest periods. Both in time and the geographical location. Also as I alluded to in my original post - Marc was intimately involved in the inner sanctum of one of the biggest bands ever. So I guess he might know a thing or two about the culture and essence of Hard Rock.

I just think it's weird that Slash can play here in Australia to big crowds and yet only pull small crowds in the US, likewise with Axl and GnR - they can get crowds around 10,000 or more to a show here but yet struggle in the USA to get just a couple of thousand.

I was wondering what was the most popular music in the USA and why? Is it because the likes of the big rappers have massive posters of themselves in Times Square promoting fragrances etc... ( E.g big marketing campaigns) and the American public have become more inclined to follow image rather than good music? I don't know?

So wfse - do you have any reasonable comments or just more wanker remarks ???

I reckon it's fair to say that Axl Rose has had a very hard childhood, an incredibly unique and insanely successful career - and these enough are things that can allow us fans to be more understanding for the man's life. I can't really even imagine what he's been through...

Nobody in the world is perfect, I think maybe to an extent most people have some kind of mental or emotional problems - it's just life

Since when is hard rock dead lol

Ok maybe not completely dead, but c'mon you've got to admit it is a long way off where it used to be in terms of popularity? ( In the USA I'm refering to... )

Hi Marc. You've lived through the golden times of American Hard Rock music and was intimately involved in the biggest band of them all.

So what in your opinion is the reason Rock music is so dead in the USA these days? And has been for a long time?

From all I've heard it's not even as half as popular as it once was yet in many other countries around the world, such as my own Australia, it is still very much loved.