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BangoSkank

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  1. Reading through all of this and part of me wants to say, "aren't you all figuring that this song can't possibly live up to the hype and isn't it likely big chunks of the hardcore fanbase won't like the production on it?" but I won't.
  2. Regrettably I can too - if he can answer them at all. I went to a Tommy solo show a few years ago and he was at the bar afterwards and pretty hammered. To this day, I regret not going up to him and saying, "Tommy, I'll pay for your drinks all night if you answer questions about Chinese Democracy and your time in Guns N' Roses for me." We were talking to one of his friends and she said he does not love talking about GNR because apparently people always ask him about it (or something).
  3. We need to stop debating this and figure out 2/3 good questions about his time in GNR that the person who paid could maybe, hopefully, pleeeeease ask. Ideas: 1. How did he hear Axl wasn't coming to Philly and what do you think he was doing? 2. What, to him, is the key reason the album took so long to do? 3. What's his favorite unreleased song? 4. Did he have any apprehension being in "Guns N' Roses" vs. being in something labeled as Axl's solo project? Obviously the person who paid can do what they want - I just think this is a great opportunity. I'd even chip in to get some of these asked.
  4. I'd chip in $20 to ask him a list of Chinese era questions that we come up with. I would want assurance that he's no longer bound by an NDA though.
  5. Thanks so much and completely agreed on the last part. He has spoken about it but sparsely and I had to really dig for those quotes. I think he assumed that he would get a mountain of shit for speaking out and now things have healed over, so why pick at the wound? But it's this era of the band that make me really want an Axl autobiography. He's said he started and got many pages in, but it got depressing and it ended up sounding like he was calling everyone a liar, so he's unsure how to go forward. Just a shame. Really appreciate it and agreed, everyone could have been happy.
  6. I had tickets to the ill-fated Philly '02 show (both of them, actually). I was so excited because it was the band that I was just starting to love (I was 15) and now they looked cool, crazy, and really interesting. When the shows got cancelled I was crushed and I couldn't believe that I was in a GNR riot. That's a kind of cool thing to say now, but was devastating to me then. I still look back on that era of the band and love what it could have been. I actually recently wrote an essay on this where I just can't help but wonder what cool industrial metal songs we may have heard if he just went solo. Who knows? We could have had a version of NuGNR that is active between GNR tour legs. A lot has been written about the name, but I just can't help but think how different it all may have been if he dropped it. https://medium.com/@tomrankin026/if-axl-went-solo-688f166ea662
  7. I'd drop "This I Love" and put Slash's dong on the cover. Done.
  8. Great thread, one of my favorite eras of the band. Fills me with a sense of "What might have been" every time I think about it. Kills me that I never saw Bucket play with them.
  9. Never considered that Bucket was always destined to leave, but it does make sense. Even if GNR had been more productive it's hard to see them doing it to the degree that it would satisfy him. And it's definitely a question of control, because I still want him to be himself, but the highest and best possible version. Tough to see it spiral out in '02, '11, and elsewhere. I have to wonder if maybe the music would have been better? The chaos may have helped, but only for a bit before hurting things. And those spirals I mentioned above are why I'd find a blu ray release a bit frustrating because (as others have pointed out on this board) GNR has a knack for somehow really blowing it for majorly when the general public is watching: RiR '11, Bridge School, Golden Gods awards, Glastonbury (to a degree), and a blu ray with him sounding like this would kind of be another example of this. I don't know, you are right in that it's me caring more about other's opinions of him, and I do want them to release stuff regardless. It would just be a bit underwhelming, I guess?
  10. Yeah, I see what you're saying and you are right. Ultimately I'd rather have something from one of my favorite bands than nothing. And I'd rather them be producing material than not. I think I just have a lot of "what might have been feelings" about GNR and this would be another. What if Bucket just stayed? What if Axl just called NuGNR something different? What if Axl actually rehearsed with the band? What if he could still sing with vicious rasp? People would see how great he still is. [Shrug]
  11. Exactly - some people for sure buy them but I have to think the market for this kind of thing has seriously diminished compared to what it was even 10 years ago. Admittedly, I haven't looked at the numbers so I could be wrong, but I just know I'd for sure be the target market for this and I'd have minimal interest in getting it if it's available to stream somewhere. Also, and this is the cold truth, but I do not want an official release from them if Axl has anything resembling the Mickey voice. I personally don't mind it, but the general public is always savage towards him and I'd just rather not see one of my favorite musicians go through that yet again.
  12. Serious question: Do people still buy concert blu-rays?
  13. Damn, came here to make this joke. Nice work.
  14. For sure, my overall point is just that it's not the doom-and-gloom scenario people are often speculating it is. There's a lot more strategy to it than we may realize.
  15. The sales really aren't that bad (or bad at all). They look empty for a few weeks but that's the new way of selling tickets. For promoters, it's no longer about attaining an immediate sell out, it's about getting as much money as possible up top from the die hards (us) and then filling it in as it goes by lowering prices on certain sections, little marketing pushes, hell, I've even seen Groupons offered for shows. Through all this, plus everything else fans get gouged on, people make their money and tickets get sold. I don't fully get the details of how it works yet but I know that's the new model. See: dynamic pricing. Most of the last stadium shows I went to looked half empty on TicketMaster in the weeks leading up to it and then at showtime they're at 90% capacity.
  16. Fucking INCREDIBLE. A SURPRISE GENERAL RELEASE. CALL AN AMBULANCE, I'M DEAD OF A HEART ATTACK.
  17. It'd be cool, but I'd be worried about: 1. The cost 2. The venue - U2 will be the first thing there, I believe, and there were crazy stories of rushed construction, etc. on this place, so I'm kind of expecting some big flaws in this run.
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