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    Village Sessions leak

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

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    Correct if I'm wrong, but I haven't see yet any discussion towards the "Village Sessions" leak made by Matt Valde, a youtube user. By now, all his videos are down, but he shared a link with all the music he got. Atlas Shrugged, Mustache, Quicksong, Zodiac, State of Grace, Oklahoma, Billionaire, Dummy... and lots of demos, remixes etc.

    07/20/17 - NYC - Apollo Theater

    in 2017 Tour Dates

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    1 minute ago, Billsfan said:

    Same order too. Mind boggling.

    But no, please don't go! We're about to get a new song! Yup, Trunk said it's a James Brown cover. Get excited :lol:

    Thank you, my friend!

    But, forgive me: a James Brown cover is not too much for this special evenning!

    NEW INTERVIEW: Axl and Duff Interviewed by Brazilian TV: "Where's Izzy" / "How did the reunion come about" / "New album" all discussed

    in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS

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    2 hours ago, Apollo said:

    Agree with all that except for number two. 

    Axl said thoughts of the regrouping started when the Coachella guy started floating the idea of GnR playing (and making a reported 7 million dollars) and then Axl said something about his people gauging the interest out there or a reunion tour. That pretty much cements that this thing was initiated by the money. Axl is probably going to being home close to 50 million dollars over an 18-month period. 

    Also, the "they would have done it ten years ago" theory doesn't really make sense, IMO. 

    Axl was knee deep in Chinese Democracy and that band. There was no way he was going to end Round One by dropping his current band and album and bringing Slash back. That would have been Axl admitting defeat and that he couldn't make it without Slash and Duff. 

    And Slash and Duff were extremely busy as well. Velvet Revolver was actually more successful than GnR was at the time. Their first album outsold CD. They won a Grammy. Then Duff had Loaded and numerous side projects. Slash grabbed Myles and has had a fairly successful solo run. 

    So not regrouping earlier had nothing to do with money and everything to do with what the big three were doing with their careers. 

    Fast forward to 2014-2015. CD has been out for 7-8 years. GnR has become a revolving door of members. Axl has no interest in releasing songs that DJ Ashba helped create. Loaded can only draw 250 people a show. And Slash is only playing to a couple thousand people a show. And is going through an expensive divorce. 

    The timing was perfect to start looking into a reunion. Ten years ago the timing was horrible. 

    So perfect timing and the chance for the Big Three to make 30-to-75 million dollars apiece? MSL claimed that Axl could make in the 100 million dollar range. 

    So why a reunion now? Money. Timing. Chance to heal old wounds. Fun time of playing again with the best rock band of our generation. Probably in that order. 

    And honestly that's perfectly ok. As fans we shouldn't care why they got back together. I don't care if Axl and Slash hate each other. I don't care if they are only doing it for the money.  And I don't care if Axl makes a billion dollars to do it. 

    As fans, all we should care about is the music and live performances. That's what is important. Not whether or not Slash and Axl are best buddies and not the motivation for getting back together. Those things belong to band members - not us. 

    Great arguments! And this MONEY thing can explain some reasons why Izzy is relutant with the reunion

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