Old_school_gnr_fan

Sweet Child O' Mine would be the best representation. Not only did it go to #1, but in the era of the late 1980's, when hair metal was enjoying a great run, this song emphatically made it clear that Guns N' Roses was NOT a hair metal band.

Does anyone else besides me think that the "woke" culture that is sensitive to everything, might demand Guns N' Roses change their name? You know, because guns are bad and dangerous?

The Dixie Chicks already caved and renamed themselves "The Chicks", and Lady Antebellum shortened theirs to "Lady A". Not that they were being forced to, but now because they have, someone out there might say the "Guns" in Guns N' Roses, or LA Guns, is offensive. Likewise, although they're no longer active, .38 Special might be forced to alter their name if someone raises a fuss.

Nothing out there surprises me anymore, so if it happens, color me not shocked.

4 hours ago, allwaystired said:

It's definitely therapy! Everyone slowly but steadily removing themselves from an addiction via being confronted by increasingly stark images of bad merchandise and identical setlists. 

The merch website is really selling nothing of interest right now. Worst I've seen it in the four years since they started using the classic bullet logo again on most items.

3 hours ago, StayofExecution2020 said:

 

What an asshole.

Posting concert footage and civil unrest have nothing to do with each other.

This guy is just incredibly fucking lazy, and he has instilled that same laziness in the band.

I’ll start my own protest with a sign that reads “BRING BACK ALAN NIVEN”

I'm just waiting for a new date to be announced to replace the July 21st show at Fenway Park. So I can officially get my credit card refunded.

2 hours ago, KeyserSoze said:

the state of this band is truly laughable 

It is.

To think just four years ago, we looked at Duff and Slash's return as sort of a rebirth of the classic Guns N' Roses.

Unfortunate that Alan Niven is not the manager of this band in 2020. He's the only guy that forced them to work.

These riots going on in major cities aren't going to do much to get the band to release new music, either.

Why sell your new album at Target when the store's going to get looted and burned to the ground?

1 minute ago, 2020_Intensions said:

It's also funny how so many change their tunes on Fernando because he fed the public some scraps (literally) FOUR YEARS into the tour .... "Fuck that shit!"

For clips that were widely available on You Tube for a long time!

1 minute ago, GNR_RNR said:

Again literally "complaints, complaints, complaints" 

Honestly, it's a good way to make sure we never get anything like this again.

Fernando's probably reading these comments right now, and saying that fifteen minutes is what us minions deserve.

I mean, it's not like any of us are interested in hearing new music or anything.

.....and, it's over.

Better than nothing, especially with the postponements today

1 hour ago, NicoGNR5 said:

Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only: Fernandon’t

The guy lucked into the easiest gig in history, basically. Became manager of Guns N' Roses because Axl felt a connection to his mother.

1 hour ago, allwaystired said:

There were also two utterly bizaare 'hell tour 1985' shirts released last week, which look incredibly odd and basic and like zero effort had gone into them. 60 dollars too! 

https://gnrmerch.com/collections/fathers-day

Maybe I'm still bitter about the "COVID-45" bullshit, but I think these "Hell Tour" shirts fucking suck also.

After 33 years of my loyalty through thick and thin, this band is losing me fast. And I was one of the hardcore fucking idiots who paid the full $999 for the Locked N' Loaded set.

Introduce new music, or call it a fucking career.

35 minutes ago, alfierose said:

Yep. They've belatedly realised that profiteering isn't a good look so now 100% is going to musicares.org

 

This is an absolutely terrible decision by someone. Not just the shirt, because it looks stupid, but because the band had to get political.

A really fucking stupid move by a band that had everything going for it in 2016, only to piss away all their momentum with the lack of new material.

Now I hope "COVID 45" causes the cancellation of the Fenway Park show, because I want my money back.

I want to see GN'R this summer, though I do believe the North American leg will almost certainly be cancelled. Even though the Boston show is still three months out, it seems from my perspective that the governor of Massachusetts is going to be very slow in re-opening businesses, and there will no doubt be "social distancing" (I've grown to hate that fucking term) at all indoor and outdoor functions.

If North America is cancelled, and if the plan was to gradually introduce new material in their shows, I would like to think that Team Brazil would learn an important lesson. That being, don't tease the fans into buying tickets for an "all new show", because now the opportunity to make mad cash for one or two new songs is now circling the drain. You should have played "Hard School" in Mexico City when the opportunity was there. From there, a single could have been dropped to radio and iTunes. Now, there's no momentum at all with the band.

Team Brazil has always been in control of what the fans can buy, what they can see, and what they can hear. Now, something bigger than them is going to probably fuck them all hard in their wallets.

I'm fully expecting the entire North American leg of the tour to be cancelled.

Even if the governors of the states relax their current restrictions later in the spring or summer, there are going to be ridiculous stipulations such as continuing to maintain a 6 foot distance from one another. That isn't going to work in any ballpark, arena, or stadium. Won't work for concerts, won't work for sporting events.

Just updates on the North American tour is all I ask for. I'm sure they want to do it, if the country can return to normal before those dates in July.

What is the logic of posting a clip of a new song being sung at rehearsal, and then NOT performing that song at the show later that day?

That, fellow GN'R fans, is the ultimate cocktease.

Although she’s a country artist, she admits she’s a fan of the 80’s hard rock genre. In this week’s edition of Parade magazine, she says Motley Crue’s “Kickstart My Heart”  is her go-to song to get her pumped up.

She seems cool.

3 hours ago, sofine11 said:

This tour has no point. Someone in another thread referred to what's happening right now with GNR and the fans as a classic "bait and switch", and I think that's one hundred percent spot on. 

In other words, we were sold this premise that in 2020 they'd be touring to promote a new album, and they kept the promotion "The Next Chapter!" just vague and coy enough to get some poor souls to pay the ridiculous price of tickets based on the possibility that maybe...just maybe...this tour would be something different/special.

My tickets for the Fenway Park show arrived in the mail today. I'm excited primarily because my two older sons are joining me for this show; in 2016, it was my youngest son.

I'd obviously love for them to have new music by July; I'd be blown away if they did a Prince-type thing and included a hard copy of a new album as part of the show's ticket price. However, this is Guns N' Roses, and not only do you get nothing for free from them, generally you overpay for what they have to offer.

I still feel that the plan is for new music to accompany this 2020 tour. It just seems to be a major ordeal for this band, and what I deem to be “inept” management. Too many “yes men”, not enough people challenging Axl to get new music done and released to the masses.

This could probably be it’s own topic, but who knows what effect the Coronavirus is going to have not just the Guns N’ Roses tour, but traveling for anyone, regardless of their profession.

A case of the virus has now been confirmed in Chicago, where GN’R has a date this summer. I fully realize we’re still months away from those summer shows, but what if the virus hasn’t been neutralized by then?

3 hours ago, Subtle Signs said:

I still say there'll be one new song before the tour. I highly doubt that'll move thousands of tickets though. Not sure what would besides an AFD reunion?

I think a new song before the tour kicks off would drum up a lot of interest, especially if the song is able to break through to a younger fan base. 

27 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

For GNR, yes. 

I posted basically the same thing in the "New Album" thread, but thought I might post it here as well:

Maybe Guns N' Roses could try the same approach as Prince did with his "Musicology" album in 2004? Ticket prices for that tour included a copy of Prince's album for each concertgoer at the show. By doing that, it was almost 1.5 million copies of his album that might not have been bought otherwise. It was also counted as a "sale" by Billboard, so Prince's album was in the top ten for several months.

That's certainly a way for GN'R to sell more tickets, with a guarantee of a new, physical album handed out to each show patron. It also makes them look good on Billboard if the album is a top ten or top five hit for a large portion of the calendar year.

Could we see Guns N' Roses take a page from Prince?

If you saw Prince live in 2004, you received a copy of his "Musicology" CD at the show. It was included in the ticket price. 1.47 million discs were handed out to concertgoers; two million copies were moved overall.

Given the cost of tickets for the forthcoming tour, I think if the band does have an album's worth of material done, why not try doing it this way? It counts as a sale, and would be reflected on the Billboard charts as such. You could see a Guns N' Roses album in the top ten, or even top five, for many months.