Old_school_gnr_fan

8 hours ago, guitarpatch said:

The leaks back then had some type of affect on things. It’s def not the main reason yet you can’t dismiss it entirely. Anyone who had curious interest in the material had the means and probably did hear it. That was true for any artist during that time. If it had connected with people, there would have been more sales. Especially the first week regardless of the amount of Best Buy Stores compared to Walmart’s. Would it be substantially much more than what they did? Prob not, but maybe it gets them a number 1 release week 1. Anything after that you can contribute to the band not supporting the release with touring, press, etc... Maybe they could have helped it dropping off the face of the charts by supporting it. It’s true they had no help from UMG and Best Buy didn’t know what they were doing. However the band could have picked up some of that slack...and they didn’t. You just weren’t going to get steady sales after the first week in that music business climate. It happened the every artist not named Adele. You were just fighting to hold off the steep decline. Nobody in the GNR camp was bothered/ordered to try....

As far as these recent leaks? No one outside of the board community heard them or probably even cares to hear to them. Unless it’s streaming somewhere, no one is downloading files. It has little bearing on anything that gets released from it. 
 

The climate is a bit murky for what they need to release something through their label. A failed tour does not help things here. If they are forced to go on hiatus due to market over saturating/low sales, nothing is getting released until they can tour again. 
 

If that happens blame management/the artist. You can’t keep accepting tours and expect things to keep going. Sometimes you have to say no if you’re truly thinking about long term objectives to set them up. Something tells me it’s a bleed it dry situation 

Leaked material definitely affects the band and management. Just look at sales of the Locked N' Loaded set, and the Super Deluxe. True, they were both overpriced at the outset, but when no one wants to buy them because they'd already found all the unreleased tracks online years before, there's no incentive for the band to record anything new if they assume the same thing is going to happen.

All of you who heard the leaked songs a few months ago got instant gratification by hearing something "new", even if it was unfinished. To the band, though, it's a bunch of possible material for a new album that has lost it's element of surprise, because people will now judge the final version of a song to the demo they previously found and heard online. For free.

People like me, who didn't try to find the leaked tracks, and are willing to pay for a new record, are angry. I'd bet if music pirating didn't exist, GN'R would be promoting a new album right now, instead of leaving us to guess when/if we might ever get anything new from them.

5 hours ago, MicEffecT said:

Guns N' Roses now running promos for the upcoming summer tour.

Is being called a brand new show that's going to be EPIC!

"The next chapter is about to begin..."

Don't want to say I told you so.

Hmm... Well

I heard these promos early last week before tickets for any of the shows went on sale. I'd like to think it's more than a cock tease.

It got me to buy three tickets for the Fenway Park show, so mission accomplished on their end.

3 hours ago, Stlconcerts said:

Yeah it goes to that page no problem. But if you click 1 or 2 tickets you get We Were Unable to Process your request. It does the same on all 4 Tickets.com venues. Theres no way that there is not 1 ticket available to one of those shows lol

Fenway Park is a smaller venue. For a baseball game, it holds a maximum capacity of just under 38,000. I am fully expecting this show to be sold out, especially with the addition of Smashing Pumpkins as the opener. They're not my cup of tea, but it will bring in some of their fans who will probably stick around for Guns.

Also, this North American leg is still five months away. Ever the optimist, I'm keeping an open mind to the possibility of new tunes by then.

I have no interest in seeing Smashing Pumpkins, so I guess if they open at Fenway Park, I’ll be at the merchandise stands or on the toilet

4 minutes ago, Mooch14 said:

FENWAY Boston doesn't seem to allow me to select any PIT option anywhere even though it is shown on the chart.  Only Turf seats

I was trying to grab three tickets for TURF at Fenway, and I kept getting the message that there were not any available based on that quantity.

So, I had to "settle" for three tix in Field Box 70.

18 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

For anyone who wants it, the Live Nation pre-sale is Thursday at 10am local time. 

The password is SOLO. 

 

Please, please, please do NOT waste money on Nightrain

Thanks, man.

I'm planning on buying some tix for the Fenway Park show.

I sure hope 'Larger Than Life' has some meaning being the tour name, though it doesn't sound like an album title I'd expect from them.

9 hours ago, gundog321 said:

Is Axl morphing into Donald Trump?

I noticed a resemblance also.

Unless there’s a plan for the band to make a surprise appearance at the halftime show and debut something new, last night’s show was a massive disappointment. It’s just illogical, and insulting to the true fans, to roll out the same set list when a “new chapter” was being touted.

I didn’t want to believe that a tour in 2020 would be nothing but a cash grab, but it’s now difficult to think otherwise.

12 minutes ago, t-p-d-a said:

i say, it will be new music. "New Chapter" means something serious

It's my gut feeling that something new will be performed tonight. The audience probably won't give two fucks, but this website will be buzzing.

I also think the merch website is going to be offering new stuff very soon. With Christmas and the 25% off sale earlier this month, there's not much left there.

It was from Headbanger's Ball. The VJ's name was Smash. He let the band destroy the set, and, not surprisingly, that VJ wasn't on MTV much longer.

8 hours ago, t-p-d-a said:

Marquee '87 (Audio Disc) and Ritz '88 (Blu Ray) are the most realistic possible shows that can be offically released. It's there, somewhere. it exists but they dont release it, i dont know why

In my opinion, the KOHD clip its just from the press and only for media use. Only one cam from the press and no soundboard audio

The Ritz show was filmed by MTV, so it would be my guess that their parent company, Viacom, has ownership of it.

1 hour ago, grogmug said:

It’s happening. I heard on 95.7, in Louisville, that an announcement of a stadium run is happening within the next week.

I wonder if Fenway Park in Boston will be one of those venues?

The Motley Crue/Def Leppard/Poison/Joan Jett tour has two nights booked there in late August. In September, Aerosmith and New Kids On The Block are playing seperate shows there, but on back-to-back nights.

My understanding is that Fenway is not the best place to see a concert, but it does have sort of an intimate feel to it. Capacity is around 38,000.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Let it be known that on January 24, 2020, the Locked N' Loaded Set at the official shop website, has been declared as SOLD OUT.

https://gnrmerch.com/collections/music/products/appetite-for-destruction-locked-n-loaded-box-set?variant=12100430364748

Slash's comments are indicative how much concern the band and management have for the new material being stolen/leaked/pirated. They are not in the business to give away new music, nor should any artist be.

I continue to be alternately baffled and angered by those who grew up downloading music from places like Limewire. So many people on this site who heard the leaked songs from a few months back, and then question or mock the lack of new material being officially released.

And you wonder when the band does play a show near you, why it costs an arm, a leg, and a firstborn child to get a ticket.

God damn, this pisses me off.

7 minutes ago, vloors said:

I thought millennial was born after 2000. 

Gen X up to 1980 Gen Y 1981 to 1999.

I'm a Gen X, and I was born in 1970.

If you were born between 1982 and 2000, you are a millenial. And I probably don't like you.

And fuck Snoop Dogg.

On 1/13/2020 at 3:18 PM, dontdamnmeuyi2015 said:

 

This year I got the new Christmas sweater with GNR on it with Santa hats. I washed it inside out and line dried it. Looks great. Nice a heavy sweater and doesn't itch like some sweater.

 

I got the new Christmas sweater also, I love it. It was my favorite Christmas gift this year. Hoping to wear it more for Christmas 2020

7 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Yeah, I doubt they'll air anywhere near the whole show. 

We'll get a better idea once the TV listings are up for that week. The person who posted on HTGTH said that it'll be aired at 11pm on 01/31, but to be honest that doesn't make any sense. 

The GN'R show itself would just be finishing up at 11pm, right? Plus the Maroon 5 show doesn't happen until the night after though. 

Again, we'll know more once there's actual TV listings out for that week. 

Pretty sure it's being aired at 11PM EST on 2/1 (Saturday night) on FOX

25% off sale on most items at gnrmerch.com through 1/13

Paid $999 for the Locked N' Loaded set.

So, yes.

It's my opinion that if the band doesn't get new music out this year, Slash will bolt. He's the kind of guy that wants to stay productive. Sure, he loves being out on the road and performing, but he also likes being in the studio, recording new material.

I don't think the money he's stockpiling from the NITL tour would be enough to make Slash happy enough if the GN'R plan was to just play shows with the same songs night after night. The linactivity in the studio is basically what caused him to leave in 1996.

On 11/21/2019 at 5:18 PM, Stlconcerts said:

My box is #3256 so if there is 10k assuming they did them in numerical order theres a lot of bits and pieces left over lol.

I received mine on day one (6/29/18). My number was 3642. That pissed me off then, and the fact that you received a lower number 18 months later pisses me off.

If they had taken the time and courtesy to release them in numerical sequence, mine almost certainly would have been one of the first 500.

7 hours ago, Axlhbk8793 said:

I dont like Knocking on Heaven's Door.... at all.

The live version from 1987 in London that was officially released in 2018 is by far the best version I've heard

4 hours ago, rebeldhipi said:

A 2020 calendar wouldhave been nice

I agree, though in the 2019 version, the band was treated as a trio than as a full band.

I'd like to see the other band members get a little more exposure and respect.

I got a bunch of things for Christmas from family that were purchased on the official website.

Got the holiday sweater, which I love. Also got three of the puzzles--the AFD banned cover, and the two Illusion puzzles.

Got the Maxfield "Guns N' Roses Was Here" hat, and the 1:32 tractor trailer truck.

Only thing I wanted but didn't get was the red AFD cassette, because I already had the vinyls from the Locked N' Loaded set, and didn't need them again. I wish they had offered the cassette seperately.

6 hours ago, Towelie said:

It's funny how some folks happily accept a band with Melissa Reese, Frank Ferrer, Richard Fortus and Dizzy Reed as GNR, but any lineup from 01-14 was fake.

Dizzy Reed, in the band since 1990.

Ferrer, in the band since 2006, I think?

Fortus, in the band since 2002?

Those three have technically been in Guns N' Roses longer than Slash and Duff.

The band is excellent as-is. People wanted as much of the classic era members as possible, and we managed to get Duff, and in some kind of miracle, Slash. I can happily accept this lineup as Guns N' Roses.