IzzysMissy

Im so sorry. I’m obviously the most misinformed person on this site. I’ll just be on my way! Carry on! It’s AWESOME that slash (playing no gnr songs) can pull in 15k people a night.

Slash without GNR pulls in between 1000-3000 a night as an average depending on the size of the market. He also gets a smaller guarantee than most people think and takes the door deal. His VIP programs do well for ancillary income. Anyone who thinks slash can pull an arena crowd solo is completely delusional. The small arenas/amps he plays aren’t expensive shows and have a super low break even point for the promoter/venue so if the deal makes sense, he’ll be booked there. Duff gets booked at 500-1000 type clubs.

Artist PW: SERPENTFEST24 (3.13 10am local) Spotify PW: BLUESFEST24 (3.13 10am local) Local presales are 3.14 10am local and you’ll have to look on the venue pages or social media feeds for that. good luck!

Oooops - someone announced early. Formal announcement will be in a few hours I bet, 10am or like 11am if I had to place money on it!

Someone posted them on Reddit a few hours back! Hubby sent me a link. Crazy when things like this get unearthed! Hope yall have been well!

It’s horrendous and not for the weak. It fits my personality of not wanting a desk job and doing the same thing day after day. However I haven’t had a free Thu/Fri/Sat in like 25+ years, Covid shut downs withstanding. When you add in past midnight phone calls and shitty pay, I definitely questioned my life choices about 10yrs in and stuck with it🤣

Well.. the OPINIONS after the song was played were mostly negative. The FOH Engineer asked immediately if this was what was released because it sounded “unfinished”, and those who are more in tune with audio happenings ripped the mix apart. This led to an interesting conversation about how fans in general want to think the best of their fave artists and therefore are more comfortable to “accept” lesser quality output. There are quite a few old schoolers here, OG gnr fans who have gone through ALL the motions of being a fan of this band, and many of us have gone to NITL shows together over the past 7 years.. There was 100% agreement that if this was a new band submission our company would never book this band based on this song (and there was also general acknowledgment that Gnr is a bad example of that as Axls voice is so distinctive on any output) - My particular sample was tiny of course, 47 people aged 20 through 60 - but none of these people like it. About a dozen said “that last release was better” and one of the interns got excited at the mention of GNR at the start (“omg my mom used to love them” which warranted the smart ass response from the head of sponsorship of “but did she have to kill them” which to no one’s shock went COMPLETELY over her head🤣) THATS NOT TO SAY THAT THOSE WHO LIKE THE SONG SHOULDNT. IF YOU LIKE THIS SONG AND WHATEVER ELSE COMES OUT GOOD FOR YOU, PLEASE ENJOY!!!

Rooms with 250 and under are the best and most raw. All independent owned which is GREAT. Pulling 150 people as a headliner is friggin solid, good for you. I once worked a show with 9 or 10 bands on a bill and had tally the patrons to figure out the percentages for payment… always fun nights out. Amen about the pit, but never again… I’m too old. DM a link to your band! Doesn’t hurt to have it out!

The most punk thing about being punk is not givin a fuck about opinions, right 🤣 my current company actually has major roots in punk and hardcore- we book bands into rooms of 500-1000 in that genre here in the States. This fan base is my FAVE to deal with, no drama, no complaints. Just music and pit life. we are currently streaming Shane MacGowans funeral pre get-together.

You seem very… triggered.. in this thread. I read a few of your other responses to people who don’t like this track, no one is spitting facts just opinions. Including myself.. anyway, if you’re that triggered by negative comments about the stuff gnr is releasing maybe getting off social media for the day would be good for you! it’s just internet strangers talking about rich rockstars, none of this needs to be so emotional. I truly do hope you have a lovely rest of the day though.

lol be careful with your opinions here 🤣

Not taking it as an offense.. opinions are opinions afterall. Good chat! Have a great day. @Rovim also i wanted to say that i only provide the inner workings of stuff i know, work wise that is. In the past people have been curious about how things work but honestly, I dont care one way or another. But I’ll certainly stop sharing. Certainly didn’t mean to offend either.

I’ll tell ya what - silly or not - I’ll be in a team meeting with 40+ people who I work with. We all love gnr, work in the music biz, and promote/book/see THOUSANDS of shows a year collectively. We also receive THOUSANDS of band submissions a year of artists trying yj break in. you may say that’s a small sample, or too specific, or whatever, but that’s a room of 40+ people whose literal job is to promote music. Would you care for the feedback/opinions on this track? We did it for perhaps via Zoom call and I’d say it was like 40/60 of “it’s an ok song” vs “I’ll pass” but a 100% agreement that if this was the submitted work in order to get on a bill, we’d never book that artist. But gnr would get away with it. I mean it’s comical. And no one liked the other songs that were released. Also opinions, but to me that is subjective. anyway, if you like it and others do as well that’s GREAT. If you want to spend money on it that’s your business. I just think it’s absolutely hysterical that this is the best that gnr could do.. a copy/paste job over a 20+yr project? Meh, good for you I guess.

With all the hype this song had, lol, delusional is the perfect word to describe the top 5 reactions, imo of course. For the record, I think/feel that Perhaps is easily the best if their most recent releases. There I said something nice.

I listened to it again on YouTube (prior to reading the.. interesting commentary) and I’m laughing pretty hard at some of the “this is GNRs top 5” and such feedback. No it isn’t the worst song ever released however it’s pretty subpar in terms of production which takes a lot away (imo). we all know that opinions are like assholes and we’ve all got one, but it’s pretty delusional to call this a top 5 of anything. The layers of pasting everything to form one song release is amateur at best. I expect more from gnr releases, which is why I didn’t spend money on this. if you like it more power to you of course, but in reality, gnr and their management deserve the heat they get from this. People posted photos of the physical vinyl of Perhaps too - looks pixelated and low quality. Why they do this? Because they don’t care. Period.

I’m very sad for this - I have Fairytales/NY in my year round rotation, as well as The Irish Rover.. I’ve seen some epic Pogues shows in my time.. I love, love, love that many ARE paying tribute to Shane, including Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. That says A LOT.

He appeared!! Love me some rando Axl tweets…

Ha Google just told me that Franks mom was Las Vegas show girl!

Nice! Slash is going to be at Warren Haynes Christmas Jam next Sat 12.11 at the Beacon Theatre in nyc! With Myles. The man cannot sit still.

He did. Via the GNR Head of Production - Opie - who does the same forAC/DC.

GNR is a fantastic soap opera in my opinion… I mean, we don’t have baby swaps, a dead twin coming back to life, a weather machine, miraculous cures and so forth in GNR land but we have… well we have this forum 🤣

Don’t lie. I know you want that laundry bag…

We were in sec 109, low rows.. RIGHT NEXT to the cannons.. my ears were ringing even with professional earplugs. Touch Too Much is one of my fave songs and Axl crushed it. Such a great show and memory!!

Refunds are a contractural issue. And ALWAYS offered via Ticketmaster if a show gets cancelled OR postponed. Pre Covid it was 60 days after the announcement of a cancellation and/or 60 days after a new date is announced. Post covid I think these are down to 30 days.

NGL - I went to Axl/DC in nyc at MSG.. it was, and remains, one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to. The few refunds that happened saw those seats sell out immediately after Axl was announced and the stand by line was easily 300+ people when we walked in. Not sure about other markets but nyc was sold out as fuck. He sounded great too, and every last one of us walked out with very positive opinions.