Eminem was the biggest selling artist at the time and felt he should be the closing performer at the 2002 VMAs. MTV gave that slot to Axl and NuGNR. They bombed. Eminem mocked their performance some time later when he performed "My Band" with D12.

Izzy fucked them by leaving in the 90s. They still view that as a serious betrayal (also bouncing on Velvet Revolver) and don't trust him.

A+S+D are generating hundreds of millions touring. There's global interest. Even without a substantial media appearance. They don't need anybody to sell their shit. I think they'll self-finance an album and release it on their own. It'll have specialty packaging, so it's something people will want to buy.

Fall to Pieces will never happen. Slither is a possibility, but if they don't play it on their 2nd tour of the US, I doubt we'll ever hear it.

All they have to do is add My Michelle, Yesterdays, Perfect Crime, and Slither!!!!!

Axl doesn't sound terrible, but he's obviously unprepared. Shape up, ginger!

And change the fucking set list!

A little prematurely LOL

My Michelle, Out Ta Get Me, Perfect Crime, Yesterdays, and Slither should be played at every show. Drop Chinese Democracy, This I Love, and The Seeker.

10 hours ago, RichardNixon said:

The Rolling Stones have over 2.5 million albums.

Guns N' Roses have sold over 100 million albums.

The Rolling Stones have released  30 studio albums, 18 live albums and countless greatest  hits. In addition, their  catalog  has been re-released numerous  times.

Guns N' Roses released six albums, one live album and one GH.

Because The Stones have released so much more material and have a 25 year head start, it's kind of hard to compare the two.

A few points: 

The Rolling  Stones  have over 20 million facebook likes.

Guns N' Roses have over 30.5 million facebook likes.

GN'R, like AC/DC and Sabbath are hip with youth culture. You always see kids with a GN'R shirt and are familiar  with songs like WTTJ, SCOM and NR. If you asked any random kid to name three Stones songs, how many could?

As a personal  preference, I would absolutely take GN'R  over the Stones. I like RS, but they honestly never did a whole lot for me. 

 

The Rolling Stones have sold 250 million albums.

During the feud, they were all making over a hundred thousand a year on royalties. Back in 2005, Slash and Duff sued Axl because a $92,000 check for the first three months of '05 went "missing."

http://www.mtv.com/news/1508091/slash-duff-sue-axl-over-guns-n-roses-publishing-royalties/
 

He'll always be the villain and justifiably so. The whole Chinese Democracy saga is really weird. It'll be the sad part in the GNR movie just before everything starts to get better again!

His performances have been wonderful, though. He's still the best when he actually tries.

Axl is basically a 70s style rock singer from the 80s. He sounds so much better doing ACDC and original GNR than the industrial prog shit.

I always thought Axl hired him as a goof.

I can't believe this actually happened. Holy cow.

It looks like so much fun but I'd be so focused on trying to not get killed that it would ruin the show.

So many people dispute it as a real GNR album, though. You can talk technicalities but it's not fair to ignore that part of its history. To a lot of people Chinese Democracy is The Phantom Menace.

I thought for sure they would have played Slither by now.

It's a perfect stadium rock song and the uptempo version they did back in the day was so cool.

I love this old school rock star shit!!!

They should do this live!!

Izzy is wonderful. Having said that, if I were in their position, I'd probably say fuck him as well. It's a business thing. Sorry.

Slash drew a lot of the original artwork and still owns it.