TheWildheart

I almost forgot about the "2005 is the year of GN'R" comment.

FUCK YOU AGAIN MERCK.

Because he's a fucking douchebag crybaby who probably threatened HD with a lawsuit for putting the commercial up a few days early, and for telling Jarmo what he can and can't talk about. (Of course, Jarmo is no better for listening to him - I hope Merck makes it worth his while at least.) This is the same guy who gave a statement to Rolling Stone magazine, and then freaked out when it was published.

He's doing more harm than good for this band because he doesn't know that this is good publicity. The fans are getting excited again - all he's doing is suppressing it. Merck will always be public enemy #1 in the GN'R community as far as I'm concerned.

Hey Merck -

FUCK YOU!

Merck needs to get the fuck over himself - its not even funny anymore. The guy is a fucking class-a douchebag. Oh no, the ad leaked out (presumably) 4 days early - its the end of the fucking world!

He needs to get his fucking head checked, because he's doing more harm for this band than good.

Jackamo was the one who started the "Checkmate" is "Zodiac" rumor - and we all know how reliable he turned out to be. I'm still waiting for the clip you have of This I Love, Jackass...I mean, erm, jackamo.

I have a feeling alot of those may be counterfeit - Slash and Duff's sigs don't really match up to any that I've ever seen.

We're watching this tour implode before our eyes..

And you know what? Its still not gonna happen, because Merck is living in fucking fantasyland somewhere. He can give out his "13 Tuesdays" left statement all he wants, but it won't fucking sell tickets.

When this supposed press release about Jacksonville comes out (which I doubt we'll see), for fuck's sake, it better have the radio add date for the first single along with it!

Merck is a jackass - there's no two ways around it.

There's still GA and floor seats left for basically every show in the U.S. - that's not a very good omen at all.

I have a feeling that this whole tour is gonna get cancelled with how poorly tickets are selling.

Agreed.

The only ones who seem to think the Jay-Z release would somehow affect GNR album sales are the young kids whose frighteningly-limited musical knowledge is based solely on MTV.

Some of you don't seem to get it. Jay-Z won't affect GNR's sales, but he will affect the amount of press coverage and publicity they get because he will finish with the Billboard #1 album, and all of the news releases will be talking about his triumphant return instead of Axls.

Instead of GNR having the #1 album in the country and being the center of attention in the music world, they will be #2 and playing second fiddle to Jay's big comeback.

How does the above scenario benefit GNR in any way?

Actually - you don't seem to understand that these are two entirely different genres of music, and publicity/sales surrounding one have nothing to do with the other. One targets a certain musical audience while the second targets another.

To offer an analogy: If sales of a new model of Volvo suddenly skyrocketed - they would have no impact whatsoever on sales of the latest Ferrari. Yes, they're both cars, but they target different buyers.

to right... it is hard to come buy people who like two totally opposite music styles

Yes, people listen to different styles of music. But the people who are first in line to buy the latest rap album are not usually the rockers - and vice versa. A rock fan wouldn't have a difficult dilemma choosing between the latest hip hop album and the latest rock album.

Yes, but Madison - for the media to even semi-accept this album it NEEDS to debut at #1. If it finishes at even #2 (which it will if it goes up against Jay-Z - facts are facts) then the media will say how much of a failure it is, how much it sucks, how there's no way in hell it should have taken 13 years to record, etc. - whereas if it debuts at #1, at least its more presentable, and in a way it justifies the time it took to record it.

Jay-Z *WILL* beat GN'R in first week sales if it goes head to head.

There's a long-standing rumor that the piano piece in the background on the Making Of Estranged video is an early demo of "This I Love."

Its in the part where Gilby's talking about Slash getting his guitar to feedback for an 11 minute song.

I'm still sticking with Nov. 14.

They need to drop at least a single ASAP.

I called WYSP (Free FM) - the station that supposedly reported that GN'R is playing Philly, and the dude heard nothing about it - so its just another bullshit rumor. Nothing more, nothing less.

Jarmo at HTGTH says its confirmed false.

Sorry guys.

Halifax is sold out, and Ottawa and NYC should be sold out in a few days.

I'll be there.

Floor Sec. 5, Row H seats 1 & 2!

GNR: Check your PMs.

Just a note since this comes up often:

I do not/cannot accept PayPal. Just money orders and well concealed cash.

Also, the only shirt sold so far is the Live Era shirt. Everything else is available.

Haha..its Merdith Viera, but I like your spelling of it better!

Veredith Miera

I'll be there.

FUCKIN RIGHT

I hate it. I'm going to sit up at the top because I'm not paying $60+$10(processing)+$10(parking) or $90+$10+10 for better seats. I wish the issue was that the good seats were sold out, not that I can't afford better seats.

I was afraid I was gonna have to settle for the 300s for MSG, since they were "only" $60 - but after I realized how horrible those seats were, I went for floor...came to $101 per ticket after fees, but hell - its GN'R in MSG - it doesn't get any better than that!

heres what gnr is up against

14 nov

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead So Divided

The Game The Doctor's Advocate

Taylor Hicks [Title TBA]

Mya Liberation

Joanna Newsom Ys

Damien Rice 9 UK: 6 Nov

Tenacious D Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny OST

and in the Anticipated Future Releases section, its got

Guns N' Roses Chinese Democracy Fall 2006 [seriously]

thought it was funny how they had "seriously" for GNR

Not exactly alot of compitition. Would be a good release date..

Can't say I'd be too crazy about this either. Only song I know by them is "Jesus Built My Hotrod"

Yep - sorry, I can't sympathize here either.

Try being at Philly in 2002, then come back and let me know if you've reassessed anything.

I went to the Hammerstein back in May, saw the best concert of my life, and I hope to recreate that feeling at MSG next month!