History2010 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 4 hours ago, LlamaRenegade said: I wonder how much money this D.J. guy has missed out on royalties over the years. GN'R Lies - 5,260,000+ copies sold worldwide. Live Era '87-93 - 660,000+ copies sold worldwide. US Paradise City single with MTTC as a B-side likely sold hundreds of thousands of copies. 12,130,255 streams on Spotify (across all versions), 3,164,297 streams on YouTube (across all versions) The 2018 re-releases of AFD containing several versions of MTTC likely sold a hundred thousand copies at least collectively. This DJ guy should have been given a piece of all of that. He missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars at least, potentially millions of dollars at the most. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTJ80 Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 4 hours ago, SoulMonster said: Axl has been fastidious in listing song writers. For a song on UYIs a guy called Billy had participated in the writing. Axl did not remember the last name so he was credited as simply "Billy". Years later, the sister of the late Billy McCloud (?) thanked Axl for having insisted on crediting her brother despite not remembering his last name, which resulted in his kids getting royalties (McCloud died from cancer). That’s really cool TBF 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodoochild Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 7 hours ago, ryanf23 said: Most likely, you saw the first American Ninja which was more popular in the VHS stores. MTTC appeared in American Ninja 2 which was less popular Could be. As an 80s kid, I probably watched both, tho. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedish Posted April 11, 2022 Share Posted April 11, 2022 18 hours ago, ryanf23 said: the question isn’t one of confusion but one of curiosity…. How did an unknown LA band (there were thousands of unknown bands) end up getting their song in this relatively small B-movie? In the scene right before the one with MTTC there is some other 80s rock song playing that sounds like every Sunset Strip band ever, so my theory is that the producers sourced music from up and coming LA bands to save money on music royalties. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanf23 Posted April 11, 2022 Author Share Posted April 11, 2022 2 hours ago, youngswedishvinyl said: In the scene right before the one with MTTC there is some other 80s rock song playing that sounds like every Sunset Strip band ever, so my theory is that the producers sourced music from up and coming LA bands to save money on music royalties. Interesting theory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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