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5-12-06 - GN'R Behind the Music will be on VH1 (In case you missed it)

Oddly enough the nite of the first show.

I've never seen this completely, can someone rip it?

Heh heh...I wouldn't say "oddly enough"....


I'd guess someone was paying attention when scheduling that weeks programming...

I mean, I suppose it COULD be a lucky coincidence..but I'll bet not.

I really want a high quality version of this that I can burn to DVD - anyone have a link to a torrent?

I wonder if they'll change the 2004 november release date :hihi:

It's played all the time in the UK

It was on last night-I think Vh1

OOps-Vh1 has a metal month theme going for May

I still chuckle a bit every time i see that. :hihi:

Im sure they know there will be increased intrest in GnR around those dates so they will air it just to lure in some viewers

YES!  :beer:

I wouldnt be surrprised if they did a profile or something on the new band. They allready have posters of Richard up around the VH1 offices in NY.

It wasn't cool not having Axl in it

I find that interesting everytime i watch it

thanks for posting

gnr behind the music sucks dick. all it is is a anti-axl add to promote velvet revolver.

Maybe they're playing it on the 12th becuase of the irony involved when, towards the end, Slash basically says the odds of a reunion are slim to none.

Sorry.  I couldn't resist the urge to inject some sort of reunion rumor into this thread, as it was practically the only one in existence that doesn't already mention it in some way.  I'm surprised someone hadn't beaten me to it, really.

And while I'm at it, I think the third guitarist will be Billy Corgan in black robe/Uncle Fester mode.

Kidding, of course.  Thanks for the heads up on the BtM airing again.  Even though I'll be at the Hammerstein, I'll make sure to record it.

Maybe it's an updated version? ???

Adding a post-script to the VH1 segment would be a good way to publicize any information that would become known the night of a show, such as line-up changes or, say, an album release date.

I didn't see it like that at all. It's a fairly non-biased view of the story of GN'R.

Honestly, how do you figure?

I mean...how can you have an unbiased view of the story of GnR without 1/2 the story?

Now, I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say BTM sucked dick.  It was certainly informative and interesting.  And it was interesting to some of the other perspectives, for sure.

But I left feeling like 1/2 the pieces to the puzzle were missing....'cause without Axl's version of events, without that whole side of the story, we're missing a great deal of information.

Certainly was only 1/2 a story without Axl, however if BTM tried to get Axl on the show and he refused then there's not a lot BTM could do but make a show with what they had, which was unfortunately 2 ex bitter drummers and Slash so the overall portrayal of Axl in that programme wasn't that flattering and perhaps not even fair, but we may never know that.

I didn't think it was such a bad programme tbh offered a couple of interesting insights and all the basic info on GNR but nothing really new, however without Axl there wasn't ever really going to be.

Oh, I, for sure, agree with all that. It's not BTM's fault that Axl didn't participate.  And I don't fault them for doing what they did with what they had.  I'm just saying that, to say it was unbiased, or remotely a complete picture...well, I don't get that.

I didn't think it was bad, either.  Just incomplete.  As I said, there was some interesting stuff in there, to be sure. 

Im pretty sure Axl said he would do it once the record came out. Which really would have been a much better time to do a BTM on the band.

Correct, he did say that.

But better for who?  Axl?  Sure.  VR? No.  VH1? Who's to say.

VH1, I'm sure, thought it would be better to do the show then.  Better for them, at least.

As of now...what..well over a year later....still no album.  So VH1 would still be waiting.....and the BTM franchise has dwindled, a bit, since then.

They launched the BTM to coincide with all of the pub that VR was getting at the time (not to mention the VR special that played on VH1).

Not to keep going back to the "name doesn't make the band" discussion........ but more members of the "band" that they did the BTM on were active at that time with VR. So it made more sense for VH1 to release it based on the success of VR. A network like that can't just sit on a project and wait for things to happen at Axl's glaicier like speed.

Yep.  Totally agree.