Could Axl Be A Marketing Genius?

[CheapJon]

The very title of this thread made me laugh!

If axl was a marketing genius, would he:

-Force out all his co-musicians?

please tell me more about that

[ComeOnAxl!]

In a fleeting moment of a restless day

driven to distraction
I was captured by the game.
I have often wondered why I ever wanted to
leave these scattered hours behind me
and speed myself to you.

I choose never to forget

I want our lips to kiss and our limbs to entwine

let our bodies be twisted but never our minds.
Is this love ? Is this love ? Is
this love ? Is this love ?
Set to work idle hands
[ Lyrics found at www.mp3lyrics.org/cgQ ]
shake these thoughts

had I planned them they never would be teasing me
as viciously as these.

I would not have believed you
had I never seen

now you and I are intimately pictured
in my dreams.
I could not forsake you or gall tumbling away

and if I live in wonderland
I'm better off this way.
I choose never to forget
...

Is this love ? Is this love ? Is
this love ? Is this love ?
Is this love ? Is this love ? Is
this love ? Is this love ?

[Voodoochild]

Hmm... what?

[seely]

please tell me more about that

Izzy feel too dictated to by Axl
Slash quit due to Axl's legal manipulations,
Matt being sacked by Axl simply for sticking up for Slash in an argument
Duff quiting having lost faith in Axl's decisions for the band

even Gilby was sacked by Axl due to not having decent song-writing skills, despite the fact no GN'R songs had previously been released with a Gilby credit  (so Axl couldn't really sack gilby for the reasons he did)

[elmir]

Izzy feel too dictated to by Axl

Izzy left because:
-drug abuse within the band was getting out of hand.
-business side of the band was getting out of hand.
-too many contracts
-it was no longer a band, but a collection of over-inflated egos.

Slash quit due to Axl's legal manipulations,

Slash left because:
-he didn't like additional guitar suggestions...Axl went against his ideas of what guitar players to hire.
-it was no longer a band

Matt being sacked by Axl simply for sticking up for Slash in an argument

This fucker should have gotten his ass fired waaay earlier than that.

Duff quiting having lost faith in Axl's decisions for the band

Maybe you're right there.

even Gilby was sacked by Axl due to not having decent song-writing skills, despite the fact no GN'R songs had previously been released with a Gilby credit  (so Axl couldn't really sack gilby for the reasons he did)

Gilby was always a session musician, hired to fill a void, until they could find someone proper to replace Izzy....Gilby himself said this a million times....its no secret....the fact that he was even allowed in the studio when they were writing is more than what he was expecting to get out of the deal....when huge came along, Gilby leaving was only natural....

[CheapJon]

please tell me more about that

Izzy feel too dictated to by Axl
Slash quit due to Axl's legal manipulations,
Matt being sacked by Axl simply for sticking up for Slash in an argument
Duff quiting having lost faith in Axl's decisions for the band

even Gilby was sacked by Axl due to not having decent song-writing skills, despite the fact no GN'R songs had previously been released with a Gilby credit  (so Axl couldn't really sack gilby for the reasons he did)

and you're a personal friend to axl and the former members and they have told you this? that's fuckin' cool man

[seely]

and you're a personal friend to axl and the former members and they have told you this? that's fuckin' cool man

Prove me wrong then!

[CheapJon]

and you're a personal friend to axl and the former members and they have told you this? that's fuckin' cool man

Prove me wrong then!

I don't need to, the fact that you can't prove yourself right proves that you're wrong 

[jarmo]

Stick to the topic.

I see some of you are using this as yet another reason to bring back your old rumors.

Take that to Dead Horse.



Who said in 1987 that they wanted the next album to be a double?

Clearly somebody was already thinking ahead four years before that album came out.






/jarmo

[horsey]

ok if that's what you would like ta think.others have formed opinions lately and it isn't nice as you put it lol.but ok whatever.i think it 's kinna possitive for jarmo to knock it so fast.it's just an opinion thats all dude.

[LunsJail]

But back on topic.....

I think you need a product in stores to be considered a marketing genius. Then we'll see.

[D]

to give Axl credit however

Whoever thought of releasing UYI as two seperate discs was pure genius.

So if he is the one to come up with that idea, then yeah, i can give him mad credit for that.

[jarmo]

Maybe it's not about marketing, but putting out enough songs in one day so you can go on a headlining tour with enough material is quite clever....





/jarmo

[horsey]

agreed

[ppbebe]

me too saw the article and its sequence about how McDonald should learn from him  the other day.
my impression was that the writer was a fan and meant well. and that they were basically saying it worth the wait and when the time comes people will know axl's been right throughout.

but as you see there were too many errors n flaws to bother posing here.

[Feel_The_Burn]

Maybe it's not about marketing, but putting out enough songs in one day so you can go on a headlining tour with enough material is quite clever....





/jarmo

  But I don't think many people agree with that statement , I think someone posted early. For some reasons now a days people feel ripped off if they don't get some fancy packaging or offers inside , last time I check by a music cd was about the music..... Kind of sad what has become of it all. The days of seeing people line up for a cd release are long gone. Then again no one has really released anything good enough to wait for , but still the fact remains a lot of people now a days want a lot more then just the music on a cd.

[COMAMOTIVE]

Everyone who just read this is now stupider for having done so

[bananasforaxl]

I sure am glad D isn't on Axl's marketing team.

That is the best way to lose money.  No one is going to pony up 50 dollars for a huge boxset.

It's going to kill downloads, because no one will buy it and it won't go on the net! 

Since when is 50 bucks a lot of money?

[COMAMOTIVE]

I sure am glad D isn't on Axl's marketing team.

That is the best way to lose money.  No one is going to pony up 50 dollars for a huge boxset.

It's going to kill downloads, because no one will buy it and it won't go on the net! 

Since when is 50 bucks a lot of money?

You're not kidding . Good lord , if they announced that Chinese Democracy was going to be released as a 4-Cd Monster album and would cost $100,
I guarantee you that I'd still be first on line

[D]

15 dollars for one cd

or 50 for multiple cds, dvd, tshirt, extras


50 bucks would be worth all that.


Have like the chili Peppers did for stadium Arcadium and have a DVD where the bandmembers sit around and discuss each song and how they wrote it etc.