chicken_dinner wrote:

he knows the way he does it now is not the best for the band. not promoting it through the media pimps, not going on ellen, not appearing on american idol or what the fuck like your idol slash :B

You're gonna need a different approach here and not post the automatic line fed in posts on mygnr and HTGTH to people who don't worship every decision Axl makes.

There aren't any "Slashites" here, and if you bothered to read any of the posts you respond to, you would know that.

axls doing it this way because hes had enough of it. he only wants to do promo if it is not media whoring. and without media whoring, you wont get far, although being a media whore doesnt get you it all either...ask slash or bas (and yes, they are media whores, like to hear it or not)

No, it isn't media whoring. Its how artists get their music heard by people. Its been done since music was created, and will continue until mankind is extinct. The only reason you label it media whoring is because you think Axl isn't doing it. If Axl shows up on The Tonight Show, SNL,etc., what was once "media whoring" becomes the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I remember when Slash was doing Guitar Hero. You(and others) were saying,"Axl will never put songs on that. I'm glad. He's not a media whore and will never prostitute new GNR for fortune and shame." Then when he put a new song on Rock Band, it was the greatest thing ever. Then when the full album went on there, even better. You are even seeking out the Rock Band files. You should stop, and when they do eventually surface, not listen to them. The fact they even exist on the format goes against the principles you spew in this thread.

Putting your music on what is basically the biggest video game on the planet is a classic case of "media whoring". Only reason he doesn't have to do an interview for it is because the game sells itself.

Axl on GTA= "media whoring"

Axl presenting an award at the 2006 MTV Video music awards= "media whoring"

Axl interview with Billboard= "media whoring"

Shackler's Revenge on Rock Band= "media whoring"

Chinese Democracy on Rock Band= "media whoring"

If the World on Body of Lies= "media whoring"

Its funny how you hate when one artist media whores, but love it when another does it.

if axl started media whoring, cd could have been huge....could have if he sucked enough dick in the biz. then it would have been all over the place, shoved down everyones throat until they bought it, come hell or high water. he chose not to, except some small promos and without sucking the balls of the media pimps, he was out.

CD wasn't going to be huge no matter what he did, and your stance on media whoring has been torn apart above.

take scom, that song isnt that good. seriously, corny poprock. but because it was shoved down your throat 24/7 you got brainwashed by it and liked it, its sounds familiar to you, makes you remember some things that happened to you etc. so you think its amazing.

Obviously spoken by someone not even around when GNR hit the scene, or you wouldn't have said such tripe. Most hardcore fans in their late 20s and up owned Appetite for Destruction before SCOM even became a single.

I know like other young fans who have a dislike of all things old, you thought the myth of the band being nothing before SCOM exploded was true. It isn't true, and that tripe doesn't fly here. Try a new approach, one that doesn't include revisionist history that exists in the imagination of nutswingers.

Let me give you a little history lesson not based in anti Slash fantasies since SCOM is one of the songs more attached to him.

Welcome to the Jungle single

Released: October 3rd, 1987

chart peak: #7 on the Billboard Top 100

video: In spite of the early morning airtime, the song's music video caught viewers' attention and quickly became MTV's most requested video.

The song also appeared in the Clint Eastwood movie The Dead Pool.

The Dead Pool was released July 13, 1988, five weeks before SCOM was released as a single.

Reality puts things in a different perspective, doesn't it?

you think the music industry is about art, creativity or music? you really are that clueless and naive?

Look in the mirror when typing that last sentence.

the biz is under such massive control, way more than 17 years ago. it is more of a brainwashing institute now than anything else. we (lets say, studio folk who record stuff), got even taught about the relationship between hypnotism and sounds to manipulate the listener and those things are all over hits.

If this is the case, Chinese Democracy should have been a smashing success, and the two singles should have topped the charts.

Or does hypnotism also require "media whoring"?

ive been working in it for 7 years, done some work for known bands, and the 'bosses' who decide everything are the fakest, most pathetic, vilest creatures you will meet...no-talent fucks who got there because of their connections. and without whoring yourself out to these lowlife, dont expect hits.

You think about "media whoring" too much. Hopefully my rebuttal above sends you on the road to recovery.

so its easy sitting behind your pc tapping away about how axl should suck their dick and deal with them on a daily basis, give them more power over your art etc but you wouldnt do it too if you had some decency left in you.

'i wont ask of you, what i would not do'.

Damn, I was hoping for the lines...

nobody owes you....not one goddamn thing

To hell with the pressure I'm not caving in

Its not a promise, lie, or guarantee

Why I would choose
To prostitute myself
To live with fortune and shame

I think you missed a few courses on your schedule....

hypocritical media whoring 101
Advanced revisionist history 102
Chinese Democracy lyrical studies for beginners

Its so funny how you think an artist thats proud of their work and wants it heard by people who love music means they have no decency.

I'm surprised we dont have more 80's cartoons in there

Ninja TUrtles, GI Joe, Transformers, Thundercats, Silverhawks, Smurfs, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Gummy Bears, Gargoyles, the list goes on really