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#151 Re: Guns N' Roses » Richard Fortus Gretsch Guitars Instragram Q and A » 267 weeks ago
sp1at wrote:Fortus is somewhere between employee and partner and his own person.
He's on contract, which in Josh Freese's time meant any Guns activity (tours, etc) would be a "priority" over other ventures. Ron got quite pissed about this arrangement in around 2011-2. You could almost say below-the-line personnel learned about tours from the web
I imagine he enjoys a fixed salary from Guns, which may not be as much as one thinks. This would be for services rendered on the road and in studio.
As for splitting the loot with the lawyers, that's a first. You have the Guns partnership (ASD), who take most of the cake. After that, the rest of the band fend for themselves. If they get a fixed salary from Guns by courtesy of showing up, negotiating your own NITL cut may be more tempting than letting TB decide your worth for the promoters.
I don't know how it all worked. I just know they all had lawyers and negotiated for themselves. What that was, I don't know.
#152 Re: Guns N' Roses » Richard Fortus Gretsch Guitars Instragram Q and A » 268 weeks ago
Is asked about when did Axl tell him about Slash/Duff coming back, say Axl didn't tell him about it.
While we already knew this, that's the perfect example of how horribly mismanaged this band really is.
They don't give a shit about the salaried employees. Not respected enough to even bother pretending that they're in the loop.
They actually reunited without cluing in the employees that anything was happening.
Duff: "Fuck Izzy"
That line goes for the rest of them too.
They're just along for the ride. Can stay or leave...you'll be replaced with someone equally as clueless.
Unreal.
The biggest travesty of the past 25 years is how GNR has been managed.
These guys need to stop being asked about ANYTHING.
They don't know.... they'll never know.
This is why Pitman was so easily expendable. It's true of everyone else too.
Someone gets him to read out your too hardschool (Don't think 4tus realizes what it is)
Holy shit. He really doesn't know what it is.
It's true....the ex CD members really did come to the forums for any news.
Edit
This completely destroys what the insiders said about Fortus being in the loop long before it officially happened and working on material with Slash.
2nd edit
If there really is material in the pipeline, the employees were never in the loop. It's the 'Big 3' working on it and more than likely just Slash and Duff....Axls vocals were finished 20 years ago.
If he doesn't know what Hardshool is, he doesn't know anything about any of it.
To be fair, I know the promoter who was going to do the tour before Livenation took over, and they all negotiated their share individually with their own lawyers, so I'm not sure if Fortus is an employee, as such. But, Slash, Duff and Axl are the GN'R partnership. I'm not sure how it all slots together, but Fortus is somewhere between employee and partner and his own person.
#153 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will new music be released in 2020? » 270 weeks ago
sp1at wrote:-Jack- wrote:Well, it seems like there will be an album afterall! Color me surprised. Hope it makes this crappy year worthwhile!
A new album will support the next tour, whenever that happens, and it's supposed to be a world tour crammed into one year so Slash can return to his other projects.
Remember also there was a plan to do a UYI based tour as well, which may happen in the future and they appear to be putting together a UYI Deluxe box with Trocolli poking about for ideas on other forums.
so do you think this year for a new album?
I don't know, it's more about the virus than anything else. I would guess it'll be next year
#154 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will new music be released in 2020? » 270 weeks ago
Well, it seems like there will be an album afterall! Color me surprised. Hope it makes this crappy year worthwhile!
A new album will support the next tour, whenever that happens, and it's supposed to be a world tour crammed into one year so Slash can return to his other projects.
Remember also there was a plan to do a UYI based tour as well, which may happen in the future and they appear to be putting together a UYI Deluxe box with Trocolli poking about for ideas on other forums.
#155 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will new music be released in 2020? » 274 weeks ago
sp1at wrote:...then Slash will return to his own projects.
Er... permanently?
No, working in a cycle
This was me asking a question about Slash's solo stuff, not gnr. If you ask about gnr, they never respond
#156 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will new music be released in 2020? » 274 weeks ago
From the Slash camp, as far as they are aware, everything has been put back a year, there will be an album with a year of touring with Guns, then Slash will return to his own projects. I got told to ask GN'R management for any 'detail' on that, as if eh 
#157 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hard School rehearsal with Axl » 286 weeks ago
I love the track and think it'd be a good choice for a single, but is its first live play going to garner the attention of the masses? (without a preceding official release of it)
It would get some coverage at least, but the news now is elsewhere
I get it is frustrating, but it is what it is.
#158 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hard School rehearsal with Axl » 286 weeks ago
Fwiw Jarmo said over on HTGTH that the rehearsed songs are expected for the tour. But this show became a one-off due to the postponements.
That's good news. I can see the sense in not playing it until this virus goes away. The world seems to be focussed on that just now, so it would get little coverage if they played it.
#159 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 286 weeks ago
It is all strange and random.
There was diptheria, measles and chicken pox years ago which people just let happen and people just got on with their lives. I think the fallout from closing down everything is going to hit people worse than the virus itself, and if it is a recurring, mutating thing, what happens then. And why are people buying toilet roll and pasta. I went into the shop, they said all the pasta was sold out, but the sauces weren't selling, and the shelves were still full of rice and tins. People are just so weird.
#160 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hard School rehearsal with Axl » 286 weeks ago
If the band could play a new song, that'd be great
At least we know then that there is intention to release new material. I just hope they don't get stuck there with all the borders closing everywhere.
