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It all happens at once.  This whole week was pretty much open but now it's packed.  A bunch of little shit but where I thought I was open, those little things I was looking forward to, are being rushed, complicated or cancelled.  I pulled the trigger on the car repairs.  They couldn't finish it today so no pinball for me tonight.  I can probably catch a ride to the garden tomorrow but I won't be able to pick up the other plants I wanted to get in.  And I have to watch the grandbaby for a few hours so I probably won't be able to run by the nursery down there on my way to a visitation and then dinner with mom.  That's if I get my car back by early afternoon.

Thursday was my morning to sleep in but now the shingles are coming.  They don't get installed until next Tuesday, yea to that though!

Friday, I volunteered to help at another garden but an hour later, the SIL needs me right before that so he can run and get a pain shot.

I guess it's okay.  Nobody is checking to see if I'm exactly on time.  Maybe if I stop fulfilling my obligations and commitments, I will stop making so many of them.   

Can't see 1-10.

[AFD]

AFD in 52nd place 

https://100best.music.apple.com/us


Appetite For Destruction made the list. Its ranking on the list is obviously debatable.




/jarmo

It's amazing how much the way music is "consumed" has changed. Most of us used to listen to the radio and watch MTV when GN'R released Appetite. We would get records from a store, record club or maybe a mail order catalogue. If you couldn't afford to buy a single, you'd tape it off the radio.

Fast forward to the early 2000s. Now you could download any track you wanted and get a digital copy of it for free. No more taping off the radio or borrowing your friend's CD/LP to copy that. Until people started buying tracks for $0.99 on iTunes.

And now. Streaming and songs catered to the Tik Tok crowd where songs are basically made to fit in a video clip posted on social media....



If you look at the people who buy tickets to go see GN'R. I wonder how many of them actually buys physical records. Of any artist.





/jarmo

That’s cool. I hope you’re right. I doubt it, but I’ll bet you a whole dollar we don’t see one in the next five years.

In 2012 Axl said "Not In This Lifetime" when asked about reuniting, and it happened in 2016. So who knows!


The way music is consumed these days, the idea of singles/standalone tracks seem more interesting. I guess on the other hand, some would be annoyed getting new songs every few months instead of everything at once.

Anyway,  ;Dthanks for all you do to keep this place up and running! 

My pleasure.




/jarmo

True story. Are albums even a relevant thing anymore? I’m I just an old man? Are you !?  Are we all oldies for wanting a record!?

Aside from the obvious reasons, I want a new GNR album in the hopes that it will challenge Slash to do something more interesting than this and the Conspirators.

I just read this last night.

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/slash_says_guns_n_roses_are_working_on_a_new_album.html

You just want to say good luck with that Slash, keep the rights to your own music and put a time limit on how long GNR can hold it without releasing it.  Not sure if artists can even do that but they can try.

Aside from the obvious reasons, I want a new GNR album in the hopes that it will challenge Slash to do something more interesting than this and the Conspirators.

I just read this last night.

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/slash_says_guns_n_roses_are_working_on_a_new_album.html

Aside from the obvious reasons, I want a new GNR album in the hopes that it will challenge Slash to do something more interesting than this and the Conspirators.

Face it, the GNR name on its own wasn't moving tickets anymore.  You don't do "Up Close And Personal" by choice.

Do you think finishing an arena tour just 1.5 months before the 2012 UCAP leg started had anything to do with it? Or the fact that there was a booked European tour in the summer?

Just curious to hear your take on this.



Before you make claims that I'm saying GN'R in 2012 was as successful as GN'R in 2016, I didn't. I just don't buy your simplistic view. True, GN'R often played for bigger audiences outside of the US.

But it's worth remembering that GN'R didn't do a proper headlining stadium tour in the USA until 2016. They co-headlined stadiums in the US in 1992. Meanwhile the summer 1992 and 1993 tours in Europe were mostly in outdoor stadiums. So in your words, GN'R didn't move tickets in the USA in the early 90s like they did elsewhere. And this was the biggest hard rock band on the planet.

I find that a bit puzzling to be honest. Knowing how big and talked about the band's shows on the UYI tour were.




/jarmo