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Re: what does Axl/GNR have to, to regain your interest 100%
Stepvhen wrote:bigbri wrote:Weird. When did U2 sell out?
When they featured the members of Boyzone in the video for "the Sweetest thing" and left their Alt rock roots to become a Stadium rock band.
nevermind the fact the band was playing stadiums before they ever had a #1 album but whatever.
Playing stadiums does not equal stadium rock. Stadium rock is a genre. They gave up on alt and switched genre to a more profitable mainstream genre. Ergo Sell outs.
Re: what does Axl/GNR have to, to regain your interest 100%
I love U2 and Soundgarden and Pink Floyd....for the record. I am not so much a fan of the new Gnr right now. To regain my interest, I will need new music and soon. A US Tour without new music is worthless at this point. 
Re: what does Axl/GNR have to, to regain your interest 100%
Pink Floyd was brought up to be relevant to the discussion. A band that broke up and the hows and whys of their brakes ups as relevant to GN'Rs current status.
U2 was brought up to be relevant to the discussion. A band that didn't break up and the hows and whys of their success as relevant to GNR's current non-success.
Re: what does Axl/GNR have to, to regain your interest 100%
bigbri wrote:russtcb wrote:Agreed. Reviews of their warm up shows and Lollapalooza suggest that even the band noticed that people weren't as into them as they expected.
Most people have moved past GNR and Soundgarden. That whole period really. What band from that time period is still big? U2 and Bon Jovi are about it.
uhm, Pearl Jam, Metallica, R.E.M, Motley Crue, Def Leppard, NIN, Alice In Chains, STP. Dream Theater, Iron Maiden to some extent. All active in the same time frame as either u2 and/or soundgarden
How many of those bands are big? REM? No, they fizzled out. Crue. Not big. Leppard, not big. NIN, were big. Maiden, not big. AIC was gone for years. Dream Theater is only cult big.
The only bands even remotely big and STAYED big from that time to now are Metallica and PJ. And, really, you can make an argument PJ stopped being successful quite a while ago.
And since you brought up selling out. Tallica definitely did that.
None of those bands, including GNR, are interesting to the average rock fan nowadays. It's just a fact. Let's see how Soundgarden does. They've played three shows, two of which didn't seem to excite the crowd.
