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Re: Judge officially dismisses Activision lawsuit
One of the issues Slash had with Axl was that Axl was preventing the old music from being used in more films, which was keeping them from making more money. I can't remember all of them, but I know Old School was one of them.
That whole licensing thing is strange. You say okay to "Can't Hardly Wait," but no to "Old School.":
Exactly which shows this idea that Axl is concerned with the integrity of the brand when it comes to licensing music is bullshit. And let's be real like any of us are going to give a shit if a Guns song plays in the next Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy. Honesly who cares and how does that diminish the brand? It doesn't.
Black Hawk Down? Just further proof that Axl doesn't give a shit about he integrity of lisencing the material to qaulity projects but rather says no to most just to spite the others and to hold "the power"
Re: Judge officially dismisses Activision lawsuit
Bono wrote:misterID wrote:One of the issues Slash had with Axl was that Axl was preventing the old music from being used in more films, which was keeping them from making more money. I can't remember all of them, but I know Old School was one of them.
That whole licensing thing is strange. You say okay to "Can't Hardly Wait," but no to "Old School.":
Exactly which shows this idea that Axl is concerned with the integrity of the brand when it comes to licensing music is bullshit. And let's be real like any of us are going to give a shit if a Guns song plays in the next Jennifer Aniston romantic comedy. Honesly who cares and how does that diminish the brand? It doesn't.
Black Hawk Down? Just further proof that Axl doesn't give a shit about he integrity of lisencing the material to qaulity projects but rather says no to most just to spite the others and to hold "the power"
I'm still old fashioned to a certain extent on this. Don't get me wrong, I understand that things have completely changed as far as how artists get their money so I agree, I wouldn't bat an eye if I went to some romantic comedy and SCoM started playing or something. But if I flipped on the TV and heard SCoM playing over a commercial for baby wipes, I'd be pissed.
But the movie thing I'll never understand. Maybe a better GN'R historian than I can confirm but didn't the Black Hawk Down thing get denied because Axl only offered up the re-record WttJ? I could swear I heard that somewhere along the line but I don't know if it's based in fact.
Or that Glee shit but me is just setting money on fire by not letting use any songs on movies
Re: Judge officially dismisses Activision lawsuit
But the movie thing I'll never understand. Maybe a better GN'R historian than I can confirm but didn't the Black Hawk Down thing get denied because Axl only offered up the re-record WttJ? I could swear I heard that somewhere along the line but I don't know if it's based in fact.
If that' the case it would be even more pathetic. Axl wants to act all noble and be like his big concern is the integrity of the brand yet he's willing to hurt the integrity of the movie that wanted to use the song as it was the song playing during the real life moment but Axl wants them to use a newly recorded version that didn't even exists at the time of these events? For what reason other than attempting to erase the old band. If they weren't going to recreate the scene with his new version of the song then nobody was using the song period. Makes Axl look like such a bitch in my opinion cause the song was part of the ambience of the real life events and they wanted to recreate that and Axl wasn't willing to allow them to keep that aspect of the story's integrity based on his own self serving and spiteful reasons. Had absolutely nothing to do with integrity of the brand.
Or that Glee shit but me is just setting money on fire by not letting use any songs on movies
Stuff like that doesn't even bother me anymore. Why should it. It doesn't diminish what already exists and all it would do is expose Gn'R to an entirely new generation of people. I don't see how it's a bad thing. It doesn't make me wanna run out and grab the Glee soundtrack but it might make sme young kid wanna go check out a Gn'R record.
Re: Judge officially dismisses Activision lawsuit
Bono wrote:RussTCB wrote:But the movie thing I'll never understand. Maybe a better GN'R historian than I can confirm but didn't the Black Hawk Down thing get denied because Axl only offered up the re-record WttJ? I could swear I heard that somewhere along the line but I don't know if it's based in fact.
If that' the case it would be even more pathetic. Axl wants to act all noble and be like his big concern is the integrity of the brand yet he's willing to hurt the integrity of the movie that wanted to use the song as it was the song playing during the real life moment but Axl wants them to use a newly recorded version that didn't even exists at the time of these events? For what reason other than attempting to erase the old band. If they weren't going to recreate the scene with his new version of the song then nobody was using the song period. Makes Axl look like such a bitch in my opinion cause the song was part of the ambience of the real life events and they wanted to recreate that and Axl wasn't willing to allow them to keep that aspect of the story's integrity based on his own self serving and spiteful reasons. Had absolutely nothing to do with integrity of the brand.
Oh I agree. I didn't mean to come across as defending that decision, I was just hoping someone else remembered it.
Sometimes through the years, you read a theory posted or something then (if you're me) you just eventually think it was a fact
No I didn't think you were defending it. I was just saying if that's the case it's almost even worse than simply refusing to lisence the original recording.
Re: Judge officially dismisses Activision lawsuit
There was a whole lot of weird shit with that BHD thing. One thing I heard was that they were supposed to give Axl a private screening, but there were a bunch of people there he didn't know and stormed out... And somehow Doug accused someone of setting him up to fail with it, on top of the new version of WTTJ... Which I would really like to hear, btw. But I think it went a lot deeper than not wanting to use the new version, which I believe, at one point, they were willing to do, but the old line up said no. That's what I remember from it.
