Boomer here & this is a Boomer band back in the day (saw them live twice in the late 80s/early 90s).
BS. Axl 1962 was late boomer but Slash born 1965 was early Gen X. You saw the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Grateful Dead nostalgia tours in the late 80s/early 90s, those are you bands boomer.
I knew the drummer for Stabbing Westward. When they had their big breakout album and were playing stadiums, the band took home about $35k each for a year's worth of recording and touring (mid 1990s dollars). That is because your earnings on your big album and tour go first to pay back the studio for recording studio costs (very expensive back then), advertising, tour expenses and other promotional stuff the studio paid for. And if the band wanted to stay in the penthouse suite at the local Ritz Carlton and have a huge party after the show with all the groupies drinking $100 a bottle champagne, that also came out of your cut. The big money would then come on the second album. That is when the band could negotiate for a big advance and shift more of the risk back to the studio on whether the album would be a hit. Thereafter, royalties used to be a great moneymaker if your stuff stayed popular for a long time. Every radio play and album sold would result in a royalty to the performers. Digital streaming services like spotify have killed that as performers only get a fraction of a fraction of what they used to get for radio or CD sales. Your only hope would be to get your song on a commercial or used in a movie/TV show to get old school royalties.
Boomer here & this is a Boomer band back in the day (saw them live twice in the late 80s/early 90s).
BS. Axl 1962 was late boomer but Slash born 1965 was early Gen X. You saw the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Grateful Dead nostalgia tours in the late 80s/early 90s, those are you bands boomer.
WTH are you talking about? Newsflash: The Boomer cutoff is 1964:
Axl (b.1962) Mckagan (b.1964) Dizzy Reed (b.1963). Izzy Stradlin (b.1962) - all Boomers. You're right on Slash - he's Gen X was born in 1965 missing the boomer cutoff by 1 year.
I was born in 1961 - so I'm at the younger end of the Boomer spectrum.
You can't change the rules just because the majority of the band members are Baby Boomers. My guess is you're a little frustrated because you're probably a youngster who hates Boomers & yet here's a Boomer band that you like. 😉.
I saw them at the Dome early 90's ,I still can't believe how crazy those Japanese fans were considering the fact that they most likely could not understand the American lyrics.Axel was strutting around in the tightest little hot pants I had ever seen.
Boomer here & this is a Boomer band back in the day (saw them live twice in the late 80s/early 90s). We would all watch their videos on "MTV" all the time - which was the go to music channel on cable TV.
I'm surprised they're so popular with the younger generation these days since the younger generations blame the Boomers for everything that's wrong with society these days. Lol
Of course, Axel was the big cheese of the band & became a household name among rock fans back then. But my favorite band member was Duff Mckagan the bass player & co-writer of some of their songs. Considering how much drugs & alchohol he did back then, he looks really good for his age (61). In fact, I wish I had his hair, height & leanness at my old ripe age of 64. Lol.
Duff enrolled in business school in Seattle after he straightened himself out and got sober. Reportedly, in addition to doing well with his GNR income from contract renegotiations and the like, he invested wisely and is doing just fine financially. I've read that he is something of a business advisor/mentor to other musicians trying to help them navigate the music business, which as others have noted in this thread is very exploitative of up and coming naive musicians.
GNR was already over the hill in 1991, their best work well behind them and coasting on their reputation. Just keep making records and touring and you won't go broke, unless maybe you suck
I wish Def Leppard would have gone broke by then too.
Who is GNR? Seriously STOP already with the stupid abbreviations!
Great North Run. I can imagine Welcome to the Jungle playing as Bekele destroys the field in 2013 sending Mo home devastated.
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totally broke you would be surprised where the money really went
this can't be true - they were the biggest band in the world at the time with a best-selling double album and worldwide stadium tour.
it's ok to use your brain every now and then, even on letsrun.
Actual alluded to the fact that he was almost broke while making estranged. In fact he took up most of the band's money and making that video. He also was sued by multiple people and many other things were going on, such as being arrested for a riot, actually multiple riots in St Louis and Montreal. For a lot of the early '90s he was living in a little apartment off sunset.