How is Axl Rose worth $200 million?

You can't compare sales and 'success' across different eras. Pretty sure the 'Before the flood' Band/Dylan tour was the biggest grossing in history at the time. But the amount would be considered tiny now.

Clam Evans wrote:

Insane level of radio play. 100 million albums. Songs played at every sporting event in the country, often multiple times.

That's probably it right there. You can't attend a sporting event in the US without hearing Welcome to the Jungle.

good days bad days wrote:

JAKIR wrote:

Dylan is absolutely awful and I mean just atrocious live.

That was not my experience. I saw him once at a festival and enjoyed his performance.

I've seen him twice. Once I was just there w my friend and Dylan was just so bad and the second time Dylan was playing before us so I was sound checking while they were playing but I could hear plenty and see them on the Jumbotron and they were just awful awful awful. He has good bands, really good players but the way he does his most popular songs is awful and his singing was just trash. I love Dylan but I have to be honest about his performance.

he alone owns the name G&R

he used to live in a storage rental and poop in a shoe box

really

He also has the greatest vocal range of any singer. Something like 5 octaves.

Alan

Runningart2004 wrote:

He also has the greatest vocal range of any singer. Something like 5 octaves.

Alan

I've seen that article and it's definitely wrong. The same study says that Mick Jagger and Robert Plant have the same range. Lolz.

Also, I saw Dylan recently and enjoyed it. He only played a couple of big hits but it was still nice. Wasn't going there to hear great vocals.

And finally, Mark Knopfler is one of the greatest guitarists of all time so shout outs to Coach for that.

Runningart2004 wrote:

He also has the greatest vocal range of any singer. Something like 5 octaves.

Alan

Runningfart was gone from let's run when the thread that called BS on that was going. There are actually many rock singers that have several octaves more then him.

JAKIR wrote:

good days bad days wrote:

That was not my experience. I saw him once at a festival and enjoyed his performance.

I've seen him twice. Once I was just there w my friend and Dylan was just so bad and the second time Dylan was playing before us so I was sound checking while they were playing but I could hear plenty and see them on the Jumbotron and they were just awful awful awful. He has good bands, really good players but the way he does his most popular songs is awful and his singing was just trash. I love Dylan but I have to be honest about his performance.

I love live music and I love Dylan, but he is one of the only artists that I would rather stay home and listen to his albums than go to his concert.

Intergalactic wrote:

Runningart2004 wrote:

He also has the greatest vocal range of any singer. Something like 5 octaves.

Alan

I've seen that article and it's definitely wrong. The same study says that Mick Jagger and Robert Plant have the same range. Lolz..

No one has Jagger and Plant (A2 - A5) anywhere near Axl Rose, who is F1 - B6. FWIW, Axl's F1 is lower than .... Barry White!

Axl Rose doesn't have the best range, but he is definitely in the top five. Faith No More's Mike Patton has a six octave -- the best in rock or pop.

Record sales

royalties

radio play

MERCHANDISE - cards, shirts, hats, poker chips, pinball machine, key chains, gloves, hoodies, board game, mugs, backpacks, belt buckles, bandannas, pins, figurines, shot glasses, guitar cases, pajamas, cell phone covers, wrist bands, video slot machine, guitar hero, probably a boat load of other things.

malmo wrote:

Intergalactic wrote:

I've seen that article and it's definitely wrong. The same study says that Mick Jagger and Robert Plant have the same range. Lolz..

No one has Jagger and Plant (A2 - A5) anywhere near Axl Rose, who is F1 - B6. FWIW, Axl's F1 is lower than .... Barry White!

Axl Rose doesn't have the best range, but he is definitely in the top five. Faith No More's Mike Patton has a six octave -- the best in rock or pop.

This is what a quick google search showed as the top 10.

The Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk, etc., etc. singer comes in above Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Diamanda Galás, and David Lee Roth, all of whom bested Axl’s five-octave range. Ville Valo of HIM, Nina Hagen, Roger Waters, Carey, and Devin Townsend round out the new top 10.

I have to say that I don't really like most of those singers all that much (some more than others). There are more important qualities than range.

Flagpole wrote:

Record sales

royalties

radio play

MERCHANDISE - cards, shirts, hats, poker chips, pinball machine, key chains, gloves, hoodies, board game, mugs, backpacks, belt buckles, bandannas, pins, figurines, shot glasses, guitar cases, pajamas, cell phone covers, wrist bands, video slot machine, guitar hero, probably a boat load of other things.

Record sales is not an area where artists typically make the majority of their cash and certainly not off of their first few records. Once they have established themselves they can get a more favorable deal that will make them more money from selling records but it is still the area where the label actually makes all of its money. In any case what the artist makes compared to what the label makes is small even in the best of scenarios. Every single cent that the label spends on you is paid back by you out of YOUR portion of record sales. So if a label spends $1million on you and you are on your first record you are probably getting ¢25 a record off of each record sold. It would take 4 million records sold to break even. In good situations you might be getting between $1-$2 per record.

Jakir!

Which band are you in?

Awesome man!!!!!!!!!!!

John Fogerty's relatively low figure (and I know it's plenty, but it's RELATIVELY low) shows he really must have been ripped off by that Zaentz character.

On thing in a long list of stuff I had there, brother.

Jakir,

Clearly you're in a band good enough to get quite a few opening gigs for major acts, maybe the occasional headliner. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're either Robin Zander or Rick Nielsen.

Srsly? Royalties from Sweet Child O' Mine alone would be enough for anyone to retire on.

G&R was the bomb in the late 80's and early 90's. I remember the first time hearing Paradise City. My buddy and I were driving 80 mph on the EWAY in his 79 Camaro ( speed limit was 65)