Guns N' Roses Coachella: 5 Ways It Could Be Amazing (And 5 It Could Suck)

2. It€™s All About The Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4dvwlMHD-0 When the Sex Pistols reformed in 1996, they were refreshingly honest about their reasons for doing it. At the press conference announcing their reunion tour, singer Johnny Rotten said €œwe still hate each other with a vengeance, but we've found a common cause, and that's your money [...] these are the people that wrote the songs, and now we'd like to be paid for it.€ Fittingly, they named the 78-date, six month jaunt The Filthy Lucre Tour. However, the Sex Pistols€™ frank words are not something common to most other bands, and you can guarantee that over the next few months we€™ll see the reunited Guns N€™ Roses echoing the same clichéd plaudits we see time and time again. There will talk of €œburying the hatchet€, of €œslates wiped clean€ and of €œremembering the good times we had together€. But deep down we all know the reason for this reunion, and that is cold hard cash. Guns N' Roses are rumoured to be pocketing anywhere between $3 and $8 million per show, and it would be much better if they just came out and said €œYeah, we didn€™t really want to be in the same room together ever again, but we€™re getting a bumper pay day off this and we€™d be stupid to say 'no'€. We all know they won€™t though.
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