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Kenny “Axil” Rose (Lead vocals), D.J. “Slash (Lead guitar), Joshua “Duff” McKagan (Bass Guitar/backing vocals), Terry “Izzy” Stradlin (Rhythm guitar/backing vocals) and Chuck “Matt Sorum” Johnson (Drums/Percussion) make Guns N’ Roses. The group has ridden a wave of success and failure spanning decades, which is almost unknown in the Heavy Metal music scene. Many fans of Guns N’ Roses believe that Guns N’ Roses is a Heavy Metal Rock band that is larger than large and has a collection of songs and hits not known to the Heavy Metal music scene since the Sex Pistols.

The lives of the band members have come under scrutiny of the public eye when the members’ experiences with drugs and sexual exploits came to the knowledge of the general public. The penchant for generating negative press dims in the light of their breathtaking song-writing and energetic performances. Their 1987 album, Appetite for Destruction, is undoubtedly a benchmark that many other albums and bands have failed to measure up to.

The fame of Guns N’ Roses continue to rock the world of Heavy Metal music with the rancorous songwriting and Slash’s vigorous guitar performances. Slash has been featured in various popular guitar magazines countless times and the band itself has been featured on many other magazines, newsletters and newspapers.

Guns N’ Roses popped into the music scene when the music scene was dominated by pop music and pop-metal and the future of Guns N’ Roses seem blurry at the point. But they proved the critics wrong when songs many consider raw and an uglier version of rock & roll came galloping into the charts full speed. The members of Guns N’ Roses are definitely not known to behave in an angelic way – and they’ve never tried to behave in any other way, in fact, the members are known to be ‘ugly’, ‘misogynist’, ‘violent’….but they are also known to be ‘funny’, ‘individualistic’, ‘vulnerable’ and sometimes ‘sensitive’.

Guns N’ Roses music is very basic and gritty – honest to a fault. They are everything true heavy metal music should be. Listening to Guns N’ Roses, listeners will soon realize that their music can evoke a wide range of emotions, from anger to sadness, from devotion to hatred.

Guns N’ Roses released their first EP in 1986 which grabbed attention of heavy metal music lovers all around the world. The release of the EP led to their first debut album, Appetite for Destruction. The album didn’t start selling until almost a year later, as the group toured and performed in numerous live shows. Only when attention was given by MTV by playing “Sweet Child of Mine”, the album shot straight for the number one spot! Taking opportunity of their sudden fame, they re-released their debut single “Welcome to the Jungle” and it instantly rocked its way to Top Ten. Other albums and songs followed including “Patience” and “One in a Million”. They started work on their follow-up album in 1990 and it’s in the same year that Adler was fired and replaced by Matt Sorum from “The Cult”. In addition, Dizzy Reed on keyboards was also introduced. The recordings for 1 new album turned into 2 new albums – “Use your Illusion I” and “Use your Illusion II”.

“Use your Illusions I and II” initially sold very well until Nirvana’s “Nevermind” broke their successful stride. Rose took over the band with a change of attitude and as a result, Stradlin, one of the best songwriter of all times, left Guns N’ Roses in 1991 and he was replaced with Gilby Clarke (Kill for Thrills). It wasn’t until 1993 that the fans of Guns N’ Roses could come to terms with the change because Stradlin had an important role to play in the band. Their following album, The Spaghetti Incident, did garner good reviews but it still failed to capture the kind of spirit that was apparent in the early days of Guns N’ Roses. Guns N’ Roses appeared to have lost their edge and many thought that they were out of the race for good. The situation was further worsened with the departure of, yet, another band member, Slash, leaving Rose as the last of the original cast for Guns N’ Roses.

In 1999, the first original song in 8 years for Guns N’ Roses, “Oh My God” was released and it was featured in “End of Days” film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The new lineup for Guns N’ Roses consist of Rose, Finck, Buckethead, Stinson, Brian Mantia, Paul Huge, and Dizzy Reed. The new Guns N’ Roses continue to play and perform wherever they can but they generated some bad press when former members of Guns N’ Roses were BANNED from watching their performances. Soon Paul Huge joined the lineup of EX Guns N’ Roses members and was promptly replaced with Richard Fortus (former Love Spit Love). Fans and critics alike are waiting to see what the new lineup can come up with while the group of ex-GNR members continues to enjoy celebrity status.

Dean Erickson. Journalist, and web site builder Dean Erickson lives in Texas. He is the owner and co-editor of http://www.all-guns-n-roses.info on which you will find a longer, more detailed version of this article.

People have made money by buying distressed houses, fixing them up, and then flipping them for hundreds of years. It’s not a new concept. But what if you live in an area where homes rarely sit on the market for more than a week, sell at full price, and require conventional financing because there are so many qualified buyers standing in line to buy them? Can you still make money flipping houses under such market conditions? The simple answer is yes, if you do your homework, find the right property, and have a certain amount of luck on your side.

It’s been a sellers’ market in the United States for a number of years, with more buyers than houses, which means that sellers haven’t been as motivated as they were back in the 80s, when interest rates were sky high, inflation was running rampant, and qualified buyers were scarce. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t still find sellers who are willing to bargain, because like in every age, people get into trouble for various reasons. You can use that fact to your advantage to make money under any market conditions.

One key is to find the right property. You’re not looking for the sweet home in a beautiful neighborhood a few blocks from a great school. Lots of buyers will be lining up to make offers on that house. Those houses won’t interest you. You’re looking for sellers that have found themselves in financial distress, for whatever reason, and need to sell within a short period of time. They will have motivation, and will be willing to work with you to overcome the difficulties they are facing. Those are the houses that will make you money, regardless of the overall market in that area.

You generally won’t find these homes listed in your local MLS, and if they are, you can bet that there are a number of agents already peddling those properties to investors they work with regularly. You’ll find better luck if you run ads, offering to help owners solve their financial problems. You can write sensitive letters to people who have inherited properties for whatever reason. Regardless of how you find your sellers, always emphasize that you want to help them. If you’re sensitive to their needs and make a genuine effort to do your best to solve their problems, you’ll find many sellers quite willing to work with you. You’re not trying to steal their property. You’ve genuinely trying to offer your help. That instantly puts you ahead of your competition.

I hear you shouting: “That’s the same B S all the late night infomercials pedal!”

You’re right. Every real estate investor wannabe runs ads, week after week. But wait, (are you laughing?) aren’t some of those ads the same ones from last year? That’s right. These investors still make money, year after year, running the same ads. The only way for you to compete is to really sound sincere when a distressed seller calls YOU. Try to answer the phone instead of relying on a message. I promise, this makes a huge difference. Distressed sellers just go down the list until they get a live person to talk to.

Regardless of the market conditions in your area, there ARE sellers out there who are in need of your help. If you can give it to them, you’ll find yourself profiting handsomely, too, in more ways than one!

Copyright © 2006 Jeanette J. Fisher

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Everyone is looking for “secrets” about how to get more qualified traffic to their web sites. What I’m going to share with you is no secret, however it is not practiced by very many companies or individuals. Many companies and individuals only submit their home page to search engines and directories. You can easily quadruple your traffic in 90 - 120 days by implementing the following procedures.

1. Create a unique title for each page of your site that covers a different subject matter. I am astounded when I surf the web and I find large and small companies whose web sites don’t have a decent title for their home page, much less titles for any of their content pages. Your title should not be named “home”. If you own a web design program or if you have competent web designers, your title can be changed on every page in 10 - 30 minutes. Your title should be short and describe the content on that page. In case you were not aware, the title of each page always appears in the upper left hand corner of the browser used by the person visiting your web site.

2. Create meta tags for each page that has a different title. Most people use the same meta tags for each page of their web site. If you have different content on different pages, then you should have different meta tags for those pages too! Meta Tags are the hidden text that programmers use to enable the search engine “spiders” to find your site on the world wide web. If you don’t know what meta tags look like or how to write them, you can learn this information by visiting this URL at our web site: http://www.emarketingman.com/searchengine.htm

3. Submit your pages to search engines and directories every month. Once you have the proper title and meta tags for the interior pages of your web site, register them once a month. If you want ANY of your pages indexed by search engines, you have to submit them once a month! You can do this manually or you can do it through various submit programs. The most affordable method we have found are the free directory submit tool and free search engine submit tool at JimTools: http://www.jimtools.com

   JimTools allows you to register with 56 search engines and over 100 directories at no charge. If you do this once a month, you will start getting traffic to your newly submitted pages within 60 - 120 days.

In summary: Optimizing your title and your Meta Tags for each page can easily quadruple your traffic in just a few months. Submitting your internal pages of your web site to directories and search engines is an affordable and easy way to bring more qualified traffic to your web site.

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