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35 minutes ago, Rjuncajun said:

Dudes....I smoked enough to get a Killer black leather jacket that I still have and use to this day. 😎😎😎😎😎

On 8/13/2020 at 1:56 PM, Eddie Money said:

 I didnt smoke enough or I quit before I had enough miles.  

Listen, if you’re going take up a hobby, you need to commit.

On 8/13/2020 at 11:47 AM, Tourettes2400 said:

And then we have a beach house for sale for those looking during the pandemic

 

That's a pretty dinky little house for 1.5 mill! Jeez.

I wonder if it comes with some bass picks.

5 hours ago, jamillos said:

the fact that while on the stage, he had a top hat, cigarette, and Les fucking Paul. I mean come on. 

I’m doin all the things!

*sigh*... listen, DJ, you’re a good kid....

Maybe we should start crowd sourcing this album.

let’s start working on a chorus

7 hours ago, Zinia_29 said:

He once came to our country and messed up scom. 

That’s an act of war. 

The man with the new corvette!

4 hours ago, cineater said:

Never spoke to him either.  I was just wondering if you thought the negative narrative that gets passed around is part of why they run radio silent?

I think there are a couple online GNR communities that are a lot more “cheerleading” oriented that they could easily engage in dialogue with, if they wanted. 

The information void sort of invites negative appraisals, given the history. 

Can anyone fill me in on what he said about recording with Snakepit? What about it was contentious or whatever?

On 7/26/2020 at 7:14 AM, loke212 said:

I was also surprised to hear that the Snakepit album was a product of bitchiness and in-fighting as well.

The thing about Slash and Duff being too stupid to get women and how he had to teach them how to be rockstars was absolutely obnoxious.

And that's just one of many examples in the book. I'm not talking about stuff like Slash screwing him over again and again, but about the small, pity little digs at them throughout the book.

Like how he talks about Slash and Duff not showering after shows or not changing their clothes for long stretches of time.

Or how their diet was crap and consisted of junk food. Or how Slash had/has a weak stomach and would throw up after shows from the adrenaline or nerves or whatever.

While Matt of course knew the importance of healthy eating and of taking showers and was never a puking wreck like Slash after a show (someone like Matt has more important things to do after all, like selecting the best groupies before Sebastian Bach gets to them ).

He's just so... self-aggrandizing, even about pointless little shit.

 

Smelly nervous young Slash — that’s our guy! ❤️

Kick rocks, Sorum. 

2 hours ago, NeonKinight said:

Will he use it to name a new burger? 

Axl Burger -- Tastes good, don't it?

14 minutes ago, EricA said:

i don't like @soons idea, because we all can guess which family is considered in his will, but over all that makes so much more sense than everything else mentioned.

Gaze into the future when the sun has set on our favorite rockers and the posthumous Fernando era begins. 
 

The ultimate dance-off performance. Mick never gestured so hard.

4 hours ago, ToonGuns said:

 

Who knows. But it always sounded like an error to me. The kind of thing that isn't obvious (which is why many people dont notice it, so you can understand why QC didn't spot it) but still wrong. I can't imagine for the life of me why they would do that on purpose. It literally fucks up the whole word, you can't understand what he is saying (try reading the lyrics while listening). It's clear they've done some extensive vocal processing on the song, and I just think they cocked this bit up and nobody noticed until it was too late.

Charlie we’re almost done! just do one more QC pass on Scraped.

... I... I can’t do it... don’t make me... I don’t... it’s been eight years... my family...

I love that tambourine goat. Didn't notice before that Axl tells him to get in the ring! 

2 hours ago, RussTCB said:

You know what Fernando does have control over? Not acting like an entitled asshole and insulting / talking down to fans. 

If he just talked to us like we were real people and even gave a remote shit about what the fans of the band have been through, our attitude would be completely different. 

Dude seems to get a thrill from flaunting the fact that he was born into a super privileged world. Good for him, I guess? Doesn't mean any of us have to like it or even accept it. 

Sometimes I feel like GN'R fandom is a sick cult and the more people that escape, the better lol 

Nah I mean you’re totally right. It’s not even up for debate, at this point. Anyone who defends that kind of needless ungraciousness is a masochist fan who just loves this band a little too much. 

But there is no changing it.
 

So my thinking was you can rage or just kinda stand back and shrug. And not get carried away in thinking he has the ability to really shift the course of this band, it’s content or media strategy in any substantive way relative to Axl. The proof of which is in all the stuff he says not coming true or being vague / contradictory. It’s not lies, it’s just fluff. 

As ridiculous as he comes off, I don't think he really has control over much of anything except the embarrassing merch. It's probably not worth being mad over. 

He has his position because he just does what Axl wants and is so financially and socially dependent on him, he won't fuck Axl over like a lot of managers of yesteryear (from his perspective). 

If Axl wanted videos, they'd be out. If he wanted a live CD, we'd have it. If a UYI box set comes out, it'll be from a label push and band agreement. And if Axl wanted us to know about any of it in advance, Fernando would oblige. Just blast Beggars and Hangers On and toast one to flebeis. 

14 hours ago, jamillos said:

Cause he was still drunken from the power of Izzy Stradlin. 

I love this. 

Just now, jamillos said:

A slowed-down Nightrain, yes. 

You puttin' the breaks on that puppy?

I hope you know what you're doin'.

BOWAAAAAOOOOOOH! *TICK TICK TICK TICK* 

Nightrain should be the opener.

Live Era is whatever but... that's a highlight. 

19 hours ago, Free Bird said:

 but at the end of the day 

all things considered 

2 hours ago, Blackstar said:

Axl said in an interview that the drumming on AFD was perfect for the album at the time it was recorded, but it was the most dated thing on that album. So probably the purpose was just for the drumming on SOYL to sound a little more modern.

BAD TAKE, AX 

53 minutes ago, James Bond said:

I agree. They could have just as easily presented it as a "new" song instead of marketing it as an unreleased demo or whatever. It worked wonders with Van Halen's A Different Kind Of Truth. Every song was recycled from old demos, finished, and re-recorded. Die hard fans knew they were "old" songs but as far as general audiences were concerned it was the first new music with Roth in some 16 years.

It’s weird, too, since Axl has seemed to want to give his hired guys opportunities to show their chops, has never seemed to be interested in maintaining any kind of AFD lineup “purity” and he still doesn’t seem to like Adler much at all.

Maybe it was dictated by the label for marketing as you touched on; would they have that kind of control?

Was Slash not aware of how much Axl tinkered with it vocally?

or is he mainly referring to raw instrumentation