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Cowboys Stadium 1988: GnR’s “worst gig”
Nice Boy replied to Nice Boy's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Oh shit yeah! It’s surprising that they decided to go ahead and play without Axl, because there must have been similar occasions of his absence before this, and certainly there were after - so I wonder why did they choose to play without him this time? Also which gig / set list was this, presumably that gnrontour site lists it? -
Cowboys Stadium 1988: GnR’s “worst gig”
Nice Boy replied to Nice Boy's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Thanks, Archivist! It’s truly great work that you’ve done documenting all this stuff.. And these excerpts shine a light on what happened this day in Texas -
Cowboys Stadium 1988: GnR’s “worst gig”
Nice Boy replied to Nice Boy's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Please do! - It would be interesting to hear this, it can’t be worse than Bridge School or whatever, lol… I bet it’s actually just very ‘raw’ Rock n fn Roll.. -
Cowboys Stadium 1988: GnR’s “worst gig”
Nice Boy replied to Nice Boy's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Sorry yes, for some reason I typoed 89, every true Gunner knows there were fuck all GnR gigs in 89 apart from those you mentioned.. Jeez I wasn’t even high when I made the post, fuck knows why I made that schoolboy error, lol -
Cowboys Stadium 1988: GnR’s “worst gig”
Nice Boy posted a topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Slash has said that Cowboys Stadium 1988 was (original) GnR’s worst concert, but he doesn’t really specify why. I’ve never seen any footage or heard any audio, so always wondered what was so bad and why. I’m guessing there were probably technical issues with the PA that caused a fuck up, and maybe some other logistical problems.. anyone know anything about this? Here’s the original quote: Metro: What’s the worst gig you’ve done? Slash: "Guns n’ Roses playing Cowboys Stadium in Dallas in 1988. It was horrific. Everything that could go wrong went wrong and the band didn’t have enough experience to handle it properly. It was a huge disaster in front of 65,000 people. We fell apart on stage. It’s stuck with me ever since.” -
2 or 3 guitars? (Fortus related)
Nice Boy replied to JAxlMorrison's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
I don’t see why Fortus is regarded as someone who could only fill a rhythm role and not traditional lead. Listening to him duel with Slash, you can hear he matches Slash’s ability pretty easily. It’s just that Slash has that extra presence due to his legacy. Put it this way, Fortus is much more capable of lead soloing than Izzy, great as they both were. The main thing that gives Fortus the image of being a rhythm rather than lead is not lack of ability, it’s that he is a dude with straight black hair often playing a white hollow bodied guitar and standing to Axl’s right on stage, playing the rhythm part. -
why not, Rogan was endorsing Bernie Sanders, so they both ‘lean Democrat’
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The 'you're crazy' style of gnr songs
Nice Boy replied to axl666's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
It’s more about the early 80s LA music scene being influenced by the fast paced hardcore/punk sound of the time, they were listening to a lot of punk stuff and cranking the tempo / energy, with some metal infusion, hence songs like Reckless, Shadow, Nice Boys etc. fast Crazy obviously had a slightly different emergence as it began as them jamming around The Seeker by The Who, then creating their own song from that on acoustic (slow Crazy) then turbo-ing it into fast Crazy because of aforementioned punk / metal influences. -
Slither in the setlist
Nice Boy replied to StrangerInThisTown's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Because it’s a good song, popular with crowd, and Axl’s reciprocating for the others learning CD stuff I like VR stuff, more than CD really, though the bulk of it is a bit generic. You listen through an album and it can kinda blur into one standard rock song. There is variation though, Fall to Pieces etc. -
Catching Axl’s UYI 1993 Microphone 30 Anniversary
Nice Boy replied to Oxford's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Yeah I thought someone might pinpoint it to 1962, maybe Soulmonster knows -
Catching Axl’s UYI 1993 Microphone 30 Anniversary
Nice Boy replied to Oxford's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
So: do we know exactly when Axl became a tosser? -
Your Most Favourite Show Ever?
Nice Boy replied to wendirosez's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
now here is someone with real taste Saskatoon 93 can get a mention from me as well, from the UYI era -
Must’ve been a shock realising the band weren’t in their late 20s anymore and the crowd wasn’t thousands of French teenagers.
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When Axl said stuff in Slash’s book didn’t even happen, I expect he means rather that he remembers events differently. Ask any two people how something happened and they will likely give differing accounts. Especially if they were at odds. But back to the Duff thing. I’m sure a lot of his memories aren’t completely accurate due to substances or just faded memory. But how plausible is it that his recollection of being called up by an animator is completely false? Not likely, imo. There must be some basis of truth in it, even if details are different. So the question is, what did happen then.
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The issue is, for anyone that accepts no one from The Simpsons ever contacted Duff about his name: Who was it then, that called Duff up saying they were animators and asked to use his name? Because it’s implausible that Duff would make up or invent that story. So who was it? Some other animators who just happened to want to use the name Duff in their cartoon ?
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Complaints, complaints, complaints!
Nice Boy replied to gavgnr's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
It’s different to those examples, because if the call Duff got from the animators was the Simpsons guys, then clearly they were tacitly acknowledging the beer ‘brand’ name was based on Duff’s name. But even if so, the Simpsons lawyers could argue that Duff had given his consent, so they don’t owe him anything. Duffs lawyers would potentially try to argue that he hadn’t specifically given consent for them to monetise it, yada yada, you know how lawyers are. -
Complaints, complaints, complaints!
Nice Boy replied to gavgnr's topic in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
Obviously at this stage they wouldn’t say “actually yeah we used Duff’s name” even if they did, because they they would be in a situation of potentially owing him money