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  1. 5 hours ago, Tori72 said:

    By the way, I find videos like this creepy.

    And I'm sorry I think he looks stubby, nearly all of his neck is gone. His hair somewhat protuding from behind and looks unkempt. So no, I don't see a good looking guy there at all.

    Harsh.  I think he looks cute. 

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  2. On 2017-05-18 at 3:41 PM, dgnr said:

    Oh god, I hadn't internet connection all day and just got home and heard this. Shit. How tragic, really sad news :(

    It is really sad.  Of all the stars of that era, he seemed one of the most even keeled.  However, when I look at any recent photos of him, his eyes look troubled.  

    It's hard to believe we have lost so many, but still have all the original GNR members.

     

  3. On 2017-05-18 at 1:50 PM, Frey said:

    Just goes to show you can never really know how much someone is really struggling and suffering inside. He seemed fine, even his wife swore he wasn't depressed earlier.

     

    Obviously Slash would disapprove of anyone getting in the way of his and Axl's relationship, right @SerenityScorp?

    Seriously though, can you blame Slash (or any of the other guys)? :lol:

    I mean, that woman is awful. I don't understand how anyone could be into her. She has the most off-putting personality and her looks are pretty off-putting too (speaking for myself here, I realize she's considered oh so beautiful by many people for whatever reasons I can't understand, but I find her pretty ugly and unattractive).

    She's certainly a strong contender for the title of "Most horrible Guns WAG" (probably even beating Perla and Angela Nicoletti).

     

     

     

     

    Funny stuff (slash's quote).  I did think SS was beautiful in the early nineties, I particularly remember an Almay print commercial that she looked stunning in and being excited that her and Axl were dating.  She seems to be pretty rude and spoiled though and at least two of her sons seem like entitled little assholes.  

    I did happen to catch catch her on an old episode of law and order criminal intent recently.  I didn't know she had tried acting?

  4. 15 hours ago, Silent Jay said:

    Pink has a brilliant voice. She sings very well. I thought her performance of New York State Of Mind and Try was greater than Axl's Big Shot.

    Big Shot isn't that great a song imo, but apparently it's one of BJ's favorites, so he may have suggested it to Axl.  I don't think it gave Axl enough to do in that song. 

    I would have rather heard Axl sing any of BJ's piano ballads frankly.  But he looked cool and handled it well.

     

  5. 9 hours ago, Rocketqueen76 said:

    About OIAM from a black woman's POV....the first time I heard it I was like whoa! Are they serious with this song? I mean, I love this band and they are calling their black fans like me the N word? At first I thought they were trying to be funny or sarcastic, even though it wasn't at all. But over time I realized that the song was being told from a third person POV. Those issues were real in the Reagan era and free base and crack were just really starting to hit the streets hard so people were hustling all types of shit to get their fix. Lots of people were fleeing other countries to come to America and many didn't like it. With that being said, I am in no way condoning the use of the prejudice and racial slurs he chose to use to make up the lyrics of the song. I don't care for the song because I feel that by releasing that song, they alienated a part of their fan base that they didn't even truly know existed. Maybe if the 80's had been more PC, that song would not have made on Lies...or at the very least some of the content of the song would have been changed.

    To me, it's amazing that song made it on a major label release.  Even at that time, that was never acceptable.  How many people did that have to go through to get approved?   I obviously didn't agree with it, but I understood it was coming from Axl's insular, uneducated point of view at the time, and he just pushed it on the others.  I think he really believed he wasn't being insulting.  And I think all of the criticism he got, did make him rethink and so some research, even if he didn't admit it publically.

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  6. 8 hours ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

    I agree @killuridols up to a point. This for me is the most frustrating thing about being a fan of Axl Rose and his band.

    I think he is scared to release new music, scared to do interviews and scared of what people might say about him. So he hides, he puts gag orders on everyone who works for him. All that makes me think he is so far away from the fearless singer he was in the 1980s. Cowardly behaviour, yes. 

    Then he goes and does what he did with AC/DC. Wtf?!?! You can't say that didn't take some fucking guts, because it really did! How can he go and do something so brave like that after all this time? The scrutiny must've been unbearable for him, but he still did it. 

    I did kind of feel like I was watching god onstage :lol: he really blew me away that day. 

    I thought that Axl was long gone 

    To me, Axl has not changed much from those early years.  I think he has no problem taking risks, like the AC/DC gig, especially when he's inspired and he was definitely inspired. 

    Being afraid is not the same as being cowardly.  I think Axl is ultra-sensitive and has spent many years being consumed with discovering his identity, and angry at how others perceive him.   Obsessing over details and events in his past, which tipped the scale towards being mentally unhealthy.  I have no doubt that he has music or at least ideas locked away, but if he finds it too painful to expose himself like that now, then I accept it.  Maybe it will still come out someday.

    I would love a good biography on Axl, but I don't know that he should write or release his own.  I'm sure it would be "his" truth, but he can't be objective about himself as a subject.  I would rather read other's observations on him. 

     

     

  7. 1 hour ago, Jane M. said:

    So once upon a time there was a NITL type of reunion that ended in 2003? 

    Interesting piece of information.:popcorn:????

    Not that I don't want to believe it...but how would anyone know this?  Wasn't Erin married to someone else at this time?  Her older kids would have been young in 2003 right? 

  8. 9 hours ago, KiraMPD said:

    Maybe I missed something cuz I don't see anyone saying that it's not okay to speculate either way. To me both scenarios equally as likely/unlikely because we don't have any evidence supporting either. So any theory we may come up with is just, as you say, speculation.

    She could have deleted her IG because:

    1. TB/Axl asking her to stop (as you have said).
    2. Got into some beef with at someone in the GnR camp and decided to cut ties (interesting that she un-followed Slash and Meegan)
    3. Somehow got some closure for that part in her life and wanted to move on.
    4. She got tired of the trolls/fans/Axl-defenders/fans etc, bugging her for more juicy details.
    5. Got tired of social media all together. Many people delete their social media accounts cuz it's fuckin exhausting to maintain it.
    6. It wasn't really Erin to begin with!
    7. She got hacked.
    8. ...other crazy theories that I can't think of now.

    Maybe we should convince someone to go to Atlanta and ask her. :shrugs:

    I think it's number one....but either she is still in contact with Axl or she had a falling out with Axl (again).  Hopefully, the former.  I mean, she was posting so many lovey, fond things about him on her IG, that I think they had to be in contact in some way.  To what extent we don't know.  But I like to imagine how it would be between them these days.  Older and wiser.  :heart:

  9. 2 hours ago, Rocketqueen76 said:

    Why does it have to Nuwomen's thread or original women's thread? I like the thread the way it is. I like the company, conversation and constant banter.  Calling it Nuwomen's makes new members seem unwelcome and unimportant. I like everyone here.

    Especially, when the thread is like a year old?  That's the nature of a message board, people come and go

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  10. 7 hours ago, Ace Spade said:

    I agree that the setting softened the tone a little...

    However, are we going to say that if that was a black president effigy on a rope, (pinata or not) people would not be screaming "RACIST" and "KKK" on the news, and social media all day? :lol:

     

    That's really not comparable.  Obama isn't promoting racist, sexist and xenophobic beliefs.  When you put that kind of hate out into the world you will get strong demonstrations of defiance.  As it should be.

  11. 14 hours ago, SerenityScorp said:

    Only Slash can makes Axl smile :heart:

    What a funny picture!  lol, Axl just loathes the camera. 

    On ‎27‎/‎10‎/‎2016 at 7:08 PM, MillionsOfSpiders said:

    Just something that I noticed today

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    I thought this style of jacket was really horrible when they first started giving these out at Coachella. I thought they were old fashioned, like from the early 90s crap. I really wondered why they were using such a horrible style. 

    Now that style of jacket is in absolutely everywhere in high street clothing shop in the U.K.  Just went to get my kids new coats today and bomber jackets are everywhere.

    Now I want a gnr one really bad :lol:

    yep, bomber jackets all the rage. 

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  12. 15 hours ago, lilacmess said:

    Hi everyone! Thanks for a highly enjoyable thread!

    I've just come across this quote from Axl from the 2000 Roling Stone interview:

    Even when it came to picking tracks for the recent Live Era '87-'93 retrospective, Rose and Slash – whom Rose describes as "negatively seductive" – communicated their song selections only through intermediaries. "I never said that I was bitter," Rose explains, characteristically concerned with making fine distinctions. "Hurt, yeah. Disappointed. I mean, with Slash, I remember crying about all kinds of things in my life, but I had never felt hot, burning tears … hot, burning tears of anger. Basically, to me, it was because I am watching this guy and I don't understand it. Playing with everyone from Space Ghost to Michael Jackson. I don't get it. I wanted the world to love and respect him. I just watched him throw it away."

    The "negatively seductive" part reminds me of Madagascar's lyrics, especially this

    "For the many times, what seemed like a memory
    I've searched and found the ways
    You used to lure me in
    Oh, I found the ways, oh, why it had to be
    Mired in denial, and so afraid"

    What do you guys think?

     

    I don't know about Madagascar, sometimes I thought it was about his parents.  But "hot burning tears of anger" sounds so passionate and dramatic.  So Axl.  :heart:

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