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  1. 16 hours ago, Free Bird said:

    It must have been great to be that close to the stage!

    About Axl: I heard him say "I remember this place".

    :lol: That's all I wanted to say

    It's quite possible you're right, I probably just forgot the last word while trying to remember :lol:

     

    16 hours ago, Derick said:

    That´s Gio!! Axl´s bodyguard..That guy is an animal!!!:lol:

    Oh so that is his name. And yeah, he looks scary, but he was quite nice.

     

    11 hours ago, PatrickS77 said:

    Are you kidding? Those pics are awesome.

    Thank you, but the quality of the pictures is really bad and I would have liked to take some close-ups as well, but that wasn't possible with my shitty phone camera.

     

    7 hours ago, xBrownstonex said:

    Who is that lenny kravitz lookalike with the glasses? He seems new

    Andrei Gillott. Not new at all, he's been around for a long time. We've discussed him a lot in the Women's Thread. Also "works" for Leonardo DiCaprio, among other people.

     

    4 hours ago, Schwarzgold said:

    Hey all,

    I got a Golden Circle ticket for Hannover, but I have no idea what that means in reality. How full was the section for GC ticket holders in Munich? Was ist decadently open, because they paid much, or was is cramped, because it was full of hardcore gunners?   

    The front row right at the rail was mostly taken by people with Early entrance and VIP tickets, but after that it wasn't too crowded. I was standing in the second row and I still had a little bit of breathing room around me. You had even more space a couple of rows further back. So I'd say the GC area was decently full, but not cramped.

     

     

     

  2. 1 hour ago, xBrownstonex said:

    I don't know who that second support act was, but she was totally at the wrong show.

    The music wasn't bad, for when youre lying on the couch and getting high, but not for a rock concert. It was more of a downer and people were cheering when she announced the last song.

    The Kills, I think.

    But yeah, pretty boring. I felt kind of bad for her though with all the people booing and then cheering when she announced their last song.

    Anyway, gonna post my review and pictures here too I guess...

     

  3. 53 minutes ago, killuridols said:

    WTF is that what I'm thinking? :wow:

    Is that a newspaper thingy letting people know where Axl stays? 

    Yes. Seems to have had no effect though thankfully- I went by their hotel earlier, some people there waiting around, but nothing much.

    I just heard Duff singing ISE during soundcheck. Also heard Estranged, but only an instrumental version lol.

     

     

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  4. 1 hour ago, slammerjam said:

    Usually they let all people through the same gates and once you're in there are signs where to go. But you should ask the staff at the concert tomorrow, they might separate the crowd this time.

    Usually 90% of the people line up at the North Entrance and basically no one lines up at the South entrance even though they usually open both. (AC/DC 2015). It just so happens that the North Entrance is the first you see when you come to the Stadium. Everyone at the North entrance, once inside the stadium has to run all the way back to the south anyways und then once in the GA area run to the front of the stage  :D So the people in the South Entrance only had half the way to run in the end. 

    That leads me to the prediction, that it will be like this: North Entrance (nearest to the stage): FOS1 and FOS2, South Entrance: General Admission. There was no FOS tickets for AC/DC, so lining up at the South was better, but this time it would be better to double check.

     

    Anyways: have fun at the concert tomorrow, even though this is the nearest to me I'm waiting until Prague. Doing only one show and it should be special. Even though it is nice that Munich was featured in the Estranged video, the sound suffers at times because of the roof. It's not too bad for people standing, but there could be too much echoing when you are sitting under the roof. It's probably nothing that will spoil the experience for anybody, but it is definitely not the best sounding location on this tour.

    Thanks for the detailed reply, really helpful. I guess I will line up at the North Entrance too. Don't want to be the idiot waiting at the south entrance if they don't open it after all lol.

     

     

  5. So has anyone here been to other concerts at the Olympia Stadion and can tell us about the entrances there? Do they have different entrances for different categories of tickets?

    On my other GNR tickets the entrance I need to go to is printed right on my ticket, but it says nothing on my ticket for Munich.

     

     

     

  6. 5 hours ago, Tori72 said:

    LOL

    I hope not. There's a word: Fremdschämen and I don't know how to translate it. :rofl-lol:

    There's nothing wrong with going for meeting Axl (or whoever), having an autograph and whatnot, if that's what you want but it's not me. Especially not screaming like banshee in a crowd of crazy fans.

    The best translation I've heard is "secondhand embarassment". Cringeworthy is a useful word as well for shit like this.

    And I'm feeling a lot of second hand embarassment watching that video.

    All those people screaming and whining their names. It comes across as so desperate and needy. If I were Axl or Slash I'd be so put off by all these people screaming at me that I'd try to walk away from them as fast as I can.

    I also see nothing wrong with wanting to meet Axl or wanting autographs (I did that myself last year), but I wasn't screaming at him and no one else was screaming either, thankfully.

     

    20 hours ago, Andy14 said:

    Omg thank you! :hug: You are the best :headbang:

    This is for you :wub:

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    I think it's slowly time to make a video "Axl being pain in the ass: NITL edition" :rofl-lol:

    Awww :wub::wub::wub:

    We should make a list of cute NITL moments or something.

     

     

     

     

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  7. On 4.6.2017 at 5:24 PM, Kris_1989 said:

    I completely agree, @Lumikki! Not to ruin Izzy's "dangerous" image :awesomeface: but I think Izzy is very laid back, caring and doesn't seem to hold grudges against anyone. The story about him checking in on Steven while Steven was suing them also sticks out to me. As far as I know I think Izzy was the only one who stayed in contact with Steven and made sure he was ok around that time.

    Didn't know that story about Steven, but yeah I think that is another good example of Izzy being really caring. When all the other guys in the band, even his former best friend Slash, didn't want anything to do with him anymore, Izzy still checked up on him.

    And he basically did the same thing with Axl. When Axl was on bad terms with everyone, Izzy still tried to check up on him regularly, while the rest of the guys couldn't be bothered.

     

    1 hour ago, SerenityScorp said:

    How many necklaces/bracelets beads/stones dat He has in His house?

    I remember dat Axl ever wear Izzy necklace on stage

    Huh what? Axl wore one of Izzy's necklaces??

     

    1 hour ago, Archtop said:

    Two classics, always had a thing for the black beads in the early pic. Did I read that he use to make his own neck laces or one of the original girlfriends would make them for the guys?

    Yes, that rings a bell for me. I think I remember reading that Izzy used to make necklaces and sold them to make money.

     

     

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  8. On 5.6.2017 at 4:54 PM, Andy14 said:

     :unsure: The Golden Circle was huge last year when I went to ACDC show, so I think that bigger chances may be in Vienna with @Lumikki. She's already met Axl, so she's an expert now :headbang:. I think this should be one of @Frey's responsibilities....to take care of us when we go to the shows :max:

    Riiiiiiiight. If one stroke of dumb luck makes me the expert here, then we're fucked :scared:

     

    On 1.6.2017 at 8:34 PM, killuridols said:

    Wooow!!! :wow:  More to our collection of old pics and these ones look actually good! I mean, they are clear unlike the others.

    Lol I don't think Axl had just one shirt, it looks to me this is part of a uniform for the band.

    I didn't know he was part of a school band, lol, or maybe i forgot....?? But that's amazing. Shows his interest in music goes really far back!

    On 31.5.2017 at 11:10 PM, janrichmond said:

    OMG a whole class of those shirts! So do you think that's like a 'uniform' for the band and Axl just happened to have photos on band days?

    I was joking about that being his only shirt, but he did seem to wear it pretty often and over a span of years. He's also wearing that flowery shirt in that portrait picture of him with a terrible bowl cut for example. In which he was probably younger than in all these yearbook photos.

    I also don't think it's a uniform, because the other kids in these pictures usually don't wear anything similar:

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    On 31.5.2017 at 11:35 PM, MillionsOfSpiders said:

    @Lumikki

    He also seems to only have had the one pair of trainers for everything. Track running, wrestling, band practice.

    Hadn't noticed that, but wouldn't surprise me. Maybe being a crazy preacher didn't pay that well.

     

    On 4.6.2017 at 11:40 PM, Frey said:

    It's a pic from this photoshoot (Google didn't provide me with the exact picture Grace used, but these are nearly identical):

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    This is the one Grace apparently printed and cut out:

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    On 4.6.2017 at 11:40 PM, Frey said:

    Not just naming the cats Axl....

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    .... I also still remember "Daddy-gate".

    And the same young lady responsible for daddy gate now has a band named "Rose Thorn" if I'm remembering this correctly.

    And now Grace apparently has pictures of Axl in her room/apartment/whatever.

    It seems that this little gang of young ladies has a soft spot for Axl or something.

    Also relevant to this topic:

    Vanessa posted a picture of her daughter wearing Axl's hat earlier. Not gonna post it here, but it's on her Instagram if anyone wants to see it.

    Considering all of that, I think you might be justified in suspecting that Axl might secretly be closer to these children than we know of,  @Tori72.  

    Who knows, Uncle Axl might well be very popular with all the little ones, from the babies and toddlers to the teenagers :lol:

    I really want that for Axl :wub:  He should at least be able to be the cool Uncle to all these kids or something.

     

    7 hours ago, Carlycosmos said:

    Eating paella!! But not in Valencia... Shame! :P

     

    What the...?

    Big, tacky, ugly-ass rings? 500 necklaces around his neck?

    Duff was supposed to be a positive influence on Axl, but clearly it's working the other way round :scared::P

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    About Duff and Susan... they're not just an Instagram couple, they're an Instagram family. They use their social media to promote every member of their family. Grace's music career, Mae's modelling career, Duff's writing, Susan's swimsuit business, and of course GNR. Everything. I guess they feel being all over social media is necessary for their continued success or something. And they do appear to have some harcore fans who are fans of the entire family and not just Duff. Which weirds me out a bit, but whatever.

     

     

     

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  9. 57 minutes ago, killuridols said:

    Yeah, in my opinion the little Natalia is the one who hangs out with him a lot because she likes music, she sings and plays a little guitar. And that doesnt come from anyone in her inmediate family! :lol:

    Speaking of Sasha :ph34r:.... she's put on some weight and keeps living la vida loca with whatever she does for a living.

    Now she's at the French riviera with her model friends.

    Fuckin' Andrei is at Slane Castle right now :facepalm:

    Oh really? Didn't know that, but I can totally picture Axl hanging out with her and teaching her some music basics.

    He seems like the type who really enjoys spending time with little ones :heart:

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    36 minutes ago, Tori72 said:

    Awww, wow. Reading it blows my mind. And thank you I can see the pics now.

    Gosh, you must be so young then! :lol:

    Not that young anymore these days :P But yeah, I had a really great time back then and I was lucky to catch one of the shows Izzy showed up (Izzy didn't guest at all the shows during that tour; he picked and chose what shows he wanted to show up for iirc and only appeared in countries/cities he felt like going to or something).

     

    26 minutes ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

    He sang it :wow:

    I think it's placement in the set, just before Coma, also meant something too. Particularly to Axl. 

    Yeah, I'm amazed. Sounded really good too, except for the higher parts (I wish he'd use his lower voice much, much more. I love it and he doesn't use it enough :max:)

    And yeah, I think you're right about the placement, especially since we're talking about Axl here. Everything has some deeper meaning with him usually, even if he's the only one able to make sense of it :rolleyes::P

     

     

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  10. 40 minutes ago, Tori72 said:

    Thanks, dear. 

    YOU HAVE SEEN IZZY?! When and where? :wub:

    By the way, I can't see any of the pics you posted.

     

    I saw Izzy in 2006 in Vienna.

    Izzy was there with Axl at a music festival. Seeing those two on stage together was the highlight of my young life back then lol.

    I still remember going "awwww" when they hugged and the way they smiled at each other :wub:

    Izzy was there for quite a few songs, 6 or 7 I think. And Baz was also there. Having Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin and Sebastian Bach on one stage made me feel like I'd time-travelled back into the 80s. I mean I didn't actually get to live the 80s, but you know what I mean :P

    The picture problem should be fixed now. PLEASE TELL ME YOU CAN SEE THEM OR I WILL HAVE A MINOR CRISIS. God I hate photobucket so much. :anger::anger:

     

    24 minutes ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

    @Lumikki You've never seen Slash live? :wow:

    Prepare to have your mind blown! :lol:

    No I really haven't :max:

    I'm too young to have seen GNR back in the day (I was a baby then lol), so I only ever saw NuGNR and Axl/DC.

    I kind of wanted to go see a Velvet Revolver concert once, but it didn't work out. And I didn't care enough about Slash/GNR during the years he might have been near me with SMKC to go see him (my obsession with this band was only really re-awakened with the reunion lol, before that I spent some years not really following them very closely).

    But yeah, I'm ready to have my mind blown by the great Slash :lol:

     

    25 minutes ago, killuridols said:

    Meanwhile... the Malibu home is being taken care of by Carime, Maia Rose and Mr. Blue :ph34r:

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    Well Sasha isn't here anymore, so someone's got to look after the house :rolleyes:

    I get the feeling this child (and also Vanessa's kid) are around Axl A LOT, so it's weird we've never seen any pictures of him with the little Lebeislings. But then again, we don't see any pictures of anything Axl does, so what do I know.

     

     

     

     

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  11. On 26.5.2017 at 3:20 AM, Rickodez said:

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    Aww.

    He looks very sweet and mellow in that video.

    Also LOL at these gifs @Andy14 :lol:

     

    On 13.5.2017 at 3:41 PM, Andy14 said:

    Another pic with Sante D'Orazio

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    I want to see more more moreeee :popcorn:

     

    So these were probably taken around the same time then (maybe even by Sante)?

    Same cap, same haircut. Always wondered where they were from:

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    Another pic of their bromantic Italy vacation:

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    The rollercoaster one:

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    And I think I remember reading somewhere that this is Axl with Sante's son:

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    I think this one was taken by Sante as well:

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    I'll be honest, I do not like Sante (he strikes me as just another Andrei type), but I do really like the pictures he has taken of Axl over the years for the most part and am glad he shares them with us.

    And since you brought it up, here you go @Frey :awesomeface:

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    You can count his moles and freckles on this one :P

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    Anyway...

    On 25.5.2017 at 8:20 PM, Tori72 said:

    Great, thank you. I don't have the tickets yet but on the website it says 6.45 so that would be the beginning of the pre-shows, right?

    I guess I have to be there in order to be close to the stage for GnR, right? @Lumikkido you know the Olympia Stadium, do they have an extra entrance for FoS or do we queue with everyone else? If so that would mean to be there as soon ap.... (I guess I better arrive Monday evening then. Gotta check for some hotel or hostel...) 

    On 25.5.2017 at 8:09 PM, Tori72 said:

    Sorry, slightly off topic but I need advice from anyone who's been to GnR close to the stage. My friend and me have those "Front of Stage" tickets for Munich and we have no clue when to be where. (Yes, I know it's still 3 weeks but I'm getting excited here! :)) Do we get into the inner circle no matter when we arrive or should we be at a certain time somewhere? I would like to be closest to the stage as possible but I don't know if that is wise or not, being short and all... So, someone here who can help me out?

    Hah, no.  Never seen a concert at the Olympia Stadium in Munich before. But going by past concert experiences with stadiums, I assume there will be different entrances for different sections of the stadium. It was that way with the Axl/DC show I saw in Vienna for example and I know it will also be the same way for the GNR show this summer in Vienna (takes place in the same stadium and my Vienna ticket says "Red entrance" - same as it was with AC/DC, they had color-coded the different entrances back then as well). I assume the Olympia Stadium in Munich might have a similar system. But then again, I just checked my Munich ticket and there's no specific entrance listed on it, so who the hell knows :rolleyes:

    Apart from that, everything @killuridols and @Andy14 said is good advice. I'll try to be there as soon as I can (within reason, I'm not one of these people who enjoys camping outside of the venue lol), so I guess I'll be there around 2 or 3 in the afternoon (if everything goes according to plan).

    Also I have to say I'm slowly starting to get really excited about these shows :popcorn:

    I've seen Axl twice now and I've seen Izzy once, but I've never seen Slash and Duff live in any way. I'm really looking forward to finally seeing these two (and my favorite ginger fireball as well of course lol).

    And also because the Olympia stadium in Munich is where the Estranged video was filmed, iirc. I loved watching the Estranged video when I was a kid and it's kind of surreal to me to be going to the stadium from that video and see the same people there again finally :drool:

     

     

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  12. Day 2: alltime Izzy songs

    - 14 Years

    - Sweet Caress

    - Take a look at that guy (yeah, I know it's a cover, but I just love the second (instrumental) half of that song...)

    - Gotta Say

    - River

     

    Day 1: alltime Izzy pics

    (How am I supposed to limit myself to just 5? I could post dozens of Izzy pictures, all of which are "my favorite" :max:)

    But anyway...

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    (These two count as one, obviously :P)

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    These two count as one too: :max:

    Link because these refuse to show up for some reason

    Same goes for this one. I hate this board.

    Sligthly clichéd choice, but who doesn't love the "nipple picture" :P

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    Bonus: my avatar lol (a slightly different shot though)

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    On 23.5.2017 at 2:14 PM, Darkenchantress said:

    Day 7. Five Izzy's songs written about Axl :awesomeface:

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    Looking forward to this one :P

    I already have 2 or 3 in mind lol.

     

    EDIT: Why the hell do half of my pictures refuse to show up on the board when I hit post? Urrrghhh. I added them as links now, but this sucks :max::max:

     

     

     

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  13. 2 hours ago, Andy14 said:

    Another pic with Sante D'Orazio

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    I want to see more more moreeee :popcorn:

    Omg, I love these pics of wet Axl (with or without sausage)  @Andy14 and @killuridols :drool: Sante better show us some more pics from his stash if he's got stuff like that lying around :max:

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    @MillionsOfSpiders And the award for sadest and most symbolic avatar goes to... :o:P

     

    Also hi :ph34r:

     

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  14. 2 hours ago, Tori72 said:

    Yes me too. Still, it's not only the mothers. :) No matter where the Dad was. He's still a dad and can / should have been equally worried. So yeah, I wonder what they did and how they react to this. Obviously not too much, otherwise Izzy would have developed differently, wouldn't he?

    Same questions goes for the other guys as well. What happend to Duff and Slash to loose themselves that much in drugs and substances? I wonder about this, whether this curiosity for drugs is related to how safe and loved you feel at home (or what and if parents can do anything about it). But that might derail this thread to much so just take it as a footnote.

    Izzy's family actually seems to be relatively normal and unproblematic (especially when compared to Axl's or Steven's). He gets along well with both of his parents these days as far as I know. The only thing that might have negatively impacted him (that we know about) was his parents getting divorced. But like @beautifulanddamned said, that happens to a lot of kids. I also remember reading somewhere that Izzy's mother never really got over her husband leaving the family and was very bitter about it, so that might have caused some tension as well. I also vaguely remember Izzy saying something about being annoyed by his father's comments when he was younger or something (I think it might have been about his father disapproving of Izzy wanting to become a professional musician). 

    On the positive side, Izzy always seems to have been very fond of his mom. He got defensive over his mom when he was a kid in that one story Dano Kildsig shared, and also called her a saint or something later on in an interview where he talked about his mom always allowing him and Axl to make noise in their garage. I also remember us talking about Izzy's mom giving Axl a Christmas (or birthday?) present. And he also kicked drugs at his mom's house.

    And as has been mentioned Izzy's dad was the one who rescued him from L.A. when he hit a low point (and then probably brought him to his mom).

    That's basically all I know about Izzy's parents. All in all, they seem normal and caring enough to me. Everything else can probably explained by things being different back then. Less methods of communication = harder to check up on your kids. And I also get the impression that people were more innocent and trusting back then. You constantly hear all these stories about people hitch-hiking all over the country in the 70s and stuff like that.

     

    4 hours ago, beautifulanddamned said:

    It blows my mind that any young kid would have the balls to go out to a city like LA with no place to stay/ no job/ little money. Where do you go? What do you do? It would be so easy to be taken advantage of/ start taking advantage of other people. At least Axl had Izzy to look for. I wonder who Izzy knew when he very first went to LA? Anyone? Axl and Izzy's books would be so good, dammit.

    Izzy's and Axl's late teenage years/early twenties and them making their way to L.A (and their struggle to get by there) is something I'm endlessly curious about. I have so many questions about that time. So yeah, write some books, goddamnit :max:

    Izzy has never talked much about these years, but the bits and pieces Axl has mentioned (like him riding buses for days when he was trying to find Izzy, the hitch-hiking rape/near-rape, his bus station troubles, sleeping in abandoned buildings or on the street, etc.) are enough to nearly give me an anxiety attack just thinking about it. I mean, we know what they looked liked back then, and thinking about these tiny, skinny small town kids trying to get by in a big city or getting into cars with strange people... it makes me shudder. I'd go all helicopter mom on their asses, but I grew up in a very different time than they and their parents did.

     

     

     

     

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