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Dying Light 2. Despite all the bullshit that the spoiled, ungrateful, know-it-all internet smartasses have said about it, the game is awesome. A worthy successor of the legendary DL1, and I’m not even halfway through. Sure, there are some changes or aspects that could be rethought, but they can’t have that big of an impact on the overall assessment of the game. Looking forward to NG+ and future content, gonna buy the Ultimate edition later. 

Nice idea but fat chance. Like with anything from behind the curtain regarding GNR. This would be a lot of very private, delicate material, which would not only need Axl's consent, but downright direct supervision/cooperation. We might as well want him to release a book - and we know what he said about that in 2016...

33 minutes ago, Hollyangel said:

Yeah I am quite partial to Axl Rose myself, I am the same age as he is, and GNR were a big part of my music in the day, and I don't exactly consider myself old although I do wish I still look like I did in my twenties and thirties lol.   

But there have been so many mean things said about his looks.  I understand the interest, it just some of the comments strike me as weird,  Is that him, is that not him, has he had plastic surgery, hair transplants, has he got a pot gut, is he sick.   Potential new music or old rare demos are different. 

It just seems people focus on his looks far more than any other rockstar.  Maybe it is because he is such an enigma.    I guess I never really knew what the band looked like until in the last few years when satellite internet and TV was cheap enough to afford, (because I have always lived and worked in the back of beyond) so for me the visuals have never really been a thing, although granted from what I can see he was pretty hot when he was young and now he has just aged like the rest of us.  Yeah I lost track of them in the so called wilderness years, but I never forgot their music.

Ha, interesting! Anyway, yeah, people will always gossip. There was (maybe still is) a forum that was really full of this weird hatred and derision, like "Axl's fat" etc. That's beyond me. 

1 hour ago, Hollyangel said:

I find it weird how obsessed people are with what Axl Rose looks like as he ages.  I thought people reserved that kind of thing for female stars lol.  I mean people joke about Keith Richards but not in the same way.  I don't know too many ageing male icons that get such attention.  No one cares what ageing stars like Angus Young, Dave Gilmour, Mick Jagger, Bono etc look like.  Perhaps its just Axls temperament, perceived weirdness and perhaps his own insecurity of what he looks like that draws such attention to him.  I always feel slightly sorry for him in this regard.  Dunno about Slash and his black hair, never gave it much thought.  Brian May rocks his gray hair anyway.  Funny how we seem to expect stars not to age. lol

Axl is not "old" yet in the sense Mick Jagger is. Plus he’s always been sort of an enigma, and there have been years we haven’t seen him at all. As for the rest, I wouldn’t call it an obsession. Folks love the man, he’s been part of their lives, and so they naturally take interest in these things as well, nothing wrong with that. It’d be like saying "I don’t get this obsession with possible new music from the band, or with some rare old demos". 

6 hours ago, AxlRQ93 said:

1999?

1995. There's already a thread:

4 hours ago, ToonGuns said:

I can’t tell if that is sarcasm or not? The new Tool album is fantastic, particularly the vinyl pressing which is a different master. Tool’s output in general is of a very high average standard.

It's not sarcasm at all, it was stunning, and I love the previous two as well. I just wasn't awaiting it or thinking about it the way I do with Guns...

8 minutes ago, gavgnr said:

So, this is what we’ve come to…

I don’t follow other bands much. The ones I do follow tend to release a record every 3/4 years (bout the average, I’d say?).

Does anyone follow any other bands who make their fans frustratingly wait more than a decade and a half for a new record?

Serious question.

Tool took their sweet time (2006 and then 2019), but I can't say I exactly follow them. Oh and it was definitely worth "the wait". 

12 minutes ago, DoMw94 said:

- I like Frank

- The current live version of Chinese Democracy is my favourite incarnation of the song

- I can't stand it when people insist on calling Street of Dreams 'The Blues' when it hasn't been called that for at least 14 years

*Cough* Absurd *cough*

41 minutes ago, El Nono Pololo said:

Blablabla... millions of people disagree. Those are flawed albums.

Blablabla - great argument. Millions of people agree also. Every album on this planet may be considered flawed.  

1 hour ago, vicson said:

Still no announcement. I'm done hoping.

Plenty of Tuesdays left, plans changed, look at what's happening in the world etc. etc. Complaints, complaints, selfish expectations et cetera. 

40 minutes ago, El Nono Pololo said:

As in ridiculously obvious?

No.

4 minutes ago, AxlRQ93 said:

Lack of facial hair + make up + vibrant contacts as opposed to the grey contacts he used in the classic days. Also lived cleaner in 03 (better diet, no smoking all the time, no coke) and probably took better care of his skin 

Or botox, lifting, maybe an illness, and god knows what else. Nobody really knows. Main thing is, when he came back in 06, it was him again (both looks- and sound-wise). 

41 minutes ago, AxlRQ93 said:

And in the meantime, his weird distant cousin from Indiana took over, as Axl wasn't confident enough in the new material, plus couldn't really be arsed, so he asked this guy to fill in: 

Saying UYI has a lot of fillers is ridiculous. As for Chinese, it's pretty cool but it's not what it could have been. Plus I guess Axl really counted on its sequel to be released not long after. Oh well, yet another... nevermind. 

6 minutes ago, We love Axl Rose said:

I prefer LALD over Dead Horse. 

Yeah but DH has rare Axl on guitar, the head cam, the smiling, and it generally reeks of energy, more than LALD... 

Dead Horse, the embodiment of their live energy from the 90s and the whole UYI tour? Are you folks nuts to vote it out? 

21 minutes ago, themadcaplaughs said:

From what I have been able to drudge up on the years from various forums (and I am sure Blackstar can correct as needed:)

• In 2014, the Guns N' Roses management approached Slash's management for signing off on the rights to use the old songs for the Appetite for Democracy DVD/Blu-Ray. In the past, Slash and Duff had been the ones who held up releases of Guns N' Roses DVD. Unlike audio, artists can set their own price for concert movies. Duff was playing with GN'R again and agreed to sign off on the movie. He might have been part of convincing Slash to sign off. Either way, Slash apparently signed off with rates much more reasonable than anyone expected. Apparently this was a big "aha" moment that, even though they did not have to be friends, they could actually enjoy a mutually beneficial business relationship. All of the negotiations were done via third party, but apparently began the "thaw."
• Per what Bumblefoot said in some interview (and Tommy has hinted at), the 2014 band got word of this and, along with the word that the band would be on hiatus following the second Vegas residency, took this to mean a full-fledged reunion was happening. 
• Nonetheless, we know that in 2014/2015 Axl was working in the studio and taking stock of all the material the band had recorded and what stage of completion it was. Chris Pitman tweeted pictures of work in the studio, and one of the mods here said the plan was to really bear down on new music with the hope of releasing it in 2016. Per MSL, DJ was in and out with the plan of having him record guitar parts as needed, and Axl even spoke to him about potential replacements for Ron. A rumor was started that it was Orianthi, but nothing came of that. 
• DJ left (which apparently took everyone by surprise) and essentially destroyed the then current plans to release new music. Per the various interview we've had with Slash and Axl, the Coachella reunion offer was still on the table, and Axl apparently took a "hey why not" approach to it. 

Cool, except the DJ thing. He left in July 2015, by which time BBF had already been out (even though he was being vague about it in interviews), Tommy said they'd sort of left it in Vegas, and iirc the first Axl-Slash phone contact was sometime at the beginning of summer 2015, if not earlier. So DJ already knew it was over for him, and there was no way Axl would release any record in the middle of such personnel earthquake. Therefore, we can't blame DJ for any non-release. 

13 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Having trawled through interviews up to April 2014, the last occasion where Axl seemed to talk about a possible reunion was in March 2013 and then he said he wasn't particularly interested. He didn't attack Slash or anything, like he had done previously, just that he was loyal to the current lineup and never felt reunions did anything for him. Throughout the rest of the year, nuGuns lineup members would reject the idea of a reunion and refer to the heated relationship between Axl or Slash. But in this period Duff started coming back to the band (playing some songs with the band in 2013 and replacing Tommy for shows in 2014), and band members started to drift away from the band (DJ more focused and excited about SIXX:AM, Bumblefoot picking up his solo career, Tommy reuniting with Westerberg in The Replacements), so I think Axl started to think differently, or realized a reunion was possible, from maybe 2014 and onwards. But again, this is me speculating. 

Yeah, that's what I figured, it makes sense. I wonder whether there was like a satori or whether it was a gradual process (bet on the latter). I wish they'd open up about this sometime. 

I think the mystery the solution of which could and would shed tons of light on pretty much everything concerning "CD2" is the question: around which time did Axl start to change his mind regarding Slash? When – and why! – did he get from "not in this lifetime, he's cancer" to "yeah, that’s what’s actually happening"? When – and what was behind it. Once we figure this out (impossible with almost zero information, as usual), we’ll know much more about the Chinese sequel and why it wasn’t released in 2012 or in 2014 or what the plan was etc., plus it would also help us in this guessing game as to what we may expect to be included on "the new album". 
However, considering this is one of the biggest mysteries, and a very private business at that, all I can wish us is: good luck. 
Some of the speculations make sense, yes, but do we know? 

1 hour ago, timoteo said:

Why the fuck do you want music we already have access to?

Excuses excuses this band doesn’t want to release new music. I wish they would just tell us that instead of breadcrumbing us. 

Cause there'll probably be videos we don't have yet, and theoretically in a polished professional version, theoretically. 

But yes, the communication is fucked. 

22 minutes ago, Rovim said:

I hope the next single Axl chooses to release is The General

I wouldn't be against it, but what would be even better is a brand new song. They've had 6 years to create one.  

19 minutes ago, Twinaleblood said:

Must be Chris Pitman trolling us all. I want to believe.

But trust no one.

Had to google the name, ngl. 

4 hours ago, Sosso said:

That would have been a good idea for Pele

Or CubanDummy, the guy with all the lists. Couldn't keep it in a single thread, could he.