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8 hours ago, Karice said:

Speaking of Beta and Team Brazil, I must confess rhat I'm confused on why Axl has Team Brazil as his "Family," and wonder why the hell aren't his  ACTUAL Family like Amy and Stuart, his Brother and Sister helping Axl out? 🤨🤔🥴 I must also confess I just found out that Team Brazil has been around since around 1993, I thought Team Brazil started in like 2015! 😳

I guess Amy and Stuart have their own lives and wouldn’t wanna dedicate the better part of it to be just their crazy rock star brother’s assistants. 
As for TB, you need to discern between TB - the business body and the Lebeis' family. Team Brazil has indeed formed some time in 2010s and consists mainly of Beta and FN'ando as the main figures. The Lebeis family, however, has been in Axl’s life since around 1991, when Axl got involved with Steph, as Beta was her son’s nanny. 

Btw, I’ve always wondered what would have been if the Lebeis never came into Axl’s life. Who knows, maybe Beta saved Axl’s mental health around the Steph breakup or later the band’s breakup. On the other hand, they come off as a fucking cult, and it’s weird. He’s still single / not married, they’re very close and secretive, and this 60+ year old man is singing a song on the stage, then walks to the right and kisses and hugs Beta mid-song! You wouldn’t do this with your own mum, would you? It’s just weird. But then, if it works... whatever, I guess. I’m just saying, in a parallel universe, things would have looked differently, and who knows whether for better or worse (and the question is whether for us or for Axl; or both or neither). Just riffin' here. 

I foresaw this coming. Band on hiatus, i.e. threads about "what’s next?" and bickering about background nonsense we know generally nothing about. We’re in for a fruitful period! 

If that's true, he absolutely should have told Axl about his label stabbing him in the back. 

Anyway, a few kilos of salt need to be taken here. Also, Axl was a real wacko indeed. 

This would be a pretty bad record. Double so for a long-awaited "comeback" album. Two good songs - Monsters and HS - and the rest pretty mediocre, at least for GN'R. I hope they have more up their sleeves. 

Edit: I’m not saying e.g. Atlas Shrugged or State of Grace are bad songs, but the band basically catered to the casuals for 7 years in a row, and if they want to intrigue them with their new music, they cannot release an album sounding like CD2 (with Slash on it). That would be a huge flop. 
(And please spare me of the "there’s no point in releasing albums any more anyway" nonsense. Other bands normally do it.)

Not today, but:

- Doug Goldstein is a devoted believer. Weird for his line of work. 
https://www.movieguide.org/dr-baehrs-blog/testimony-of-former-guns-n-roses-manager-doug-goldstein-i-know-that-if-it-is-gods-will-he-will-provide-a-way.html

- Axl got knocked over by a car when he was 12 and ended up in a hospital. 
- S. Bailey knocked down two cyclists when Axl was 15. 
- His bio father kidnapped him for a while, later disappeared from Lafayette, and eventually was shot dead around 1987 (by somebody named Faulkner). 
https://postimg.cc/w12rX3W0

17 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

When their current manager sent monkey porn to their photographer in order to make her have sex with him.

I consider myself a pacifist and overall a "mellow" fella, but I think of this guy - and I feel anger. Not that it's anything new, but it definitely hasn't gotten better in light of the recent revelations... 

7 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

Yea, the proshots I bolded...that's what I was referring to...👍

In any case, I hope one of the 2024 highlights will be Monsters released, e.g. with Atlas as the B-side, and ideally with a proper video. Imagine that. I wonder whether Axl will ever do some story-driven video again. It doesn't have to be anything big, like the UYI video trilogy, just something smaller, like The Garden, with just a simple topic or something, Idk. 
Anyway, I'm derailing the thread here.  

6 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

Thought that all was 2018 dude?

Village was 19, the pro-shots were 18, got it mixed up...

While Monsters is great (wasn’t released, though) and the setlist changes as well, plus we got Perhaps finally with a proper video, I think 2023 was on a par with 2019. Because if I’m not mistaken, within that same year we got the House of Blues 2001 pro-shot, the Saskatoon 1993 pro-shot, the whole Village leaks business, and two deep-cuts live (Loco, DH) on top of that. 

Looks like someone else's GN'R memorabilia rather than Axl's own stuff. 

31 minutes ago, thelostrose said:

I don't remember the show - it was pre-reunion - where Axl started Patience with the second verse. He stopped by talking about himself in a funny voice: "What... what is he singing..."

Professional and funny

Rock Am Ring 2006

On 12/29/2023 at 3:07 AM, Sweersa said:

Maybe on the vinyl if you play The General backwards you hear Monsters?

If you play The General backwards, you are the monster!

I wonder whether Axl is a bit ambidextrous. He writes with his right, but we've all surely noticed already he usually holds the mic in his left, especially when on the mic stand. I't like 90 to 10%. Peculiar. 

1 hour ago, ZoSoRose said:

It is pretty funny in a way, I guess 

Literally 9600 posts over a decade of garbage. The queen of shitposting. Maybe it is an accomplishment

No, I'm sorry, I didn't read that. I was kind of letting off steam - what with this being a general chat, right? - actually reacting to this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-67795251

Yeah, I'm Czech. This is just... insane. I'm lost for words. 

Edit: You see - and sorry for an ignorant take - we're not America, and this stuff doesn't normally happen here. It never has. We're fucking shaken, I can tell you that already. 

Anyway, merry X-mas, anyone.

Jesus fucking Christ 

So it's "and not distorted meaning" in TG according to the booklet images I've seen on Reddit.

1992. I was 10, and they were everywhere. First I heard my sister’s cassette mix with mostly UYI songs, and I instantly liked Axl’s voice. Then I saw a poster and liked how they looked. Among the first videos I remember was the UYI stuff – Civil War from Tokyo 92, and Paris 92 broadcasted on TV. Axl walking and talking on the stage, spitting. I'd never seen anything like that. I only got the Appetite stuff a bit later. I remember how magical Axl seemed to me in Sweet Child and how it looked like a slightly different band… I started to perceive the other members subsequently, but it was Axl who made me a fan. 

2 minutes ago, Dazey said:

I'm just hoping that whatever it is they take the time to optimise it for the platform. I bought a 4090 a few months back thinking I'd just be able to throw anything at it to chew on and it would laugh at it but I've played a few games that run like shit because the developers obviously just couldn't be bothered to do a proper job. Star Wars Jedi Survivor runs at 70-80FPS at 4K with everything maxed but has terrible frame timings and stutters all over the place. Cyberpunk is another one. I can get 130-150FPS at max settings with DLSS and frame gen switched on but it's really stuttery too.

Yeah. CP looks beautiful, but I had to switch from DLSS to that Intel thingy, because otherwise I had pixelated smoke. They do update it almost on a daily basis, though. 

I’m actually the secret third guitarist in GN'R, and yesterday Axl told me in the studio not to believe all the shit I read on the internet. "Garbage can" are the literal words he used. 

To start acting like a band again. And not like a goddamn corporation, with a sole shareholder to boot. 

Ain’t gonna happen, is it. 

Forget it. 

10 hours ago, LandOla said:

He seems to be a gamer too, hence the nod to Fallout 3 in his profile

Wait, what?

14 minutes ago, Mendez said:

Skipping all the posts. Yeah, nobody cares what they do outside of their hits. They could write a song greater than any other hit before it, and it wouldn't make a sizeable dent in the public's thoughts

Weell.... as long as Axl doesn't go crazy and write something that goes against the current grain of... whatever. PC maybe? Imagine another One in a Million, but this time about some other minority, or something sensitive, Idk. Which is exactly a zero chance of happening, now or ever. I know it's nonsense, I'm just saying. Waves could still be made. A part of me (currently slightly drunk) thinks it would be fun. 

Man, fuck it, just release Monsters.

1 hour ago, Voodoochild said:

I agree. You're overthinking. 

I wouldn't be so sure about this. Now "ugly" is obviously subjective, but certain arrangements or tone or whatever, yeah, these things can play a role, can't they. It's a definite maybe.