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    VIDEOGAME Thread...

    in ANYTHING GOES

    Posted · Edited by sixtus

    For the over-20 crowd here, these systems for us were analogous to the PS2/XBox/Gamecube...

    NES was slightly before my time though I still played it as a kid, remember the classic games? Double Dragon, Ninja Gaiden, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Super Mario Brothers and Duckhunt?

    Or Sega's great games like the sonic series, golden axe,etc...Sega always came to me as a lower end version of the SNES, however I had to buy one for some of the games they were putting out at the time...

    My all time favorite system was the Super Nintendo, so many sweet games...Turtles in Time, Street Fighter 2 (favorite game ever), Super Mario World,etc

    I can't tell you how many quarters I wasted in the arcade on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles before they released Turtles in Time on snes.... :lol:

    ..yeah..or ZELDA - or donkey monkey..incredible games..super mario 1,2 and the different one: part 3..

    ..i spent days and nights in front of my NES/SNES...

    ..GLORY DAYS...

    Official VMA Thread

    in 2006

    Posted

    I don't think we are going to be let down. Axl has always used the VMAs as a place to market the GNR brand. I have to believe tonight will be no different. Only question is, can I sit through this trash until he arrives.

    ...that's for sure how it is/was planned..

    ..official sale statistic..

    in 2006

    Posted

    ..does anyone have any source of all the 7 GNR albums?...

    ..i would be interested in the single countries...

    ..for example:

    AUSTRIA:

    UYI I: 300.000

    UYI II: 200.000

    AFT: 400.000

    LIES: 100.000

    TSI: 100.000

    ...and so on..and so on..

    ..i think it's quite interestin' that for example in some countries the UYI 2 has been sold much more copies than the UYI I...(..mainly cause of YCBM i think..)

    ..i think sweden...norway..all this vikings are also quite on the top..

    ..any source....pls post...

    ..meaning behind a few GNR songs...

    in 2006

    Posted · Edited by jack99

    1)....OH MY GOD..

    The chorus: OH MY GOD etc. deals with the societal repression of deep and often agonizing emotions - some of which may be willingly accepted for one reason or another - the appropriate expression of which (one that promotes a healing, release and a positive resolve) is often discouraged and many times denied. Emotionally the song contemplates several abstract perspectives drawing from personal expression as well as from the film (End Of Days) and its metaphors. The appropriate expression and vehicle for such emotions and concepts is not something taken for granted.

    Musically the song was primarily written by Paul Huge over two years ago, with Dizzy Reed writing the musical hook of the chorus. Former member Duff McKagan as well as former employee Matt Sorum failed to see its potential and showed no interest in exploring, let alone recording the piece. When the demos were played for the new band, Josh, Tommy and Robin were as they say 'all over it.'

    Once the opportunity was presented, the song was given priority in our recording process. As the verse, performance and lyrics were decided on, for us (that especially includes Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine) the choice became obvious. We were more than pleased Mr. Roswell (the film's music supervisor) agreed! Our thanks to Arnold and all for the consideration - it is an association in which we have always felt honored.

    Paul Huge, Gary Sunshine and Dave Navarro appear on the song as well as Robin Finck. Robin's part was written by Paul and extensively manipulated by our producer, Sean Beaven. Robin was not involved in the writing of the final recording though did participate in the arrangement. All lyrics were written by myself. Additional programming (jack boots, screeching tires, etc.) was by Stuart White.

    The fight of good vs. evil, positive vs. negative, man against a seemingly undefeatable, undeterrable, unrevealed destiny, along with the personal and universal struggle to attain, maintain and responsibly manage freewill can be and often is frustrating to say the least. In America our country's constitutional right to freedom of expression gives us a better chance to fight for that expression than many in other countries enjoy. It can be a big gig, like kickin' the crap outta the devil!

    2.)...THINK ABOUT YOU...

    Izzy wrote that one. There's a few parts of the lyrics that I put in there, and maybe gave it a little more flow, and worded it my way since I was the one singing it. Izzy does a lot of lyric writing. /../ I think it's kinda one of the ones that's a bit hidden. That's also with the way it was recorded. It's also very Hanoi Rocks-influenced, and the production on "Think About You" and the way it's done, is kinda like a tribute to all those old Hanoi Rocks records. It's something that Izzy was really into, and then he got me into it. It's kinda like a Hanoi Rocks song the way we looked at that.

    3.)...COMA...

    Writing "Coma" on "Use Your Illusion I" was so heavy I'd start to write and I'd just pass out. I tried to write that song for a year, and couldn't. l went to write it at the studio and passed out. l woke up two hours later and sat down and wrote the whole end of the song, like, just off the top of my head. It was like, don't even know what's coming out, man, but it's coming. l think one of the best things that I've ever written was maybe the end segment of the song "Coma." It just poured out. I thanked Slash for that, because I used to curse him, going, "Man, that son of a bitch has written this thing and I've got to write to it and don't know what to write." It was so hard; it made me feel like, "l don't know how to write, I should just quit. But I finally did write it, and l ended up feeling a lot better about a lot of situations that I expressed in that song.

    4.)...GET IN THE RING...

    Get In The Ring" was a song that was… basically put together by Slash and Duff, and I came up with the low vocal part. And Slash and I wrote that part together. We wrote different verses. And we wrote a whole song that when the whole band actually had the song together, the words didn't fit the arrangement of the song. And so, we were in Toronto, playing a show in Toronto. And we had one last song to finish recording, that was "Get In The Ring".

    So, we went in the studio and just kind of started putting things together. And then Duff decided that I should express my feelings about how we've been treated by the press, because that was his initial concept for the song, and that I should just go for it. And I was kind of like: "Are you sure? You sure I should do this?". And then Tom Zutaut, of Geffen, was there and he was like: "Go for it."

    So I got behind the mike and went for it. And everybody was really happy and we just decided to do it. And this naming names, and things like that, were because most bands can't afford to express how they feel about how they're treated in the press, because they need the press so much. And I know that this could hurt us, but we're in a position where I think we owe it to ourselves, and we owe it to an element of the public.

    5.)...ESTRANGED...

    There's something really wild, for me, in performing "Estranged" 'cause all of a sudden I realized I don't want to be sitting at the piano playing this song to keep the energy of the song moving live. I need to be moving around and there's something about being able to be up there moving around during it that's actually a present, a gift or something. Being able to dance and rejoice in a song. That came from situations and emotions that were killing me.

    6.)...MY WORLD...

    My World happened when we’re sitting and were bored. We’ve been working on "Live and Let Die" the whole night and it was early in the morning. I’d been listening to a lot of industrial music and all of a sudden I said, "Hey man, let's do something. Let's see what happens. Let's just make it short and sweet and see what we come up with." In three hours we wrote and recorded the song. /../ I'll expose a little more of myself - we were also on 'shrooms. A friend of mine had stuck some mushrooms in my tea and I didn't know it. All of a sudden we were being really mellow. So it was kind of a socio-psychotic state of bliss.

    Source: http://hem.passagen.se/snoqalf/m-meaning3.html

    Attitude change

    in 2006

    Posted · Edited by sixtus

    again:..2002 was a really hard private time for uncle axl..he really wanted to finish this fuckin' tour..

    (..in 2002):::

    ..it was his mentaly worst break down..due to his private situation...to handle private and work responsibility is hard for someone who wasn't plannin' to show up in public again..

    ..but:...these die hards here...are the ONLY reason..he trys to do the best he can..

    ...(..just specualtions of course..)

    :kiss::kiss:

    Axl in Windsor Ontario Canada, August 11/06?

    in 2006

    Posted

    ...i would recommend to all of the die hards...

    ..threads like WHERE he is at the moment..WHERE he was..WHERE he will sleep...

    ..are completely crap...it would be better to avoid them..

    ..if the mentioned person would like to let you know where he is..he just invites some models to public places or joins famous clubs...part of the show...

    ..so stop your private..."it's-important-where-he-is-at-the-moment" - mentality..

    Covers

    in 2006

    Posted

    It's not my favourite but I was always partial to 'Attitude', mainly because I like The Misfits!! rock1

    ..in your case i would have expected.."look at your game girl"...

    :chef:

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