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    Presence (Led Zeppelin): Opinions?

    in MY WORLD

    Posted

    It sucks just like everything else they've ever attempted to write.

    "I'M STUPID AND CONTAGIOUS, HERE WE ARE NOW, ENTERTAIN US"

    Just fucking epic. :rofl-lol:

    Led Zeppelin had more talent than Syd Barrett and Kurt Cobain had in their pathetic little pinkies.

    Presence (Led Zeppelin): Opinions?

    in MY WORLD

    Posted · Edited by Vincent Vega

    What is your opinion of Presence, Led Zeppelin's second to last album, released in 1976?

    It is the only Led Zeppelin album to not feature keyboards or synths in any way; It is a totally guitar driven, riff based album, and it is pure hard rock. There's not even any acoustic guitars, just one buried in the mix of Candy Store Rock.

    People have always said it was Zeppelin's "lesser" album but I've never understood that. It's one of the greatest guitar rock albums ever made. It's not their best as a band, but....It still is, IMO, a classic.

    Songs like Achilles' Last Stand, Nobody's Fault But Mine, Candy Store Rock and Royal Orleans alone are worth the price of admission. It's an amazing record, really. Not subpar or average but a great album on par with the others, just different in spirit. The true force of Led Zeppelin captured in one record, a record abounding with riffs and licks and solos.

    Should GN'R do a "deep cuts" tour?

    in 2013

    Posted

    We've had UCAP, and Appetite for Democracy tours...Should GN'R do a "Deep Cuts" tour? or at least as one leg of the tour?

    What I mean is, outside of say WTTJ, SCOM and PC, and some CD songs, should the setlist consist of Deep Cuts from AFD, Lies, the UYIs and TSI? Like, for example, them having a setlist like the following:

    "Welcome to the Jungle"
    "Don't Damn Me"
    "Mama Kin"
    "Estranged"
    "Rocket Queen"
    "This I Love"
    "The Garden"
    "Yesterdays"
    "You Could Be Mine"
    "Better"
    "Sweet Child O' Mine"
    "November Rain"
    "You're Crazy"
    "Civil War"
    "Knockin On Heaven's Door"
    "Nightrain"
    Encore
    "Double Talkin Jive"
    "Don't Cry"
    "Jumpin Jack Flash"
    "Coma"
    "Paradise City"

    Is NewGNR hard rock's Grateful Dead?

    in 2013

    Posted

    With their cult die hard niche of a fan base, the seemingly endless touring across the states and globe, back and forth every year, Axl's growing paunch and whatnot, is NewGNR sort of The Grateful Dead of Hard Rock? Are NuGunners essentially the hard rock version of Deadheads?

    Can you imagine if Twitter/Facebook existed in the UYI era?

    in 2013

    Posted

    Can you imagine the kind of rants and chatter we'd have gotten from Axl if Twitter and Facebook and other such things existed in 1991-1993? Just a funny thought.
    @StephSeymour bought a new kitty litter box ;) #rockstar #decadence #domesticabuse #hookersnblow
    @ErinEverly you r 1 of many nothing special sweet child o die! #rage #hate #dontfuckwithme
    @NOH8 @GayPride Keep ur shit covered fag hands off my ass!!! Fuckheads!! #GodhatesFags #proheterosexuality #Oneinamillion #Winning.

    Does Rocket Queen almost seem like two songs in one?

    in 2013

    Posted

    You get the first half plus the interlude, which is this totally sleazy, decadent, sex and guitar drenched song, sharp as a razor, lyrically and musically, and the interlude is like a musical tapestry of all the insane nightmares of the streets, all the horror and sex and pain of povery stricken dangerous streets put into music....
    Then it turns into this sweet, tender, almost poppy song, both musically and musically, with almost nothing in common with the first part theme wise, almost bordering on a power ballad...It almost feels like Rocket Queen came together as a fusion of two different song ideas....Anyone else ever get that feeling? Like it was two ideas that came together as one number?

    The immorality of Axl making Slash and Duff his employees.

    in 2013

    Posted

    People have questioned the morality of Axl keeping the band name, and many nu GNR fans have defended it and given some good arguments as to why Axl should've/had an obligation to keep it, not that I agree with them. But let's talk about something Axl did BEFORE Slash and Duff quit.
    In September 1992, Axl, Slash and Duff renegotiated their record contract with Geffen. In doing this, they created a new legal partnership which defined what Guns N' Roses was legally. Axl, Slash and Duff were the only legal members of Guns N' Roses, acting as equal shareholders in a sense of GN'R, with the others as employees on salary. In this document, Axl put in an addendum: If he was fired from Guns N' Roses, or quit the legal partnership (and thus the band), the band name would automatically go with him and become his. While he didn't own the name yet, this contract gave him the power to own it if he was fired or quit.
    In August 1995, Axl sent Slash and Duff a legal letter stating that he was quitting Guns N' Roses and the existing legal partnership and creating a new band with the name Guns N' Roses. In his letter, he said this would go into effect legally on 12/31/1995. After that point, Axl would be the sole legal partner in Guns N' Roses, and thus own the name. Slash and Duff were invited to join this "New Guns N' Roses" as employees on contract, for a "trial period."
    And they did join under those terms, it seems, given that they stayed in the band another year/year and a half. In his creation of NuGNR as a legal entity and band, effective 12/31/1995, Axl willingly and knowingly made Slash and Duff go from being equal partners and owners in a band they'd helped create, to being his employees on a contract, for a "trial period."
    Now, does anyone want to defend THAT? How is it moral for Axl to go and make his "brothers", the guys he founded the band, lived and struggled in poverty with, achieved fame with the help of, his employees? One can argue the morality or immorality of him keeping the name once they left, but what about him making Slash and Duff his employees, demoting them in their own band to being hired hands, while they were still in the band?
    That's an utterly dick move, he tried to their balls off and attempted to make them his puppets. How can ANYONE say that move in '95 was for anything more than control? People say he asked for the band name in the '92 contract to protect GN'R from Slash and Duff's wives if they died, that it was a noble motive, and that's a fair point, but what excuse is there for what he did in 1995? What motive would there be for making Slash and Duff his employees other than pure desire for total control?
    He tried to do the same thing to Izzy in 1991--Sending him a contract demoting him and making him a lesser partner legally due to his lack of stage presence, and it was the final straw that made Izzy quit. He'd rather have quit than have been an employee in the band he co-founded.

    Best Led Zeppelin epic?

    in MY WORLD

    Posted

    For me, it was a tie between What is and What Should Never Be, Battle of Evermore, and The Song Remains the Same, for the early years....And between Ten Years Gone and Achilles' Last Stand for the later years.

    I think Kashmir is one of the most overrated songs of all time.

    TSI: Covers vs. Originals

    in 2013

    Posted

    I'm just hanging out on a Saturday afternoon, so if you want to get stupid, let's get stupid.

    You're not a fellow user. You're an ant under my boot.

    And you're a Libertarian, which makes you about equal to a terrorist in my book.

    TSI: Covers vs. Originals

    in 2013

    Posted · Edited by Vincent Vega

    It's tough, cuz it's like asking if I'd rather beat your fucking head in myself or watch someone else do it. Both options are appealing.

    Reported.

    TSI: Covers vs. Originals

    in 2013

    Posted

    Let's go song by song on TSI. Which is better, GN'R's version or the original.

    My opinion:

    Since I Don't Have You - GN'R's version is better.

    Black Leather - GN'Rs version is better

    Buick Makane - GNR's version is better

    Raw Power - Original is better

    Attitude - GN'R's is better

    Hair of the Dog - Original is better

    You Can't Your Arms Around a Memory - Original is better

    Ain't It Fun - Original is better

    Human Being - Original is better

    I Don't Care About You - Original is better

    New Rose - GN'R's is better

    Look At Your Game Girl - Original is better.

    Considering everything that's happened, do you think Slash was right about the need to go back to their roots and to being a classic hard rock band?

    in 2013

    Posted

    The band should have done what they were great at: hard rock. Slash doesn't mind with ballads since he has at least one or two on each of his albums. Nobody (the fans) wanted synth and millions of layers on a GNR album before the new band, that was Axl thing, and it was a bad idea. Slash was right.

    Yet November Rain with all of it's piano and synths was GN'R's second biggest hit in their entire history, second only to SCOM.

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