PatrickS77

Can't you read?? "It’s going to be looked at historically as their best record, I think." Who cares about mature lyrics in a hard rock/sleaze rock/heavy metal/ whatever album?? People don't connect with the lyrics. They connect with the music in the first place. And the lyrics were good enough for that

Oh, right... he added "I think" at the end, to not appear as the most arrogant, deluded and biased douche. Doesn't change that fact, that he seems to be a total arrogant prick, judging by all that's known about him.

You don't know to whom all he may have been referring. Fact is, Merck got fired. He wouldn't have gotten fired if Axl was pleased with everything he did. And just because many people speak of something or of perceived hints, doesn't mean it's true. Everything in Axl's demanour back then suggests it's bullshit. At that time Axl still had something to prove. To just reunite with Slash, would have shat into the face of everything he tried to do since they split up.

So what?? Doesn't mean he still can be a biased idiot. And I take anything Duff and Slash put out over his stuff anyday.

Merck did get fired, no? Axl spoke of management pressuring him into doing a reunion, no?? Doesn't mean it was close or something he ever considered to do in those years.

By whom?? Certainly no one that matters. Back then the man that matters most still had only the worst to say about Slash. On more than one occasion. And what's the point of a one-off, when they still can't stand each other/had issues.

Right. That's why in the years after Axl still called Slash a cancer and that the reunion would happen not in this lifetime. It's pretty much bullshit what you say here regarding the reunion.

Funny that his favourite is the only one he played on. And wasn't he the guy, who wasn't a GNR fan before joining? So what does he know? He's clearly not one to talk. And yeah, he's definitely subjective.

Though that means nothing. If they had sold more tickets, they would have made more seats available. That's an old tactic to make numbers look good.

You should smoke less then.

The one time he wasn't childlike.

They go in droves to see Taylor Swift. Maybe you wanna rethink that.

Newsflash: I find it boring too. Especially if it's shit that has been discussed already over and over. And there comes a point where it is not needed to discuss it further. I stated my bit, you stated yours, move on. No need to go over and over it again. For me too, when I turn around. I enjoy it.

Oh, I think a sold out stadium is a beautiful thing. Turning around and seeing a stadium full of people, is an amazing thing. That said, I never would want to be one of those people seen, when people in the front turn around. Glad though that there are people happy to be in the back or we would have a problem.

As long as (enough) money is to be made and they are continuesly booked into stadiums, they are a stadium act. If promoters loose money, booking them there and they stop booking them there, then they are no stadium act (in North America) anymore. Though they still are in the rest of the world. So maybe that says more about americans than about them.

LOL could say the same about you. But unlike you, I don't need to go back and forth ad nauseam. Don't have the time for that.

Yeah. We got as much. Let's just leave it at that. There is no pyro. End of story.

And yet they did stadiums again in North America. So it was financially viable or they would stop doing that. And I recall back in '21 some of these charts looked bad too. Well, if they go to a rock concert and cry about lack of pyro, they must have. I say, if it's not proper, impressive pyro, it's not worth the effort, as it doesn't really enhance anything.

Well, I've seen them 35 times and to me it's only noticeable, because people here mention it. Otherwise I wouldn't have noticed. But then again, I don't sit 3 miles back, that would be pointless to me too.

You don't really want to compare proper fireworks to the measly pyro done at GNR shows?? Again, GNR are not Rammstein. Pyro used the way GNR used it, was always forgettable and unimpressive, unless you were a child.

Children maybe. Seriously, I couldn't even tell you when and where GNR had pyro previously, as it really left no impression at all.

Stadiums in Europe disagree. And people said the same thing when they did stadiums in 2021. And yet they still somehow were pretty full.

No. It does not. It absolutely does not. Unless it's a show that lives from Pyro like Rammstein.

We try our hardest.

The muse kisses him and he has to fly to London and fly in an engineer from Germany, because there are none in London? Stop grasping at straws. It's clear as day