Granny

To think that the man is 48 years old, you just wonder at the effort that this kind of singing and performing requires.

Yes, he seems pretty much himself again. Voice, looks and stage action. Matured, but still very much Axl Rose as we love him.

I'm just glad for Axl that he is infront of crowds again, enjoying himself and performing with a band of people that he trusts and is comfortable with.

Signed. May it last as long as he can cope.

I know that Axl isn't the most fan-friendly performer around, but honnestly, sometimes, I can't help but think that some of you guys don't deserve any better from him...

Signed.

Now this one, he was pissed...

Classic!

That's my favourite one, too. Public revenge plus encouraging people to go their own way and not have others decide what they can do or not.

Although sometimes I feel that the picture is somewhat crowded.

It's the GNR Big Band, and I'm a big fan of it.

Duff quit on Axl in the mid 90's. Tommy helped Axl through his toughest project, CD. And has stuck around through alot of other shit. I like Duff, but I would rather Tommy stay. I think Axl would feel the same. Tommy is his current close friend. Duff is just a memory of Axl. Good memory, but the past is the past people, reunion will never happen!

Just what I think about it. Thanks.

Tommy is the backbone of current GNR, he's been as long in the band as Duff used to. I find it unfair and ungrateful of you lot who want to see him chucked out in favour of Duff, like a worn-out pair of shoes.

I would love to see Duff back on stage with Axl, of course. But not for the price of Tommy leaving. If GNR can have 3 guitarrists, why not 2 bassists? :krider:

WHY is axl using a mic stand with scarves ? Is he becoming Steven Tyler 2 ?

Maybe just for fun?

all I could see was smilling and satisfied GNR customers.

*facepalm*

But I'm glad you had a great time as a fan.

Happy birthday from me, too, Ron. Good health to you at all times.

Axl=Michael Clark Duncan

Slash=Woody Allen

Izzy=Jean Claude van Damme

Duff=Kirsten Dunst

Steven=that monkey from Friends

Thanks for the laugh. Extremely odd casting.

When reading newspaper articles, I rarely know that much about the background it comes from, and never before had the politics of an article been that cristal clear to me instantly.

Keep it in mind from now on when you get "informed" by the media. :xmasssanta:

One of the best performances of this song. Fabulous singing.

the best setlist during European leg of this tour, no doubt about it

+1

Nice read. I like his insights about the break-up reasons. Might be the most objective view on the topic we can get in the end.

@classiccrawker: It's is not important, whether Duff or Izzy think Guns n' Roses is still Guns n' Roses with only Axl left of the AFD line-up. Important is this:

Do I as a fan still find what Guns n' Roses was to me in what the band is now? And yes, I do.

HOWEVER - I don't claim this to be the universal truth everybody has to agree to or I call him names. I can easily live with you guys jumping up and down insisting that this is not Guns n' Roses. I don't even feel I need to quote some authorities' opinions to support my own.

Actually it is quite funny how you try and spoil it for the ones that don't have a problem with the current GNR line-up. 'I don't like this toy anymore, but don't you dare to play with it instead of me and be happier than I!' That's what it comes across like to me.

Well then, I'm done in this thread. Enjoy yourselves. rock2

Kraftwerk quote

I'm glad that we are having that argument...

...again.

Difficult to let them get away without setting things straight with at least one reply - and then with another one ... and ... You know? :xmasssanta:

I've changed a lot in the last 10 years, substantially so. Doesn't make me fake Orsys.

But then again, Mozart and Beethoven were lesser musicians than Bucket and Bumble.

:rofl-lol:

O my god!!! You're killing me!

:rofl-lol:

Let's meet again in say a mere hundred years and find out who's music by then will be better known around the globe - the compositions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven or the guitar work of Buckethead and Bumblefoot. It's like comparing beautifully designed contemporary family homes to the Taj Mahal, I'm afraid. You better don't do that, it's unfair to all of them.

ALSO the old band will always be a LOT more successful than the new band, and will always have the best selling and more appreciated (better) albums.

Oh, a fortune-teller.

Look, I don't have a problem with people preferring and praising the AFD aera. Hardly anybody has, I guess. The problem lies where some of them get aggressive against people who care as much about the current line-up or say the one with Buckethead in it. It is intolerance for other opinions (and I mean opinions, not attacks) that creates tension and trouble.

To me Guns n' Roses are like a man I have known and loved for the good half of my life. Of course, today he is not the same he used to be when we first met. Do I love him less though? Do I adore the memory of him 20 years ago but bitch at him every day for having changed over the years and being different now? Do I scream in his face he is not himself anymore and he should change his name therefore?

No. And I deem this the reasonable way to deal with human beings, Guns n' Roses included.

I was lucky enough to see the real band, and once you have seen the real band you know in your heart that there can only be ONE Guns N' Roses, and that's the original.

If you wasn't there, you should just shut the funk up. It's like I should start a discussion with a war vetaran, I can have all the info and watched all the documentaries in the world, but it would just be silly because i wasn't there.

R.I.P. Guns N' Roses

Let me concise your attitude for you: "I am in possession of the one and only truth. If you disagree with me you simply have no idea. I am the measure."

No more questions.

But people seem to conviently gloss over most of this stuff (assuming they even read the whole article) and pick out one statement they disagree with and try and dismiss the whole thing as having no credability as a consequence.

The questions are no more than a prompt. It's the answers that the questioned person is responsible for. And if that person claims Guns n' Roses ceased to exist for him when Adler left the band - sorry, for me this constitutes obvious denial of the fact that there have been 20 years of Guns n' Roses since. And if this doesn't mean living in the past to you - well, to me it does.

And it is not as if people usually just state they "prefer" the AFD line-up. No, they usually claim that the AFD line-up was "the real" Guns n' Roses and everything afterwards is fake or a "bunch of hired hands" etc. pp.

EDIT: Regarding the above post - q.e.d.

Some people still live in 1990?!

I'm afraid so.

Phew. That's a relief. Just youtube going freaking mental about protecting music against its rightful owners. :xmasssanta:

Yet, why did I think it possible for the GNR camp to be responsible?

Still works through his Youtube page.

I cannot watch it there. If I'm unlogged I'm requested to log in. After I logged in I get informed the video is "private".