Stiff Competition

recently bought re-issues of Garbage's first album, Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill and Nick Cave's cover album..

been selling more than I've been buying lately.

It's really silly how they put the gun's branding all over the prints on like t-shirts, and in the sun of this recent vegas one and what not.

The name Guns N' Roses on it should be enough to sell it as a GN'R print. You don't need horribly photoshopped references to the band in every piece of art.

Cheap Trick next week in San Diego

And probably St. Vincent at the Hollywood Bowl next month.

Can’t imagine much else at this point.

5 hours ago, RussTCB said:

They're gonna get whatever money they ask outta me for an Absurd 7"

Dammit. Lol

My guess would be RSDBF

Dumb song. It’s sad that it’s an old track with slash and Duff pasted on to it and is masquerading as new music.
 

34 minutes ago, kanecrescente said:

Down on the farm is a great song that they should pull out the bag, at least he could sing it 

I agree. When Axl put in the set at the LA shows in 2006, it was a lot of fun to see live. It wasn't a slight on Down on the Farm which him singing like that made sense to sort of pay homage to the original. It makes no sense to sing silkworms like that.

yeahhh, silkworms being a "new" song shows that the album (if it ever happens) will be as much a demonstration of a band going though the motions as the live shows are.

I'm not excited about the possibility of hard school being played, but silkworms coming back? yikes. It seems so like disingenuous with axl up there singing like he does on down on the farm essentially...kind of a joke, especially at his age for some reason. Watching it was pretty cringeworthy for me.

3 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

Right on. I have a couple of 7" singles from Lean Into It but I definitely want the whole 12" album if I can get it. 

There's a bunch of confusion around Mr Big right now. There's supposedly a 7" box for Lean Into It AND a 12" reissue of the album. 

I would much rather have the 12" but now both are supposedly delayed and no one knows for sure lol. 

 

In better news, I finally got the reissue of Black Sabbath - Mob Rules just now. 

amoeba released their list and it has what's delayed and cancelled and what not...

52 minutes ago, Gracii Guns said:

That's such shame. I saw Cinderella open the main stage at Download 2010. They were a really solid band which didn't rely on gimmicks as others of their time did.  Rest in peace, and thanks for the memories. 

Scott Weiland and Lemmy also played that day. 

Scotty is the musician death that hit me the hardest out of them all.

Sucks. Cinderella is awesome. I've seen them a handful of times over the years and they always put on a great show and Jeff was always great on stage.

Crazy to think the first time I saw them was with Quiet Riot and now Jeff, Kevin Dubrow and Frankie are all gone.

Based on the interview from a few years ago when he said his vices were the reason Cinderella was inactive, I have to imagine that's the cause of it. It's really unfortunate and sad to see these guys not able to kick their demons/vices as they get into their 50's and 60's and their bodies just can't handle it anymore.

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I recently got the Margo Price 7" box set that was released. It's a neat little box and the singles come in a series of shipments, so it's a fun little thing.

RSD is this saturday again. I am going to try to get the April March Record and the St Vincent 7". The one release I REALLY wanted which was Joe Perry's solo album from a couple years ago got cancelled a couple months ago, so thats a bummer.

1 hour ago, Sweersa said:

They probably didn't want to steal thunder from Frank.

Frank doesn't have any thunder.

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

This is a whole different animal. There was about 50+ hours of footage shot when The Beatles were recording their last album and playing their last concert. 

2nd to last album, just last released.

The way it was released and how the narrative was "the beatles breaking up" in the hogg film always has people forgetting that for a band that was breaking up, they went and recorded a little thing called Abbey Road after that.

except of course for "I, Me, Mine" which was recorded after John had quit the band which begs the question..."is it really a beatles song?"

4 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Holy shit. I knew this was coming but I had NO idea it was going to be SIX hours. Hell yeah! 

https://www.thebeatles.com/news/“-beatles-get-back”-disney-original-documentary-series-directed-peter-jackson-debut-exclusively

yeah seems like the plan changed maybe.

Because it was originally going to be in theaters and what not too...not that they can't do three showings of the three separate parts but it sure seemed the plan was to make like a 2 hour or so film, rather than a small series.

the more the better though! I can't wait.

17 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

Baz is not a fan of the Slave To The Grind reissue...

 

 

yeah that &quot typo is pretty sad.

I noticed that right when I got it and was a little shocked at what shitty proofing gets done. Typos happen but having what is essentially like code from a website on the credits is pretty bad.

your username is awesome

I fucking love ugly kid joe.

45 minutes ago, ChineseDemocracy2004 said:

Nu, Nu, Nu GN'R;

Hammerstein, Rock AM Ring, Nova Rock, Wembley Arena, Gibson Amphitheatre perhaps.  

Gibson Amp was so good. I was at all three nights, front row. What a blast.

That was fun.

Love seeing slash without his cartoon hat. Love seeing Robert do anything that isn’t “STP” these days. Can’t stand that Scott Weiland cosplayer.

I got to see Robert and Slash play together live once, along with Dean, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry. It was awesome.

You have to buy the 6-LP version to really get all the songs from the movie.

The 2LP version is a straight re-issue of the original. I will buy one of the deluxe sets a little closer to release. Great film, great soundtrack.

2 hours ago, Original said:

Could Axl pull off Fall To Pieces? 

no he could not.

I, by default, get excited when I see GNR dates in my area or somewhere I can travel to easily but then reality sets in that the shows are boring and axl can't sing anymore.

The last show I was at was the big 4 hour show at the forum and man, what a bloated fucking event that was...and then when I heard it on sirius xm the next day and realized how bad axl actually sounded, it pretty much set in stone that I won't see them again. I could have went to that show at the palladium and I even passed on that and that's a pretty small venue for them so barring Izzy and Matt/Steven being back, I'm more than likely done with this incarnation.

I've always liked it.

Though the "oh my salvation".. parts are pretty lame.

the riff is pretty close to that of a snakepit riff from the ALG album...off the top of my head I am forgetting which one though.

Actually did some shopping this weekend and picked up:

St Vincent - Daddy's Home

Oasis - Definitely Maybe

Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory

KISS - Promo Radio Sampler of the Solo Albums

Paul McCartney - RAM 50th Anniversary edition

A couple things came in from online buys recently too:

Evolution of the Game (HHH theme songs spanning his entire career)

Only Lovers Left Alive OST

Pre-ordered the new KISS live album.

Cool that they are releasing a singer/frehley show. That’s a good lineup.