Stiff Competition

I'm bummed it got postponed but it was to be expected. Hanging on to my tickets as they are awesome seats and will make the trip up to oakland whenever it gets rescheduled.

2 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Whoa.... I must've missed Slave. I have an original, but I'll pick up that reissue! 

Yep, that’s my situation too. And it’s expanded on to two LPs with 4 bonus tracks.

I imagine beggars day is one, and maybe fire in the hole but not sure about the other two.

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

The RSD list is out. I'm only in for 2 records but they're ones I've wanted forever. 

 

The Black Crowes - Lions 

Various Artists - Sweet Relief 

 

Those are two HUGE releases for me! 

I'm in for the McCartney reissue, Slave to the Grind and at least one of, if not all of the austin powers soundtracks.

17 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

They could do a surprise drop but they'd have to do a lot at once - drop the album, a single (with at least a lyric video), have physicals ready to pre-order, maybe some special edition or colour-variant vinyl, and do a real interview. Basically 10 years worth of activities in GNR-time, in one moment.

They're not really in a place where they can just drop an album, tweet about it once, and watch the cash come pouring in. They're not as popular as they think they are, but the draw of the reunion album is still there. It's really the last ace they have up their sleeve. It will be big news, but they'll still have to do some promo. I agree with your last paragraph though.

Yeah and it could be done. It's little harder with a bigger band like this and so many moving parts that are involved to make it happen.

Last year on 4/20, Third Man Records dropped a new sleep album and it was in stores that day. No on even knew they were signed to the label at the time. But when you are talking about a huge company like Universal Music, all the band members and their separate entourages, etc...it's not that easy to keep a secret.

The funny thing is, I could see them being stupid enough to do a surprise drop because "oh, other big artists have done it and it made a big splash"

The problem is, they aren't nearly as popular as they think they are anymore. To make a new album really sell, they need to do a lot of promo including interviews with Axl and Slash together, real band photos, etc.

They will probably land somewhere in between those two ideas and do a similar campaign to what they did with the AFD remaster/box set and the just continue touring endlessly with a setlist that remains 95% unchanged because that's where the money lies. Albums are flyers for tours these days.

All of the "ithos" are absolutely amateur.

Look at bands like The Raconteurs, Primus, Tool, etc...

They get a range of good to excellent and very well known artists to make posters, and they are screen printed.

They aren't even lithographs anyhow. They are just inkjet printed, prints...more of a giclee than anything. Management just has no idea what they are talking about and calls them whatever term they think fits.

To be fair, I work in art and work with many incredibly talented artists, so my view is skewed and I understand that people just like having a poster form the show they went to.

On 2/21/2020 at 1:50 PM, lame ass security said:

Well, there still is STP.

if that's what you call it.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

https://store.rhino.com/music/box-sets-1/1970-the-complete-fun-house-sessions.html

ordered.

18 hours ago, -Jaro- said:

Next one is some punk rock with Post Malone

 

Holy shit, that's horrible. It sounds like someone created a robot ozzy and that's what is singing the song.

Going to Oakland for night since it’s on a Thursday.

bought two of the charity tickets so I could get front row in the loge section closest to the stage.

Going up to Oakland to see Rage in April.

Brendan Benson is playing a solo show at the Roxy in May so I’m sure I’ll catch that as well.

10 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Yeah, this sucks. It's just going to drive the price of new records up even further. 

And we’ll also go back to CDs coming out on release date and vinyl several months later.

I hope they announce more soon.

Look forward to seeing them live again and hopefully a new album will come as well.

3 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

If there's ever an official book or documentary about this band, it should be called "What Could've Been" or "The Band With The Most Wasted Potential".

They're still my favourite band, but it's sad to see how they've deteriorated.

Foxy 2020! Super stoked they are back.

3 hours ago, Powerage5 said:

Fair enough, I totally get that this type of show isn’t for everyone. I’m really into the 80’s thrash stuff, so this is right up my alley. Plus I’ve actually never Mike Patton at all, so I’m really excited for this. 

Well if you haven’t seen Patton, anything is worth going to. He’s incredible live. My buddy went last night and said it’s one of the best shows he’s been to in years. Nothing beats FNM though...although I really want to see a Fantomas show.

35 minutes ago, Powerage5 said:

I don’t mean now, I mean when the shows were announced. I can’t imagine anyone ever thought that Mr. Bungle’s first shows in 20 years would be playing a demo tape that hardly anyone had even heard of until they said it was happening. 

Yes. The only song they didn’t play last night for, whatever reason, is Grizzly Adams. 

oh got it...yeah I actually ended up selling my tickets to help fund a trip I'm going on next month.

I was super excited at first just because "oh my god, bungle is playing!" but after listening to the demo a few times, I was like eh I don't really need to go see this live. It's just another thrash show. I saw Patton with Dead Cross the previous year and while it was cool, it was sort of the same thing. (though that's more of a hardcore album)

5 hours ago, Powerage5 said:

It’s a very Mike Patton-esque  thing to give people the reunion they’ve been clamoring for...and play a bunch of music no one knows. Completely subverting expectations, I love it. 

Well, they've been clear from the start that they were playing the original demo in it's entirety so it's not really subverting expectations that much. I think most figured they might throw in a few off the other albums in the encore but otherwise, it's as advertised.

I wouldn't say it's a mess but at this point, I am just bored with it.

I was excited to see Axl and Slash play together in 2016 but once that novelty wore off (which was pretty quick for me) it just felt like I was seeing lesser versions of both of them as well as Duff. The VR shows I had seen were far more captivating and energetic and I saw Axl a handful of times in 2006 when he still sounded great. So this felt like watching a reboot of an old movie franchise you love, where you're excited for the name on the poster and because the original actors are back but maybe the director has changed or isn't as hungry as he once was and the writing just isn't there anymore either. It's just a lesser version of what you've always loved.

It's really just become what every other band from their era and previous eras has become...a corporate jukebox tour and in that case, I'll spend my money elsewhere.

7 minutes ago, WVsax27 said:

new show= reworked stage set and one or two different songs

Which is probably just the one or two songs they threw in at the handful of October shows they did last year.

Football stadiums? no thanks. Baseball stadiums were bad enough.

1 minute ago, 6lake sa66ath said:

Bad?

First of all it's a tribute, not a merch item and secondly it shows they actually cared enough to make a custom graphic!

They have absolutely nothing to do with him. Just the picture itself is all they needed to post, but no, they need to brand it.

2 hours ago, GoForJMark said:

Glad they didn't say R.I.FnP. 

Really tragic tho.

I'm sort of shocked they didn't. It's bad enough they felt the need to put their logo behind him.

10 hours ago, chevelle said:

Bands should really fucking hang it up before it comes to the point where they're publicly eating each other alive in their old age. These dudes are all at or nearing their 70s, do they really need MORE money that badly?

They're still an absolute blast live, one of the best shows you can see. Why would they hang it up?

On 1/21/2020 at 5:13 PM, PatrickS77 said:

April 2019. The beginning of the residency.

No, it was later than that. I saw him with them in June. I think it was right before they took off for the east coast shows in July sometime or even August.

It's funny that so many people are mad. Snoop opening is probably the coolest, most unexpected thing GNR has done since they started touring again.