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13 hours ago, GoBucky said:

Haha...he lives down the road from where my Grandparents lived in Sarasota. I was in high school abd was visiting them during spring break around 30 years ago, and my Grandma said a rock star was building a house down the street, but didn't know who it was. The house was 99% completed and I decided to walk down and check it out. The gate was open, I pressed the button on the intercom but it wasn't working, so I walked up and knocked on the door. Brian opened it and I about pissed my pants. I told him my Grandparents said a rock star was building this house and I was curious. It's a gated community, so he knew I had to know someone to get in. I was shocked it was him, and told him I saw them for the first time on the Razor's Edge tour not too long before in Chicago. He let me in, walked me around his memorabilia room, grabbed a notebook and signed an autograph for me and I went on my way. I framed the auto and still have it on my wall. He was ridiculously nice. 

Wow! Mate, that is brilliant. What a cool memory for you. I would have been knocking on his door every week with a bottle of scotch in my hand… 

7 hours ago, GoBucky said:

I've been in Brian Johnson's house in Sarasota, and Angus was there the week before. He very well might be in Florida doing band business with Brian and Cliff and drove over. 

Wow! How did you break into his house? 

17 hours ago, vicson said:

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CXANiZrFNZC/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Here is the "November Rain" snippet from the Vegas Show. 

His voice is awesome in this clip, I know it is a bit of a rough diamond at times, but there’s nothing like it.

On 5/11/2022 at 5:39 AM, jamillos said:

Doesn't look like the Better bike...

It’s the one from the Chinese Democracy cover , Silly. He’s just removed the basket which is at home with Chinese Democracy 2 album in it. 

My care for GnR is definitely decreasing over the past year or two. I still love the band and Axl, but after 35 years of following them devoutly, I’m done with the relentless cash grab tour? I’d be super interested in a new album, but couldn’t be fucked with getting drip fed rehashed songs and how stagnant Axl has become as an artist. I used to come here every day for so long, but now it’s every few weeks if I think about it. Then it’s depressing seeing the same old thread titles just sitting there, decaying away…

Nick Cave

10 hours ago, Tom-Ass said:

He didn't sound good at all.. Nothing new, I don't hold that agaianst him.. He just doesn't have the voice anymore.  Everyone on stage and in the crowd still looked like they were having fun.  As a Gn'R fan, I just wish he would figure out a way to make himself sound good.  Even if that means a totally different approach and delivery..

Yeah he has blown his voice doing some of the craziest rock vocal shit ever. Like no-one else could have been any different if they had of sung Axl’s career. It takes it’s toll unfortunately.

If he had of sung Patience with her it may have come off better. Or It’s so easy, or other songs where his lower range shines through. Unfortunately SCOM and Paradise are both hard for him theses days but that’s what the crowd probably know the best.

1 hour ago, The Real McCoy said:

I’ve met Carrie a few times over the years. She is absolutely drop dead gorgeous in person.

I don’t know much about her, but yeah wow she was gorgeous. Was Axl on stage with her? I didn’t actually notice… 

14 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

That’d be awesome. I guess it’s worth a try!

Congrats mate, that’s brilliant! What kind of music do you guys play? (I don’t do Spotify to check it out). And what do you play in the band? 

On 4/24/2022 at 6:05 AM, CernakA said:

coma and catcher

Good to see some love for Catcher, such a beautiful song.

The show with the Yellow Raincoat

On 4/15/2022 at 5:15 PM, youngswedishvinyl said:

Wasn't the same things said about Slash returning up until 2016 though? 

Yeah but the difference is that Slash helped Axl earn tens of millions of dollars $$$$$$$$$ That’s cold hard cash, profit…

Releasing a new album won’t do that, after the expense of making & releasing one, it would be lucky to actually turn a profit. There would only be the prospect of being able to tour a bit more off the back of it, but really they tour on the back of cashed up people wanting to relive their youth for a night.

On 4/12/2022 at 4:54 AM, Stress Fracture said:

Slash and Duff are posting on social media about an old punk band that doesn’t exist, as is Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcN8daBp265/

 

Hmmm…

How fucking ridiculous and desperate 😔

Nope. Axl’s never going to release an album again. If it was to happen it would have happened by now. 

On 4/3/2022 at 10:17 PM, El Guapo said:

Is he finally tired of that top hat?  About time.

Agreed mate, I think we are all a bit over that hat...

On 4/4/2022 at 10:54 AM, Powderfinger said:

 

I watched this live, I was going to see GNR in a few weeks and I was hoping my parents wouldn’t see Axl’s Jesus tshirt. “They fucking ruined that song” was the only comment made (KOHD) by my father. 

Axl stole the show for certain with Queen, and GNR were great on the day, but so were Metallica. 
 

Prime Axl Rose was one of the great frontmen, not the best ever, but one of the greatest for sure. Seeing him in 92, I can’t say he was more magnetic than Stayley/Cobain/Gallagher/Stipe or any of the others I saw in those years.
 

GNR weren’t “Axlised” in the prime years, the band was the attraction, not because he was frontman. From the get go it was a Mick/Keef type thing with Axl/Slash having equal billing within the band as far as fans were concerned.  

I’d swap my 92 GnR gig with Axl as frontman for a Doors gig with Morrison on vocals in a flash.  
 

I prefer a frontman like Lemmy. He just did his 2,500 gigs over 40 years like a soldier. Always on time and always delivered. 

I've seen the guys you mentioned. Cobain was average to see live for me. Cornell in a small club in the 90's was powerful. But I still think Axl beats them all. But that's just me. 

Interesting point you raise though, what you would swap for seeing Axl in his prime. I'd probably not swap my early 90's Axl/Gnr show for anything. Maybe the Rolling Stones or Queen in their prime.

And yes, Lemmy is the God of frontmen. They don't come tougher or more durable than that dude. 

15 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/slash-guitar-shopping?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_medium=social&utm_content=guitar-world&utm_source=facebook.com

Slash got a new look!  

He looks great!

18 hours ago, El Guapo said:

He said one or two songs with maybe an album somewhere down the line.

To me it sounded like the plan is to drop a song here and there until there's enough songs out there to compile into an album afterwards.

How exciting. And he confirmed it's all Chinese leftovers, nothing written by the current band.

Which is the laziest, most boring approach they could choose,right behind no releases at all.

I can't get excited for this at all, since we're probably gonna get stinkers like Atlas and State of Grace next.

I'm with you mate. I can't get excited at all for 1 - 2 songs a year getting dropped to justify the touring. Put an album out or retire and stop touring. Its all incredibly boring in the world of GnR nowadays. The band as we knew it as a creative driving force with an artistic fire died years ago. Probably around the time Chinese came out. That was it. Now its not even a band anymore. More of a retirement fund organisation for three guys and their families. 

He should go back to wearing the chaps and a leather cod-piece like the good ol’ days. With Kat taking lit b’n’fn’white photos from behind. 

In all seriousness, he came back last time looking fit and formidable. An absolute credit to him and for a guy his age should be proud of himself that he’s not in the category of nearly 50% of fat adult Americans !

Slash and Duff also look amazing and as a long time fan of over three decades, it’s great to see all three in such good physical shape.

16 hours ago, Tourettes2400 said:

Ukraine Democracy starts now!

10 hours ago, mystery said:

I feel like November Rain is what really elevated the band to legendary tier. The music video is the first one made before the 2000s to hit one billion views on YouTube.

It’s a stone cold classic that comfortably stacks up against all the top classic rock songs of any era. Axl’s finest song in my opinion. 

12 hours ago, MaskingApathy said:

Those look ridiculous.

Fuck what was that! That hurt my eyes. I just had to wash out my eyes with 4 litres a saline. Who comes up with this shit?

On 2/8/2022 at 2:34 PM, StrangerInThisTown said:

I found this hilarious: he obviously ranked OIAM low because he objects to using those words. So, he had to choose between One In A Million and My World for the last spot. He had to weigh what is worse, racism or pure shitness, and he went with shitness lmao. You know a song is BAD when another song a guy thinks is racist gets ranked higher.

I like how racism is terrible to him, but treating women like shit is glorious! Ha, gold.

Can we change the title of this thread to a respectful Happy Birthday Axl ! 

Anyway, loved the guy for 35 years, best voice, best lyrics, best frontman. Best wishes  Axl !