DownUnderScott

5 hours ago, Fernando said:

I am 100% kidding. But we should do something for mygnr and other forums alike.  Would be cool.  

In all seriousness, I would love a nice GnR polo shirt. I might get slammed here for admitting that, but a large portion of the most fervent and long-serving Axl & Guns N’ Roses fans like me are in my age demographic 40 - 50 years and would appreciate something different? What do you think. 
 

In terms of Lithos, feel free to hit me up on my PM’s to do your Australian ones in a couple of months time. I can bust out my crayons and do maybe a shark eating Chris Pitman in the waves of Bondi Beach for Sydney?  I’ve got ideas Baby! I’ll only charge a backstage pass and a few beers. No complicated contracts. 
 

Cheers, Scott

4 hours ago, Sweersa said:

I hate to be that guy, but any chance of an audio cassette release of any new studio material in the future?

Right after they stream the new album on their MySpace site 😁

Alders’ fantastic - you would be mad to miss seeing that guy with his huge smile while playing awesomeness 🤟🏼

12 hours ago, Marcelo Garay said:

Do you think KOHD is too long? Just wait for KOHD 2 to come out on the next album

KOFNHD

12 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Thanks! I've been working on the room for about 10 years, but the work has paid off. 

The first record racks in the room came from a local record store. They moved locations and didn't have room for two of their tables, so I scooped them up. Ever since then, I just measure them off and build a new one every time the collection expands. 

How many records do you have these days mate?

I’d trust Marc Canter over all of them. Not a crack head and hasn’t got his own hidden agendas behind his truths.

6 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

It's not even been 2 weeks since the last song came out..I think you guys are dreaming if you think GNR will suddenly release new songs in a quicker timeframe than every other artist

Definetly dreaming mate if they think it’s gonna happen. I mean if they do ever play Hardschool on this tour, then some people here would be like “I wonder if they will play Perhaps next week? 😁

56 minutes ago, HollyWoodRose84 said:

Springsteen has consistently put out phenomenal material. Tool’s album was amazing, Megadeth, any NIN record I could keep going. I’m not bashing Axl’s efforts on CD. I actually like the album but it only has about 5 songs that I would consider “great.”  I’d bet a lot of money that if Axl and Izzy wrote material that has Slash and Duff playing on it, it would sound way better than all of CD. Not even Frank’s drumming could screw it up. 

This

4 hours ago, RussTCB said:

OK so I was wrong! Haha

Don’t feel bad mate, no-one, ever, can actually be right about GnR.

...it’s just not possible 

11 hours ago, B5Redeye said:

I've only had one jab so far. Wore a mask for 99% of the time while at Metlife and always in the concessions, bathroom, etc. Pretty sure I got it. Going to get tested tomorrow. :-(

Good luck dude!

33 minutes ago, downzy said:

Working on a setlist.  If anyone has one on hand please post and I'll amend the OP.

Notes for the show so far:

Axl in a great mood, talking a lot between songs.

Absurd played live for third time.

Hardschool not played.

Technical issues during WTTJ

@RussTCB had a great time!  

 

Thanks for the recap mate!

8 hours ago, Tom-Ass said:

Very sorry to hear that about your Son.  How is he now?

Thanks dude. He’s recovered reasonably well. Went from their ICU, then moved to the Rehab ward and spent many months learning to walk and talk again. 
 

It was a scary experience. When he arrived to ED and was unresponsive, and they did the Brain MRI and saw the damage, the first thing the Neurosurgeon asked was has he had the guardisil vaccine lately? It apparently was a known side effect with 13 yr old boys dying around the world from it. It’s a shame they don’t inform people/parents about it so you could get your child help sooner if they showed signs/symptoms, but that doesn’t serve their interests as it would put people off to know the truth. Anyway, that’s public health for you. It’s for the greater good but some will suffer.

2 hours ago, Live Like a Suicide said:

GNR have barely promoted Absurd, and given that it isn't underpinning anything like an album, it's no surprise a lot of people have slept on it. I expect a proper single release with an album promotion like AC/DC's last attempt would work.

AC/DC killed it, they were very well promoted and well received here in Australia (of course, I know). But the songs were really good, and they promoted it very well. 

On 8/7/2021 at 8:24 PM, Slave to the Dave said:

Simple......get vaccinated, it's easy and available

Yeah I’m considering it. I know a fair bit about it. I’m an ICU Nurse. Unfortunately my son (13yrs) had a serious side-effect to a vaccine. Acute Dissemenating Encephlyomyeltis (ADEM) where he suffered brain damage with demyelination of his brain stem, which nearly killed him. So I’m not so super keen to get a vaccine that was rushed out for distribution even before your FDA approved it (which never happens). So there’s risk involved. There’s also risk in getting Covid. I get it. Public Health is all about protecting the majority while sacrificing some minority. But it’s important to weigh it all up. 
😊

It’s weird that the Silkworms leak from a few years ago has always come up as “Isn’t it Absurd “ , as in the title of the song when it gets played on my iTunes library. There’s a few other leaks that came up on my iTunes library when I played them through that, that had different titles, I might have to go and have a look at them again.

1 minute ago, Bitchisback said:

There were not any at the Hershey show 

Ok cool, thanks mate!

1 hour ago, Cruel Intentions said:

Also, Axl kept randomly singing "You Got What I Need" by Biz Markle and got the crowd to sing along with him. Also dedicated KOHD to him and told a story about a time they met in 2006 when Biz saw Axl's car parked outside of a club.

Can I ask a genuine question to you guys that attended, because I have tickets for shows coming up in a few months in Australia (possibly cancelled though). Is there any COVID requirements? Like do the band, or the event promoter or venue require everyone to be vaccinated and show proof of that? Any other COVID regulations at all? 

1 hour ago, W. Axl Kev said:

That’s true. It was packed. No question.

Can I ask a genuine question to you guys that attended, because I have tickets for shows coming up in a few months in Australia (possibly cancelled though). Is there any COVID requirements? Like do the band, or the event promoter or venue require everyone to be vaccinated and show proof of that? Any other COVID regulations at all? 

Holy crap - New album 'Vagina full of fly larvae' starts now !!!  Sorry,  'Vagina full of F'n fly larvae' starts now!!!

2 hours ago, Powerage5 said:

Australia legitimately has one of the best craft beer scenes I've found anywhere in the world. My girlfriend lives in Adelaide, so I've become quite familiar with the craft beer scene down there, particularly in SA. So many high quality breweries around, consistently turning out great stuff, and experimental flavor profiles and ingredients - the latter something I'm particularly fond of. But there's certainly a few macros I'm fond of also. I'll go on record as saying XXXX Gold is one of the best macro lagers I've had anywhere, and I am of course partial to Cooper's (Particularly the extra stout).

Wow, that's cool dude. Glad you have made it out here to Australia! Let me know if you ever make it to Brisbane. 

XXXX Gold is may favourite, I just didn't want to admit it because its a mid-strength at 3.5%  But I just like the taste of it and thats all that matters right? And yes, Coopers is a very good beer brand that do it well.

Sounded like shit. I used to like Silkworms. He’s got that Down on the Farm voice going on.

I would much rather hear the boys play straight out rock songs, bring it back to their roots of the Stones, AC/DC, Aerosmith and Axl could probably handle the vocals better. Like a song such as the Seeker. 
 

Might as well have Slash wearing a KFC bucket instead of his top hat, and Duff can swing some nunchucks around...

5 minutes ago, Sleep said:

The fact that Hard School is what people are holding out hope for shows you how low the bar is. Blows my mind they're trying to rework decades old material with Slash & Duff rather than coming up with anything new. 

Same here, that and the fact lyrics like Pussy full of maggots is really going to go down well in this day and age. I mean, like we’ve got a children’s book people, and a twenty year old song with pussies full of fly larvae! 😳

On 8/3/2021 at 11:31 AM, Powerage5 said:

Real question indeed! Appalachian Brewing in Harrisburg is one of the only breweries in the US which does an incredibly niche German style called a Zoigl, and it’s only a seasonal beer at that. So I was really keen to check that one off my list of beer styles I haven’t tried before. Also had a decent maibock as well as an excellent barleywine at Appalachian. Then I hit a couple beer stores in the area that looked interesting. Stocked up on some stuff I can’t get in NY - some of the regional offerings from Yuengling and Yards, as well as some stuff from Einstök in Iceland and some excellent fruit beers from Hokkaido Brewing in Japan. So a very successful day trip on the beer front  

Nice one mate!

Craft beers have exploded here in Australia in the past few years. I get overwhelmed walking into the bottle shop now, and have tried many. Funny though, I keep going back to the old regular beers that I’ve enjoyed for decades. Boring old Tooheys, and XXXX lagers.

10 hours ago, downzy said:

I really appreciate the sentiment but I'm very against the notion of this forum's survival dependent on charity.

What I would suggest as others have been doing is to buy a membership for another user who you think deserves it.  Someone you admire or appreciate but hasn't become a member.

If that's the case, please send $15 USD via PayPal to membership.mygnrforum@gmail.com and in the payment notes please indicate who the membership is for. 

Thanks again!

Just a suggestion, but what about inviting some serious members to become shareholders? With you being the majority to retain ownership? 
 

I appreciate all that you do to keep this place going and certainly understand your reasons for outages.

I have just joined with the membership, and I have also paid for another via PayPal as you suggested above. I’ll let you decide who to give it to.

1 hour ago, Powerage5 said:

I kept quiet about it, but I decided to go down for the Hershey gig at the last minute. I had previously said I wouldn't go see GN'R again until things really change after Montreal 2017, but I decided to break down and give them another shot on Saturday. In 2017 it was really just a case of, I'd seen four NITL shows that were all nearly identical over two years, I couldn't see shelling out that kind of money continually for largely the same show. Truth be told, GN'R wasn't even really the reason I went - I was just looking for a good excuse to go beer shopping/hunting in the Harrisburg area  That, and I was really keen to see WVH. When the tickets dropped to $29, it was hard to say no.

As I said above, I had my personal reasons to stop going to GN'R gigs after 2017. It just wasn't for me anymore, plain and simple. If they came back with a new album or a significantly revamped setlist, I'd be the first in line to go to another gig or gigs. The gigs in 2016 and 2017 were good, the band was tight, energized, and yet professional. But after the other night, I can definitively say I am done with this band in any financial sense until things seriously change. What I saw Saturday night was a trainwreck in nearly every sense. 

First things first - the schedule for the gig was a joke. The venue sends out an email the day before the gig saying the show time has been pushed forward from 7 PM to 6 PM, and the doors time from 6 PM to 5 PM. Great! That means more time for GN'R, right? Wrong. The show starts late - Wolfgang goes on at 6:45, just fifteen minutes ahead of his originally scheduled start time. After his (perfectly reasonable length) set, there is an astounding 55 minute set change between WVH and GN'R - putting GN'R onstage at roughly 8:25. Which, because of the strict 11 PM curfew at Hershey, gave us a roughly 2 hour 20 minute set, which I believe is one of the shortest yet from the NITL lineup. Now, I get it - production delays happen, particularly on the first night. But, something should give somewhere to make up some time; cut Wolfie down to 35 minutes, work double-time for the set change...something to try and buy back any of the time lost. 

All of that rolls into my next point - the setlist. I'm not going to try and judge too harshly on the setlist itself, as it's likely we didn't get the full, intended setlist. But the pacing was all over the place, and the set was somehow both still bloated and rushed at the same time. They powered through a good number of shorter songs early on, but the end of the set was a massive drag. The last hour of the set literally consisted of Slash's solo and five songs. That's it. It's like they got to 10 PM and collectively said "Oh fuck, we have all these songs left we have to play, and they all long. Cut down the jams in the songs, are you insane?!?". And that's one of the baffling things to me - there's so many songs that just turn into jams that they refused to tighten up because of the shorter set. It's not like we're talking about cutting down what they've rehearsed so much as refusing to keep the pace moving. Double Talking Jive felt longer than usual (I didn't pay attention to the exact length on that one), Rocket Queen still came in at 12 minutes, KOHD still came in at 12 minutes, they're drawing out the endings of every single song - SCOM doesn't need to turn into a 7 minute song because they refuse to just end it. KOHD can easily get cut down from 12 minutes to 9 minutes literally on the fly, and still have some of the crowd interaction. Slash's solo clocked in around 10 minutes and it was a fucking 12 bar blues. It takes zero effort to cut that down to be as short as you want. At one point, when Axl was doing the band intros he was sort of building up the crowd before Slash and he literally said "In the business, this is what we call milking it"; a show that is running well over an hour behind schedule is not the time to milk it, and certainly not to joke about milking it. On the plus side, it was nice to see Dead Horse and You're Crazy. 

On a technical level there were sound problems galore. I've never heard such an inconsistent sound across a gig as I did on Saturday night. At any given time, anyone could suddenly spike in the mix, or disappear altogether. I lost count of the number of times Axl was visibly singing powerfully when he was completely inaudible in the mix - the one that is stuck in my mind is the bridge of Better. Duff's bass would suddenly dominate the mix. Melissa would come out of nowhere for two or three words of backing vocals, and then disappear as quickly as she appeared. There was at least one solo where Slash was just missing from the mix. Whoever is on the mix nowadays should be ashamed, because to call that mix shambolic would be an understatement. 

On the topic of the actual performance, it was the worst I've ever seen from GN'R by a considerable margin. In 2017 the band still sounded like they had some fire, they were still energized. The other night was the sound of a band going through the motions. I know a lot of folks on here were keen to have the tempos pulled back, and it works on some songs but there's others where it just sucks the energy out of the song. Rocket Queen in particular comes to mind, it was painfully slow, it just seemed to plod along. I can't even really say the band was loose or sloppy, just...boring. They sounded, and to an extent, looked, disinterested. Nobody impressed me on an individual level either. I suppose, gun to my head, I'd say Slash was the MVP of the night, but even then he sounded so much less inspired than he did in 2017 when I remember him really shining (And I say that as someone who is not particularly a huge fan of Slash). Nobody had any energy - Slash, Duff, and Fortus all mostly stayed in the same spot for the entire gig, while Axl moved around the stage (Rather gingerly even by his more recent standards). Speaking of Axl...his voice. I'm not going to sit here and shit on him saying that he needs to stop being lazy, lose weight, rehearse more, etc. Truth be told, he really looked like he was putting in the effort vocally to me. He didn't have the mannerisms of someone just going through the motions. But his voice just wasn't working. I hate to say this, but I just don't know if he's physically able to control his voice anymore the way that his vocals demand. I felt sorry for him because he did look to be working hard, and he looked dejected to me at times that he wasn't able to deliver - I remember during November Rain you could see Axl just sitting there shaking his head and looking disappointed. There were songs where he'd skip every other line for whole verses, Better and YCBM come to mind. It was not a pretty sight. 

The whole gig ended on an incredibly bizarre note when Axl said his usual "Good. Fucking. Night!" (Albeit in a midrange speaking voice as opposed to his usual banshee howl on it), threw his mic into the crowd...and that was it. No additional thank you's from anyone in the band, no group or individual bows - I'm not even sure any of them threw picks, sticks, etc. into the crowd. Just very odd. 

I was hoping I would walk away from this gig happy with the night, and remorseful that I'd shunned them for the last four years. Neither was the case in actuality. I am relieved I haven't wasted my time and money on this band for the last four years, and they won't be getting any more from me unless there's significant changes in the organization from top to bottom. Do I regret going? Not really. WVH was great, and the beer shopping/hunting part of my day was excellent, so it wasn't a wasted day in either of those regards. But I'm also not really happy I saw GN'R. If I'm being brutally honest, they themselves were not worth the $29 I spent to see them. 

So the real question is... what type of beer did you get mate?