DownUnderScott

On 7/23/2021 at 9:00 AM, LunsJail said:

There are 23 more Tuesdays this year…be positive 🤪

15 hours ago, kiwiguns said:

Currently New Zealand has zero cases in the general community. 

19 cases reported yesterday in managed isolation, separated from the general community via hotel walls and fencing. 

There can be zero cases amongst the general population. 

New Zealand has closed the travel bubble with all Australian states and is offering NZ citizens a space in managed isolation to do 14 days of isolation, at no cost to the individual. 

We are free to move around daily with no restrictions and we have had a number of music events over the last 6 months including a 60,000 sell out music concert. 

Apart from mask wearing on public transport, life is relatively normal. 

Have they been international music acts?

2 hours ago, ruttu69 said:

MTV Uplugged aired regularly from 1989 to 1999 including artists like Kiss, Alice In Chains, Neil Young, even Poison…

I don’t get it why didn’t Guns N’ Roses take part of this as they were on MTV all the time. Has Axl or Slash ever talk about it publicly?

Would have been amazing in their prime.

9 hours ago, Amaya said:

Opps. Thought it was new. Thnx.

Fuckkkk youuu! I thought this was the beginning of something special!  
 

just kidding 😏

On 7/19/2021 at 7:34 PM, CAFC Nick said:

Haha to be fair I imagine this was purely just a jam from Slash - can't imagine them playing this in the full show. If I recall correctly I think Machine Gun is a 10-12 min song!

Ah fair enough. At this point I don’t even really mind. I would pay good money for a new Guns N Roses’ album even if it was just all cover songs and zero originals. 😊

On 7/18/2021 at 2:16 AM, CAFC Nick said:

Yep definitely the Jimi Hendrix version - from the leaked footage it's clearly a Hendrix cover.

Yay. Another cover in the set list 🙄

10 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Izzys take on the reunion are best summed up in the lyrics of this song that covered in response to the NITL tour 

 

Needs more Cowbell...

On 7/5/2021 at 3:01 AM, Towelie said:

And it'd be great if Lana Del Ray would suck my cock, but that ain't gonna happen either. 

No, but Steven Adler might... 

On 6/6/2021 at 10:02 AM, Tadsy said:

Have any support acts been announced? 

Haven’t really heard much about the support acts. I’ve got tickets to Gold Coast & Brisbane but just parked it at the back of my mind, knowing that it was still a long way off. 

14 minutes ago, Live Like a Suicide said:

Every time they come down to Australia, i hope they do Marseilles, but all we get is Nice Boys (which is good, but i prefer The Angels over Rose Tattoo).

Same here, Marseilles is a fantastic song. Axl does a great job of Nice Boys but there are so many other Rose Tattoo, The Angels or AC/DC songs that Axl would know well enough to change it up a bit. 

12 hours ago, LA_0013 said:

The forum has descended into parent chat

You didn’t use a full stop at the end of your sentence. I’m so angry !

On 5/18/2021 at 3:42 AM, James Bond said:

Reuniting with their guitarist, recording new music, playing diverse set lists.

Ah yes.

 

 

 

I love the Chili Peppers.

It’s continually bitching, ungrateful fans like you that give the rest of us a bad name.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to read my Guns N’ F’n Roses’ childrens book!

It is questionable why we are all still here, as there is really fuck-all to discuss anymore. I just want to keep up to date with whatever may happen, and be there to see it through to the end.  I know that we are highly unlikely to get new music ever again, but if we do I want to share in that joy with pure and die hard GnR fans of which this place has. 

If Axl announced it was all over then I would come here less and less over time, but still check in with the hope of leaks.

1 hour ago, bumcheecksmcghee said:

Terrible news. Gibbo is a fellow aussie and mate ive talked to many times. Always commenting, sharing an supporting the page. Love the hard work he does for the gnr fans. 

Shame on the turds that report shit like this...

 

Yeah mate it’s fuckin’ dumb. You would think that GnR would support guys like Gibbo and appreciate the support they get from us Aussies who turn out time and time again to see their shows, enabling them to play in front of huge crowds, and effectively facilitating their continued dream existence and lifestyle of being ‘Rock stars’, but no, they gotta shit on the real fans time and time again. Wankers.

On 4/27/2021 at 6:16 AM, StayofExecution2020 said:

Hopefully axl let his hair grow. That lesbian haircut didn't do it for me.

Hey! That’s offensive. Lesbian lives matter...

I thought Axl looked and sounded fantastic. The band were great. You’re a serious nit-picking wanker if you have to look for the bad in this latest release. Just enjoy one of the all-time great rock voices and rock guitarist as they are still going and giving their performances for all to see. 

On 4/10/2021 at 7:54 PM, Dean said:

I remember around 2011 that the mother of Dizzy's daughter was asking for donations to go towards paying for their daughters further education. The salaries of the band from '02 allegedly got out years ago. I remember Bucket was on something like $40,000 a month - could all have been false though. Tommy was working in a call center before getting the Guns gig. Just goes to show how cut throat it is being a musician that isn't with one of the juggernauts making a comfortable living. There's probably more to it with 4tus selling these guitars, I'm sure he'll be doing alright!

Oh cool, if that is true about Buckethead then that’s pretty damn good money!  I always find it pitiful and rude when musicians ask for donations for their own personal life. Like fuck off, be wise with your money or suck it up like the rest of us 😄

It certainly is cut throat and I remember seeing a music doco on Netflix about hired guns and how the job can be gone all of a sudden, like Pitman for instance. 
 

4Tus is a smart dude, I’m sure he is wise and mature enough too, so yeah probably just shedding gear he no longer uses.

10 hours ago, Fitha_whiskey said:

I don’t know how to post a FB post here, but Richard is selling a huge number of guitars and amps on something called the Chicago Music Exchange... if I could’ve posted it, it’s a moving truck full of guitars and amps for sale it appears to me... Pretty stark example of the economics of rock n roll. One day you’re a rockstar with 799 guitars, the next you’re in a pawn shop... that’s the way I see it- if anyone knows more about it, please chime in. 

Interesting. I’ve always wondered how much Axl pays his staff like Richard. What do you all think? To be on contract with GnR and obviously they would stipulate that GnR is the priority with any side-interests not to conflict with plans, how much for a hired muso to take that gig?

I would have a guess around $100 00 - $150 000 per year with all expenses paid touring.

What do you all reckon?

On 4/2/2021 at 3:03 PM, vloors said:

Also in Australia here. Feel your pain lol

Aussie here too, but I knew it was too good to be true though that there was actual Guns N’ Roses news. 

23 hours ago, RussTCB said:

This. 

This. This. 😄

Actually, “ new music or GTFO “ should be the correct answer to any question now.

Q/ What do you think of having two keyboardists in the band?

A/ new music or GTFO

Q/ Do you think Steven Adler should be back in the band?

A/ new music or GTFO

Q/ What song do you think they should open with when touring begins again?

A/ new music or GTFO

Q/ What do you think the title of their next children’s story book should be?

A/ new music or GTFO

20 hours ago, axl666 said:

There's nothing difficult at all to it. You just hover your cursor over the song and it tells you how many plays it has.

In relation to UY1, the less well known songs have plays in the range of the better CD songs. For instance Don't Damn Me has 12M and Coma has 12M.

November Rain in contrast has close to 500M, Don't Cry 240M and LALD 107M.

On UY12, Dont Cry and KOHD are the most popular songs on 240M and 340M respectively. YCBM has 100M.

Most of the other songs are in around the 12-15 M plays. Estranged is a bit of an outlier with 50M plays, so very popular without being immensely popular.

What about My World? Surely that has hit the Billion plays by now...

On 3/8/2021 at 9:22 PM, jamillos said:

There's one guy I would care about even in this extent, though. 
A certain red-headed bastard who refuses to release music. 

Prince William? 
 

Watch his Oprah interview, he tells all, but still won’t release Royal Democracy 2. Bastard.

15 hours ago, chinese stew said:

What happened to this?

Matt got cold feet?

Yep, his feet actually fell off with frostbite. 

13 hours ago, El Guapo said:

Meanwhile in GnR land....Zzzzzzzzz....

Oh c’mon El Chapo, don’t be so harsh. They are just trying to work out how to release an album. Didn’t you know that no other band across the entire world has released an album this past 12 months.

On 2/28/2021 at 5:57 AM, Subtle Signs said:

This means nothing for the States. Australia took the virus seriously and beat it down. It'll be 2022,IMO before bands the size of GNR can attempt large shows here.

Probably, hopefully the vaccine roll-out will speed things up a bit so that the US can start to plan concerts for early 2022.

I went to the show for Midnight Oil last night. It was an outdoor venue of approximately 10 000 people. It’s was a seating plan to make it ‘safe’ but really people were up dancing, drunk, and behaving like any other show pre-COVID. It was a great night and so good to see a big concert again with that electric atmosphere that a big crowd and a fantastic band can only provide!