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17 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

You guys really wanna see those spandex shorts in HD huh...

Yes, yes I do.

Reminds me of this Vicky Hamilton story.

"Vicky also recalls a time when she saved the band from potentially losing millions of dollars in revenue when she walked in on Axl thrashing out a deal to sell record producer Kim Fowley three of what would become the band's biggest hits from Appetite for Destruction for a mere $2,500.

She told him: 'Dude you cannot do that, we're in the middle of a bidding war with lots of record labels here you cannot sell out these songs.'

'Axl was just like "I can write a million songs" and I said 'Maybe so but can you write a million songs like these?'

'It was Welcome to the Jungle and two of the others that ended up on Appetite.

'He just said, "We really need the money". He was ready to say OK and I was like: "Are you crazy you cannot do that."

Vicky left the pair and went to do some laundry and Fowley followed her screaming at her, 'You messed up my deal! I deserve a piece of that!'"

19 hours ago, merryfnchristmas said:

 

"Here I am/and you're the Shower Screen" 

 

I might be a little old, but honey I sure can cleeeeeaaaann

Nice.

On first listen I thought it was "Try'na get me motivated, livin' when I'm constipated", so glad to realise I was mistaken 

Edit: actually, I hear it as "living with the constant pain" rather than "living within constant fear". 

Amazing job on this.

What are the details for the one show missed by Axl? I vaguely remember that it was opening for Alice Cooper and there were discussions around firing Axl, although I might be misremembering. Do we have a setlist?

I don't know, seems like I'm going a bit against the grain here but I've always been a bit meh about this one.

One of the things that made me love GNR was how a song like NT could be so epic while celebrating how little they had. Obviously that's going to change by the time of UYI, but it always seemed a bit grating to go from being an urchin livin under the street to whinging about problems in spite of diamonds and fast cars and money to burn.

For those struggling with VPN I managed to find it using the site referenced earlier in this thread (hint: see my most recent liked post)

FFS why do I need to be so far from the international date line 

9 hours ago, WhazUp said:

 

Axl's random "eyeyeyeye" at the start of Don't Damn Me

Of all the useless bits of trivia I've learnt from the internet, the most useless has to be that the noise you're describing is based on Chester Cheetah from Cheeto's adverts. I mean, the human brain is an amazing thing that could be put towards something worthwhile and I'm using up part of mine to remember THIS 

Been a while since I watched this but I think it got referenced in ISE as well, with the "I see you standing there" part changed to reference a parking attendant, and possibly the most passionate "FUCK OFF' of any ISE performance 

1 hour ago, Blackstar said:

It took me some time to learn about the origin of some of these words/expressions, like "how many Tuesdays..."

But I still don't know about this:

How did it start and by whom? A forum member?

Around the time Axl had lost some weight and there were lots of posts commenting on that. 'Less bloated' was used in seriousness a few times.

Cracking jokes comes from how a lot of people who have had dealings with Axl refer to him always making jokes. Also, the occasional video would surface with Axl interacting with fans where he would be in good humour, and these would be discussed on the forum.

Eventually someone made a joke version of one of these posts and included how it was good to see Axl 'less bloated and cracking jokes', and it became a meme.

2 minutes ago, North Korean Democracy said:

LOL, who's that person?

I'm not sure, just remember the picture being a massive wtf moment that became an instant forum meme!

Just wondering if anyone has information on the June 1989 show at The Whiskey where members of GNR appeared with The Angels. I think they also did a song with Angry Anderson too.

Do we have the details of who from GNR made an appearance, and a full list of the songs they performed?

There's some footage out there but I'm not sure if it's complete.

Seems unlikely to me that Duff didn't have at least some familiarity with the Mentors song. The title is taken from it and the chorus has heavy similarities.

Beyond that the GNR song is completely different so can't be called a cover.

Love how they're clearly having a great time when they made that demo.

Love that Drunk Fux version of Yesterdays from early 1988.

I read it as the female manager was the apartment manager, not the band manager.

Earlier I was listening to AFD as I worked, and was reminded how I've always thought the lyrics to Anything Goes in the liner notes are incorrect.

I don't have the liner notes to hand, but the lyrics online - which I think are based on the liner notes are:

Panties round your knees

With your ass in debris

Doing that grind

With a push and a squeeze

I've always heard that second line as "ass in the breeze", which rhymes better and to me sounds more like what Axl sings.

What do others reckon? It's clearly very important that when I sing along to AG I can be sure I'm getting the words right 

15 hours ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

I remember watching this as it happened and Ant and Dec having to apologise with faces like slapped arses. It was great 

Yeah, I watched it at the time too.

It was a pretty stupid question to ask him when he made the blowjob comment. As if the most ridiculous rumour about Slash was going to be kids tv friendly!

Then they decided to continue for another three minutes and of course there was an inevitable f-word 

I ended up on this old page on the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1165688.stm

It's a roundup of a few things that had been broadcast on UK tv that had led to complaints back in 2000/1. Embarrassingly I ended up on that page as I was looking up what William G Stewart had to say on the Elgin marbles during an episode of Fifteen to One. Jeez, what the frig has happened to me 

Anyway, there's a reference to the time Slash went on Saturday morning kids tv, swore and referred to getting a blowjob in a bar.

I particularly enjoyed this paragraph, which I can only assume indicates LWT had no idea who the hell they had booked to appear.

"The broadcaster, LWT, explained that previous live interviews with Slash had given them no reason to believe he would use expletives."

1 hour ago, Len Cnut said:

Well the song is about being a brownhead isn't it, so clearly after 9 he's gotten up, shot up and then he lays there like a corpse for a good six hours, has a bit of a top up after that, with perhaps a little coke an hour or two before he's got to be on stage so he can get up and get ready, followed by another line just before the curtain opens, thats sort of the point of the song isn't it, that he's a brownhead, those hours where you have him 'pottering about the house' like he's fuckin' Alan Titchmarsh he's actually doing skag which, whilst in its throes, is as good as sleeping, you sort of drift in and out   You listened to that whole song and all you got from it was his waking and sleeping hours and the time he gets on and off stage, listen closely sunbeam, he alludes, EVER SO subtly, to being a fuckin' brownhead

But isn't the verse about waking up at 7 describing the pre-Brownstone situation where he was able to get up on time. What you're describing is the "now I get up around whenever" Izzy 

But yeah, that does leave a lot of time unaccounted for, especially as we now know he could write a song like Mr Brownstone in just five minutes!

21 hours ago, Shacklermyrye said:

https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/dvd/guns-n-roses-live-in-paradise-city

Bit more info on HMV site

Live TV performance from US rock band Guns N' Roses, recorded in 1992. The tracks performed include 'Mr Brownstone', 'Sweet Child O' Mine', 'Welcome to the Jungle' and 'Paradise City'.

tracklist is

Track 1. It's So Easy

Track 2. Mr Brownstone

Track 3. Out Ta Get Me

Track 4. Sweet Child O' Mine

Track 5. My Michelle

Track 6. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Track 7. Welcome to the Jungle

Track 8. Nightrain

Track 9. Paradise City

Track 10. Mama Kin

Track 11. Rocket Queen

The 1992 date looks like BS with that track list. In fact, isn't that the Ritz setlist?