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1 hour ago, D4NNY said:

I did feel bad for him in that one, I think the rumour mill at the time was he was pretty ill? If memory serves me well 🤔 

Yes, I think it was chalked up to bronchitis or something. But still... the man knew he couldn't sing that night. Why not go baritone? Oh, that's right, because Axl. lol

1 hour ago, D4NNY said:

Wow 😂 but nothing tops WTTJ at Bridge School.. 

“Welcome to the jungle, we got fun n’ games, we got everything you want said honey we know the names because you… knees!! You got the money honey we got what ya need!”

No joints needed for that one 😂
 

Indeed the most ridiculous shit I have ever seen from Axl. Seriously. The man sometimes just doesn't give a fuck!

48 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

True. Wasting light was the last great thing 

I would argue that the last great thing he put out was Unplugged... and I own Wasting Light.

The truth is, if 1993 Dave met 2023 Dave, 1993 Dave would want to punch 2023 Dave right in the face.

It would either be the Ritz or 1992 Paris. The Ritz for the rawness. The Paris show for the larger-than-life element. Guns N Roses peaked in 1992 as far as global popularity goes. They were almost demigod mode.

13 hours ago, SlashisGOD said:

Voted for Slither. Sorry Axl. 

Well according to Axl, Slash is in his ass. So technically, a vote for Slash is also a vote for Axl...

Again, my interception is that this song isn't that deep. It's well written, but not deep. It's simply about Axl's experience with the original band, its break-up, people's expectations etc. That's all.

Seeing a shirtless Iggy always reminds me of a time, way back in the early days of this forum, when I questioned why Axl didn't simply just lose the weight so he could take his shirt off again like Iggy does (this was back when Axl was still in his late thirties). Some forum member, whom I can't recall, quoted me and said something like, "Yeah, but Iggy looks like a deflated vagina."

I'll never forget it.

Nor will I never be able to look at Iggy shirtless again and not think about deflated vaginas.

Upon closer inspection... these are loafers.

Get in the Ring... with Axl's take down included.

2 hours ago, B5Redeye said:

Wtf if wrong with grey haired people?

Clearly past their prime? Speak for yourself. In many areas I kick ass more today at 51 than I did when I was in my 20’s.

I do agree with your last statement.  For me the worst part is thinking about my own mortality every time I see someone die young.

Nothing is inherently wrong with gray-haired people. But when you go to a show where songs like Out Ta Get Me and It's So Easy are being played, and the crowd is old and just standing around, nodding their heads slowly as if they were all bobble-head dolls on a mildly bumping back road... it's a little deflating.

As I mentioned, I naively thought I was getting Paris '92 etc. My fault, I suppose, but yeah. Not happening again.

Exactly none.

I had a chance to go in '92 and couldn't. Thought I would be able to make up for it in '16 by going to a show that Adler performed at, only to become disillusioned (pun intended) by the fact that the stadium was full of gray-haired people who pretty much just stood around and sipped beer while the band did their best to pretend it was still 1992. Since then, I have no interest in repeating that. It was expensive as hell (I was third row behind the pit), and the band and fans--which were both clearly past their primes at the time--would only be further past their primes, making for a snooze fest beyond imagination.

If Guns N Roses had stayed together and naturally evolved, and had kept putting out new music that suited their evolution... maybe I'd be into their current incarnation. But not this. This is just sad. And I mean that literally, not as an insult. It sucks getting old, and it sucks watching your heroes get old, but man... I don't need that.

I still have the CDs/vinyl. I still have my original t-shirts, officially-released DVDs etc. I still have Youtube where Paris '92 and the Ritz live on in all their glory.

I'm good.

Good job OP!

Acoustic all the way. But some of the live versions they did over the years, where it was electric but slowed down into the acoustic style? That version is pretty close. Especially the few times Axl really nailed the vocals.

I would like to see him try to duet with his 1992-self, just so I could watch his 1992-self turn him down because he's become a whore for the limelight.

On 4/10/2023 at 1:07 AM, Italian girl said:

On 6 songs: 2 are covers (and 2 snippets) 

 

And, more than likely, dynamically crushed to hell and back.

1 hour ago, mystery said:

They really need to do an 80's focused one, for all the touring they did for Appetite there's not a whole lot of official releases from that era when the band was in it's prime. Live Era says 87-93 but most of it is from the UYI tour.

I'd like to see official DVD/Blu-ray releases. That, and an official UYI documentary using all that Del James, home-video stuff.

I owned the entire RIR3 performance on VHS. Bought it straight from Eric, back when he ran this place. Wish I still had it!

The man.

On 4/3/2023 at 2:25 PM, D4NNY said:

Said it before and I’ll say it again…

 

We REALLY need new music. 

What, the graph-count during Axl's initial hair transplant not interesting enough for you?

Such entitlement these days!

On 4/6/2023 at 1:24 PM, Rovim said:

as opposed to other bands that forever stay at their prime? can't really fault Gn'R for getting older

As opposed to a band that knows when to call it quits and stays quit. Or bands who, through no fault of their own, ended in their prime.

I'd rather have five years of genius and nothing else than five years of genius, fifteen years of mediocrity, and fifteen years of embarrassment.

But that's just me.  

That they're so far past their prime that--aside from Duff--they've become caricatures of themselves.

I'm relieved. I thought this was going to be about Axl saying some no-no words in a song he wrote three-and-a-half decades ago.