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15 hours ago, Bitchisback said:

I mean, she is his assistant.

And per Axl, his mother. Which means he can't seem to go anywhere, a sixty-one-year-old man, without his mother. I think that was the original sentiment.

4 hours ago, HollyWoodRose84 said:

Not many acts have maintained their credibility in the long run. Only a handful. 
 

Stones, AC/DC, Springsteen, Lepard to name a small few. 

Yes. Seems all our heroes were born to loose. lol

Rocket Queen

One in a Million

Coma

Estranged

Ain't it Fun

Catcher in the Rye

11 hours ago, Karice said:

Axl doesn't sing over a backing track!😲 He's not Ashlee Simpson! 🤣

No, but he does hawk Budweiser and perform with Pink and Carrie Underwood. Oh, oh!... and his guitarist also sells credit cards. 

I guess the line in Pretty Tied Up was more than a little prophetic. Time did go by, and man oh man... did it all become a joke.

22 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

This. Age 30 is also when creativity (often associated with youth) seems to start declining for a lot of people. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that UYI came out shortly before Axl turned 30, and then that was the last original album he ever released until ChiDem was finally ripped out of his hands in 2008.

Pretty sure Beta also said in that 2001 interview of hers that Axl was considering retirement after the UYI tour, but then changed his mind when Steph dumped him.

Yes, thirty is when most artists seem to slide creatively. But I don't believe it has much to do with biology. I think it's more or less about the bullet count, so to speak. By thirty, depending on the artist in question, you've spent a lot of bullets. Most people only have so many, and even the very best don't have an unlimited amount. So by thirty, most artists are all used up, and that's why I think the art starts to suffer. The age is irrelevant.

If you look at artists that started later, like Roger Waters (he didn't take over Pink Floyd until he was pushing thirty), it sort of backs up the aforementioned hypothesis. He was about thirty-two when Wish You Were Here released; thirty-seven for The Wall. His slide happened in his early forties... about ten years or so after he started writing full-time.

On 3/10/2023 at 10:48 PM, Gnrcane said:

The cutoff to me is when I saw college girls in bikinis and felt like I needed to look away because they looked like kids.

Maybe it's because I've studied so much biology and sociology, but I have no issues with women that age. There have been many studies on the subject, and it was concluded that men from young to very old find women in their early twenties most attractive. Seems our collective definition of what should be is overruled by what nature says is.

On 3/2/2023 at 4:10 PM, Nice Boy said:

You’d be surprised, quite a few people are able to either disregard the lyrics for the sake of appreciation the musicianship of the song, or run with the (unconvincing) “third person perspective” interpretation of them

I just think it's a kick ass song.

I don't know, but before they die, they need to play Get in the Ring. Please. Just once. Pretty, pretty please.

14 hours ago, Karice said:

60/61 is no longer considered old in 2023. 😏 Old would be Axl's Parents who would have been like 82 had they still been alive. 

Even though I'm way past thirty, thirty to me is still the cut off line. Not exactly, of course, but yeah. You're young until you're thirty, then you're old. After that, it's just different shades of the same thing.

I don't need to redefine what old is in order to keep myself from feeling old.

I'm old.

It is what it is.

Short hair, clean-shaven, over weight, t-shirt and jeans with boots and lots and lots of bracelets and rings.

Axl selling beer, Slash selling credit cards, GNR on a fucking NASCAR. What's next? Plastic lunch pails, ala Kiss?

"Time went by, and it became a joke."

9 hours ago, AxlIsGod. said:

I don't get how anything else on CD can be worse than Scraped. Can't even get past the first note 

Not a fan of the a cappella Axls, eh? lol

I remember when the album first came out. That was probably the first thing that really rubbed me the wrong way. It's just... what's the point? Just go into the damn song!

3 minutes ago, ©GnrPersia said:

Could you explain the reason why Estranged is in that list? 

Because I clearly misread the title of the thread, and thought it said "favorite" instead of "least"  haha.

Edited because I'm a dumb ass who can't read.

19 hours ago, JAxlMorrison said:

Ticket sales strongly disagree. 

I said figuratively.

For me, the band is finished. They're now in Zeppelin territory. I have the records, I have the memories, I have the officially-released VHS/DVDs, I have the Youtube videos of their glory years etc. Anything they release from 85-93, I will have a serious interest in... but it's over. I have no interest in watching an overweight, sixty-year-old Axl Rose with extreme vocal damage slowly wobble around the stage in clothes that befit a man in his mid-twenties, completely unable to sing his own songs correctly. Ditto for the rest of the guys. They're old, tired and attempting to play a role that was written for drugged-up, pissed off, socially-rejected men in their mid-to-late twenties... and it shows... a lot... and I don't care for it. That's not what I got into this band for, and if they had been this version of themselves back in the late eighties, they never would have gotten a record deal and no one would have cared.

But yes, there's millions of people out there who are willing to pay huge chunks of money to get drunk on crummy, over-priced draft beer and squint at the stage and play make-believe like it's the late eighties or early nineties again for three hours because they can't let go.

I went once in 2016 because it was a bucket-list thing (I could have gone in 1992, but since I wasn't old enough to drive, my mom was able to stop me), and it was literally  (for me), a sad, sobering experience.

I'll never do it again.

1 hour ago, rumandraisin said:

"Brand new f'n look, brand new f'n chapter...

... same old f'n setlist."

Maybe grow one but, wear? No. The glue would itch too much.

On 2/26/2023 at 5:25 AM, Amish said:

No, it really has always meant exactly what I said.  I'm not even reading anything into it.  It's saying to stop propping people up on some belief you've concocted about their personality.  Stop turning people into Michael Jackson, or ironically, Axl Rose.  Stop worshipping your own idea of things.

I disagree. I see it as irony.

But that's okay. We don't have to agree.

The sad realization that GNR is figuratively through, and has been since 1993. 

On 2/19/2023 at 7:29 PM, Amish said:

"Kill your idols" is similar to the phrase "Lose your illusions."  

Everyone has an idea of what their world is and how it should be.  That's their "illusion."  You can use that illusion to progress in life to a point, but at some point, something is going to happen to shatter that illusion.  You'll see the world for how it really is and you will become "disillusioned."  You'll have depression and anger.  That's why it's important to not try to build your own expectations up too high or become complacent with how things are going in your life.  You should "lose your illusions."  

"Kill your idols" is basically that same concept.  Don't put anyone on a pedestal.  Don't let your concept of a person get blown up into something bigger than what it is.  For example, take Axl Rose himself.  Some people have built him up to be a hero or somehow larger than life, when he's just an ordinary man.  Imagine going to meet someone who you've idolized but when you meet them, they're nothing like you imagined.  You've created an illusion of this person in your own mind and are now shown the truth, and truth is usually shocking.  

So, sure, it can directly be about religious idols, but in a broader sense, it's about not building anyone or anything up in your own head.  

I think you read too far into it. The shirt's probably just a take on society as a whole. We're self-destructive etc, and so much so, that we literally killed the son of God. It's tragic irony. A parable.

I'm not endorsing Kid Rock here, but I think with his song, Don't Tell Me How to Live, he kind of proved what most of us have known all along: you can't cancel people. If Guns N Roses wanted to release One In A Million today, they could. Maybe their record label would drop them, but they could just record their own music in their own studio and release it themselves. No one can stop anyone from saying or doing anything within the law. Cancel culture has always been a sham. It's nothing but a slew of mentally disturbed people with fucked up childhoods and all sorts of mood/chemical disorders and complexes using the guise of social progress to be dicks to those whom they feel have it better than they do. It's about revenge and resentment and nothing else, and the first massive company, or movie studio, or television station that calls them out on it by not doing their bidding is going to be the first domino to the woke's downfall.

I know this has been beaten like a (no pun intended) dead horse but... the only way I could give less of a damn is if I were deceased.

Wake me when they write an entirely new album. Until then, it's the usual: 87-93 Youtube videos and my records.

5 hours ago, DustNBones1990 said:

That’s what we all need, just a little bit of positivity and optimism, hey we may not all agree with everything they do but something is better than nothing 🤷🏻‍♂️

I can think of many instances in my life where nothing was definitely better than something.