Brunzopolis

The author appears to have jacked in all media type work around 2012 when the book was last due to come out. She now runs a rabbit sanctuary in Canada.

That really struck me when I saw that.

All that legwork. All those interviews. All the, what I imagine, regular hassles of dealing with a publisher, added in with the additional hassles of this particular book.

Then there's the money. Maybe she got an advance. Maybe it wasn't much more than enough to live on while she did the research. Probably was counting on some decent royalty money once it started selling.

Then, once it got killed off, she must have been like "Fuck this shit. I'm not wasting anymore time in this game. Think I'll help some rabbits."

Someone asked:"Does Axl know he sings like Mickey?". Fernando said: "Yes".

Also, I didn't understand the Magisme/Fernando dynamic. Still don't.

Near the start, they're talking about Clink's experience producing a Super Bowl halftime show, and Clink says they have a 'premix' (from rehearsals), but that it's never been used, and is only there for an emergency. Would that be vocal tracks too do you think?

I know (I think) that every SB national anthem performance since Whitney Houston's famous one from the early 90's, has been lipsynced.

Just started watching, but I'm sure it's great, just like the last one you did.

Btw, did you make this with powerdirector?

Anyone ever check out the Remasters of The Real Thing and Angel Dust?

Angel Dust, yes. Well, it was a rip. FLAC though.

I could not tell the difference between it and the original release.

Megadeth - Rust In Peace (the remastered one)

I'm blow away by how much better these Megadeth remasters are. Well, from Countdown and onward there's 'diminishing returns', but the first four albums just sound soooo much better. So glad they did this.

His SCOM and Brownstone solos really grew on me.

I really hope he's not so hard up, that should he be asked, he'd want to rejoin.

That's cool, OP.

I don't find this "creepy" at all. The overly judgmental comments in this thread however? Is it just me, or has there been an uptick lately of dickish behavior here on mygnr?

Anyway, if I was in LA for some reason, I'd probably take a drive up to Axl's house. I wouldn't get out of the car and start skulking around. I'd just slow down and gawk for a moment - like the way you do when you're driving around and see a nice house or something.

This is like some Ayn Rand shit.

It's entirely possible that Vince was simply mistaken for Axl in the story. Yoda (Sharon Maynard) passed away in 2007; she wasn't really a "spiritual adviser to the stars" or anything like that.

IIRC she was a faily quiet woman who kept a low-profile aside from associating with Axl. Anybody know how they met?

Through Suzy London, I think?

A little while back, Williams was on the Marc Maron podcast. Williams didn't seem aware of the whole 'ruse factor' that went on with the AFD covers. I don't think Maron is much of a GNR fan, so he didn't really press the subject.

...The School of Athens which is in the Vatican. I was just there in May and snapped some pics.

That's so cool. I'd love to go someplace where they had famous paintings, to see them in person.

An interesting person. He reminds of Axl in that he gets so much shit.

People will still be talking about Axl and GNR though.

Yeah people will still talk about Axl that how big of a joke he made of himself and GNR.

This.

Yeah, which speaks solely, and entirely, to the heights they reached before it became a joke. Simple logic.

Wrong.

Hmmm, persuasive.

Hmmm, wrong.

Corey and Slipknot will obviously be remembered whenever the Nu/Alternative Metal movement gets mentioned in the future. Maybe not as big as AFD (not GNR, AFD) but some of their music might get cult status. You have to be an Axl blind fanatic to say Slipknot will be forgotten. It won't. Hell, look at all the hair metal bands from the 80s that still have a public! They were part of a very cool music period, Slipknot, Korn, Deftones all have brilliant albums. If I have a kid one day I'll proudly say I listened to White Pony during my teenage days.

And even if Corey is forgotten (truly doubt he will). I'd rather be completely forgotten than remembered for being a sad joke and/or destroying one of the biggest bands of all time.

You're inadvertently making MY point, for me. If you see how, great. If you don't, even better.

Like others have said: so many questions about his voice.

At the last show old GNR did, in Argentina, or wherever that was, we hear "Mickey" starting to come out. Did this have anything to do with the breakup, and what else happened in the next few years?

How hard has Axl tried to "fix" his voice. Does he care? Not care? Is it a big deal to him? Is he even really aware of how much it has changed? Is it permanently damaged? Is it possible to fix? Has he ever sought outside opinions about it? Vocal coaches? Doctors? That vocal coach guy that was mentioned in the Mitch Lafon interview of Doug Goldstein...how long was he around for? What did he try? How about TB and others in the inner circle? Or the band? What has their input been? Is it discussed? Never discussed?

Aside from the voice thing, I'm still mildly curious about the Sorelle Saidman book that got kiboshed.

It probably was because it had info about the death of Axl's bio-dad. It's understandable that he'd go to significant lengths to not let that info come out. I'm still curious though. It's hard not to be.

In what song does he sing with the clean high voice in Argentina 93?

I don't remember. It was just a moment or two where, when I heard it, it was like "there's Mickey". I'd never heard it before in a 93 and prior show before.

Am I going to watch the entire 90 minute show to find a a few seconds of vocals (which are subjective) so I can win this little argument? No.

People will still be talking about Axl and GNR though.

Yeah people will still talk about Axl that how big of a joke he made of himself and GNR.

This.

Yeah, which speaks solely, and entirely, to the heights they reached before it became a joke. Simple logic.

Wrong.

Hmmm, persuasive.

People will still be talking about Axl and GNR though.

Yeah people will still talk about Axl that how big of a joke he made of himself and GNR.

This.

Yeah, which speaks solely, and entirely, to the heights they reached before it became a joke. Simple logic.

People will still be talking about Axl and GNR though.

Yeah people will still talk about Axl that how big of a joke he made of himself and GNR.

Probably some will!

That's what happens when you reach great heights, then fall.

I give kudos to the caller. He got a few good zings in, which isn't easy to do on a call-in show. Especially with someone as skilled at arguing/shouting loudly as Jim Norton.

Like a lot of assholes, Axl probably doesn't really realize that showing up late affects some people the way it does. So I give him some leeway there.

But more importantly, it's not even really about "being late". It could more accurately be framed as "being able to perform". For reasons that are mostly unknown, probably even to Axl, he couldn't perform when he was supposed to. Once he felt he could perform, he then proceeded to go on stage, and perform.

And maybe, the psychological reasons had something to do with pissing off people. Like it was a compulsion. In any event, compulsion probably had something to do with it. Sometimes, people don't want to do something, but they feel compelled, and they give in to the compulsion. Maybe he was addicted to going on late? Who the fuck knows!?

But JFC, he's Axl Rose. One of the most gifted performers of the past 100 years. He had something to share. Had he chosen not to share, to not be a performer, we wouldn't be able to see him perform. Like, HE'S the one with something to offer. Not us. All we have is money and adoration, which pale in comparison.

And this has absolutely nothing to do with anything, other than my loyalty/allegiance, but 100 years from now, no one will remember Corey Taylor or Slipknot or Corey Taylor rubbing his balls on things. People will still be talking about Axl and GNR though.

Like others have said: so many questions about his voice.

At the last show old GNR did, in Argentina, or wherever that was, we hear "Mickey" starting to come out. Did this have anything to do with the breakup, and what else happened in the next few years?

How hard has Axl tried to "fix" his voice. Does he care? Not care? Is it a big deal to him? Is he even really aware of how much it has changed? Is it permanently damaged? Is it possible to fix? Has he ever sought outside opinions about it? Vocal coaches? Doctors? That vocal coach guy that was mentioned in the Mitch Lafon interview of Doug Goldstein...how long was he around for? What did he try? How about TB and others in the inner circle? Or the band? What has their input been? Is it discussed? Never discussed?

Aside from the voice thing, I'm still mildly curious about the Sorelle Saidman book that got kiboshed.

It probably was because it had info about the death of Axl's bio-dad. It's understandable that he'd go to significant lengths to not let that info come out. I'm still curious though. It's hard not to be.

The unstated gist of what he is saying is that, in his opinion, things have gotten a little stale. Another way to say this, is that things have gotten shitty.

I agree with this. And I also agree, roughly, on when it happened.

I don't think, though, that it has anything to do with people not 'moving forward'.

You know how when you're high, or drunk, and music more readily 'reveals' itself to you?

Maybe right now, our brains are set up to like certain sounds. But we've exhausted all the sounds. So we're looking around thinking everything sucks. Maybe in the future, our brain chemistry, or general make-up, will change, and suddenly we'll be receptive to different things. All of a sudden, there'll be all this great "new" music.

Since when you're forced to listen to an entire album when you just want to listen to a particular song or two? Make a Slash's best of list yourself and listen to the songs you really like, and act like the others do not exist.

I don't like You're A Lie, I never listen to the song and always skip it. The end. Problem solved.

For nearly all of my favorite bands, I don't listen to like...75% of their stuff. I only 'count' the good. The bad, you just ignore it.

Take the Rolling Stones. They've released like what, a dozen or so albums? I like maybe...8 of their songs. But I really, really like those songs. And so, they are one of my favorite bands.

Something about Vedder's voice, and Vedder himself (to a lesser degree), makes me not like Pearl Jam - for the most part. Every few years though, I'll hear one of their hits, really digg it and play some more PJ. But it only lasts for a day or two. Something, like I said, about Vedder/his voice...maybe the lyrics too...it's too "something", I dunno. It's nice in small doses, very occasionally.

For me though, there is one exception. One Pearl Jam song for which all the preceding doesn't apply. I listen to this song a lot. Video's kinda cool too.

That riff is off the charts, as is Vedder's singing. Only thing I don't like is that the lyrics were inspired by that Daniel Quinn book.

Yeah, Faith No More's one of my favourite bands and Wasted was pretty on point there. Some people dream of being famous, while others get famous when they're really young and may not like or understand it. It has a lot of great pros, but there's a long list of cons as well. There's definitely an interesting parallel between Patton and Cobain there, trying to figure out how to deal with all the madness.

Cobain was a classic emo/punk kid. There are some great stories in books like "Everybody Loves Our Town" that illustrate this perfectly.

He sweepingly judged fame and the famous, and the actions of famous people. He thought he understood it all. Then, he became famous, and found out that he didn't know much. There were some nice little perks that came with fame that he rather enjoyed (and who wouldn't?).

Patton is harder to figure out. The picture isn't as clear or apparent, imo.

I love FNM's music to death, but everyone except for Jim Martin (and maybe Bordin) always seemed like such twats. At least back then.

I think it partly had to do with a sort of hipster, "look at how weird we are!" thing they had. Like five minutes after The Real Thing got big, they started slagging it. FFS, it's a good album.

In Patton's case specifically, I think his fuckhead behavior also stems from him (and his musical tastes) just being genuinely odd. All that like, bird chirping mimicry Fantomas bullshit he does. It's completely devoid of the components of actual music. There's maybe a dozen other weirdos out there who share whatever brain anomaly he has, that actually like it.

So maybe when he listens to GNR, it sounds to him like what Fantomas sounds like to everyone else? For real, I think that's part of it.

I think for me it would be rare that a week passes without listening to some GNR. Mostly Illusions era live shows.