RandallFlagg

Chinese Democracy is one of my favourite records of all time, the mystique envelopes and permeates it, I find Axl a fascinating character so having one record with just his imagination and demented ambition burning through each track really gets me every listen, I must listen to it at least ten times a year. Catcher in the Rye, Prostitute and Better are my favourites.

I remember isn't it the ritz where he introduces slash as '' half man, half beast. I'm not sure what it is, but whatever it is, it's weird and it's pissed off and it calls itself Slash...' I remember it because Axl is basically referencing The Thing where the dog handler guy tells Kurt Russell whatever's in there with the dogs is weird and pissed off.

I see the nutcase of the boxing world vicious victor ortiz quit again, he just doesn't have what it takes at the higher levels to succeed, Berto 1 he showed serious heart but he just can't seem to dig that deep to any consistent degree... when he was walking back to the dressing rooms after the interview past the crowd he also got a bunch of garbage literally launched into his face off this rabid old guy who probably lost too much betting on him or whatever, Ortiz just stood there with his hand clamped to his face, I'm surprised he didn't deck the prick, last thing you need after seeing the end of your career and getting dazed by a brutal uppercut is some chump launching his pizza box at your face lol.

I thought Axl sounded incredible in moments, it was a good performance from what I've seen, we all know he isn't in the best vocal shape usually until midway through a tour so he sounded pretty damn good knowing that, imagine how he'lll sound as we get further along, Slash's solos were a bit weird at points but he nailed the Coma solo for example, I thought it looked kinda weird seeing duff, slash and axl up there but it has been ya know a long ass time and intense divide since the glory days, I never expected to see this at all, I figured Axl would slice his own head off before reuniting or at least put out the CD sequel now we have fucking Slash playing Better lol! Axl is as unpredictable as ever, doesn't help he never expressed much about how he felt regarding Slash except ''he's in my ass'' and ''not in this lifetime'' I think he lost the fire to keep battling on the endless CD crusade.

On 06/04/2016 at 5:24 AM, Silverburst80 said:

Amazing band, Blood Mountain and Leviathan are my faves. For some reason i still call them my '' favourite new metal band " when they've been around for years.

 Blood Mountain is deranged, the growth they have from record to record is always a delight to unravel, I like that they went back to their frenetic kind of music after CTS which I thought was 10/10, I'm still digesting once more round the sun, it's a better record than The Hunter for me but I can forgive that as a transition kinda record, a very good one but definitely not as strong as Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack The Skye.

7 hours ago, shades said:

 Don't count him out just yet,

 

His only real loss imo was to Garcia, and that is no shame. Garcia beats everybody up

 Amir has to take some shots, you don't build your legacy fighting bums so it's time to put some real wins on his resume, but yea he may have bitten off more than he can chew this time

Yeah I commend him for taking this fight, the Brook fight will always be there, it's likely he loses but however he loses it only takes a few fights to build up the anticipation for that again, he'll just have to come down from his 10 million he demanded. It was about time he had a fight against a dangerous opponent again, Alexander was a solid win but not many picked him to beat Khan, very few boxers can beat amir without knocking him out. I read that Khan weighed around 160 against Alexander, that doesn't make the weight seem that much of a problem. Mayweather and Cotto aren't bigger than Khan but Alvarez is a pretty solid combination puncher and accurate, he did enough to beat Lara and Trout who are pretty slick. Obviously Floyd completely bamboozled him but Khan has a chance. I just don't think he's going to survive when Canelo corners him, he won't be able to tie him up as easily as he has the recent guys he's fought.

I really love Fru and Klinghoffer's record A Sphere In The Heart of Silence

Homecoming - Kanye

I don't want any proshots until Axl's voice is warmed up, which is usually halfway through a tour. Imagine if they had some televised performance in the middle of the 10 tour everyone would've given him the respect his live yodeling commands when it's warmed up properly.

It's the modern interpretation of Hey Bulldog with all the crushing glitz of a wailing sandstorm out in the arabian boondocks, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It is true that nobody except Mayweather, Lara, Ward or Rigondeaux outboxes Khan and Alvarez is still flat footed but he doesn't half have some combos, he can really put them together. He had Lara running for the hills and still outpointed him imo cause whilst Lara is a master boxer he didn't much like getting tagged by those shots, I don't think Khan stays away for half an hour, Alvarez is a vicious body puncher and Khan will slow down and he had little power at welterweight let alone north of junior middleweight against someone who'll weigh 170 on fight night. Cotto is a big puncher and he barely moved Canelo.

Can't believe what I've just read

Amir Khan vs Saul Alvarez for the middleweight title in May! Fucking crazy! Guess Khan wasn't pissing around about wanting a superfight, he's gonna get iced but can't fault his ambition.

Exactly how I feel, I want the sequel tracks I don't really care about a reunion although yes it's pretty interesting news but I want new music from axl... yes it's pretty phenomenal if we get new tracks and Slash and Duff on them, but I'd have been happy with Bumblefoot and Fortus, even Ashba here and there and some leftover Bucket and Finck stuff. I hope to hell he hasn't just shelved those songs and he releases an ep or reworks them or whatever.

I actually read about Bruno today, the uk board absolutely will not license that, who's he going to fight, what's the point, let him get training some youngsters even do some sparring if he wants, he has serious mental health problems too which wouldn't help things between the ropes. What's he going to do get in the ring with Joshua and knock him out in two rounds? It's car crash tv, I even feel grim about someone like Shannon Briggs begging for a big fight when he's taken too many beatings but at least he's active you know. Bruno looks in decent shape but he's been out for ages there's nothing good about him wanting to be back in the ring. I loved his fights with Tyson, he was a decent fighter just not a great one.

Locomotive

Estranged

My Michelle

Breakdown

Catcher In The Rye

Bennie And The Jets - Elton John

I watched Kova vs Pascal 1 again earlier, Pascal had some really great moments in that fight, Kovalev got fucking nailed by a couple vicious counters and he just nodded at him, he has a great chin himself.

Guerrero Garcia was a fight of two halves, Garcia is nothing special, he's just a solid fighter which isn't a crime. Guerrero had been battered by Thurman (showed a lot of guts in that though as ever), knocked down by Martinez which he arguably lost, 11-1'd by floyd, beat Berto who is more or less C-level, he was a good prospect at the lower weights from what I understand, I think I watched two of his fights whilst he was coming up from lower weights. Garcia should've looked much better. Ancient Morales he needed two fights, Judah he made difficult, Matthysse was an impressive win, he should've lost to Herrera, Peterson could've gone either way. Guerrero is a gatekeeper at this point, Malignaggi was a gatekeeper, Peterson is a good win regardless, Salka was a circus, Khan was a good win but anyone who can punch can flatten Khan, I'm still confused how he survived the Maidana fight lol. Garcia is not a great fighter but he's good and he always brings it so I can't knock him, I kinda like his old man too, he doesn't half chat some crap but he's got some pearls of wisdom too.

Anyone seen that video of Anselmo talking at some university about tons of stuff, I really thought him discussing the time he was a proper smackhead riveting, It's a really depressing but interesting talk he does.

Thurman vs Porter coming up, great fight. I got Thurman. I'm really glad these two took the fight, Garcia needs to be fighting the winner , Khan needs to fight Brook, Bradley and Pacman duking it out again, Broner, Algieri, Ali, Guerrero, Berto, shame Maidana can't get his fat ass out of retirement. A really hot division and Floyd will come back and take someone out, Cotto and Marquez too come to think of it, they could mix it up being free agents, just a shame there's the shitty top rank haymon divide.

Kovalev vs Pascal 2 tomorrow isn't it? I don't see the point of the rematch, Pascal showed a lot of heart in fight 1 but he had no chance. I don't understand why he's getting Krusher more pissed off because that won't turn out well for him and he looked like dogshit in his last fight. Roach won't do anything, when has Roach been a savvy defensive specialist in his own career or as a trainer lol.

I remembered Axl was always extremely unpredictable (except for the time he was a ghost doing CD WORLD TOUR over and over after 2010) so it kinda makes sense this would come out of nowhere.

Reading The Spire by Golding again, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, some world war 2 poetry collections, King's new short story collection and The Damnation Game by Clive Barker.

Dystopia - Megadeth loving the nods to Hangar 18, I reckon it's dave's way of saying you wanted rust in peace 2 how about this? I kinda wish it was a proper sequel to Return to Hangar though cause it don't really make sense doing that in a track unrelated.

Anselmo's got a track record of this kinda stuff, a lot of people used to blame it on him being a smackhead but they are his views regardless what state of mind he's in.

A mash up of him adjusting his hat before diving immaculately headfirst into the camera guy in ST Louis I'LL TAKE IT GODDAMN IT, snake dancing, flipping off the camera, Slash tripping over his own guitar wire, Duff smiling absently whilst pissed off his head, Ferrer nodding his head in his shades grooving along to Shackler's, 4TUS looking like trent reznor's brother, Pitman blundering over his foghorn or whatever he does, Dizwald looking like he's never aged nor done anything else in his life, HE'S IN MY ASS MR SECURITY MAN footage and Axl looking miserable with fans, put 5 pics of that in, then I'D LIKE TO DEDICATE THIS ONE TO A CHEAP PUNK NAMED WARREN BEATTY.