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They got him, it's gone already?

They're finished NR on my phone & it's better viewing than the coachella one. Closer up.

4 minutes ago, tajandreas said:

1. Why not make money off of a reunion? Would you turn down free money? Don't think so. 

2. You don't know what goes on in the band because you're not in it. Any true fan knows it took more than just money to reunite Slash & Axl. They had personal issues they needed to work out first. 

3. Where the hell did you even come from? You must be Pittman himself 

Agree with you. In fact just going to work every day is a cashgrab no matter what job you do. You're not always doing a job you enjoy but many will stay in a job they hate just for the high pay.

49 minutes ago, The Archer said:

Some of the Aussie press is savaging this. Nothing to be surprised about. AC/DC is something of a national treasure down under. But in his rage this journo is giving Axl and Guns an unfair pounding -

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/acdc-paired-with-axl-rose-a-tragic-insult-20160418-go8jj8.html

 

OUCH!!  What happened to the "if a member of AC\DC cannot continue the band will not continue either" agreement? This is brutal and biased, sounds more like a disgruntled fan of AC\DC giving his opinion rather than the unbiased view of a journalist. Until we see Axl singing a few songs with the band we can't say whether it is a good or bad move.

I haven't read through the comments this morning but last night went onto AC\DC's fb page & there were hundreds of thousands of negative posts about Axl, my worry is he will be pelted with things on stage together with their anger at Angus who they believe sacked Brian. Brian said it was his choice to leave but the Young brothers do have a reputation for being tough to work for.

Of course as an Australian I loved the Bon Scott era & like some of Brian's work but possibly there's more songs I don't know than I do. I'd go if they were touring here as this might be the end of AC\DC & I think Axl should be able to pull this off. We don't know how long he's been singing with them during this quiet time to learn the songs & discuss the fan reaction etc. It's not like a sudden decision, he's probably been rehearsing for a long time behind the scenes.

I can see this turning into a GnR versus AC\DC fan situation which is a shame. Both are good bands, both have lost members & their original lineups but as much as it's not liked they need to be supported.

1 minute ago, Spirit said:

Yup, if it's Saturday where you are now, it'll be Sunday in your local time when GN'R performs.

Well aren't I a dummy? I thought they were playing Friday night but now I see the list of singers & times thanks to whoever put it up so now I can follow it.

7 minutes ago, Spirit said:

People!

The GN'R set is TOMORROW, not tonight.

So I'm 24hrs too early? It's Saturday afternoon here so I got mixed up.

Just now, -W.A.R- said:

does anybody know what channel they will be on?

I've got you tube on but if it's going to be 10.30 in 2 hrs it's either way behind or not the actual concert. It's daylight yet the current time in California is 8.30pm? Are GnR coming on around 10.30 or was that someone guessing?

I listened to the Eddie Trunk podcast last night & got so tired of the "I have exclusive information that I cannot share but you might know it by the time you listen to this", on and on all the time about the secret news he was keeping from us & Axl told him not to tell anyone blah blah blah.

Why not just shut up & not go on about it, makes him sound like a real bore. Once would be enough but ok we get it, you're "in Axl's circle" and know things but stop throwing it at us all the time. Had to laugh that he met "Maggie" from Walking Dead & she didn't know who Eddie was.

Is he famous in the USA? I just took it for granted he was but now I'm wondering if he's only famous amongst the heavy metal type music.

48 minutes ago, Crash Dieter said:

I thought this thread was titled 'Axl's Earrings'. I was genuinely interested.

He hasn't worn earrings for a long time.

Whatever people are worth it's only a number on paper isn't it? If Axl wanted to take out $5 million in cash for some reason how likely would it be that the bank would have it physically sitting out the back, it would take much time and many banks to raise that sort of cash. So it's just figures, not physical money. I wonder how much he would carry around with him while on tour, he's not likely to buy much so in that respect he's more or less the same as any of us. The only difference is he'd spend much more on clothes, jewellery etc. and he wouldn't have to be as careful as us how much he withdraws.

On 11/04/2016 at 9:28 PM, Asia said:

Yeah the hats are a terrible idea, they cut his face in half making it look twice as broad and a lot shorter and this is not the effect anone who put on weight would want. Axl, let your hair grow, arrange it nicely around your face and ditch those hats for good. 

Oh, and let's hope that the end means the end of the dark years of fake GNR 

That's it, the hats push his hair back but the way you describe it is perfect. He needs it arranged around his face & it looks less puffy. You've explained it perfectly.

I didn't notice makeup on his eyes but if so maybe it's because being ginger he needs to highlight his eyes or his face would look bland from the stage.

Agree Starlight, the hats hide his hair & make him look bald. I love the way he's ditched the glasses a lot more & not wearing the hats as much but honestly watching him on the screen on the weekend I could have sworn it was young Axl again. Seeing the clean cut face & those eyes was like the early days.

So very very sorry for your loss, I only just found this thread.

4 hours ago, Underhardy said:

Brand new, never before seen footage.. Ultra rare!

This has been online for years, watched it so many times & I also love the Humming Bird he spots. I don't think we have them so I'd love to see one.

Yes definitely, being in Australia sucks at the moment knowing there's no way I could have gone to Vegas without selling the house.

Plus I feel thrown with the dates, for you it's April 8th but here it will be April 9th. I feel that you're going to see them a whole day before we get to hear anything as to how it's going. Then it will likely be April 10th before we see any footage unless they stream the concert.

I don't really know much about OJ Simpson & his trial but assume he's guilty from the little I've heard or read. The handing in of this knife from someone who got it from someone who found it somewhere isn't likely to give up any new evidence & why was it held on to for so long before being handed in?

I have only just read the Amanda Knox autobiography and rewatched the tv documentary and believe she's totally innocent. So much was stated in her book that didn't add up, didn't make sense and I can't imagine her to be the type of person to pull off such an horrendous murder.

Does Chris Pitman write any songs? He's practically more invisible than the drummer who you can hear, what can you hear of Pitman's playing? It's like he's there because he's just there & does no solo & I can't pick his sound up in songs.

1 hour ago, Gracii Guns said:

I can't say I remember Red, she left us before I joined. But a friend of mine was very close to her. 

Suppose I just want to second Username's post. She is missed. 

Do you mean Redhead or is this another Red?

If it's Redhead she's doing well, I keep in touch with her.

if some nut job wants a gun they'll get one

True but how do you explain no mass shootings since 1996? Crikey that's 20yrs in April, most illegal guns are in the hands of bikies & drug dealers who don't go out to shoot the general public. They use them against each other.

I've said it a hundred times before, but America doesn't have a gun problem so much as it has problems with mental health, inner cities, poverty and social isolation.

exactly.

as for canada and less shootings,they have about 1/10th the population of the us that is sparsely populated. plus i doubt canada has that big of a gang problem and is hardly the melting pot america is. when you bring people over with different races, cultures and beliefs and you put them in cities with millions of others who dont share their beliefs or world views, you are going to have conflict, then throw in a southern border that is wide open to traffickers bringing in shit tons of drugs daily to be sold in poor inner cities,its a mixture as to why there is more shooting in the us than other places.

Most mass murders aren't due to cultural conflict, though? It is due to mentally deranged people who have easy access to weapons. Sure, USA could disregard the fact that their population have very easy access to weapons and instead make all focus on trying to fix the largers social issues they struggle with, and they really need to work on inequality issues, helping the mentally ill, reducing poverty, but a MUCH quicker solution to the problem with be to restrict access to guns. I think the solution is a combination: work at fixing the social issues and ban certain weapons while enforcing stricter access to the rest.

The problem is that America simply has too many guns to make a reduction in them a viable solution and the reason why America has so many guns is due to its frontier mentality. That being said, America had way more guns per household in decades past than it does now; gun ownership has suffered a HUGE decline over the years. Lastly, look at various states; traditionally many states that have strict gun ownership also have high amounts of crime and that crime doesn't go down, much less go away, when new laws are brought in, yet states such as New Hampshire, where Bran is from, have crime rates comparable to the lowest countries in Europe. You don't need to have an education in sociology/social psychology/criminal psychology (though I do) to know that people who tend to commit the most crimes are those at the bottom rungs of society and that restricting guns will have little effect unless other issues are also tackled.

America is a huge country with millions of people living in congested metropolitan areas and a lot of them have no access to mental health facilities, education, jobs or any of the multitude of things that keep people out of trouble. I'd also like to say that the mass media blanket coverage of spree killing is detrimental to lowering the cases of them happening. Most people who commit spree killings are out for revenge against a specific group of people (Columbine) or want to gain notoriety by their actions, and it is this second group that are fueled by the media as they believe that people will "know their name" for all of history. However, near enough all spree killers have mental issues, be they schizophrenia, depression, social anxiety etc, but without proper treatment they are left helpless. A similar country is Japan, which also has massive numbers of disaffected people, but the manifestation of their problems tends to be things such as social isolation and agoraphobia rather than killing sprees; Japan has virtually no guns, but it also doesn't have a media frenzy over violent acts in the real world, either.

very well said. our gun laws are getting lighter as well https://politics.concordmonitor.com/2016/01/gov-state/as-obama-tightens-federal-gun-laws-n-h-looks-to-loosen-regulations/

plus in new hampshire of a percentage of people who own guns per 100,000 is quite high. i read NH has a population of around 1.3 million people, but we have around 1.1 million guns, yet our murder rate per 100,000 is .4 which is lower than greece and canada and is right around italy. trust me NH is hardly a red state, we are as purple as it gets and lean democrat most of the time, vermont and maine are far bluer than us.its not even just gun murders, just look at the states in my area

murder per 100k gun related homicides per 100k

new hampshire 1.0 .4

vermont 1.1 .3

maine 1.8 .8

massachusetts 3.2 1.8

connecticut 3.7 2.7

massachusetts and connecticut have far harsher gun laws than NH,VT or ME. one of the big problems in NH,VT,ME is heroin is a major problem its everywhere. where does it come from? worcester and boston massachusetts and hartford connecticut, all coming up from NYC.just last year 29 people were arrested in hartford on gang charges as well as trafficking heroin and guns. it only gets worse in a place like LA, chicago, NYC etc these are major hubs for where the drugs go once inside the US from mexico. gangs from mexico come into these areas, which were majority black neighborhoods guess what happens next? black kids sitting at the bus stop is shot by some latino gang members in a drive by. then the black gangs retaliate shootup the wrong house killing some latino children. this is where i was getting at, in the us every issue is interwoven with a bunch of problems. its not just one isolated case it happens all the time. its why the whole "it works for x country it should work for the us" is such bullshit. when a country like norway has a population less than LA its a little easier.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/25/local/la-me-0126-compton-20130126

you want to cut gun violence down in america? legalize and regulate drugs in america. this will basically destroy any need for gangs. then the us needs to get off its ass and work on its mental health system like pappy said so many people have mental illnesses that cant get the help they need or they put them on prescriptions that make things worse. more has to be done and better research needs to be done on medications and the like to move forward.

Great information there bran, you really do know your stuff.

The mass shootings we had here prior to gun control was committed by Julian Knight, Australian with a gripe because he couldn't get into the police force so shot motorists on a main road as they drove by. Since being in jail he's been labelled a vexatious litigant by taking up so much court time.

Another was an Australian with a gripe against an employee so went into the building where his target worked & shot up the offices until he jumped out of a window killing himself.

Of course Port Arthur the worst of all where 35 tourists were killed again by an Australian who is what you might call "simple" or even labelled autistic. No social skills, had to change schools so many times, his father tried so hard when he grew up with work and taking care of him that it got too much and he suicided. He just had a lot of mental problems and is or was a millionaire unless the money has been taken from him.

None of it was cultural, all planned it and were just not happy with life.

if some nut job wants a gun they'll get one

True but how do you explain no mass shootings since 1996? Crikey that's 20yrs in April, most illegal guns are in the hands of bikies & drug dealers who don't go out to shoot the general public. They use them against each other.

RIP whoever lost lives today. It was an aboriginal township. Hope we find out what happened as in why??

Probably muslims!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's time to toughen up on gun ownership and do what Australia did with the buy back, we've not had any mass shootings since 1996. It doesn't mean you can't own a gun, it just means you can't own guns that are fast shooting like semi automatics etc. Surely Canada can do that.

The laws here are very tight already. Nothing like the USA

Thanks gunsguy I didn't realise Canada had tough laws. We've been a bit bombarded by the NRA in Australia due to our gun laws, trying to make out that there's mayhem because we don't have guns etc. Pointing out Port Arthur's mass shooting but not revealing it was 1996 when we had slack gun laws, that showed that even though the laws were pretty loose on gun ownership back then people still didn't carry them. So really the buy back wasn't too big an issue for lots of people as they were getting paid for guns they owned but never used anyway.

RIP whoever lost lives today. It was an aboriginal township. Hope we find out what happened as in why??

Probably muslims!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's time to toughen up on gun ownership and do what Australia did with the buy back, we've not had any mass shootings since 1996. It doesn't mean you can't own a gun, it just means you can't own guns that are fast shooting like semi automatics etc. Surely Canada can do that.

All VIPs still available, does that warrant this comeback a commercial failure already? ;-D

I found some VIP tickets available, the price is through the roof though. Obviously no meet and greet this time, did they have all this back in the early 1990s or is this a more recent thing?

the VIP culture is only recent in the last couple of years, basically it is the artists way of preventing scalpers from making alot of money on the good seats by selling them at a high price themselves, and throwing in some cheap crap to make it seem worthwhile(meet and greet, posters, pre-show party)

That's what I thought, went to heaps of concerts in the 80s & early 90s & don't remember hearing of VIP tickets or meet & greet the artist.

All VIPs still available, does that warrant this comeback a commercial failure already? ;-D

I found some VIP tickets available, the price is through the roof though. Obviously no meet and greet this time, did they have all this back in the early 1990s or is this a more recent thing?

Is this way overpriced, having never been to a festival and not knowing the price what would you say about this?

• AU $9,163.32
• +AU $58.46 postage

• From United States