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6 hours ago, Sunset Boulevard said:

FORTUS is the perfect guy : He is out of this world both on Rythm and Lead guitar. An absolute genius. He can play everything with the right feel. The perfect fit.

To me, the Slash/Fortus combo on guitar is the best ever in Guns N' Roses. So much potential. I'm thrilled to hear new material with these two guys.

Gonna be waiting a while for that one pal!

With the death of Malcolm I really can't see Angus's heart being in it. I would be surprised if he wanted to continue with ACDC tbh. He always used to talk about how Malcolm was the one he would always seek approval approval from the most in regards to songwriting. It seems he really was a huge influence on Angus the whole way through his life.  I know for the last album Malcolm wasn't present but he was still around in spirit I guess.

No reason Brian cannot come into the studio and work on an album with them. Performing live is another thing. I also think Phil needs to be brought back on drums to legitimize it further. 

wow.... Surreal to hear him speak after all these years. Sounds like a really nervous kind of guy. Hopefully he'll get over his health problems

Only 4 years ago but if he can get back to this again it would be mega! Seriously they're putting every other rock band to shame here.
 

3 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

He hasn't been the same since he fell from that tree.

I don't know man. If you only go back to glastonbury in 2013 he was still  moving about on stage close to his old self and playing pretty well at the ripe old age of 70. Maybe something happened him health wise in the last couple of years. Indeed someone already mentioned that his fingers look riddled with arteritis.  No idea how the guy can move his fingers at all. 

1 hour ago, classicrawker said:

These days Keef has good and bad nights............some night he struggles to play while others he plays competently, and at times inspired, but at his age and with his arthritic hands you pay your money and take your chances on getting a good performance out of him..........

Ronnie does his best to cover for Keef on the bad nights but there are times it is painful to listen to Keef play. I almost wish they would bring back Mick Taylor full time to help fatten the sound but from what I read while Keef  was all for it but Sir Mick would never hear of it...........

Meh, listened to beast of burden there from Munich and the beginning is completely out of key. Its not like its the occasional bum note or drunken overenthusiastic sloppiness it's just a pure inability to really play the guitar well......which is really sad to see. I'd hate to see him go the way of  Chuck Berry. Gotta say the rest of them sound amazing. Mick Jagger is a total machine.

Jesus Keith sounds rubbish in that SFTD video. Much as I love him might  be worth packing it in after this tour.

On 8/31/2017 at 9:16 PM, MyPrettyTiedUpMichelle said:

Axl used to say it was him and Slash that managed the band and took care of business and they'd run ideas by Duff.  He used to say they were partners and that he was proud of that.  Personally, I wish he'd fire TB and go back to it being him and Slash running ideas by Duff again.  Cut loose all the extras and streamline.

Except that's impossibe. You can't have a giant "corporation" that is GNR with no kind of in-between management handling things.

1 hour ago, Gibbo said:

 

Cool Jam

fortus wearing a cast on his leg too apparently

Never care if I never hear this song in any form again. It's so oveplayed for me it's lost any kind of appeal unfortunately.

4 hours ago, ZoSo said:

My thoughts exactly! I think he's a technically better guitarist now, but I prefer his earlier playing a lot better, pre-2000 probably; Blues Ball, first Snakepit etc. It just did more for me, listening to that style of playing.

It's 5 o clock somewhere is pure blues filth. Love it!

6 minutes ago, moreblack said:

He's been playing out of his skin pretty much since the second Velvet Revolver album. Something happened, sobriety perhaps, but he's picked up the craft of guitar playing with more enthusiasm or something. He built on that for his solo albums, all of them have some killer riffs and solos. By the time he came back, his playing had been firing on all cylinders for quite a few years, and GNR could only benefit from having him fired up like that.

Absolutey agree with this however I do think it's come at a loss of that blues sloppiness pre VR he was known for. I really liked that aspect of his sound. But no doubt that now he's a much better player technically.

Saw some clips. Crowd looked into it. Don't understand the big deal that's being made of it. 

On 2017-6-14 at 8:56 PM, Loot Man said:

Well, maybe money too, but they had it from UYI-tour and Axl wasn´t always very happy back then 

Except most of it was being blown on late fees and extravagant over the top after show parties.

On 2017-6-9 at 1:46 PM, Silent Jay said:

To show how unnecessary she is on stage?

Is it just me, I don't hear her playing anything!!? Stealing a living up there. Her backing vocals are good i guess.

1 hour ago, Liquor & Whores said:

could we compile best McBob announcements ever?

not only from this tour, but here's what I got:

"Zurich, time to pick a side, are you with us or against us?"

"Imola! Please welcome, the band that make Luca Brasi wanna sleep with the fish...From Hollywood...Guns N' Roses!"

can you add some more quotes? 

 

 

"Slane, a band that needs no introduction but fuckin get's one anyway...."

1 minute ago, IncitingChaos said:

I'm never trusting anyone here ever again...the next time I hear this is his best vocal performance of this leg I'll just know it's gone terribly bad. 

Clues to a bad performance 

1. "Axl is on fire"

2. "There is no mickey in his clean voice tonight!"

3. "I don't normally like how he sings the second half of Estranged but it sounds great tonight!"

4. "I can't wait to see how good he is at the end of this leg"

5. "93 vocals right there!"

 

I'd be amazed if this lineup released any 'new' music. All depends on Axl and he has given no indication that he wants to do that. There's also all the pressrue that comes with releasing new GNR music. Bar is set incredibly high and nothing they do will be good enough to please everyone. Can see them perhaps reworking and releasing unfinished CD era stuff. Didn't Axl hint at something like that at the China Exchange interview? I really hope I'm proven wrong though.

Ultimately I think they will do this colossal money maker 'reunion' tour and Axl will then disappear from the spotlight. Again hope I'm wrong.

2 hours ago, JustanUrchin said:

The randomness of, and interesting stories from old time fans in, this thread motivates me to contribute a few of my own random stories:

1. Adler's fourth replacement sent me a friend request on FB last July.  I never accepted, and he later withdrew the request. (It's not as inexplicable as it seems, but too much backstory to convey pecking away on a mobile).

2.  The second time that I saw Gn'R (in June '91), I had the distinct sense that this was the end of the band.  The band made the fans wait in the sweltering heat (this was before it later became public fact that this was a pattern of disrespect by the band's singer).  The singer sounded terrible. Fans were throwing all sorts of shit at the band (most of it was hitting other fans).  Izzy basically stood in place most of the show as if he had concrete blocks on his feet.  I couldn't make sense of the songs--Adler's first replacement was a metal drummer--the songs now had the feel of a english metal band. But my clearest memory, despite being latched onto the barricade at Slash's feet, Slash talking to me and my friends, Slash wearing my friend's OU hat across the stage before tossing it into the crowd, and the singer shaking (literally) my hand, was that there was a KEYBOARDIST on stage.  I shit you not. A keyboard/synthesizer was on a Gn'R stage.  Everyone, and I mean all other 8 guys I went with, could not believe there was some guy with a keyboard on stage.  The only word that fits is betrayal (at the time, though, it was just the repeated use of combinations of "fuck" and "hate" between the 9 of us, and scores more in the parking lot after the show). Gn'R was everything that Bon Jovi, Stryper, Van Halen and the like were not. Or so we'd thought.  Beyond that, NO ONE could figure out wtf (yes, people said "what the fuck" as a proper way to introduce a question back then) the guy with the keys was DOING during the songs--was he even playing? Given these facts (and atmosphere), and if it was anywhere near as hot a month or so later in St. Louis, the singer should count his Lucky Charms none of the paying customers beat his scrawny ass when he threw a hissy fit and walked off stage.

3.  Despite this, I stood outside the record store that fall for the release of UYI at midnight.  I had faith, even if many of my friends no longer did (and the music scene was shifting).  When I finally had my turn at the counter, the mom n' pop record store had cassettes, but I had a deck in my car.  It was for the best, in retrospect.  I gave both tapes a glorious go for a solid two weeks, and haven't played anything from UYI since.  By the time the singer's Liberace piano piece (with said singer in spandex shorty-shorts, a heavy dose of horns, gospel singers, Duff looking like a corpse, and some Izzy look-a-like playing Izzy parts) hit MTV, I was already pretending that I didn't own UYI.  This is when, apparently, Gn'R found glory south of America and in Europe even as it simultaneously became irrelevant in America for the next quarter century.

4. I agree with Slash, Duff and Adler's statements years later:  the band was no longer a band by '90.  But I didn't know it until June 6, 1991.  For a moment, last July, it was but one piece away.  Here's to the final fifth this July!

Great post and a really interesting persepctive from someone who was actually there in the 80's/90's.

19 hours ago, Fitha_whiskey said:

Speaking of PC, I wish he'd quit yelling "look out!" like 4 times in the intro, and blow the whistle at the right moment.

Some night it would blow people's minds if Axl sang it like the album. 

I still enjoy the final all out speed jam portion of the song live though... makes a great fuckin ending. When the music finally stops and all that firework smoke hangs in the air, your ears are just a-ringing, all you can say is, well fuck that was some show...

Also the WHA_OH-OH YEAH YEAH which is thrown in all the  time in every chorus!

4 minutes ago, tsinindy said:

So bc you think it sounds great and they are killing is all that matters.

how about you stick to your opinion that you're cool with it being in the set and I'll stick with me that it's ridiculous.   

But, telling me what I should be glad about can be shoved right up your ass.

ooooo touchey at all?

3 hours ago, tsinindy said:

Even better why does the fucking seeker get played every show....a song they never recorded, over arguably one of their five most influential and important tunes every night (don't cry or patience....)

Because they kill it on "The Seeker" and it sounds great?! Jesus nit picking on setlists, number of overs etc. Just be glad they're up on stage together at all. They're touring the world putting on great show and people are loving it.

5 hours ago, Axl_morris said:

This is why i booked 7 shows and working all the over time i can to pay for it 

you hero!!

2 hours ago, MrSoftie said:

I'm trying very hard to find it in my budget to do another show this summer...

me too. totally gonna hit another show in europe!!