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5 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

Framed my litho and put it behind my drums

 

That chili peppers litho is beautiful

7 hours ago, Old_school_gnr_fan said:

Is that "The General"?

Looks like a poor wish version of deadpool.

29 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Paradise City with Mike McCready

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az87kvczKVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQlcEHYK7tg

 

Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed the PC performance.

1 hour ago, DoMw94 said:

Exactly! Pretty much every American rock band that tours globally plays bigger venues outside the US

Might also be because US is a saturated touring market. Plenty of options to choose from where europe may only have a few major bands/artists touring there at a time.

On 10/11/2023 at 12:05 PM, BillConnor_1982 said:

Flights to LA are probably cheap because it’s a war zone now.  Hollywood, while always grimy, now looks like skid row. Crime is through the roof. Moved there in 2010. Left in 2022.  It’s changed so much and not in a good way. 

I heard this. Theres streets of junky houses and camping everywhere and they have wacky rules like you wont get arrested if you steal less than $1000 from a store.

Hope something is done soon to fix up the state.

27 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

I guess it depends on whether the tour had already been booked or not. Because if it was booked there were contracts probably with stipulations about postponements that wouldn't be due to a health issue, so there could be lawsuits.

He could have just been replaced for a period then come back. Not outright be forced to quit.

42 minutes ago, Sweersa said:

Tommy didn’t speak highly about Bucket during his last interview with AFD.

Yep and Tommy made out he was the real driving force in the band if we are referring to the same interview.

Seemed very cocky to me.

6 hours ago, meadsoap said:

I just want to know why everyone who has worked on ChiDem has been so cagey and evasive whenever anyone asks them to get specific about what actually happened. It's almost always the exact same of vague statements like someone gave them a list of acceptable responses. It's so odd.

Feels to me it was not a enjoyable project or time period for some of the artists.

5 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

I thought Axl sounded along the lines of his 2023 average. No more no less.

The main problem is that although he sounds decent to good on a considerable part of the set (mostly thanks to the setlist changes this year), he's very weak on the most popular songs. And when casual fans look for a video to check how he sounds, they will look for Welcome to the Jungle and SCOM, not Bad Obsession or Wichita Lineman.

Also Better shouldn't have been back in the set. It was kind of passable in San Diego, but it's been a disaster again in the last couple of shows.

 

I agree with you here he just cant nail the popular songs anymore and is very inconsistant. This isnt a good look for the bulk of the audience (casual fans).

And there are songs like better that should stay off the setlist unless he takes a different approach to singing them. 

1 hour ago, kanecrescente said:

Ahh sorry, my mistake! There's a few full concert videos on YouTube to pick from fortunately! Hope you enjoy.

@Powerage5

Sad seeing Brian and Axls vocals these days. 

I think Brian should be replaced with the kid from Airbourne if they really need to keep going touring or call it a day and have a final farewell concert.

5 hours ago, Blackstar said:

Full show is on youtube (great quality).

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(Credit for the pictures: Danny Garcia, Andy Dorado and Delphine G. Carnes)

Thanks for the link. Band sounded real good but Axl was pretty rough.

14 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

No idea, it’s great though. Haven’t been to LA since 2011

Might be just LAX is a major hub.

I havent been back since 2012.

9 hours ago, Blackstar said:

They just could play both like at other shows.

Their cover of Wichita Lineman is exceptional.

Its really a boring song to play at a festival show plus its just another cover. They have songs of their own that can fill that spot.

3 hours ago, colonizedmind said:

Perhaps or perhaps not...in fact NO Perhaps! Why drop your new single again and keep HS and Absurd (no voice comments, he's got it down fine now)

So weird that they only played one of like the 5 songs they soundchecked 😸

They could drop the awful cover witcha lineman for their own song

Just a matter of time

Gnr should try performing at the sphere

6 hours ago, Stro said:

They would have done fine. Not as big as UYI, but a lot of rock bands put out very successful albums in the mid to late 90s after the grunge bubble popped and "rock was dead". The Stones had 2 platinum albums in 1994 and 1997, Aerosmith had a 7x platinum album in 1993 and 2x platinum album in 1997. Metallica had Load go 5x platinum, Reload went 3x. Fucking Bon Jovi had a mid 90s album sell 1M.

 

TSI itself was a platinum record and out sold CD in most major markets worldwide. 

Even bands like RHCP has a resurgence late 90s early 2000s.

I agree they would have sold fine and sold better than CD.

7 hours ago, CaioAKR said:

Zepp might have been more popular at their peak, but there were more artists (and, more importantly, more genres) fighting for a piece of the pie when GN'R was king, so one could argue it evens it out. Of course, Zepp is more influential, as it came first. 

I wouldn't say rock is irrelavant this days. It's even coming back these days, just not the old school rock some are accustomed with.

Anyway, this wasn't supposed to become a dick measurement context between GN'R and Zepp. lol I just briefly mentioned them in my point that it's unfair to compare GN'R to The Stones.

 

Grunge actually cast a huge influence on rock going forward and new metal was extremely popular well into the 00s.

About the singles, they might be ballads, but they're very clearly hard rock ballads, with all the trapping of the genre, guitar solos and all. That's not the type of rock that's being pushed right now.

I'm not saying new GN'R albums with Slash in, say, 1995, 1998 and 2002 wouldn't sell well. They most definitely would, but they wouldn't make GN'R anymore legendary than they already are or closer to being "the new Stones". They already were the biggest band of their generation.

For example, if Metallica called it quits after The Black Album, I don't think that you really affect their legacy that much. Same thing for Iron Maiden after Fear Of The Dark and AC/DC after The Razor's Edge (one could argue they could stop much early and it still wouldn't change much). All of those bands sold very well and pleased their fanbases with their 90s, 00s and 10s albums, but those won't be the albums they'll be remembered for in the eyes of the general public.

I get what youre saying but most fans would have hoped for more albums released during their peak that would be considered classics.

Gnrs "classic" catalogue is so small compared to the other mentioned bands.

Also those mentioned legacy albums were done after plenty of prior material was released. Razors edge (12th AcDc album), black album (5th metallica album) and fear of the dark (9th iron maiden album). 

57 minutes ago, CaioAKR said:

A fair point, but I just think people romanticize too much what could've been. Hard rock was already falling in popularity pretty fast, so I don't think they would have another smash hit had they released more albums in that period. Grunge was dominating and new metal was taking over and we know Slash wouldn't want to mess with that (and Axl wouldn't want to do another Appetite, for that matter). 

The Stones are bigger also because they were popular much earlier, being pioneers and influencing, like, all rock bands in a time where rock was fresh. There's no way any band could replicate that in the 90s. There were a lot more things to listen to and everything moved much faster than in the 60s.

When The Stones started their career, it was them, The Beatles and The Beach Boys (and The Beatles and The Beach Boys were much closer to each other in style than they were to The Stones). It was a completely different time, really. 

I geniunely think GN'R was as close to The Stones as they possibly could be. It's actually crazy to think they managed to be roughly as popular (arguably more) as Led Zeppelin.

Sucks we didn't get that many albums, but I'm pretty happy with the band that actually was/is. And bring on The General!

Grunge actually died out pretty quick and same as new metal.

Thing is the big popular singles off the illusions records are not hard rock Anyway. NR, KOHD, yesterdays, civil war, dont cry. Even AFDs SCOM is not hard rock.

I think they would have still sold really well if they had the similar formula of some hard some soft rock and stuck together.

Axl in most parts continues to f up the legacy with lack of recording and releases. If it was up to the rest of the band they would be 10+ albums deep. 

In all honesty they can only sell tickets to tour because of how popular AFD or UYI are which also kind o throws out that theory of rock being dead.

I remember when GNR were supposed to be the next rolling stones. Now we await 20+ year old Axl vocals and CD scraps. Sad thought.

1 hour ago, rumandraisin said:

Omg was on an alt setlist around 2018. If it was real, it would suggest it's a song they've worked on. 

This should have said we're getting, not not getting! 

Whose saying its rerecorded though. Plenty of CD era songs have been played live by this line up and are not re-recorded.

On 9/27/2023 at 9:46 AM, meadsoap said:

And this is why we'll probably never have a GN'R album of new material. You can't force an artist to share art against their will. It's a violation. It's a breach of trust. If I were in Axl's shoes, I wouldn't be so willing to give a single other scrap to an industry and a fanbase that treated me so poorly.

He was right to say fuck all of you and cash the reunion check, then go about his life unconcerned and happy.

Wow lol

So axl is allowed to just waste millions of dollars of the record companies money and not release anything that he was contractly abliged to release.

Ok then 

The General vocals have leaked 

Revisited 2016 philadelphia recently and this was a great concert. Estranged sounded so good.

https://youtu.be/9XRGv230KGc?si=tQhPwweQAM1m9IHi