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1 hour ago, Creed said:

https://m.whosdatedwho.com/dating/arnold-schwarzenegger

If you check the list, Vanessa Williams and maybe that blonde host from E! were the only hot women Arnold has 'officially' dated. He is very shy when it comes to attractive women. Maria Shriver is not sexy at all, sorry. She looks like Robert Kennedy...Arnie married her because of her political background. But yeah, that maid makes even Beta look Like a supermodel.

Sure, there are many examples of girls who were in relationships with 'ugly' men. But we are talking about Stephanie Seymour. Look at her. She had class and was only into good looking or wealthy guys. And because of that, its absolutely unrelastic that hired chubby and curly Matt had any chance back then. I also really doubt that there were occasions where she were alone with the other guys. Axl was a control freak. Did Matt fuck with groupies? Hell yeah. I think back in the VR days he told that he even had sex with mother and daughter simultanously.

https://m.whosdatedwho.com/dating/stephanie-seymour

lol you haven't read Arnolds smoking gun interview obviously then!

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/schwarzeneggers-sex-talk

Or check out "Arnold in Brazil" on YT to see how shy he is!

7 hours ago, Creed said:

Sounds fishy to me, too. Matt is 'sexy' since his VR days. But he looked like an overweight sheep in Hells Angels clothes during UYI. There is absolutely no chance either that Steph tried to seduce bloated Duff back then. Steph left Axl for an affair with Charlie Sheen in 1991. She was only into good looking or wealthy man.

 

I've seen crazy chicks in my band days do this sort of shit ...coupled with the fact the amount of drugs they would have had going around.

It might not be that she is so much attracted to those guys but to stir up shit 

You've also got the fact Axl treated her like a princess from what info is out there and was always up and down with mood swings.

Then you got Matt who is just a confident upbeat party animal ….he was the only guy to stand up to Axl in that band too don't forget.

I wonder if the anger towards Slash and Duff is just due to how things panned out with NITL?

Totally can understand how he was hurt by this.

14 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said:

I wonder if the part about him comforting Axl right before the first post-riot show is true... doesn’t “feel” true to me. Feels like something out of a movie.

I remember Axl saying once Matt came up to him once when he was feeling down before a show telling him it was alright and everything was gonna be ok

So far I'm thinking this might be one of the most honest books about GNR!

2 hours ago, sofine11 said:

It doesn’t make him look particularly bright.

I don't think anyone in that band is tbh

Duffs "investing" success came more for where he was located (amazon/starbucks etc) than skills

All I know is Matt must have had a bad batch of drugs when he suggested Robin Finck to Axl

17 hours ago, The Holographic Universe said:

Matt relates a story of recording Breakdown that is kinda cool. Slash and Duff couldn’t figure it out and left Matt at the studio. Axl eventually a come much later and they still can’t figure it out. Eventually Axl storms off, returns and Axl and Matt finish the song. Duff and Slash later tack on their parts. Matt also says Slash did most of the solos and separate studio and wouldn’t let anyone watch him record because he was nervous. And that Slash played his solos with his face to a wall.

Its good to hear even a tiny bit about songs like this.

I think so far from what I've read its a pretty "warts n all" book seems the most honest I've read to the point I'm at.

2 hours ago, Sydney Fan said:

 picking girls out of acrowd so theband could "meet" them backstage has been a thing since zeppelin in the 70s. Van halen, the crue mention in their autobiographies they do similar things. Hell even in metallicas "a year a half in the life of"movie , metallicas live sound engineer was showing photos of previous girls on the road the band have had including mother daughter combos. So its nothing new. Being young , and making lots of money touring and having what they want, was a way of being for GNR. Especially during the illusions tour, they were the last band of their kind.

That one dude was creepy asf

Kinda interesting the stories about Metallica come out when they played down the "anti" Rockstar thing over the years

1 hour ago, Blackstar said:

^^^

The exact quote:

Axl could be pretty unnerving when he wanted to be. He had really mean eyes, and though I couldn’t tell you why, just looking into them gave me the cold sweats. He had this kind of demented power, an aura, and it made your skin crawl. 

And this about Slash (before that Matt says that Axl wanted to give him 10% of the publishing for the Illusions, but then Matt was told that Slash didn't agree so he didn't get it):

I later realized that Slash was a real cunning businessman. He played the role of the quiet guy who acts like he’s drunk all the time (or is drunk all the time), but there’s something else going on in the background. He’s a lot smarter than he looks.

Reminds me a bit of an interview I read once

"I expected a slurring, drawling knucklehead.

I assumed I'd be getting one-syllable answers, punctuated by grunts and sighs.

Good on guitar, but bad with life, I thought.

I read his autobiography years ago, which led me to believe this man might be a right drongo: a snake-collecting former junkie drunk who gets around in tight leather pants and top hat, his mind addled by decades of heavy intoxicants, loud rock'n'roll and the relentless LA sun.

Slash, that is an unfortunate nickname which endlessly evokes the act of going for a pee.

But it turns out he's something of a charmer."

Didn't Axl call him "seductively cunning" or something like that?

1 hour ago, The Holographic Universe said:

The book sounds disappointing. I was expecting a well written book with insights on recording sessions and touring with GNR and VR. Not Stephanie Seymour rubbed my balls. That sets the tone for me. Axl “mean eyes” and “mean aura”. Lol.

53 minutes ago, MaskingApathy said:

I would've enjoyed more of that as well, more about the musical aspect of it.

I think a lot of people want that....those UYI albums were legendary ...to me Slash has one of the best tones of all time on that album.

I'd love to see the recording footage one day released.

I've always wondered how Slash viewed Fortus too...I think earlier someone mentioned one guy they both couldn't stand and the other one was barely tolerated by either Slash or Duff.

Fortus with the fake relic guitars and the generic tattoos just never had the same mojo 

I had a strong suspicion this was going to happen or the delayed book would be edited in some way.

Sucks for Matt but I really hope the book becomes available in some shape or form....and if not in the original format....well that becomes available somehow lol

While not great surely you are forgetting these performances from Robin "bluesman" Finck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOw2RNQmj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgKnqlPqDqs

Everyone sucks on this one /\ !!!

From Fortis orgasm face and horrible tone, to Finck missing more notes than he actually hits and Bumblefoots totally out of place shredfest (although BBF has toned down this and now plays more close to the song esp for songs like Estranged where the guitar parts are signature)

Saying that DJ always came across a real shady charecter with the same motives some others close to Axl seem to possess (easy to work that one out) he seems to be in it for the fame and glory more so than anything

Yeah, at certain points during DJ's solos it sounds like he's playing a Moog synthesizer. It's any wonder if his guitar tech is deaf.

He doesn't use amps he uses digital gear (axe-fx ii)

As bad as that was .....two words

Robin Finck

NOONE in GNR was worse than that guy

Yeah saw that one

I take it that is close to best quality floating out there?

Hi guys

My buddy wanted to do a cover of this song but can't find many good versions.

AFAIK the song was only released on a pinball machine(!)

Does anyone know what the best quality one is floating around the net.....or even better could anybody hook us up to pass it on?

If you are interested he does a couple of GNR/Slash solo covers here for all you guitar players

http://www.youtube.com/user/endlingmusic

Sorry if this is the wrong section!!!!