Bulldog

What was the point of Duff doing Attitude and Slashs Godfather theme or Matts drum solo?

its easier just to accept you dont like new Guns?

Thats 3 "covers/jams" to the current 7. Also Attitude was recorded on an album, Slash's Godfather solo was iconic, and Matts drum solo...sucked. No defense on that one. Thats quite a bit different than whats going on today.

"Get in the ring, go to the gym motherfucker, or if you prefer, get a new wig motherfucker. I think I’ll resist the urge to “stoop” to your level.

Oh shit, here it comes, you fat, botox faced, wig wearin’ fuck! O.K. I feel better now. Don’t think for a second we don’t know where those words came from. Your unoriginal, uncreative little mind, the same mind that had to rely on its bandmates to write melodies and lyrics. Who’s the fraud now bitch?

Damn, I couldn’t imagine people writing for me. How many albums have you put out man and how long did it take the current configuration of this so-called “band” to make this album? How long? And without the only guys that validated the name. How dare you! Shame on you! How dare you call our bass player “spineless”.

We toured our album over a year and a half. How many shows have you played over the last ten years? Oh, that’s right - you bailed out on your long awaited comeback tour, leaving your remaining fans feeling shall we say a trifle miffed?! I won’t even list what I’ve accomplished because I don’t need to.

What we’re talking about here is a frightened little man who once thought he was king, but unfortunately this king without his court is nothing but a memory of the asshole he once was.

Yours truly,

Scott Weiland"

Scott's a douche but he's right on here

I feel like when people post threads like this they are just attempting to convince themselves, rather than actually convince the rest of us. But I feel as if most know better....

Hollywood............maybe our disagreement is just a difference in personalities!

When I leave a show, I'm really just concentrating on the people I went with.

My last GnR show, our hotel was literally less than a block away from Key Arena - so we just walked home.

The time before was at Universal Studios and our hotel was a few miles away - so as soon as the confetti started flying, we were booking it to catch a cab before it got crazy outside.

When I go to a show, I really just concentrate on the music and how it's making me feel..........then chatting with whomever I went to the show with........and occassionally noticing what people in my immediate area are doing. Then, of course, you notice if something major happens with the crowd - a fight, the wave, etc.

But I really don't notice the general mood or who is smiling or frowing from thousands of complete strangers!

We're you at the key arena show with duff? I know way off topic, just wondering as I was there as well.

Monumental promotion starts now

He is known in the musicians world as one of the biggest drama queens and attention whores there is. The fact he is trying to look like a 16 year old emo boy while he is in his 40s should ring a bell.

He has very good connections with the industry people that are in positions of power, which also had to do with the fact he was a loverboy for them during the 90s, hence the effortless exposure. Has nothing to do with his abilities or 'talent'.

Please tell us more. This is something new to me. But not surprising.

What do you want to know?

It's nothing new: the industry is filled with people who are where they are not because of talent but because they sucked a lot of dick, got fucked or provided someone to fuck, or because they are Jewish and the industry is mainly run by Jews and I am Jewish so no anti-semitism there, just fact. For instance, one known Jewish producer I work for will not work with non-Jewish session musicians, full stop. So he gets me and 5 other Jewish ones. Thal also got many jobs because he is Jewish.

Ashba used to be the guy that sucked/fucked powerful industry folks in the early/mid 90s, he is bisexual so no big deal for him. He got in the spotlight because of those connections, got his loyal fanbase and since then does his own thing, which is playing very average guitar that thousands on YouTube can easily surpass. But connections, branding and image is worth much more than authentic abilities. It has it's price. The figurative selling your soul to the devil thing.

The folks claiming this are credible people behind the scenes who would know and have no reason to make it up. They also said Axl used to prostitute himself in the mid 80s to industry folk, to get in the big league. Those same people claim the Beatles' manager Epstein and his industry buddies used to drop acid in John Lennon's and Paul McCartney's drinks and fuck them all night in a gay orgy then have naked girls (read prostitutes) laying in their bed when they woke up, so they would think they did it all night with the girls and they were hallucinating the cock/serpents in their face.

Irony being the rock world is being promoted as this very masculine hetero world with hot girls everywhere, while it is gayer than the pop/disco world could ever dream of being. Overcompensation at work.

What was the question again? Oh yeah.

I don't know if I believe a word of them, but I love your posts.

Me too. I don't even care if they are true. They are pure entertainment.

worst song under the gnr name.

are the replacements actually any good?

I heard the whole unedited version in the radio at about 11pm on late night rock station. The DJ practically came himself talking about the song once it ended.

I love Myles in the studio and he sounds great with Alter Bridge, but love not so much.

Just thought it was interesting to read a completely unbiased and very positive review of GNR and the Gov Ball.

It took an act of God at Governors Ball on Friday – an assailing, miserable rainstorm and frightening flooding – to create a miracle on Saturday night. And yet one happened, it really did.

Axl Rose started a show early.

Indeed, the Guns N' Roses frontman bucked his own proud tradition of intractability – one that has led to countless hours of empty stages and show delays since the band’s 1985 formation – by taking the New York festival’s main stage seven minutes before the headlining band’s scheduled start. What’s more, Rose actually appeared engaged with his surroundings; he and his hard-rock cohorts barreled straight into the largely under-30s audience with a throaty and joyously grandiose introduction of "Chinese Democracy" (title track of the hysterically overlabored 2008 album), unleashing flames from the drum riser as Rose slid into that famed falsetto with impressive ease. From there, the band kept no cards at their chests; their second song was their career-maker, 1987’s "Welcome to the Jungle," delivered with the revelation of their entire arsenal of stadium tricks, the silly staples of the hair-metal era that they rightly make no apologies for: the videos of scantily clad dancers, the double-necked guitars, the liberal stage fireballs and fireworks, even that snake dance.

10 Things Duff McKagan Learned on the Summer Festival Circuit

Guns N’ Roses nonchalantly played all the hits for the mud-caked Governors Ball masses, and kicked in early with a slew of Appetite for Destruction immortals. "It’s So Easy" boasted even more fireworks (those were frequent enough in the set to double as kick drums) as Rose dipped down an octave-and-change with aplomb. (He truly does sound great, still, even if he insists on wearing cheesy t-shirts of women with cartoonish bare breasts. Or perhaps these are his Samson-esque source of vocal strength.) "Mr. Brownstone" slid sludgily into their stalwart 1991 cover of Paul McCartney and Wings’ "Live and Let Die," fireballs roaring from the stage again. Then came the short sprint into "Rocket Queen," which boasted an extremely Eighties video montage of models gyrating in leather and fishnets before a stark white backdrop, and a comfortable spin through "Sweet Child o’ Mine" that was matched by the audience’s rapturous participation. (Lead guitarist DJ Ashba, clad in a familiar top hat, sported a distinct "I crushed that" smirk at the end of "Child." Rose, as always, remained unimpressed.)

This familiarity is what allows any iteration of the band to headline a festival 26 years after the release of Appetite for Destruction; the best and worst to be said of them is that they sound exactly, resolutely, safely like their records. There is no experimentation wanted or received from anyone onstage (and it’s not of interest to fans either). Guns N’ Roses is, famously, Axl Rose and whoever he hasn’t fired that month; his iron fist and business savvy in the current lineup is apparent in every note they play. He is the only original member left (keyboardist Dizzy Reed dates the next furthest back as a contributor to 1991’s Use Your Illusion I and II) and the rest of the musicians are, while clearly technically talented, expected to play with note-for-note faithfulness the familiar chords and solos of classic-lineup stars Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagan, etc., like a cover ensemble of their own catalogue. "November Rain," one of the many Illusion I offerings, broke down with precise familiarity, from Rose’s soft piano intro to the plaintive Slash guitar solo, to the frenetic coda of foreboding chants and cataclysmic strings. Their glimmering cover of Bob Dylan’s "Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door" (from Illusion II) still sprawled near healthy double-digits; "Nightrain" chugged along right on schedule, without brakes or extra coal.

The highly enjoyable, completely predictable set ended with the group’s longtime finale fromAppetite: "Paradise City," an entreaty to the libidinous that Rose remains skilled enough to have already made redundant. At its bawdy, bright close, confetti canyons spread glitter across the crowd and fireworks lit the night, the latest in a healthy half-dozen times in the set. Rose almost seemed to grin back at the crowd, but there was no need – he’s seen this all before, and he knows he will again.

This was on a home page of Yahoo

The way I see it, there will be no 2nd album. Chinese Democracy wasn't even supposes to come out when it did, and I think if management did not force it out the door, Axl still would not have released it by now.

I wouldn't consider Axl fat. He's dumpy. He's just not "toned" or lean. Im not making excuses for him, he could be in better shape, but he's not fat. Just out of shape.

Is that really Axl???

LOL - just because Axl hasn't had a public hissy fit in a year or so you think he doesn't have much temper tantrums anymore.

Fuckin LOL

A leopard doesn't change its spots

I don't know if you were born in the 90s, but he used to have public tantrums ALL the time then, especially from stage. So yeah, the OP is wrong in implying that "all the tantrums today" is a reason for us to "lose faith in him". He simply has his facts wrong. The premise is flawed. Bad trolling.

Haha, firstly, this isn't trolling, you should see me cupcake it is a thing of beauty

If you think there have been no recent hissy fits you're blind, they're all over most of the topics on the first page of the discussion section. Lastly his tantrums were not my only point, yet it seems you believe that I think that's enough reason to lose faith, your premise is flawed.

I haven't said there has been "no hissy fits". I am saying that there are much fewer of these today than in the days when he was on top artistically and hence your whole idea of pointing to today's tantrum as some sign that we should lose faith in him, is botched.

If you wanted some trolling that made sense, you could have tried arguing that the absence of hissy fits today signals that he has lost his muse.

But I'm not pointing to soley that, that was one small point out of a whole bunch of bigger ones, that you are choosing to focus on and once again this isn't trolling. This is a genuine topic of discussion, you not liking it does not make it an attempt at trolling, you clearly have no idea on the definition of trolling.

No faith.

Are you really Rose Hudson or is it a coincidence?

That depends who's asking

Some guy who wants to ban the shit out of you.

Nah, its smoothie

Haha, hey smoothie, what's with the name change?

Well Gonzaga University's mascot is a bulldog, and I was up on their nuts when the tournament was happening, and then they got destroyed soooo....

LOL - just because Axl hasn't had a public hissy fit in a year or so you think he doesn't have much temper tantrums anymore.

Fuckin LOL

A leopard doesn't change its spots

I don't know if you were born in the 90s, but he used to have public tantrums ALL the time then, especially from stage. So yeah, the OP is wrong in implying that "all the tantrums today" is a reason for us to "lose faith in him". He simply has his facts wrong. The premise is flawed. Bad trolling.

Haha, firstly, this isn't trolling, you should see me cupcake it is a thing of beauty

If you think there have been no recent hissy fits you're blind, they're all over most of the topics on the first page of the discussion section. Lastly his tantrums were not my only point, yet it seems you believe that I think that's enough reason to lose faith, your premise is flawed.

I haven't said there has been "no hissy fits". I am saying that there are much fewer of these today than in the days when he was on top artistically and hence your whole idea of pointing to today's tantrum as some sign that we should lose faith in him, is botched.

If you wanted some trolling that made sense, you could have tried arguing that the absence of hissy fits today signals that he has lost his muse.

But I'm not pointing to soley that, that was one small point out of a whole bunch of bigger ones, that you are choosing to focus on and once again this isn't trolling. This is a genuine topic of discussion, you not liking it does not make it an attempt at trolling, you clearly have no idea on the definition of trolling.

No faith.

Are you really Rose Hudson or is it a coincidence?

That depends who's asking

Some guy who wants to ban the shit out of you.

Nah, its smoothie

No faith.

Are you really Rose Hudson or is it a coincidence?

The scream at 3:53 literally sounds like he is dying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKoRaW5-CBA&list=UUI8zpNn0hf5r_pffMlUYDbw

lol worst hat EVER

look at 2:06

I wish they would just give bumble the whole sweet child solo. Dj screws it up EVERY TIME and he sounds awful. bumble dominates it.

I think he sounds pretty good. Band great as always.

Sorry BATMAN

Forgot to meet up with you

Great show IMO

Axl sounded great and had lots of energy

2.5 hr show starting at 10:15 and ending at 12:45 am

Crowd was fried an hour into show after a day long festival

Got to hear Better and Catcher - two songs not played in Dallas 2011

Did mention my Spurs

"How you doing? Your basketball team winning and shit"

Got some long distance pics and videos to post

Can I post directly from iphone?

Hell yes. GO SPURS. Wish I could have gone. Was this show outside the At&T center? Im just curious how that all worked with the spurs still being active

I thought that was really good

looks great! I wouldnt wear it but its sweet.

I like how this tragedy is now being used as bait to try and prove how much axl fan are made to suffer here. Know who has it even worse? People who died in the tornadoes.

I agree. pathetic intentions by the OP to use a national tragedy to further his agenda against "haters"

Are we talking about the same Mick Mars? His solo spot at the Crue show I caught in '05 was the low point of an absolutely abysmal gig.

This. His solo spots are embarrassing