Mr. Dude

On January 3, 2560 BE at 1:46 AM, wasted said:

When Slash left Pearla, Niven went round to check on him. He has an anecdote about it. He also seems in contact with Izzy. 

But surely the money offer and opportunity to really go out winning is the real reason it happened. If it was like play toilets for free they'd probably pass. But to add this awesome era to GNR, cap it off with a happy ending is great. They also kind of taken as their own, no old label managers or media hacks. Just them and the fans. Obviously we die hards will bitch about the details, but broadly speaking it's all good. 

What happened to you man? I used to look forward to reading your garbled prose. Now You can cut the coherence with a knife. Did you stop drinking?

On January 1, 2560 BE at 10:39 PM, Billsfan said:

Guns N' Roses has always been axls project. Since 1985

No digitty. Plenty of doubt.

28 minutes ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

Once Axl dies he will have enough time to release nothing, and that great career move will happen. Before that happens, he should release all the music that is still in him, it's a shame we haven't got anything other than 1 album out of him in 25 years. If it stays that way, that will be absolutely depressing as a GNR fan. Even releasing all the DJ Ashba songs he has from the vault would be better than not releasing anything, but that's the worst case scenario. I'm hopeful we'll get atleast 1 album out of them before GNR is no more.

I expect the opposite. When he dies the creative floodgates will open. It's too late for him to die now anyway.

27 minutes ago, Martin Riggs said:

I'm not aware of any of the actual parties stating as much. Like I said, it makes sense, but then again Alan could just be talking out of his ass based on assumptions.

I thought I'd read it somewhere, but maybe it was another article I didn't read.

I maintain that there is creative value in releasing nothing. They say that dying is a great career move and in his great artistic strike axl has achieved what cobain and so many others could only do only by death. At least that's what I read in a book I didn't read, but I've always been greatly influenced by things I didn't read...and even more so by songs I've never heard.

13 minutes ago, Martin Riggs said:

It makes logical sense. Could all be speculation though. Curious to what kind of relationship Axl and Erin have these days.

I thought this was all known already.

11 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

Tastes Good Don't It makes the cut for me too, based on the following line 'fuck with me and I'll fuck your mother'   I mean i don't know about any of yous but to me that shit is fuckin' inspired, why did some rapper not come up with that?

I think it definitely influenced some of Gucci manes more inspired work.

14 hours ago, Len Cnut said:

Though its value may have declined in the eyes of some the idea that it has been given to a rock musician is a very important thing.  I mean for a type of music that was always consider diddley yokel plankton and not worthy of being considered among the arts its really something for a rock musician to get it.  An immense thing.  It is also perhaps indicative of the form being firmly ensconced in history and no longer anything to do with contemporary culture.  I think its a really important thing, I'd usually be against this sort of thing but Dylan really deserves it I think.

Quite the opposite in my eyes. It's something akin to John Lyndon being knighted.

He's not quite Dylan, but I rank him above jagger and on par with Lennon. 

2 hours ago, classicrawker said:

I find some people who claim to Libertarian want no government interference unless it is something they want to see controlled like abortion, gay rights, immigration etc....... 

You couldn't be further off base. 

11 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

I actually prefer Load over the black album

I do too.  I prefer load over any of the 80s records too. The early stuff was just heavy for the sake of being heavy. 

12 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

Not for Metallica. It was a bold divisive gamble which alienated a sizable fraction of their fanbase.

The biggest risk they took with load was cutting their hair. 

1 hour ago, nikosgnr said:

Your sig works for the meme too

2 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Could this be the Stones, the same band who are releasing a new album soon, albeit a covers album?

New music is nostalgia 

22 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Just about everybody who worked on that album says he had a billion songs with no vocals, and that it was like pulling teeth getting him to sing. But alright, believe what you want. I'll concede defeat because I am not actually that bothered: it is a terrible album with a perplexing creation. I certainly do not want to be drawn into you and Wasted's conversations about 'Atlas Shrugged'.

This is a good point. During a long career, having experimented widely, it is only natural that you would be curious at returning to your roots at some stage. Look at Neil Young, the turning point of the 80s and 90s, Freedom and Ragged Glory, after he had spent the majority of the 1980s producing 'genre' albums. Look at the way The Stones returned to their roots on Beggars Banquet, after experimenting in Beatles-esque psychedelia and music hall whimsy. The result was a leaner and meaner Stones. Didn't Zeppelin return to their roots on Presence? 

 

What, Kirk's favourite group?

Yours

you really can't comparice Metallica and gnr. Even in their prime Metallica  was opening for gnr.

58 minutes ago, wasted said:

It's easier to see it as nostalgia. And that's okay. Nostalgia is natural, it happens for a reason. The main reason seems to be to sell GNR bowling jackets. We like nostalgia.

Whole point is this guy is kind of talking down on GNR for being a nostalgia act WHEN METALLICA Do The same shit. Sorry I got caps fatigue. 

And his favorite group of all time is the Stones who are the biggest and longest running pure nostalgia act in the history of history. 

8 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

All bollocks. There are millions of statements about having a load of songs without vocals!!

And you should no that Axl speaks a complete load of bollocks. Everything he has said has been untrue,

Trilogy? Where are the other two albums?

Reunion - 'not in this lifetime;? Oh, there is Axl, Slash and Duff reuniting I see.

The guy speaks a load of cock and balls.

Who are you to say when life starts and ends?

51 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

Metallica had to replace Cliff Burton who died tragically in 1986. By 1988 they had a brand spanking new album out. Metallica had to further replace Jason Newsted in 2001.

There's more good stuff on side 11 of the spaghetti incident than everything Metallica did in the 80s

3 hours ago, EvanG said:

Yeah, I liked a lot of the stuff on those albums too. I'm a melody guy, and that has always been lacking with Metallica, you won't find many melodies on their 80s and early 90s stuff. So there are a lot of people who didn't start liking Metallica until those albums. But there's no right or wrong, it's whatever you prefer. But some posters act like those albums can't be any good just because they prefer the metal songs.

I agree. I really f don't like much o

2 hours ago, Silent Jay said:

In 2008, Rock N Roll Train was a huge hit on radio while Chinese Democracy vanished into dust.

 

 

the fact that radio sucks is tangentialtangential

1 hour ago, DieselDaisy said:

Wings at the Speed of Sound on vinyl. Those dodgier Stones albums from the '80s I position (marginally) higher than Chinese Democracy. I did buy St Anger (an album I consider worse that Chinese Democracy) but I rather conveniently left it at a friend's house and fled the place within a week of buying it.

St. Anger was pretty bad. I'll take lulu over it anyday.

10 hours ago, Live Like a Suicide said:

It's the fluoride in their water!

Or more likely, the lack thereof. 

1 hour ago, DieselDaisy said:

Four songs have been played from Rock or Bust, although not all at once. Generally a typical Brian Rock or Bust show had two-three Rock or Bust songs and one Black Ice song. I do not know how this compares with your hybrid but in any scenario there is the obvious difference that Rock or Bust is a brand new album that AC/DC fans could walk into a shop and buy, and that that album was the affiliated album to a tour, whereas Chinese Democracy is eight years old and the Chinese Tour - according to wiki - ended five years ago.

With only the briefest time span of just over one month, AC/DC marginally missed out on releasing two albums since Chinese (Black Ice arrived October, Chinese November 2008). And let's not forget that Stiff Upper Lip was released 2000 and Ballbreaker 1995. That is four albums released by AC/DC post-Use Your Illusion to today: four albums to Axl's one!!

Yeah, but there is more good material on Chinese democracy than everything acdc has done since back in black combined. That may sound hyperbolic, but in reality it's really not.

11 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

2008? You are really stretching the credibility of what constitutes a 'new album' here!!

At the end of the day, DC play two new songs per show from one brand new album. Guns play no new songs per show from no new album.

Ok. Genrlay more songs from their latest album than acdc play from their last 3 combined.

18 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

That analogy doesn't really work, does it, as Jones was stoned and - within a few weeks - quite deceased? More to the point, and for those two aforementioned reasons, Brian Jones was not guesting at his own band's reunion show. Besides, the Stones dumped most of the Jones era material from their setlists during the Mick Taylor era.

What we are discussing here is a pivotal member guesting on circa 1/8 songs and exiting the stage, when he is obviously present at the venue and compos mentis (his one song vouching for this) for the remaining seven songs, which are then played by an unpopular guy, a holdover from an unpopular era, with no connection with that revered album!

It is a rather odd scenario to say the least.

Or to put it another way, by the merest slight-of-hand (the removal of whatever it is that is keeping Adler from something more substantial?), you could quite easily have 4/5s of the Appetite band playing most of the Appetite album for the first time since 1989! A nearly - nearly due to still being thoroughly Izzyless - 'dream scenario', the reunion of the Appetite band, is almost within touching distance yet they are delivering-up minor cock teases.

To think you could so easily hear that Brownstone thump and that Rocket Queen groove again, after decades of misuse by the wrong hands?

Yeah, but that analogy doesn't quite work either. Mick Taylor was guesting at Stones shows. 

On November 4, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Top-Hatted One said:

I'm sure the plane makes them feel important again to their peers, wives, kids and such. It's a new found ego boost that they can revel in now that they are all sober. And probably a huge middle finger to Izzy

I think it would be cool if in return izzy posts pics of his gnr skateboard

21 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

If that's the case, how were Duff & Slash responsible for the last record being delayed for ages when Axl claimed it was finished?

That delay was due to bumble.