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1 hour ago, 31illusions said:

Amazing vids of UYI line up. Matt plays exactly the same way as the original. They energy from the guys is phenomenal too.

Uh, no. Fills are different. And I don't like them.

That said, really nice performance, surely prefer what Gilby is doing here than 4tus - sorry Ricky, you're an awesome guitarist, but even Gilby fits this band better. Now, imagine Izzy. LOL

And I like Myles. He can sing and has nice timing.

On 9/2/2018 at 12:22 AM, PatrickS77 said:

There are 7 fans present when the band (minus Axl, Slash and Duff) arrive at the hotel and are only standing about 5 m away. 2 of them call out his name and ask him specifically for an autograph. He just pretends that nobody is there, doesn't even turn around and just stands there for a couple of minutes before entering the hotel, ignoring the fans. That was this year, when I was at the band's hotel. Last year, they were about to leave, came out of the hotel and walked to the car. Again one fan, out of a group of fans, standing between hotel exit and car, called out his name and asked for an autograph. Again, he just totally ignores the request and rather stands in front of the car for another couple of minutes, instead of spending 5 seconds to honor that fans' request,  before driving off. I didn't like the guy before and I can't stand him even less, after I witnessed this behavior twice. On one hand you have nobodies like him, acting like a total ass and on the other hand you have people like Johnny Deep, signing autographs for 20 minutes after a concert. Or the Dead Daisies, who met up with the band later and actually did step outside l to pose for photos with fans and gave autographs. And of course, when that happened, Dizzzy pretended to embrace the fans too. The very same ones he first ignored.

After all, he did write Don't Cry! 😂😂😂

When they came out I actually liked them more than Appetite... but I was 11 y.o... talk about hype, eh.. 

Honestly, just great songs and I love the fact that they literally "spurted" the double album at the same time. I'd just replace Sorum with Adler, mix the guitars better (where's Izzy?? LOL), eliminate Dizzy and "his hand"/all his unnecessary piano arrangements, the fake synth strings on NR and of course My World. Then we're talking...

Nice interview.

4 minutes ago, ChristmasFnatic said:

From Duff's official store:

 

 

Oh... by the way... that sardonic laugh in the background is Alan Niven's.

2 hours ago, zombux said:

well, Bumblefoot actually cared about fans. unlike this corporate baked shit.

Hey, the dude is a genius and a gentleman.... and always kept his feet on the ground. 

Glad and amused to see so many here openly displaying how much they can't stand that Del James dude.  Useless POS.

As for GNR management etc... I don't know WTF is going on (I guess good old greed, for lack of a better word, is good...) , but all those guys are making me less and less enthusiastic and proud about wearing my vintage GNR shirts collection ... and that says it all. 

I keep seeing the Super-Duper Deluxe AFD box I got and put in my living room in the corner of my eye and can't help but tell myself: WTF was I thinking??? Then I remember: I was drunk when I ordered it...  

Man, this band and everything around it is a True World Champion in leaving a major sour taste in my mouth, ever since 1992.

/rant off.

1) I LOVE Steven's arrangements on Civil War in the studio. Some of his best in my opinion. Absolutely adorable, perfect fills. Matt? NO fucking way, please. Steven's drumming give the song the round, soft edges it needs.

2) Anything GNR without Izzy loses something. Would love to hear a proper Stradlin arrangement for the whole song. His own way.

3) Love CW at Farm Aid. One of my fave performances to listen to, even though I usually prefer the pre-1988 version of GNR live. Something about that whole gig that just reeks of raw extreme talent, high emotions mixed with carelessness, spontaneity, anger and extreme drug abuse. Just beautiful. And yea, I kinda prefer it to the studio version, if only because of Dizzy's useless piano.. 

20 minutes ago, EvanG said:

The guy has been living the life of a 70 year old retiree since his early 30s. He travels, he makes music when he feels like it, and god knows what else he does with his free time, but playing live isn't one of them.

Still doesn't mean he doesn't like playing live. It's an assumption, and extrapolation, if you will.

If we're playing this game, I'd like to believe he LOVES playing gigs... when they're done PROPERLY. 

22 hours ago, tony adler said:

The dude doesn’t like to play live , 

Again with this stupid myth? Izzy never said he doesn't like playing live... why wouldn't he? What he doesn't/didn't like was all the bullshit around big tours and RNR star fuckery and whatnot. And honestly, who can blame him??? 

5 hours ago, jacdaniel said:

Perhaps most importantly, what do they need to do to make this band exciting again? 

Build a time machine? 

2 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

Going to be a hot day tomorrow. 29 degrees between 18:00 and 00:00.

Been unbelievably hot in southern Norway for weeks... unreal. Gonna be humid too. 

28 minutes ago, troccoli said:

Exactly.  The band realized the misprint while they were still stamping the tickets so some have the year 85 and some 86

Oh cool, thanks buddy!

Then I take back my complaint about it. LOL

5 hours ago, Tom-Ass said:

All I could hear was cringe worthy drumming...

Yea, seriously. WTF is in Frank's head?

41 minutes ago, Lio said:

@troccoli confirmed that the typo was done by the band back in 1986. They put the date wrong back then. He has the original ticket.

The one we see in Reckless Road seems to display 1986 though. Or maybe it's a corrected version?

Got my hands on the Super Deluxe. 
Noticed one of the ticket stubs replicas, the one that is supposed to be for the Troubadour Jan 4th 1986, it has a typo and it says Jan 4 1985!!!! WTF.

Way to go Team Brazil/Universal. 

Honestly, the box is a waste of money. 

Hey anyone happen to know which hotel they gonna stay at in Oslo? Perhaps The Thief? Thanks in advance if you know!!

40 minutes ago, TMAC20 said:

TOP 5 PLAYER ON THIS PLANET 

Uhhh.... just no. Especially considering he hasn't written anything worth remembering since the Illusions...

2 hours ago, Nintari said:

Roger Waters wrote most of The Wall after his thirty-fifth birthday. The reason? He spent most of his youth, not writing the songs for the band. He had bullets in the gun, ideas that hadn't been used etc.

It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with what's left in the artist. One look at movie and video game composers (John Williams was well into his forties when he scored Star Wars and pushing fifty when he scored E.T.) and you'll see that age has nothing to do with it.

Did you even read what I wrote? Guess not. 

In any case, you say it yourself: what's left in the artist. The artistic product/performance will be affected by what's left in the artist, mentally as well as physically. It's not as if those "bullets in the gun" just exists in the ether by themselves. 

A person in his 50's will have a different personality and sensitivity than he used to have in his early 20's... that doesn't preclude either outcome (better or worse) when it comes to musical production/creation, but ignoring it is simply confirmation bias.

6 hours ago, Lio said:

Huh?

Knowing your love's decided, and all love is real.

I know.  Was just quoting one of the latest many wrong lyrics transcriptions out there (you can find a couple more in this very thread...). Mine comes from UYI2 on Apple Music.

Favorite vocal line: "Knowing your loss is silent, and all of it's real". 

5 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Strange that no demo of It's So Easy has surfaced. It must have existed, probably among the West Arkeen tapes. It is known that it was first written as an acoustic counry-ish ballad.

So West comes home with this drum machine, [and] we figured out how to use the stuff. The demo of “It’s So Easy” was pretty great. West at this exact same time had taught me how to tune the guitar to open E. We used like, every feature on the drum machine: cowbell, woodblock, and everything on this demo. I sang it, tuned the guitars, put the drum track on, and it was just this cool little lazy summertime hit. West and I would recall all these “summertime hits,” we’d call them. I had an apartment and West had an apartment before we had a rehearsal space, and it became an encampment for about two months for the band. “It’s So Easy,” “Yesterdays,” and I think “14 Years,” a lot of songs were recorded on West’s four-track. I think “You’re Crazy” came out on the West four-track. Sitting in an apartment, we’d play a lot of acoustic guitars, so I think “Easy” was recorded on acoustic guitar. Thing about our songs, we played ’em all on acoustic guitar. “Night Train,” we wrote on acoustic guitar. Because we’d write them in little cramped apartments [Duff, The Onion A.V. Club, May 2011]

'It's So Easy'...was originally a hippie ya-ya song. And Duff and West wrote this song like on acoustic, and it literally went like: [singing country-like] "I see your sister in a sunday dress..." Oh absolutely, and we were rehearsing in L.A and Slash basically just starts raping the song and I ran up and started like, doing like the evil Iggy Pop over it, while West is standing there and his face is like drooping, like: "My song " [Axl, Eddie Trunk Interview, 2006]

That would be one demo I'd kill to listen to... 

On 7/3/2018 at 11:10 AM, Nintari said:

Contrary to popular belief, musicians don't have "prime" years like athletes. Vocalists, sure. But not musicians and song writers. The real reason why bands seem to put out their best music when they're young is simply because they haven't released their best shit yet. Once it's out, it gets harder and harder to do it again because the well has been tapped. Only the greatest musicians and song writers maintain excellence for many years and even they eventually dry up. It's all a matter of simple deduction.

Musicians are humans. And their performance is both mental and physical. Therefore, not to be pedantic using logic here, they are prone to peaks and troughs in performance just like everyone else.

So I'm sorry but 100% disagree, instrumentalist musicians DO HAVE their prime periods. Perhaps and most likely there are exceptions, but the vast majority for one reason or another after a certain peak (which can also last decades, eh...) will inevitably see a noticeable decrease in performance.

Since we're talking about guitarists, tendons/joints/nerve damage in particular of the left hand/wrist/arm is usually the first inevitable reason for a decline in technical ability. Loss of mental capacity due to age or inappropriate lifestyle (ehrm ehrm.. ) is also a significant factor.

Then of course, external factors such as lack of inspiration or different motivations etc will also play a role but that's a different story.

As for our Slashie-boy, I think it's fair to say he found new "words" in his vocabulary to express himself but clearly also lost or abandoned other ones. So a mixed bag for me personally. I prefer to listen to what he was expressing back in his 20's than now. But just personal choice here.

All in all, he has maintained a rather even level of performance through the decades, gracefully and quite impressively. I can't complain - I mean... look at Kirk Hammett as a prime example of performance degeneration.  Or Yngwie (car accident to be accounted for though..)