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I can't wait to get back to a computer tonight so that I can properly catch up on the last few pages of this thread.

Uh... maybe it's better you don't. You might get all confused

Well, they said only five shows... Woohoo! I hope we get to see some great footage Does anyone know if there's a reason why Tommy wouldn't be able to come ? I thought the Replacements thing was only for Coachella ?

Saw Arsenal last Saturday. It's like one big party every time I see them, always a great crowd. I was looking for clips of the concert to post here, but there are very few on YT. Not really surprised, as I saw very few people filming it. Even read in a review of the show that there were surprisingly few people holding their mobile phones in the air. I guess people were just too busy enjoying the show and dancing Managed to find one clip that is of reasonable quality, as it captures the crowd too. Mind you, we're in Belgium, so no Brazilian craziness

I wish I could see the Facebook account of these who don't need motivational quotes.

I have never needed any motivational quotes. Frankly, I wasn't aware anyone needed them at all - I just saw them as something people would occasionally enjoy reading but not actually deliberately us as part of doing something challenging. I am not saying hearing exceptional stories on how people overcome struggles doesn't impress me on some levels, but I have rarely seen how anyone's elses experiences help me in my own specific problems nor have I felt that the impression I get from the stories can be used in any practical way.

People spamming Facebook with motivational quotes and other self-help things is exactly why I have blocked everyone except my closest friends and family.

So what do I do to motivate me? I dunno. I rarely have to do anything which I not already want to succeed at, and that motivates me automatically. I don't need to motivate me for something I want to do. I had to take some courses at the university which I found boring and drab, like philosophy, but I can't remember I had to do anything to motivate except knowing that I needed good grades, I certainly didn't read up on motivational quotes every 15 minutes during my studying days.

I wish I was like you.

Look, I'm not saying everybody needs motivational quotes or that they really help in the end but coming to a thread just to rub your alleged "superiroty" or whatever that is in others faces is ugly. Especially if you use them yourself. Then it's not only ugly, you're an hypocrite who tries to hard to look cool.

I agree with Soulmonster. Quotes never motivated me, nor motivational speeches or whatever. It has nothing to do with superiority. It's great if you get motivated by quotes, but I just don't. My motivation at school was getting my degree and doing a job I liked. My motivation to work hard is to be able to do the things I want in life and to provide for my family, to give my family security.

Also, the motivational quotes my friends post on FB are mostly nonsense and clichés, like "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger". I do like quotes though, if they actually have value, but I wouldn't say they motivate me.

I was a crammer and a HD student. It worked for me just fine.

But not everyone's brains can do that. Some people need more time, you know.

No, that's true, but I was a crammer too and I got my degree. It's just how I work. I need a sharp deadline, otherwise I postpone things. It's always been that way and I won't change anymore. It is what it is and I can function and perform perfectly fine

Since mods are changing the layout of this forum, it's a good idea to change the name too.

Take a good look on the threads in this section, mybashingaxlforum is a lame attempt, but it fits.

Sure, the title is negative, but if you read the posts, you'll see a lot of posters aren't bashing Axl, quite the opposite. But I agree with you that it can get a bit negative here and people like to exaggerate.

Enjoy Istanbul! I absolutely love it. So many places to visit: Topkapi, Blue Mosque, Aya Sofia, Bosporus, Galata Tower, Basilica Cistern, the Bazaar. All great. But don't forget to visit a locals bar where they offer the waterpipe. I went to one with my (female) friend, there were only men there. At first, we were a bit apprehensive, but it was great. They didn't bother us, but were very helpful. We went to a locals club there too, in a high building opposite the Blue Mosque. The view was great, but I think they only invited us up there because we were two women, so you might not get in

I've been there before. The first time I travelled and stay with a Turkish friend of mine and got to see most of the places before we headed east to Cappadocia. This time it will just be an extended weekend with my wife to get away from the daily routines of our lives. She has never been in that part of the world before. We actually were about to travel to Syria before she got pregnant. I had found this great hotel in Damascus and everything. I wonder have many years it's going to be before we can go there now...

Not any time soon, I guess I always wanted to go to Egypt, but have never been there, things are getting worse there too, so... might be some time till I see the pyramids and the Nile too.

Even in the 90's Axl has many times sounded shitty on youtube videos. For the most part, he sounds like nothing on the Albums. 1993 included. I listened to a live audio of a 93 concert played in Sweden and there was a guy in the crowd complaining about how bad Axl sounded.

When I was watching the rock am ring show my gf said that Axl can't sing live, and this is a show that we praise a lot.

He always had his ups and downs. As for this tour, I agree that a lot of the vids sounds bad but Duff and the crowds says that he sounds great so I don't think they would agree that it's time for Axl to call it a day.

Axl never sounded the same live as on the albums. People have always complained that he sounded bad live. I agree there is a huge difference between now and then, but I'm sure if there had been a MyGNR in the beginning of the nineties, we would have seen similar complaints as we have now. People like to rewrite history. The same with his clothes. I actually read somewhere (don't remember if it was this forum or another) that Axl used to be 'a fashion icon'. Come on, he has never been, not where I come from anyway. I never saw anyone walking around in bikershorts or a skirt or whatever he wore on stage. A bandana, yes, okay, there were some who wore a bandana, but they were always Axl-fans, imitating their idol. He never was a fashion icon. To me, only Axl could pull off the stuff he wore.

I for one am amazed that more than 20 years later, there's still a possibility to see Axl live, and the rest of them, for that matter. I would have never expected them all to be alive and kicking in the year 2014.

He can't sing like he used to. But I agree he's still a very good singer. His baritone voice is still spot on and his higher registers are clean but have lost some of the snarl and power obviously. The rasp missing seems to be a sticking point and obviously that's understandable since it's what he's known for. However saying he's a bad singer is not correct. He still puts on a good show and is a very talented singer and performer.

And we have a winner.

True. I wish he'd release new music, with songs that are a better fit for his voice today. There are songs that he can't do anymore, but I still enjoy a lot of the songs, as another poster listed.

Enjoy Istanbul! I absolutely love it. So many places to visit: Topkapi, Blue Mosque, Aya Sofia, Bosporus, Galata Tower, Basilica Cistern, the Bazaar. All great. But don't forget to visit a locals bar where they offer the waterpipe. I went to one with my (female) friend, there were only men there. At first, we were a bit apprehensive, but it was great. They didn't bother us, but were very helpful. We went to a locals club there too, in a high building opposite the Blue Mosque. The view was great, but I think they only invited us up there because we were two women, so you might not get in

Applause

I'm in isolation until Tuesday and I can't have any chocolate. Why God why?!

Just watching Ten Commandments and chillin'.

Other years I go to church with my Mom. Easter and Christmas. I agree with Arnold. Church is okay as a community activity. I see people I don't see often. No one is in a pissed off mood.

Orsys, so sorry for you I hope you don't feel too bad. How is it going ? I hope everything goes well and think of you

I'm somewhat surprised at the number of 20 year olds on this forum. I guess most of us who were old enough to remember or were around during or the classic lineup have moved on.

I find it interesting that so many 20 somethings are into GNR, since their early teen years would have been during a period of GNR dormancy. GNR, at their prime, was a band of my youth - it was easy to like a band like GNR when I first started getting into music. Axl's claim to being the best frontman in the world was strong, the band were producing monumental music, and there was just a general vibe in the late 80s and early 90s about them. I remember a comic once saying that a person's favourite type of music or band is often whatever they're listening to when they first get laid. Youth and music often have strong associations, imo.

But what was there to like about the band in the mid to late 90s that got people interested? Unless some got into GNR later, as a result of their first launch with a completely different lineup (Robin, Bucket, Brain, etc.) Which again strikes me as strange, since there was little new music and Axl had changed to being unrecognizable in both his vocal performances and his physical appearance.

Anyway, I recently turned 34.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that too. I was trying to compare it with music that was from 'before my time' and that I was really into when I was young. I guess when The Doors movie came out in 1991, many young people became fans, including me. Jimi Hendrix too, Bob Marley even. Also, there was this revival of sixties music, in part thanks to Tour of Duty being a huge success. Difference was many of them were dead, so there was nothing to follow anymore. There was absolutely no hope for new music. We just listened to the old sixties stuff and that was alright.

But Axl is still alive, as is GNR (although maybe that's debatable for some, you know what I mean), so you have the chance to see them live and there's even a chance of new music or even reunion, in theory, at least.

We've had three egg hunts today. One at home, one at my parents' house and one at the inlaws' house. We ate way too much and drank some nice cava and white wine. Just hung around with my family and later with the inlaws. It was nice. Oh, and of course, ate lots of chocolate and will eat more tomorrow Didn't go to church, but I saw part of the Pope's Urbi et Orbi on tv.

Madagascar - the quotes ruin the song. It is such a difficult song to show people because of it.

Totally agree, the quotes are awkward.

I love how everything needs a label. Everything. No one is a selfish cunt, noooo, they have the blah blah blah condition. I can't be happy for someone because I've been diagnosed with something, so you see, even though I recognize it's wrong for thinking this way, it's not actually my fault.

We're talking about feelings. How can they be anyone's fault ? You can't help if you're feeling a certain way. Besides, nothing is black and white, especially in psychology.

I agree in general people like to label things too much (eg: I don't have an annoying kid, he's got ADHD), but I don't think we're doing that here.

I think you're looking at it the wrong way, Len. If someone has gluckschmerz, and says 'I'm happy for you', but isn't really, it's not that they don't want to be happy for them. It's not an evil thing. It's more like you can't be happy. I have experienced that before and it's a terrible feeling, believe me. Like in McCoy's example, I'm sure he would like to be happy for friends who are in happy relationships, but he would much rather be in a happy relationship himself. I don't know if what I'm saying makes any sense, because I'm not that good at expressing myself, but I do recognize the feeling and it doesn't mean that I'm a cunt. If you've never experienced that feeling, you should be happy, because it is a lousy feeling.

And just to add, trust me, I'd love it if my current situation was just a figment of my imagination.

I lose a little more hope and faith on a daily basis. I certainly don't wake up every day and look forward to that aspect of it.

I'm slowly becoming incapable of being happy for people. Whenever I see someone enter in to a relationship, it certainly doesn't make me want to like or comment on their status. Put my fist through the monitor? Maybe. Celebrate their success in an area of my life that I'm deficient in? No.

McCoy, that feeling is called gluckschmerz and is actually very common.

Who's a what's a now?

Gluckschmerz is the feeling of unhappiness, or anxiety, towards the happiness that other people have, and as I said, it's actually very common.

Where i come from they're called cunts.

Where I come from they're called humans. Do you actually believe that everybody saying "oh, I'm so glad for you" are really glad? How cute.

I think everyone is called a cunt where Len comes from

But what is worse: gluckschmerz or schadenfreude ? To me, schadenfreude seems worse.

37. It still amazes me to see so many young people on a GNR forum.

I think someone on here had the video on his/her computer and re-uploaded it some time ago. I saw it then, but it seems to be removed again. It wasn't anything special, I think. I found it a bit embarrassing, like I was some kind of peeping Tom. Axl was in a kind of bar/club and looked very uneasy, while someone kept filming it. I felt a bit sorry for him, bur others seemed to think he looked happy, so what do I know.

Never walked out, but was really annoyed by Signs. Terrible movie. Oh, and The Mist too.

I don't know about Axl but I have been listening to some Offspring whilst on holiday and Pretty Fly always makes me think of DJ.

Good call

Who's the guy in between Ashba and Pitman ? And where is Ron ?

Apparently he wasn't feeling well.

I didn't know. Thanks, Deb!

Who's the guy in between Ashba and Pitman ? And where is Ron ?

So this is the dress I bought for the upcoming wedding. You can't see much of it though, but couldn't find a better picture. It's also without the belt.