Nice Boy

What's so bad about the telephone call on KOHD? It doesn't add or subtract from the song for me. It's just a thing that's there. I can't see why anyone would be like omg that's do terrible.

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23 hours ago, Tom2112 said:

Metallica... releases 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991 compared to GnR 1987, 1991, 2008. 

Well, for GnR it's actually 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2008. Even if some of that was re-release and covers.

2 minutes ago, The Matinator said:

Call me crazy but I believe around the time of the 2000s allegations I remember reading a quote from slash along the lines of “I love Michael, but until he sorts this out he’s not allowed around my kids” does anybody remember that besides me? So it’s possible his stance on him hardened throughout the years.

It's quoted above

Yikes, that's a weird mindset for Slash to have - to be giving the benefit of the doubt to MJ due to being friends with him, but keeping his son away from him just in case. I get that's it's hard to digest terrible accusations against someone you know, though. 

On 19/06/2020 at 3:42 AM, Top-Hatted One said:

They don’t talk about the underage girls. Other members and rivals talk about it.

Anyway totally different times in the early 80s. Rampant drink and driving etc

I'm pretty sure the first time I read about Desi was in either Slash or Duff's book, but don't think it mentioned her age.

Hm it kinda is a bit obsessive over minor detail, though it's also the sort of thing that band members talk about in their autobiographies, indicating that they consider such things part of the narrative I guess. 

Sure, there might be audio mastering issues, I was just saying that isn't something that would cause skipping on a new pressing, if the tonearm etc is set up properly.

If an LP is skipping, that's going to be because it has a scratch, has collected surface dirt, and/or your stylus or tonearm need adjusting, not because of an error in the original pressing

So have they used my "Sorry folks, show's cancelled, the Surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe!" line yet? 

Fernando if you're reading this, you know what to do

All I ask is a %37.5 cut 

Fortus doesn't have the back catalogue or iconic stature of Slash, but he is undoubtedly on a par with him in terms of skill, to the extent that I'm actually surprised Slash is comfortable being in a band with another player who could easily match him playing lead. They've got a great symbiosis though. 

7 hours ago, Gimpy Hewitt said:

Can’t wait till this hits 200 pages with still no concrete news contributing to the topic

Hey, as the Fox News slogan should be, "No news is good news" 

17 hours ago, Sydney Fan said:

 

Slash for having the balls during the illusion era to read every press interview and giving approval before allowing the magazine/paper to publish the interview with fear of being misinterpreted, and in the same breadth going on record as saying "fuck censorship").

 

 

Hm I don't think that's quite fair. It's not so much that by proofreading interviews he was looking to censor stuff he'd already said, more that he was looking to flag any article which had taken quotes out of context, or omitted things he had said, in order to create a sensationalist 'scandal' piece as some unscrupulous journalists do. Happens in politics all the time, we will have seen examples of that. 

Apparently RIR has always been a difficult venue to play, with multiple sound issues. 2011 was atrocious, 2017 was vocally bad and even in the 1991 shows Axls mic cuts out and he messed up lyrics. Part of this might be the band's fault but it is also because combined with technical problems and a deafeningly huge crowd, it is difficult to play a good show. 

It's like, Maiden tried to be all scary but came off as cartoonish metal, cringeworthy. GnR by contrast actually were quite edgy. 

Only Axl could manage to look totally psychotic singing a love ballad too (SCOM)

One of the things that attracted me to GnR was the song subject matter being totally not all of the goblins and wizards bollocks of Maiden. GnR was sex, drugs and the perils of urban life. Way more real and relatable. 

The beat is near identical to that Björk track too, haha

The result of a magic mushrooms session.

There are only a handful of genuinely great tracks on uyi. 

Civil War, Estranged, Locomotive, Coma

A few other good ones and a load of filler. 

I don't think the playlists flow on either album.

Also the audio mastering is muddy, levels wrong, aspects buried in the mix.

It was a disappointment at the time, but why would anyone expect Axl to reunite with Slash just because the Hall of Fame was trying to force it? 

Also it's curious that no one seems to be enraged at Izzy for not showing up. Because of course he is allowed to be elusive and mysterious. 

Who cares now anyway, they reunited in their own time.

I think the first verse suits casual usage rather than full blown habit because of the "I don't worry about nothin" line, which suggests being dosed up on smack 

6 hours ago, bikka said:

It's actually 7 p.m... There was an interview with Izzy where he explicitly said that, can't find it though...

Woah. Are you sure? If that's correct then this completely resets the fundamentals of the GnR clock.

We need to holler that guy who runs the a-f-d website with all the archived old interview transcripts, a great endevour. What's his name again? 

Not Browstone, somethin else

1 hour ago, Len Cnut said:

You listened to that whole song and all you got from it was his waking and sleeping hours and the time he gets on and off stage, listen closely sunbeam, he alludes, EVER SO subtly, to being a fuckin' brownhead

Oh Len. Relax, the question is tongue in cheek and yes, I had the genius to notice Izzy was referring to brown, hence the sentence in the original post that he probably catches up on sleep during the day with a few opiate induced nods. I am familiar with the lifestyles of junkies, having known a fair few. 

But - @King_Johnny makes a pertinent point: the getting up at 7 thing seems to be Izzy referring to the early, 'honeymoon' stage of usage, when he has a regular sleep pattern - but then descends into the comparative chaos of a serious habit and getting up whenever.. 

So, let's assume that Mr.Browstone is an accurate depiction of a day in the life of Izzy Stradlin, circa 1986. 

He gets up around 7 am, which is fairly early for someone with not many responsibilities other than paying guitar and occasionally selling some drugs. He has a lie in, and finally gets out of bed around 9 am. 

He then potters about the house, for about nine hours, until say 6 pm or a bit later when he has to set off for the show, which starts around 7 pm. He and the band go on stage around 9 pm, finish up and get on the bus around 11 pm. By this time Izzy has been awake for 16 hours but apparently still feels fine.

So, assuming he gets home at midnight earliest, that means he either goes straight to bed, which is a bit early for a rockstar, or stays awake for a few hours until say 2-3 am, in which case he only has around 4 hours of sleep till he has to get up again around 7 am. So he definitely gets less than 7 hours sleep a day, probably about 4 or 5 hours, yet someone managed to feel fine and not worry about nothin.

How does he manage it? 

Okay I think I've worked it out, he makes up for lost sleep by occasionally nodding off on heroin during the day. 

That's got to be it, right? 

GUYS, AXL PREDICTED THE VIRUS WAY BACK IN 1987

ITS ALL THERE IN THE LYRICS TO PARADISE CITY:

"THE SURGEON GENERAL SAYS IT'S HAZARDOUS TO BREATHE" 

😮😮😮😷😷😷

MIND = BLOWN