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4 minutes ago, Jeez said:

Better than expected. It's different which I can appreciate, and imo some of the transitions were cool.

I agree. I like it too.

November Rain was always cringy to me, it was back then and I still think so now. (I believe even Axl said he doesn't like it anymore now).
But that's my opinion, I just prefer more simple and artistic music videos. Anton Corbijn has made some of my favourite music videos, especially in the 90s. I like the videos to Metallica's "Until It Sleeps" and R.E.M.'s ''Losing My Religion" a lot too.
Estranged was a bit better because of the cool live shots, but also quite cringy.
Don't Cry is better because of the abstract, artsy scenes in it, although them playing on a roof with a helicopter flying above them screams total Hollywood again, which just isn't my cup of tea for a music video. 

Just now, downzy said:

Or maybe, and hear me out on this one, most people have the same view in regards to a band that's booked $1 billion in ticket sales since 2016 resorting to AI to promote a song that didn't exactly crush it with either the casual or die hard fan...

Perhaps that's not's what's being announced/released on the 24th.

But if it is, I think the criticism isn't without merit.  

No one even knows what is being released, that’s our point. 

I was listening to Evan Dando while registering and I think there was already an Evan, hence the G.

5 hours ago, Rovim said:

@EvanG how's that strat treating you?

It's great, I had a gig with it a few months back and I'm happy with it. 

This is the one I ended up buying, the honey burst,

Uncut Gems (2019)

9 hours ago, grouse said:

I can see how you missed that one, no worries,

Oh, I don't.
I made a joke about my age, eventually I admitted it.
What else do you want?

11 hours ago, grouse said:

You never got back to me on this one Evan. 

Huh?

Just now, Free Bird said:

You are mixing things up 

That discussion was about Double Talking Jive

I think you're mixing it up. Rovim was talking about the Double Talkin Jive solo and so am I.

11 hours ago, Rovim said:

actually, he doesn't, it's Slash. the booklet crediting it to Izzy was a mistake. 

I remember a discussion on here about this many years ago. Some poster, I forgot the name, who claimed to be an Izzy expert and studied his guitar playing or some shit like that, was convinced it was Izzy playing that solo.

Ah, I was hoping they would keep it to two guitars again now Jeff is gone. For a lot of the new stuff they don’t need three guitars anyway and the old stuff maybe does but they made it work live with two guitars for a long time. Plus, I love Billy’s lead playing, I don’t want to see anyone else taking over half of it.

36 minutes ago, Ratam said:

Happy New Year to you 

Happy New Year to you too! 

When your hair is as thin as Axl's and you've had several hair transplants over the years, it's time to let the dream go. Duff's hair is still thick, he can get away with long hair even at his age.

19 minutes ago, Lio said:

I'm sure it's great and worth the visit, it just seemed random to me that someone from Detroit (I think) would be interested in just that particular city.

Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one  I have been thinking lately that Germany is a country I have barely visited at all, even if it's closeby (some of it is anyway). I seem to always end up in the Netherlands or France if I'm going for a short holiday abroad.

I think apart from Hamburg and Dresden, I have been to every major city in Germany. But I prefer Belgian or French cities regarding architecture, which is usually my main reason to go to a city anyway. Munich is nice, but it's no Antwerp, for example. And except for Berlin of course. That's not a pretty city either, but everything else there makes up for it.

I watched a documentary about Liquido's song "Narcotic" recently and they visited the singer in Heidelberg because that's where he wrote the song. It's only 4 hours from here but I had never heard about it before. Looks like a charming town, though.

7 minutes ago, Eric Cantona said:

Think he got banned

He was, but he stayed in touch with some of us through email and then he went through some personal shit and stopped responding to all of us at the same time. We reached out but from what I know none of us ever heard from him again. (or have you, @cineater ?) He didn't seem like the kind of guy to not even bother to write a message back, so I fear the worst. But I sure hope I'm wrong. 

On 12/26/2023 at 1:34 PM, Karice said:

I REALLY hope that the reason that some of the most prolific Posters stopped posting here isn't because they've well, permanently went to the Paradise City so to speak. 😱😳🤔🥶😬

I fear Soon went there, but I'm sure most others just stopped posting.

6 hours ago, Nintari said:

Between 1993-1997 Guns N Roses was considered to be your dad's band. Outdated, silly, laughable... a joke. Axl was considered to be a washed-up asshole who shit away an empire because of a galaxy-sized ego.

Maybe to some. I was 11 in 1993 and to me and my friends and kids a few years older, they were the coolest thing in the world and definitely not our dad's band. Now I can imagine that to some kids in their late teens or 20s they had become perhaps more laughable because of the changing climate in rock music, but it wasn't that way for everyone. Not too different from Aerosmith, and they were more popular than ever in the mid 90s. 

I don't know if they became untrendy. I got into them in late 1993 and they were still all over the place. I remember so many MTV specials around them on TV all the time, and this was MTV Europe, so everyone in Europe was watching the same MTV back then. For people who had jumped on the alt-rock band wagon they maybe weren't so cool anymore, but there was still so much hype around them.

21 minutes ago, Rovim said:

agreed. I think some people forget how many hardcore Gn'R fans around the world were dedicated fans. The rise of bands line Nirvana, Soundgarden, etc and a shift back to pop is not something millions of fans around the world was going to stop them from still being interested in Gn'R had they still provided them more to be attached to when it comes to great original material. 

The whole argument that those so-called grunge bands being the demise of GnR never added up when you realize that GnR scored some of their commercially biggest hits in 1992, the year grunge peaked, and even in 1993 there was still a lot of demand for GnR. That scene did make GnR look a bit foolish in certain ways because being a rockstar wasn't cool anymore, and they were no longer the most dangerous band in the world, but they were still very popular among many people. And that wouldn't have changed if they released some really great songs in the mid 90s. Heck, even Sympathy For The Devil, released in december of 1994, was a top ten hit in many countries, and it was ''just'' a cover. Imagine if they had released another You Could Be Mine or November Rain.

On 12/25/2023 at 6:33 AM, megaguns1982 said:

I doubt they would have lasted the late 90s if they’d stuck together.

I think they would have if they had managed to keep making great albums.

To the OP's topic, I remember them still being in many teen/pop magazines in the mid 90s even though they hadn't released an original song since 1991, so the popularity was still there.

Always loved Circle Of The Noose. I know Flea never spoke too fondly about their work with Navarro, but they made some good songs with him.

1993. Officially in 2021.

1 hour ago, Rovim said:

can't they still explore that direction with John if they wanted to? I guess it seems obvious, but it seems like a band that don't really force it, they just do what feels cool to do when they make an album.

I think that it's not surprising that once they had John back in the band, the style just reverted back to how it was when John was a part of the band the last time cause he's more of a center to their sound compared to what Josh brought to the table so when Josh was in the band, maybe it left more space to experiment more kinda like a compensation for the absence of John, but it was aslo other factors like Flea naturally wanting to express the cool new shit he learned and incorporate it into their music, but once he did and John was back, I can see how it's possible that they just wanted to jam and write songs together and what came out which felt cool and organic to them is pretty much what the final product is.

this is just an observation, I happen to want them to also explore the other direction you were talking about btw.

I agree with all.
I think I've probably said this before in this thread, but I hope the next record with John is a bit different. I know they can do it, look at By The Way. 
And I do like the funk/pop thing, but I've heard it before and Anthony's rap/singing lines are becoming too recycled now for my taste, so I hope that they try something else or else I don't think I will be very interested. I already wasn't too interested anymore in the ROTDC record.