raggedyman

On 5/30/2023 at 5:06 PM, Oxford said:

Exactly thirty years ago to the day I was at my second show of the weekend at Milton Keynes Bowl.  After a massive downpour that left us all soaking and covered in mud on the Saturday, we returned on Sunday with still wet boots to the sodden and sucking mud for another show. The organisers had put down straw to try and soak up the mud, but to be fair, it didn’t do much.   Some people moaned about the state of the place that day, but many more enjoyed the show and left with high spirits.   But not as high as mine were. 
 

As usual, after Paradise City, Axl threw the microphone into the crowd.  Not the recent gentle underarm toss he has been using of late, but a full on overarm throw.  I’ll never forget the noise it made over the PA as it turned over and over through the air (in fact, I always look out for that noise on recordings of live performances as it’s nearly always there).  To be honest it looked like it was going to fall far short of me, and I’ve been there before when that happened at Wembley. Everyone in front jumped up in front of me to try and get it - like a small Mexican wave.  One person a few people in front of me actually got a hand to it, which then caused it to smack me right in the chest and fall on the floor.  I don’t  remember seeing it come my way, just that it did. There  was a massive ruckus in front and to the side of me as they tried to find it or see who had caught it, but it was only the guy in front that turned around and saw me pick it up as I had friends all around me.  
 

I still have it.  It used to be framed and on my bedroom wall until I moved out a couple of years later and started to forge my way through life.  It stopped there at my parents house for a few years in a box in the spare room until they also moved house and I had to take all my stuff or lose it.  So it sat up in the attic for another 7 years or more. I then used the frame for something else and the mic got lost to the bottom of a box of old band t-shirts and other memorabilia from the 90’s.   Then covid happened and my daughter asked me to dig my guitars out and teach her how to play.  And out came my memorabilia and the mic, and all those band t shirts.  Most of which she’s stolen off me.  
 

It’s still in exactly the same condition that I got it.  It still has traces of mud on the tape and on the end.  The windscreen was pure white, but has slightly faded to a dull brown and has shrunk and become slightly crumbly from the attic heat.  Unfortunately it is also marked from the tie wrap that secured it in the frame too.  And it still has the grubby marks left on it by Axl handling it throughout the concert.    It brings back some great memories.  
 

I’d love to get a recording of that concert.  Right up to the point when you hear the thump of the mic hitting my chest, and me fumbling quickly to pick it up before it was cut off from the PA system.  
 

 

Definitely audio and video of this on yt but the audio you can the mic hit you search guns n roses Milton Keynes, 9th video down " guns n roses: live at Milton Keynes national bowl  London 30th may 1993

Didn't buckethead play in a band called deli creeps whose singer was maximum bob? I'm gonna suggest slash and duff are teaming up with buckethead for a new version of gnr 😏

I figured hard school is like old school. 

On another note, I had a dream last night that axl was playing a flute at a show . Weird .

GUYS THEY JUST PLAYED IT!!! CANT BELIEVE IT! AND IT SOUNDED GREAT. AXL WAS SPOT ON WITH VOCALS

it was a extended kohd everyone's been waiting for,right?

I'm gonna say the special thing is vince neil and axl are finally gonna duke it out on stage. Vince has been using a new fat burning/ muscle building technology so he might have a chance. 

Can we rename this thread "Matt forum "? 

3 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Not so much 'confirms' as 'offers the same evasive comments as he's done in many interviews in the past'. 

It'll be confirmed when you can pre-order it. Not a moment sooner! 

But he says in addition to working with other people he has been recording new music with guns and the conspirators. I don't think he's previously said recording. Usually just says working on.

Edit; he says new music rather then recording

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but slash confirms in this video that he has been working on new gnr and conspirators music at about the 8:25 mark

So Joshua funk shared a link regarding the article on facebook. Im too shy to write to him and ask for any details. Maybe one of you can? Search his name on fb

From what ive read and hear he uses the same trick as malcom young : volume rolled back and mid gain 

38 year old me says 1450 bucks  can only be spent on things i can eat drink drive live in or fuck

But the 14 year old me really wants those tattoos and rings and bandanas

4 minutes ago, GN'R Lies said:

To save reading through 50 pages can someone summarise what we know or suspect? Has there been leaked music? What's this $650 about?

The www.gnr.fm site is looping their Shadow of your Love cover.

Slash amd duff have quit and paul huge chris pitman and gary sunshine are back.

Lol no. No one knows yet. Box set probably 

OH! lightbulb moment! There will be 5 boxsets each one featuring one the skulls on front and each containing slightly different contents and if your a true fan you'll have to buyall 5 mwahahahahaha

Yhe shadow of your love on the webpage is definitely slighlty slower then all the versions ive heard. Also has a new lick not in other versions which def slash but the drums are adler for sure (has his style of double kick coming in right afyer the snare build up)and the rhythm guitar certainly sounds like izzy's classic less is more approach and axls vocals sound more like current day. Maybe they have re-recorded it with the classic line up or maybe axl slash and duff re-recorded using old steven and izzy tracks

1 hour ago, Tadsy said:

Agree! 

I am getting flash backs to the merch tent at the gig in Sydney that I saw and they sold a fucking lot of guns shirts. And at $50 for a bullet logo shirt x how many shirts x how gigs? This is big bickies, and they are going to milk this cow till it's out of milk! 

Do i blame anyone for making a dollar? No of course not. 

Do I blame them for not putting out a new album? No, I'd prefer one but it's their choice. 

What I blame them for is not being up front, not providing the fans with a single fucking interview about anything whilst milking the cow of the loyal fans. Some will say we have a choice whether to keep spending on gigs and merch and that is true, but from a standpoint of whether they are just basically exploiting the fans, I think that's a given now. 

Theyll make their millions and good for them, I wouldn't be so hard on them if they just fronted up once in a while and answers a few questions like a man to appease the very fans who've made them rich. 

 

But instead we just get strung along along in the hope that one day something like AFD 5 reunion or an album might drop...

 

But hey... what do I know 🙄

I love gnr so much, but you're right. I mean this tour is 2 years in and the set list hasnt changed. And where any other band just announces new tour dates or a reissue album witj a bit if inline promotion, guns gotra get us all excited with huge billboards. They know what we want and they're exploiting it. Cant blame them but its pretty shitty.

Oh who am i kidding? I cant stay mad at them.

Just put out the reissue and take my money. Take all of it! Will you be happy then? Gnr? Oh thats right . You dont do press for the fans. You blood sucking leeches! Just take my money and go 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Oh well afd reissue it is. But slash said ince that there was tons if fotage from the old days filmed that was ginna be released bit never was. So maybe we'll finally see that

1 hour ago, Axl_morris said:

Do you think a multi million dollar band gets their bassist to go around signing off paperwork in sandwich shops? 

Haha... its possible. Wasnt duff seen at a newsagency shortly after? Maybe he was photocopying the paperwork! 🤣🤣🤣

Theres only 3 realistic possibilities 

Afd reissue 

Return of paul huge and chris pitman

Gnr have joined isis and the destruction is coming tag is an indication of what they're gonna do to the city's where the billboards appear

My opinion: afd reissue (not remastered cause why would they?) With 2 new songs and probably some old demos + streaming radio station for promoting the new songs and reissue

Bullshit. I put gnr back together. Everyone knows that! 🤣

Just following slashs strumming and vibrato i cant help but think its locomotive

I believe they'll put out a live "best of" album 

Watching the whole show on the various streams (thanks fede) I thought it was fucking awesome.  The whole thing. Axl was brilliant as far as I'm concerned. If you dont him, BEAT IT!!!